Authors Note:
Alright, time for a Bastion centered chapter and the poor boy needs it. But that doesn't mean I will not be fair to his opponent.
Time to answer these reviews:
Tears Of Lava: I will try to update as much as I can since school just started where I live so the upload schedule will be different than usual. So please be patient.
Yacristo: Yeah, I do agree that they will be interesting and the Yugo (My favourite Yu-boy) in 5ds does sound interesting, but I wonder, would he be a part of Team Satisfaction? I can see him and Yusei dueling in the first season to see who will duel Jack. Yuri will appear in this fic and he will have his Anime personality since I haven't read any Yugioh manga.
Amazons. They were a proud race of warrior ladies that were strived on power and pride. They were raised in the forest where they trained, killed any enemies, ate together and slept.
They once were a small group of powerful women that could destroy most of the monster race like the Ice Barriers, Flamevells and the more powerful and deadly Harpies, but they needed shelter so they could survive in the cold nights and needed an Empress.
They have asked several monster races, but only the Dark Magicians, Endymion and Buster Blader, himself, helped them out. Dark Magician, also known as Ebon or Mahad, created a force field that only female only monster races could enter.
Buster Blader, or as his best friend Ebon would call him, Buster, slashed up every tree in the area and placed them inside of the force field and helped them create, carry the wood, several houses inside of it. The important thing about Buster was that he had a little pet dragon by the name of Buster Whelp of The Destruction Swordsman that he found when he saw a dragon near it and slayed it. The Amazons tried several times stealing the pet dragon, but Buster would always catch them and give them a glare that even a warrior race like them would be scared of.
Endymion, The Founding Sorcerer of Supreme, made several rules of the new civilization and what they can and can not do. For one, they can not kill any monster, unless it was self defense. They couldn't enslave any monster, or in their case male monster for the reproduction cycle, it all has to be consensual. And they can not start a war in any way, other than if they are being attacked. The Amazons were shocked at the rules, but they understood that they have to follow the rules.
If they didn't, they would basically be in a war with the Spellcasters which included Endymion, Buster, Dark Magician, Witchcrafter and more. They may be a proud warrior race, but they knew that being in a war with monsters that could rival and in some cases, surpass the mighty Dragon Lords, Blue-Eyes, Borrel Dragons, Armed Dragons, Dark Rebellion, Clear Wing, Starving Venom, Odd-Eyes, The Signer Dragons, Red-Eyes and Galaxy-Eyes would be idiotic and all of this would have been for nothing.
All of them shook hands and they were off to their own life. Buster raising his Buster Whelp and slaying dragons, Ebon teaching his student knew magic, Endymion teaching new Spellcasters and the Amazons living as a tribe with a new Empress, Otrera.
During the first years of being an Empress, Otrera had an idea, similar to Buster, they would raise a pet so they could fight along with them. They went through all of the animals that were near the forest they could find and decided to raise tigers due to them being loyal companions to the Amazons.
After centuries of the Amazons being alive, a little Amazon by the name of Tania was born. She was different from the other Amazons. For one, she did enjoy fighting, but not to amount like her sisters liked, secondly she preferred knowledge way more than brawn, thirdly she was much more nicer than her sisters and her preference in men weren't tough, dumb musclely men, but rather somewhat shy, but still confident, smart men.
Despite all of the differences, she was well liked and respected by the other Amazons and even from her mother, Diana, who was the fiercest warrior of their generation. She would play with the other Amazons, spar with them and hang out with other monster races like The Melfies, Salamangreats and Lunalights.
They even participated in some friendly tournaments, even when Tania wasn't really a fighter, she still liked a challenge so she accepted the tournament and even came second, only losing to Dinowrestler Pankertops.
Tania also learned in her youth the essentials of being an Amazon. From building traps, to learning in both hand to hand and swordsmanship, or in her case, swordswomanship, to using all of her resources like berries, fruits and vegetables when they are going out and more.
Tania was a well made warrior, but she didn't really care for that, sure she liked it, but that wasn't in her nature and her mother could see that. One morning Diana had to talk with her daughter on what she really wanted to do other than become a warrior. Tania was scared that she would disappoint her mother, but she learned that lying to any of her race was a terrible thing so she answered truthfully.
She wanted to become a scientist, or someone that could use machines and/or spells while still being a warrior herself. Diana wasn't upset, she couldn't be with her daughter and told her that she will inform the Empress, Hippoltlya, to notify Endymion that an Amazon will join his school.
When she left the village and left for Endymion's school was both the happiest and saddest day of her life, as she felt terrible for leaving her family, but happy that she could proceed with her true calling.
While she was at Endymion's school, she learned the basics of math from Dark Magician, chemistry from Alchemic Magician, battle from Buster Blader, The Dragon Destroyer Swordsman that she later learned was the same Buster Blader that helped build her village, spells from Dark Magician Girl, and everything else from Endymion.
After a couple of years, Tania returned to her village after graduating Endymion's school, but what she saw broke her. It was…ruined. The houses were so full of scratches and broken pieces that it would make it impossible to make use of it again. There were bloodstains all over the place, even on the rooftops.
But the worst part of all, was the bodies of all of her sisters, her mother, Liger and even the Empress herself fell to the monster's knees. There were burn marks, scratches from what looked like from a bird and guts were everywhere.
She fell to her knees, but that was the wrong move to make as three winged beasts, that were named as The Harpie Lady Sisters, flew towards her and attacked her. The fight was tough, but Tania managed to win against the Harpies, but she wasn't left unscarred as one of the sisters slashed her eye.
After the fight, and a couple of days digging graves and placed all of her sisters, mother and the Empress herself in it, mourning for all of their lives, she went to Endymion and told him everything from what she saw and the Spellcaster arrested them and were sent in the same jail as Sangan and Witch of the Black Forest.
Couple of days had passed and Tania needed to do something, she needed to find a male and make a kid with it, even just having one will make it work. Even after assuring that they don't even need to raise it as she would do it herself, every male monster refused.
Buster Blader was still going through the death of his pet dragon, Ebon was in a relationship with the Dark Magician Girl, Endymion was uncomfortable to do that to a former student, the Black Luster Soldiers found the idea of intercourse alone disgusting, all of the Heroes, even the Evil and Xtra Heroes, were in a relationship with other Heroes and much more.
She dropped to her knees, disheartened that all of it failed. She felt alone, lonely, sad, angry, depressed with the fact that she was the only Amazon left. That was until she met the man that changed her life.
He had long black hair that was beginning to gray, as wrinkles on his face began appearing, in a blue suit with a black tie and told her that if she wants to revive her clan, she needs to join the Shadow Riders, release the power of the Sacred Beasts, wearing a gauntlet that saved her from turning from a tiger when she wasn't in her world or die alone knowing that she failed her clan.
With all of that, the only choice she had left was to join the Shadow Riders and then she became the Amazoness Rider.
It has been currently 3 weeks after Camula has been defeated and the 2nd of the Shadow Riders, and a few things have happened during that time. The students who were defeated by the Vampire Rider asked what happened to them and they were answered that they went to a party and got too drunk and fell asleep, in full clothing. Crowler thanked Celina after he heard about her saving him from being a doll apologized for getting her in detention for a couple of weeks and realized that he lost couple of his cards when he was turned into a doll, and finally, Zane heard from Akiza that Yusuke will finally wake up any day now, but with a slight headache when he does, which he was excited about it as did Honest.
The Key Keepers that now included Celina, Jaden, Bastion, Chazz, Alexis and Zane, decided to get stronger and tougher against the Shadow Riders, got new cards and were anticipating for a duel against the Shadow Riders because they will strike, but they did notice some boys were missing after a couple days now which they have to look into.
The Slifer Reds also had some time alone by watching some anime as they needed a break from all of this, but one day Bastion stormed in and got all of them outside on a cliff and trained until either class starts or the Sun sets in.
As if on cue, Bastion Misawa strolled in on the front yard of the Slifer Red dorm, 2 hours before class started. He stretched as he took out his duel disk and his deck, searching for a perfect card to wake them up, as he was a little confused on why he added White Magician Pikeru, but shook his head as he took out a perfect card, he grinned.
Barrel Dragon. He activated his duel disk and placed it on his duel disk, as a metallic dragon with three barrels with vibrant blue colours, one on its head and two on its hands, appeared on the front yard.
He grinned as he placed his hands on his ears. "Okay. Ready? Get set…Fire!" The monster roared as all of the barrels shot three missiles in different directions so they wouldn't harm anyone, but it did wake everyone up.
"What the hell man?!"
"I am trying to sleep, you asshole!"
"Whoever did it, prepare yourself for an ass whooping!"
"Hit the snooze button!"
"More like the snooze trigger!"
"Well that's a way to wake up with a bang."
"Who dares wake up The Chazz!?"
"I swear if this happens again, I am going to kick everyone's ass."
"Know what's with all of this commotion outside?" asked Banner, with Pharaoh in his hands, as his students were yelling inside. The students and Banner opened their doors only to see Bastion waving with his Barrel Dragon disappearing, "Bastion Misawa? What are you doing here?"
"Oh, my apologies Professor, but I needed to wake my friends up and you know how hard it is for them to wake up." The Key Keepers, Syrus and Chumley glared at Bastion, who grinned, while the rest of the students snickered, but were stopped by glares from the Key Keepers.
Banner sighed, "I understand, but don't do that again or you will be suspended for a week." he said as he and the Slifers that weren't the Key Keepers went inside of their dorm room to continue sleeping, with Banner having a coughing fit.
The Slifer Red Key Keepers, Syrus and Chumley all walked up, clearly angry that they were woken up so early as Celina grabbed him by the collar lowering him to her level, with fires in her eyes, "Tell us why you woken up us so early in the morning, or I swear to Slifer that we will kick your ass!" Some cracked their knuckles.
Bastion wasn't intimidated, not in the slightest, as he answered her question, "Well, it is our training session by the beach and I wanted to do it early." he explained.
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"Give us one good reason why we shouldn't kick your ass right now." The Chazz said as Bastion looked at him.
"You get to eat at the Ra Yellow dorm. I am sure that Professor Satyr wouldn't mind 5 extra students." he said as all of them dropped their heads and Celina dropped her grip.
"You are lucky that he is an amazing cook." admitted Chumley as they went to go dress in their uniforms.
At the shore at Duel Academy
The Key Keepers, and Syrus and Chumley, were currently doing their 'dueling exercising' which consisted of them drawing cards continuously with as much of a filled hand as possible and minimizing their decks. When they are done they have to place the cards back into their deck, after you shuffled it.
Even by Duel Academy standards, this was possibly the most nerdy thing possible. It was easy for the Key Keepers, but not for Syrus and Chumley as they were sweating bullets on it.
"One, two, draw! One, two, draw! One, two, draw!" all of them yelled in unison, with only Bastion really enjoying it.
"I can't believe that he woke us up for this…" muttered Chazz.
Celina looked at him, "Be quiet, he will make us do more of this if this continues."
"Good point, sorry." said Chazz as he endlessly drew his cards, hearing the hangover noises from Chick The Yellow, again from their parties that they keep having. He was at least grateful that Armed Dragons aren't big enough to fit into his room, otherwise he would never sleep.
While Chumley drew his next card, being Des Koala, he glanced at Syrus' newly drawn card and his eyes widened, it was Thunder Nyan-Nyan, a card that doesn't work at all with his Roid monsters.
"Is that Thunder Nyan-Nyan?" asked Chumley, gaining the attention from the shortest Slifer Red student as he chuckled.
"Ye-Yeah, I got her when I opened a pack about two weeks ago." he admitted, "I guess you could say that she is my card crush." some took a double take, "Do you have one, Chumley?" he asked.
The Slifer Red senior smiled as he got a card from his hand and showed it to Syrus, it was Dian Keto The Cure Master, "Yeah, it is her." He revealed it to others, while Bastion was busy doing whatever exercise he was doing.
Jaden whispered to Celina, "Did you knew that Dian Keto was a woman?" he asked her.
"I always thought that it was a man, not a woman." she admitted as Chazz joined in.
"Same here," he whispered.
Chumley didn't hear them as he continued, "I think it's because she reminds me of my girlfriend from back home. Her name is Sarah, wait or is it Adrianna? She always changes her name to them." he said as Syrus chuckled awkwardly before turning his head towards Jaden.
"Jay, do you have a card crush?" he asked the older Slifer Red to which he looked at him, a little bit confused.
"Nah, sorry, Sy, but why would I have a crush on a card? Not to upset you, but I think that's silly." said Jaden not in a disrespectful way, but in a way that was understandable and not at all harmful.
"Gotta agree with Slacker on that one." agreed Chazz as he continued, "That is the silliest thing I have ever heard in my entire life, a crush on a card? You couldn't have gotten a crush on a real person so you decided to get one on a card?" That was the first reason why he didn't have a card crush. The second would be relentless teasing from his duel spirits, he candle one, but not more. He turned his head towards Celina, "Come on, you are one of the only normal ones left, you gotta agree with us on that."
Everyone noticed how quiet Celina was, almost like she committed a crime. She was sweating, arms heavy and lips shut, acting like she committed tax evasion. She was with Chumley and Syrus on that. She did have a…card crush.
She remembered it like it was yesterday.
Young Celina, around the age of 11, was watching a duel between the two highest ranked duelists of all time, Seto Kaiba and Joey Wheeler, while her baby sister Zuzu, around the age of 1, was sleeping on a bassinet in their older cousins', Shay and Lulu's, apartment due to her parents being busy for the rest of the day.
The two Obsidians were finishing their homework from college, they were studying to be vets, while she continued to watch the duel between the third best duelist in the world against the second best duelist in the world, the founder of Duel Academy.
"Alright, Koiba, you know dat since your Blue-Eyes was switched in defense mode by Kunai with Chain, you can no longer attack!" refuted Joey as Seto's nose twitched.
"Wheeler, my name is not Koiba." sighed as he looked at his hand and took one card from his hand, "I end with a face down, your move, Wheeler." he said as a card was set vertically behind the legendary dragon. In his mind he thought if he somehow loses his Blue-Eyes against him of all people, then he will continue on his monkey experiment.
"Alright, is my move now." he drew his card and grinned, "Koiba, I am hoping that you feel the world of hurt, since I tribute my Gearfried The Iron Knight by activating Release Restraint!" His popular Earth Warrior monster's armour began cracking, only from the armour appeared a warrior that can only be described as a god amongst warriors, "My swordsman was tired from wearing that armour so he decided to reveal his true self, Gearfried The Swordmaster!"
Celina fangirled so hard that both of her cousins were worried about something, only for them to see what was happening and Shay looked at her in disbelief. "Seriously? It's a card, 'Lina." he said as Lulu nudged him.
"Oh relax, Shay. You know she is that age where that's normal," Shay looked at her sister, shocked that she would say that, "I mean…I do remember when you were her age and you had a crush on a Blaziken of all things." Shay was quiet as he knew that he couldn't say something back to that.
So he walked back to his desk as he muttered, "Blame Game Freak, not me."
Lulu grinned as she looked at her younger cousin, who was still mumbling on how cute and handsome he was with his beautiful hazel eyes. She chuckled as she remembered seeing Yugi's Legendary Dark Magician for the first time. What they can say, everyone had a weird crush on something.
She dropped her head in shame as she mumbled, shyly for the first time in years, "Gearfried The Swordmaster."
"Excuse me?" asked Chazz, no way that one of the more mature ones would have one, "You have a card crush?"
"I had one." she stated as she began doing the exercise back.
"Out of all the cards…" Syrus was shocked to say the least.
"...you picked a monster that was summoned once by Joey Wheeler." continued Chumley as Celina side eyed him.
"I was 11 okay!? I have different standards now." she said as she continued doing the exercise as what she said wasn't wrong. Her standards have changed over half a decade as she preferred brunettes that aren't just overly musclely for no reason other than battle, but aren't overly thin either, just a decent middle while still having beautiful chocolate coloured eyes.
Before they could ask her anything else, Bastion finally had enough of them talking during their training, "I beg your pardon!? I thought we were training here, not talking about some birds!"
"Birds?" asked Jaden.
"I think that Bastion doesn't have a card crush," deduced Chumley.
"Yeah, anyone with a brain wouldn't have one," said Chazz.
Bastion scoffed, "A crush on a card? Of course not! That's just plain irrational, illogical, ridiculous!" he said as he then remembered a certain Light Fairy monster, by the name of White Magician Pikeru, as he blushed. He closed his eyes and smacked his head with his hand to stop the images, making the Key Keepers look at him, confused.
"As I was saying, let's all get back to our exercises!" As he finished that sentence he saw Syrus looking at Thunder Nyan-Nyan and before the bluenette could say anything, he yelled, "No! If you were about to say anything about the card, then don't even say it!" Syrus sighed as he placed the card on top of his deck.
"Now, where were we? Oh yes, one, two, draw!" said Bastion as everyone, begrudgingly joined in.
During Class
After those 'dueling exercises' and a fantastic french breakfast from Professor Satyr, everyone, sans Chumley as he was a senior, went to Doctor Crowler's classroom, where he wasn't there for some reason. Strange, even when he is sick, he is always there on time, but what's weirder is that some of the students weren't there. It would make sense if like 5 of them weren't there, but half of them weren't there.
On the other side, the two seniors, Zane and Chumley, were at Chancellor Sheppard's office. They briefly exchanged some information on how Syrus or Yusuke were doing, but overall they mostly talked about school work.
The door was opened and both of them entered. "Now, I know both of you are wondering why are both of you here." began Sheppard as the two nodded, letting him continue speaking, "Both of you may know that some students, males especially, are missing and even Doctor Crowler isn't even here."
Chumley gulped while Zane raised his eyebrow, "I heard about that. It happened around a week ago where we thought they just had a cold, but they haven't gone back. And I think I know the reason why."
Chumley looked at the Kaiser of Duel Academy, with worry, "What are you implying, Zane?" he asked him as Sheppard may know the deduction of his student.
"I am guessing you are thinking it is because of a Shadow Rider, right Zane?" asked Sheppard as Zane nodded. Sheppard put his hands below his chin as he leaned in his seat, "I understand where you are coming from. Ever since we know the 2nd Shadow Rider taking student's souls, it would make sense that it would come from a Shadow Rider. However…"
Zane narrowed his eyes while Chumley listened, "However?"
"However, I think it is too early to deduce that it is due to a Shadow Rider and it might be a different reason. But never the case, I have a request from both of you, if you would like to take it."
Both of the seniors exchanged looks at each other, right before looking at Sheppard, "We don't mind it at all, but what is it?"
Sheppard smiled as he leaned in his chair, "I need you to look after the freshmen since Doctor Crowler isn't there to teach them, so I would be happy if both of you would be there until further notice due to so many 1st years being absent."
Chumley gulped at the sound of that while Zane merely sighed, "I will look after the freshmen, you Chumley?" he asked as the Slifer Red senior looked left to right as he just gave a defeated sound, "Yeah, I don't mind."
Sheppard nodded, "Thank you, both of you." He stood up, "Now off you go, you two still have some school work to do." he said as both seniors exited the room.
When they reached the room, they realized what Sheppard was talking about. The classroom had like…15 students? Maybe less. From what they can see, Bastion, Jaden, Celina, Chazz and Syrus were sitting on the same row, watching a duel going on Jaden's phone, Alexis was having a conversation with Jasmine and Mindy, Raizou and Taiyou were arm wrestling each other, Geoffrey and Pippin were having their usual "I take offense to that remark" followed by "I take offense of you taking offense to that remark," and two Slifers were trading cards with each other. Yep, less than they thought.
It wasn't like it was empty, Banner came in and told them to do whatever they want as long as they don't make a loud noise and disturb the classroom next to them, as he sat on a table with Pharaoh in his hands, petting the rotund cat. He saw the two seniors and said nothing due to Sheppard already informing him before as they came in.
Both of them looked at each other, before shrugging and sat in their own seats. Chumley was in a row above them and took out his notebook and started drawing on it. Zane sat on the very corner of the classroom as he asked Honest about Yusuke's condition around every half an hour or so.
The rest of The Fun Gang, at least that's what Jaden calls it after playing the first chapter of Deltarune, were watching a duel between the freaky fish guy known as Mako Tsunami and Reed Peppers, which some were shocked was his real name, that was streamed on Twitch by an account of the name of TheBraveBattler! who was one of the most followed people on the platform.
As then an assistant came over, catching the attention of everyone as they walked towards Banner, they asked if it belonged to someone they knew, it was revealed that it was from one of his students.
Which explains why the Key Keepers, Syrus, Chumley and Banner are currently in a forest, where they heard where they were last seen. It may have taken them a couple of minutes, but a walk in nice, fresh air is never a bad thing.
Once they were gone from the forest they then saw a colosseum, in the middle of an island, where it looked like it was built like it was from Rome and/or Pula, like they would watch gladiators fight to the death.
It all took them a second to register on where and when did this appear, before someone finally had the courage to ask, "When the hell was this built?" asked Celina as Banner shrugged.
"I don't know, my students, but how about we look inside?" asked Banner as Chazz went facing the others backwards.
"You all go in the front while I go on the back if something fishy is going on." he said as no one had enough brain power to say anything back so they just agreed to what he said as they continued walking towards the colosseum.
They all walked in as then they saw all of students working like slaves building the pyramids. From the first years to the seniors, to Slifer Reds to Obelisk Blues. The entire arena looked very much like a colosseum from ancient Rome and from those Gladiator movies. The stone pillars and seats looked very realistic. It looks like a place where people could film a movie here, a fun, action packed movie. They have to give credit where credit is due, this is all very impressive.
"This…is actually pretty sweet." admitted Jaden as the rest nodded their heads as they all forgot students built the colosseum by themselves.
"I agree,"
"I concur,"
"This place is really cool, Jay."
"This is extremely lischus!"
"Minus the fact that students are building this."
"...okay, I kinda forgot about that part."
Chazz turned around as he saw nothing around and he was shocked at how well made this was by some students. He nodded his head as he looked around, but his eyes widened as he saw one of the builders, "Doctor Crowler!?" Everyone turned to see where Chazz's voice was directed towards, and they saw Doctor Crowler pushing the massive stone pillar, "What are you doing here?!"
Crowler cocked his head towards where he heard that, "Hmm? Oh, just doing a man's work!" he said with confidence in his voice.
"A man's work?" Banner placed his hand on his mouth, "My, they must be getting low on men." Some of them chuckled at their professor's words.
"Ha! Nice one, Professor!" laughed Celina as she looked at her teacher with a grin, but her grin was lowered when she saw the terrified looks on her friends, and Banner, "Guys?" She then felt hot air on her back and growling followed with it. Red flags immediately alerted in her head as she moved her head slowly.
She then saw a cat with black markings with orange skin, with scars all over the body and gauntlets all over its legs. Normally she will try to pick it up, but the only small difference was that it wasn't a normal cat…it was a fully grown tiger.
"Guys… we need… to run," said Alexis slowly.
"And now." said Zane as all of them went straight towards a pillar, as the tiger chased them. The students, and Crowler, paid no attention to this as they continued working on the colosseum.
"First a colosseum, then a tiger, what's next?! A gladiator!?" yelled Jaden as he was the first one up a pillar, followed by Chazz, then Zane, then Celina, then Bastion, then Alexis, then Banner, then Pharaoh, then Chumley and finally Syrus.
"Don't jinx it, Jay!" yelled Syrus as he, and the rest of them, got out the way from the tiger's grasp and were safe from the battle cat, but it didn't stop it from scratching the surface of the pillar.
Crowler stepped in, "Actually, she prefers the title 'Amazon'. Thank you." he said as he and the rest of the students stopped working as they were all finally done with making the colosseum.
"An Amazon!?" yelled Banner as he was clutching on the pillar holding on for dear life.
"I don't wanna die!" yelled Chumley, "I haven't tasted all of the grilled cheeses before I die!"
"That's what you are worried about?!" yelled Syrus as he looked at the Slifer Red senior.
"Hey, at least I have a goal that isn't 'get out of someone's shadow'!" argued back Chumley.
"From whose shadow?" asked, unironically, Zane as he was pretty much the only one who didn't know about how his brother is in his shadow.
"Kaiser, are you serious?"
"Yeah, man, are you serious?"
"He has shown this for months and you haven't seen it?" asked Jaden, Chazz and Alexis all at the same time.
"Seen what?" Zane was confused.
"So this is how my friends and I are gonna die, huh? Died in a colosseum by a tiger while I am on a pillar as the best student is oblivious to his younger brother's inferiority complex. Quite the way, not gonna lie." thought Celina as the rest of the students were asking Zane on how he doesn't know about his brother being in his shadow.
Before any more questions could be thrown around, a whistle got everyone's attention, even the tiger's as it stopped scratching the pillar. They all turned around to see from where the whistle came from, and a female with an impressive build, a bird scar on her eye with a purple pony-tail came in and jumped from the stands and then the tiger approached her and lifted its head up, wanting to get a pat on the head, to which it got it.
"I am sorry for how my little man was treating you all, you can all get down now. There are no bobby traps, I promise!" She said as the rest went down on the pillar as Syrus placed his foot down, as her word was fully correct, there were no bobby traps so the rest jumped down, resulting in poor Syrus being crushed by Chumley and Chazz, only the latter not feeling bad, "Now what the Doctor said was true, I do prefer being called an Amazon, but please wait a second as I pay my workers for helping me." she said as she went to pay them with envelopes in her hands.
They picked him up as they saw the woman all give the students, who were apparently love sick, their reward for helping her build the colosseum, some rare cards. Even Jaden thought that wasn't a fair trade off.
Zane put two with two together and realized what she is. He sighed leaving the colosseum with Banner behind him, without saying a word. He did, however, send a text message to all of them to tell who won.
As all of the Key Keepers were watching the Amazon still pay her workers, Syrus remembered what she said before she went and paid them, "Wait, an Amazon?! Ahh man!"
"More like "Ahh woman!"! Amazons are a warrior race with only females." said Chumley as Alexis and Celina nodded their heads.
"You go, girl."
"Girl power, nice." Both Alexis and Celina commented as the Amazon was finally done.
"Now, if I am sorry, if I haven't introduced myself," she turned around, "I am Tania, one of the seven Shadow Riders." all of the students had their focus and guard up the entire time, but Tania raised her hands, "Now, now. I am not like Camula or Nightshroud that just attack random people or harm them, I am here only to get a Spirit Key."
Bastion looked at her stance, with a blush on his face, and realized that her body language was like she was honest with her words and had zero malicious intent, "She is right, everyone." Everyone turned to the Ra Yellow, "I see that she is truthful with her words, her body language is that of someone that doesn't want a fight."
"Really? You can tell that I wasn't lying by my body language?" She chuckled, "How smart, I like that in a man." Bastion's blush grew a bit bigger, but she waved her hand, "But nevertheless, like the other Shadow Riders, I still have a job to do, so if you don't have a Spirit Key and, more importantly, a sister, please step aside so I could choose my first opponent."
While Syrus and Chumley did as they were told, Celina and Alexis were a little offended, "What does that supposed to mean?" they both asked at the same time as Tania chuckled.
"Ohh, nothing, I just couldn't even imagine harming a sister, so please, go and sit." she asked nicely as both of the only girl Key Keepers walked over to the stands, with the Slifer Red grumbling.
"Thank you, but I have to ask, who's my man?" she asked as the three Key Keepers all announced at the same time.
"Right here!"
"Your's truly!"
"I will take you!"
Tania placed a hand on her chin, thinking about her choices. She pointed at Chazz, "Cute, but not really my type," Chazz was both a little offended and a little happy by that compliment, as she pointed at Jaden, which earned a glare from a certain Slifer Red. Tania chuckled, "Oh. It seems you are already taken, my apologies." Jaden looked at her, confused at her words so he looked behind and towards his left and right, to which all of them shrugged.
Tania's eyes focused on Bastion and she realized something. He was her type. He was smart, cute, confident, a perfect middle between skinny and musclely, sharp jaw line and so much more.
Her finger pointed towards the Ra Yellow, "Since all of my options were cut, I think I will duel you." Bastion's eyes widened in surprise as he didn't think he would have dueled her, but oh well. He walked towards the middle of the battle arena while the rest watched the duel from the stands.
"Welp, you can't duel them all." shrugged Jaden as he sat down.
Tania's tiger went towards the side as it flopped on its belly and waited for her mistress to defeat this Key Keeper. The Amazoness spoke up, "Your name, dear."
"Bastion. Bastion Misawa," stated Bastion as Tania smiled at her new opponent and possible future husband. He reached for his jacket's zipper, "But I do have one question. Which deck?" he asked as Tania raised an eyebrow.
"Pardon?" she asked as Bastion revealed all of his decks. The Fire, Water, Wind, Earth, Dark and Light decks. Her eyes widened as she bit her lip, clearly liking him already, "Oh, six decks, huh? I guess you are always ready for some action."
Bastion smirked at the Shadow Rider, "Oh I am, but I asked you a question. Which deck?"
"Hmm, that's a tough one, but I will choose when you pick my deck." Bastion raised an eyebrow as she brought up her two decks, "I always have a tough time picking my decks, so how about you choose mine?" She raised her left hand, "This is the deck of courage," she then raised her right hand, "And this is the deck of wisdom. So what will it be?"
Bastion thought about it for a moment, before he decided on the deck, "The deck of courage. That's the one I pick." he said as Tania nodded her head as she placed her deck into a duel disk that was a mix of the regular Duel Academy duel disk and Crowler's duel vest.
"Great choice, darling," she said as she looked at Bastion, "I would like you to play an Earth deck so we can both rock our worlds."
"Alright!" he said as he took out his Earth deck and implanted it in his duel disk and readied it.
"But before we duel, I must warn you, this isn't a Shadow duel." she assured the Ra Yellow.
"I beg your pardon?" he asked as Tania looked at him, with hearts in her eyes.
"You heard me. I don't want your soul, I want you, big boy.~" Tania said.
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"WHAT?!" Everyone, even Jaden, yelled at the same time. Alexis was drinking a bottle of water when she finished her sentence, so she did an actual spit take.
"It's like this. My tribe is full of women, so I have to shop around to get me a fine husband, and you, Bastion, are a perfect one for me." Tania said as Bastion's jaw dropped.
"Sooooooo… she is dueling for Bastion's V-card." Chazz said simply as the rest, sans Jaden, agreed at the same time.
"Yep."
"Uh huh."
"It appears so."
"Lucky bastard." said Celina, Syrus, Alexis and Chumley all at the same time while Jaden was confused.
"What's a V-card?" asked Jaden as the Fun Gang looked at each other before looking at the brunette.
"We'll tell you when you are older." said Syrus as Jaden looked at him.
"Sy, but you are a month younger than m-"
"We'll tell you when you are older." assured Celina as it left no room for an argument.
Bastion shook his head, "That won't happen because I will be declared the victor of this duel!" he declared as Tania chuckled.
"We'll see about that." Tania winked at him, making him blush once more, before both of them looked at each other, right before declaring, "DUEL!" As then the Spirit Keys started to shake.
Tania: 4000 lp
Bastion: 4000 lp
Turn 1.
As the two drew their cards, Tania spoke up, "Since you are in my arena, how about I let you go first?" she asked as Bastion nodded.
"Thank you, but I am afraid that flattery won't let you go too far!" yelled Bastion as he drew his card. He put the card in his hand as he thought of his next play, but he smiled as he figured out a perfect small combo for the start.
"I'll start the duel by summoning Beta, The Electromagnet Warrior in attack mode!" Some ears' perked up as the monster's name sounded way too similar to a card that Yugi uses, but a warrior made out of machines with a red colouring scheme, with electricity running through it appeared onto the field. Around his arms and head were magnets. It didn't have eyes.
(Beta The Electromagnet Warrior: Level 3 - Earth Rock - Attack: 1500. Defense: 1500.)
He then pointed at his monster, "When he is summoned onto the field, I get to add a Level 4 or lower Magnet Warrior monster from my deck straight to my hand and I think I'll chose," he took out a card from his deck, "Alpha, The Electromagnet Warrior!"
He then looked at his hand, as he did have a good Spell card, but only activated when he had a monster in his graveyard, so he straightened his back, "I end my turn."
Turn 2. Tania - 4000 lp - 5 cards
"Really? That's all, Bastion? I thought you were about to make something spectacular," Tania said as she drew her card, "but don't worry, I promise I will be gentle." she said with a wink as Bastion cheeks became hotter and redder.
"This feels wrong," said Celina as Chazz agreed with her.
"Yeah, I feel dirty just watching this." he said as Alexis agreed with him.
"I second that." she said while the other Slifers were quiet. Syrus and Chumley had perverted thoughts while Jaden was confused on what was so wrong about this duel even if it just started.
Tania took a card from her hand, "I will begin to summon one of my sisters, Amazoness Scouts!" two warrior girls appeared onto the field. One wore yellow clothing that covered her chest and hips down to her knees, with fur below the skirt, but above her feet. She also wielded a sword and had red hair. The other wore blue clothing that, just like the other one, covered her hips down to her knees and chest, while this time having blue hair and a bow and arrow.
(Amazoness Scouts: Level 2 - Earth Warrior - Attack: 500. Defense: 1100.)
Bastion raised an eyebrow, why would she summon a monster that is three times weaker than his Beta?
But then his thoughts were cut as Tania took out a card from her hand, "I know what you are wondering and questioning, Bastion dear, so how about I answer it? When both of us control a monster, I can activate Amazoness Spellcaster! Both of our monsters' attack points switch with the other!" Bastion gasped.
Amazoness Scouts: 500 - 1500 attack points
Beta The Electromagnet Warrior: 1500 - 500 attack points
Now the attack points situation was changed where Bastion was on the forefront of the lacking monsters, but something tells him that was the least of his worries as Tania took another card, "But, what kind of Amazon would I be if I didn't have any sisters helping me? So I activate Amazoness Village!"
The Amazoness Rider inserted the card in her Field Spell zone as her side of the field changed. Multitudes of small wooden houses appeared onto the field with her pet tiger loving the scene. There are Amazons everywhere, on the houses, beside the houses and in the houses. Inside of the biggest wooden house was a queen, the biggest tiger and even an empress inside of it.
Jaden and Syrus remembered their duel against the Tyler Sisters while Tania had memories of her time as an Amazon with her sisters, before the war between the Harpies and Amazons.
She smiled before she shook her head, she needed to focus in this duel, "And now my Field Spell's effect activates! All of my monsters gain 200 attack points!" Both of the monsters that made up Amazoness Scouts roared in power.
Amazoness Scouts: 1500 - 1700 attack points
Tania put her hand on her chin, right before pointing at Beta, "And I think it's finally to battle! Amazoness Scouts, attack Beta The Electromagnet Warrior!" The blue haired Amazon shot arrows towards the Rock monster, but Bastion had something else on his mind.
"Not so fast! I activate Beta's effect! I tribute it," his monster disappeared, "So I can special summon a Level 4 or lower Magnet Warrior from my deck!" He said as he took out his deck, took a specific card and then returned it to his duel disk. "And I think I will summon Delta The Magnet Warrior in defense mode!"
A warrior wearing diamonds on its chest, stomach, feet, hands and even on its head appeared onto the field. In its feet was a single one piece magnet while on its hands and even on its head was an usual design for a magnet. Its eyes glew yellow when it is summoned.
(Delta The Magnet Warrior: Level 4 - Earth Rock - Attack: 1600. Defense: 1100.)
Bastion then thrusted his hand, "And when he is summoned onto the field, I get to send a Level 4 or lower Magnet Warrior monster from my deck to my graveyard." he said as he sent Gamma The Electromagnet Warrior to his graveyard. "That will suffice for now."
"Ohh, suffice.~" cooed Tania as she placed her hands together, getting excited as her monsters sweatdropped, "Can you say it again? That sounded so cool!"
"Y'know," Syrus turned to Jaden, "I think it's been a couple of years since she interacted with a guy."
"Couple of years?" asked Jaden, "Nah, try decades, Sy!"
"Both of you are incorrect," both of them turned Chazz, "Couple of centuries, at least!"
"None of you are right," all of them turned to Celina, "A millenia at the very least." all of them agreed to that.
Bastion, however, didn't show any emotion in the slightest, "I know what you are trying to do, trying to psyche me out of my game, but jokes on you," his expression turned into a serious one, "that won't happen."
"Or are you?" Bastion raised an eyebrow at her words, "If you were focused, you would have summoned Gamma in defense mode making my monster not able to get over your monster, so tell me, who is focused?" Bastion gasped at that mistake, but with his current hand, that won't happen again, for now.
"Might I add, Scouts still haven't attacked due to you not negating that attack, so the replay occurs!" That Bastion was focused on not taking 1200 life points, but instead zero. That didn't change as the yellow haired slashed his Earth Rock type monster, making a small explosion.
Tania then took two cards from her hand, "I will end my turn by setting two cards face down, and make it more exciting then the other one. I want our story to our children on how we met to be an exciting one." two cards were set vertically behind the Amazoness Scouts.
"CHILDREN!?" This time Chumley was drinking a bottle of water so he was the one doing a spit take.
Amazoness Scouts: 1700 - 700 attack points
Turn 3. Bastion - 4000 lp - 5 cards
"That does sound nice- Wait what am I saying?!" The Ra Yellow Key Keeper shook his head as he drew his card, "Oh, right. What I was saying was that I activate Pot Of Greed," the legendary pot appeared onto the field, "I can now draw 2 cards from my deck!" He did so as the pot exploded.
He nodded as he took the cards he just drew and placed them in his hand, "I now summon Alpha The Electromagnet Warrior in attack mode!" On the field appeared a robot with a brown colouring scheme appeared onto the field, with electricity all over the monster. The monster wore a staff and a shield. On its hips, shield, staff and even on its head were magnets. Its blue eyes glew as soon as it was summoned.
(Alpha The Electromagnet Warrior: Level 3 - Earth Rock - Attack: 1700. Defense: 1100.)
"And since he was summoned onto the field, I get to add a Level 8 Magna Warrior from my deck straight to my hand!" He did so and he revealed Berserkion, The Electromagna Warrior. He placed it in his hand as he took another from his hand, "I then activate the Spell card, Magnet Reborn! For the price of 500 life points, I get to summon a Magnet monster from my graveyard! So, revive, Delta!"
Tania: 4000 lp
Bastion: 4000 - 3500 life points
(Delta The Magnet Warrior: Level 4 - Earth Rock - Attack: 1600. Defense: 1100.)
"Since you already heard its effect, I don't think I need to explain my next move." Bastion took out his deck and then a card, revealing it to be Epsilon The Magnet Warrior, and sent it to his graveyard. "I think I did enough preparations for now so I will attack! Go, Alpha! Attack and destroy Amazoness Scouts!"
His Earth Rock monster nodded as it jumped, raising its staff in the air and directed it towards the Amazoness monsters, but The Amazoness Rider wasn't afraid. "Sorry, dear, but that won't happen, since a good queen always protects her people so I activate Dramatic Rescue!"
Her set card was activated with Bastion gritting his teeth, "This Trap only activates if my Amazoness monster is being attacked, and if it is, I can switch my monster with one from my hand. Sorry, gals, you have to make room for the queen! Amazoness Queen, that is!"
Before the strike could land on the two Amazoness Scouts, an Amazon that was taller, bigger and muscular than the two Scouts combined ran from the houses and then towards the Magnet Warrior and stopped it with its bare hands. She gave the two monsters an order with just a look and the two perfectly understood her and went towards the houses. The Queen then gave the two Magnet Warriors a glare while hitting her chest with her right hand, making the two monsters take a step back.
(Amazoness Queen: Level 6 - Earth Warrior - Attack: 2400 [- 2600]. Defense: 500.)
"Damn it, she outsmarted me," Bastion gritted his teeth, as then he took a deep breath, "Fine, I will end my Bat-"
"Sorry to interrupt you, hun, but that won't happen!" Many looked at the Amazoness Rider, but Tania then activated her other set card, "Thanks to Battle Mania, your monsters must attack my monsters, sorry, but you couldn't stop your attack."
She finished her sentence with a wink as Bastion watched in horror as his two weaker Magnet Warriors went in and attack the Amazoness Queen, but the Amazon wasn't scared o as it went and stopped both of the monsters' attack with a hand for each of them and slammed them together.
Tania: 4000 lp
Bastion: 3500 - 2500 - 1600 life points
Bastion looked at his field that had two monsters on his side of the field, all vaporized in one turn. He put his hand on his mouth, "She…outsmarted me." he said as Tania chuckled in his reaction.
"I guess I did, hun. I believe that our children and grandchildren will get their smarts from me." The Amazoness said in confidence as Bastion took a step back as he finally realized what she meant, and not a couple of minutes ago.
"Children!? We are enemies!" he yelled.
"During the duel we are, but after this, we will be lovers!"
"We barely know each other!"
"Of course we know each other. You are a Ra Yellow, smart and quite cute!"
"That doesn't change anything!"
"Of course it does! It shows that I truly care for you!"
Bastion sighed as he glanced at the Key Keepers, who didn't say a word 'cause they were too confused if she was playing him or being genuine. "Are you truly smitten that much?" he asked.
"I would prefer being called in love!" she yelled as Bastion grew a tick mark.
He breathed in and out as he thought about something, "Calm down, Bastion. She is distracting you with her beautiful ocean blue eyes, hair as smooth as silk and voice of a godde- Wait, what am I thinking!? I know! She is distracting me like those card crushes distract Syrus, Chumley and possibly Celina, but you were always above this…" The Ra Yellow then imagined Thunder Nyan-Nyan, Dian Keto The Cure Master, White Magician Pikeru and, for some reason, Gearfried The Swordmaster. His eyes widened as he grabbed his head, shouting, "NO! I AM ABOVE ALL OF THIS!" He then started shaking his head.
The Key Keepers sweatdropped as they saw Bastion shaking his head with his hands on his head, shouting random nonsense as Tania looked at him lovingly. "Is…is Bastion having an aneurysm?" asked Alexis.
"If I was in this duel then I too would have one," said Chazz.
"True, gotta agree on that." Celina agreed.
Jaden was confused by the word Alexis used, "Is that like a bad headache?"
"Yeah, pretty much, Jay." answered Syrus as the rest then looked at Bastion finally having an inner mental breakdown.
"Calm yourself, you can win this. You are not in…love?" he shook his head as he took his head. He took a card from his hand, "I activate Heart Of The Underdog! Normally, I wouldn't play a card like this in my deck, but with the cards in it, I couldn't resist. If I would draw a Normal monster, I can reveal it and I can draw an additional card!" he explained as the Amazoness Rider nodded.
"Okay, not a bad move, hun, but that's if you could survive my turn." Tania said as Bastion then took a card from his hand.
"Oh you will see. I end my turn by setting a card facedown!" a card was set vertically in front of the Ra Yellow.
Turn 4. Tania - 4000 lp - 1 card
The Amazoness Rider drew her card and nodded. She placed it in her hand as she took out the other card in her hand, "I need some assistance, so please help out, Amazoness Scouts!" her two small, petite Amazons with two different weapons appeared onto the field.
(Amazoness Scouts: Level 2 - Earth Warrior - Attack: 500. Defense: 1100.)
Tania then took the last card from her hand, "Now, I activate the Spell, Tribal Energy! For every one of my sisters I control, I get to draw a card, so now I draw two cards!" she did so as her eyes widened, but it quickly turned into a smirk.
"Hun, you're mine." Bastion was confused as Tania placed one of the cards in her hands, but left the other as she revealed it to everyone, "I activate the Spell card, Polymerization, so I fuse Amazoness Scouts and Queen on my field!" she yelled as her two monsters were sucked in a Red-Blue Spiral Vortex.
The Shadow Rider then began chanting, "Raised as a cub from fierce warriors, show that you are a true part of the tribe! I Fusion Summon! Come out, Amazoness Pet Liger!" From the Vortex came out a tiger that was bigger than the one that was sitting and watching the duel. It had the same colouring scheme, wearing battle armour and it had a scar on its right eye.
(Amazoness Pet Liger: Fusion - Level 7 - Earth Beast - Attack: 2500 [- 2700]. Defense: 2400.)
Tania had a smile as she remembered her time playing the pet tiger when she was little, right before that. She shook her head as she pointed out, "When he attacks, his attack points grow 500 during the battle, so I will attack you directly with Fang Of The King Of The Jungle!"
Amazoness Pet Liger: 2700 - 3200 attack points
Pet Liger roared as it ran towards the Key Keeper, the Amazoness Rider smiled, "Hun, I won."
However, Bastion grinned, "Oh really?" Tania widened her eyes as he activated his set cards, "Go, Back To The Front! I revive a monster from my graveyard in defense mode, so come out, Gamma The Electromagnet Warrior!"
A more rotund machine appeared on the field with a light green colouring scheme, with electricity running all around it. Around its neck was a magnet while on its hands were single line magnets. It was in X position, making it known that it was in defense mode.
(Gamma The Electromagnet Warrior: Level 3 - Earth Rock - Attack: 800. Defense: 2000.)
"It appears that you may have protected your life points for now, but I don't think the same thing will apply to your monster!" yelled the Amazoness Rider as her monster jumped on the Rock monster and bit its head off. Once it was done it ran back to Tania.
She then took a card from her hand, "I set a card and end my turn. Your move, hun." she said with a wink as a card was set vertically behind the Pet Liger.
Turn 5. Bastion - 1600 lp - 4 cards
"What am I doing?" he asked himself. This wasn't his duel, not by a long shot. He walked into all of Tania's traps like she planned them. He placed his fingers on the top of his deck, he won't be fooled again for this duel! "I draw!" he yelled as he dramatically drew his card with his eyes closed.
He opened them slowly as he grinned, this was the perfect start for a combo, "The card I just draw was Alpha The Magnet Warrior!" he yelled as he revealed to everyone the card that Yugi Muto uses in his duels, "And thanks to Heart Of The Underdog's effect, I get to draw one additional card from my deck!" he did so as his eyes widened, "Guess, I got Jaden's luck for drawing cards, since I drew Gamma The Magnet Warrior! Meaning I get to draw once more!" he did so as his eyes landed on a Trap card.
"This will be useful for later." he thought to himself as he placed the card in his hand right before taking three cards from his hand. "I will show you that your distractions won't work on me since I have Alpha, Beta and Gamma The Magnet Warriors, I can send them to summon a monster from my hand that is sure to get everyone riled up!"
He said as the legendary Earth Rock monsters used by the King Of Games himself appeared onto the field, right before their parts flew off in different directions right before creating a monster that hyped everyone up, even Chumley. It had Gamma's wings, Beta's face and shoulders and the body of Alpha with electricity running through it. It wielded a sword made out of titanium. On his sword, ears and shoulders were magnets. Everywhere other than his sword had an S sign, while on his sword had a N sign. "Thanks to the laws of Physics, I was able to summon Valkyrion The Magna Warrior!"
(Valkyrion The Magna Warrior: Level 8 - Earth Rock - Attack: 3500. Defense: 3850.)
"Holy shamoly! It's one of Yugi's monsters!" said Jaden excitedly as the rest watched in awe at the Rock monster.
"That's amazing, but how will that defeat?" asked Tania with a raised eyebrow as Bastion smirked.
"Because, I know the Amazoness archetype quite well, and I know that with all of the effects of that Liger, but it doesn't have any battle protection! So, begin! Attack with Magnet Saber!" Valkyrion's sword glew bright yellow as it dashed straight towards the Pet Liger, but Tania smirked.
"Really? It doesn't have battle protection? Well let's change that shall we!? Go, Amazoness Willpower!" The Amazoness Rider activated her set card, "I can now summon an Amazoness monster from my graveyard! Revive, Amazoness Queen!" a throne appeared on the field, only to reveal Queen sitting on it, hand under chin, smiling smugly, but right before standing from her chair.
(Amazoness Queen: Level 6 - Earth Warrior - Attack: 2400 [- 2600]. Defense: 500.)
"Her effect is that all of my monsters can not be destroyed by battle and my Pet Liger gains 500 during the battle!" Tania exclaimed as Valkyrion, try as he might, couldn't penetrate Pet Liger's head making it jump back to Bastion.
"But you still take that damage!" yelled Bastion as he realized how much he is behind.
Tania: 4000 - 3700 life points
Bastion: 1600 life points
"Finally! Bastion dealt some damage!" yelled Chumley.
"But it's only 300 points of damage," said Syrus, sadly.
"Still better than nothing," said Alexis.
Tania looked at Bastion and noticed how sad he looked, "Come on, hun, don't beat yourself up, even when you lose, you still have won something."
"And that is?"
"Me," Bastion looked at Tania, and realized that what she said was all true. That she truly did love him. It warmed him up.
"That's gre- Wait, no! This duel is still not done!" He then took two cards from his hand, "I end my turn with two facedowns!" two cards were set vertically behind the Legendary Magnet monster.
Turn 6. Tania - 3700 lp - 0 cards
"I won't give up…Tania~" he said as the rest of the Key Keepers saw the blush on his cheeks.
"That's great to hear, hun, but shame that this duel will end in this turn," she said as she drew her card as her eyes widened. It was a card that Endymion gave her when she left his school.
It was a memory that still made the Amazon smile, but she needed to play it, "I activate the Spell, Spellbook From The Pot! We both draw 3 cards from our decks!" Bastion nodded as both of them drew their cards as Tania widened her eyes.
She had the winning formula as she then took one of the cards, "I activate my second Polymerization! I fuse from my hand Amazoness Pet Tiger and from my field Amazoness Queen!" a tiger that was watching the entire duel, which was completely forgotten about until now, jumped towards the field, before both of them were sucked in a Red-Blue Spiral Vortex.
Tania chanted, "A true tribe is nothing without its powerful leader and with the strength of a warrior Goddess, no race is safe from her wrath! I Fusion Summon! Appear, Amazoness Empress!" From the Vortex, or in one of the houses just like the Pet Liger, jumped out an Amazon with a tan just like the Shadow Rider, wearing a red cape, green bra, fur around her hips, a skull crown that went well with her white hair while holding a sword that was bigger than most students. The proud Amazon roared in pride with Tania dropping a single tear as remembering a memory of her allowing to go to Endymion's school.
(Amazoness Empress: Fusion - Level 8 - Earth Warrior - Attack: 2800 [- 3000].. Defense: 2400.)
Bastion gulped, a blush not going anywhere, as he saw the two powerful Fusion monsters from his opponent, but Tania wasn't done as she took the final card from her hand, "I play my final Continuous Spell, Amazoness Battle Spirit. Once per turn; when my monster is involved in an attack, the monster gains half of the monster it is battling while your monster loses the exact amount my monster gained due to the effect!"
"Wait, half!?"
"Oh no!"
"You can still win this Bastion!"
While the rest were giving him the sounds of encouragement, those ultimately fell flat as he was lovesick of Tania, as he can't stop saying her name in absolute bliss. "Tania~"
"Looks like our honeymoon is secured! Pet Liger, attack his Valkyrion The Magna Warrior with Fang Of The King Of The Jungle!" she yelled as her monster roared in power.
Pet Liger: 2700 - 3200 - 4950 attack points
Valkyrion: 3500 - 1750 attack points
Pet Liger ran straight towards the Magnet monster, roaring in every step it took as it launched itself on the monster and taking a massive bite as Bastion finally got it together at the very last second, making a small explosion covering his field.
Tania: 3700 lp
Bastion: 1600 - 0 life points
"BASTION!" Everyone yelled in concern as they saw their comrade and friend lose to the 3rd Shadow Rider.
Tania chuckled, "Well well, hun, looks like I was right, huh?" She raised her hand, "Before our honeymoon begins I must get that Spirit Key." She said as she used enough energy to get the key, but for some reason it didn't work.
"Hey, we are still dueling here!" everyone turned to Bastion standing there after the explosion faded away, a blush still on his face, but acting like he didn't lose all of his life points.
He smirked, "What? This duel resumes." Tania, and so did everyone else, checked the life point situation and their eyes widened.
Tania: 3700 lp
Bastion: 100 lp
"Ho-how?" asked in horror Tania as Bastion grinned.
"What's wrong, dear? Shocked that I am still in the game? And I thought you said our children will have your smarts," Bastion chuckled at his own joke, "But to clear up the confusion, when I lost all of my life points, I activated the monster's, Instant Healer, effect which required me to send it and a card from my hand to the graveyard so I could gain 100 life points so I can still be in the game. How's that?"
Tania's shocked expression turned into a lustful expression, "Oh my~ You are truly special, hun~" she said as they both heard the complaints from the Key Keepers.
"What is wrong with you, man?!"
"Don't do that again!"
"I almost got a heart attack!"
"Seriously, not cool!"
"Sorry, everyone." Bastion chuckled, but he knew that he can't let his guard down, not even now, "But, Tania, don't think I forgot about your Empress, so I activate Magnet Reverse, allowing me to special summon a Rock monster that can not be normal summoned, so arise, Valkyrion!"
(Valkyrion The Magna Warrior: Level 8 - Earth Rock - Attack: 3500. Defense: 3850.)
Tania looked at him before bitting her lip, "If you are still in this, then show me how you truly duel, hun. And I want everything."
Amazoness Pet Liger: 4950 - 2700 attack points
Turn 7. Bastion - 100 lp - 3 card
"I will, Tania and I will start right now!" he yelled as he drew his card, but it didn't even matter as he pointed at his set card, "Set card activate! Magnet Conversion! I can return 3 Magnet Warriors from my graveyard straight to my hand!" he did so as he revealed all of them, "I pick Alpha, Beta and Gamma The Electromagnet Warriors, but they won't be sticking for long, since I banish them!" He placed them in his pocket.
"What!"
"They have a 2nd version of Valkyrion?!"
"Awesome!"
"That's right! Think of it as a brother of Valkyrion as it almost has a similar summon method!" The Electromagnet Warriors appeared right before dispersing in different parts. The monster had Beta's feet, Alpha's arms, hands and head with Gamma's shoulders with electricity going all around the monster. The monster wielded a mace-like weapon with magnets on the opposite side of the handle. On its shoulders and ears were magnets, "By using the power of Science, I summon the legendary Berserkion The Electromagna Warrior!"
(Berserkion The Electromagna Warrior: Level 8 - Earth Rock - Attack: 3000. Defense: 2800.)
Many stared at the newly summoned monster, but that wasn't the end for Bastion's moves, "As much as I want to leave it at that, I know it would be foolish of me to do so at a monster that I can not destroy, so I activate Polymerization, fusing the Berserkion and Valkyrion on my field!" The two monsters were sucked in a Red-Blue Spiral Vortex.
Bastion chanted, "Two magnets combine by using the laws Science and Psychics, as the ultimate battlebot is formed! I Fusion Summon! Show yourself, Imperion Magnum The Superconductive Battlebot!" From the Vortex came out a monster that could only be described as a chimera of all of the Magnet Warriors. It had regular Beta's and the Electromagnet's Alpha's face and arms, regular Gamma's wings while having the Electromagnet's base for the legs, while having regular Alpha's torso and Electromagnet's Beta's arms. It had a sword that made Empress' look like a toy and had a massive catapult on its back, with electricity all over the Fusion monster. Around its sword, shoulders and head were magnets. Its yellow eyes glew a deeper shade of yellow as soon it was summoned on the field.
(Imperion Magnum The Superconductive Battlebot: Fusion - Level 10 - Earth Rock - Attack: 4000. Defense: 4000.)
"He-he had that type of card in his deck?!" yelled Chazz as he thought of a horrible idea of him summoning that monster in his duel when he threw his cards in the ocean.
"I am so glad he didn't summon that against us, right Alexis?" Celina looked at Alexis who merely nodded.
"Dang it, I kinda wanted to duel that monster during the representation of the School Duel," admitted Jaden as he looked at the Fusion monster.
"That's an impressive monster, hun, but you do remember my Spell's effect, right?" Tania asked as Bastion smiled.
"How could I? With this duel of our passion, I will not forget any moment so I think I will end this duel! But first, I activate Mystical Space Typhoon, destroying your Battle Spirit!" he yelled as a strong gust of wind appeared and destroyed Tania's set card.
"Alright, now Bastion can attack Pet Liger with no worries from her Spell card," praised Syrus.
"Imperion Magnum! Attack Pet Liger with Electric Saber Magnet Slash!" His monster's sword glew the deepest shade of yellow as it ran towards the monster it was attacking. Before Tania could say anything to stop this, "I know what you are gonna say, your monster gains 500 attack points, right?!"
"I'm glad that you remembered!" yelled Tania as her tiger roared in power as it ran towards Imperion Magnum.
Pet Liger: 2700 - 3200 attack points
"I know that this won't even be close to winning if I just continue this attack so I decided to win in an explosive manner," Bastion took the last card in his hand, "I activate the Quick-Play Spell, Battle Fusion!" Everyone gasped at the card, "My Fusion monster gains attacks points equal to the amount of attack points of the monster it is battling, so you do the math!"
"Wait so, if Imperion has 4000 regular attack points…"
"...And his monster gains 3200 attack points," started Syrus as Chumley continued right before everyone realized how much it had.
"It has over 7000 attack points!" yelled everyone and Tania.
"That's right, and I am sorry my dear, but I won this duel!" yelled Bastion as his monster got closer and closer to its target.
Imperion Magnum: 4000 - 7200 attack points
Imperion threw its sword at the air as Pet Liger jumped on it, but unfortunately for the Amazoness Fusion monster, Imperion caught the sword and slashed the tiger's head off, making a massive explosion.
From the dust clouds it was revealed that Bastion stood there victorious while the 3rd Shadow Rider was on her knees, in defeat, but not without a smile on her face from a worthy opponent.
Tania: 3700 - 0 life points
Bastion: 100 lp
BASTION MISAWA: WINNER!
While Bastion walked towards the defeated Shadow Rider, with a sad expression, he was cut off by everyone running towards him, "Bastion! Great duel, man!"
"A sweet one at that!"
"Congrats!"
"Not bad, Bastion."
"This is so lischus!"
"Ahh yeah, three defeated, four more to go!" praised everyone as they slapped Bastion on the back, congratulating him on the duel and that he managed to defeat one of the Shadow Riders.
Bastion scratched his cheek from embarrassment as he wasn't used to these types of words and so much congratulating on a duel, "Thanks everyone, even if I could have made better moves I could've made much less blunders in the-"
"Well, I guess this is it, huh?" Everyone turned to Tania who stood up.
"Tania?" Bastion looked at her, scared of what's about to happen.
"I wanted to tell you thank you for a fight that I could never forget and I do apologize for my behaviour in the duel. It was the first time in forever, right before I became a Shadow Rider, that I felt excitement in battles, that I forgot how to act, so I have to thank you for the great duel, Bastion." Before anyone could ask what she was doing, she took off her gauntlet and then their eyes widened at what they saw.
Tania, the 3rd Shadow Rider, became a tiger when she took off her gauntlet and it looked like her tiger, but this time white. Their jaws dropped faster than Usain Bolt. She walked off after she took the last look of the Key Keeper that defeated her, "Thank you for everything, Bastion." and then she left.
It was quiet for a while. No one could say a word on what they saw.
Bastion fell on his knees as he realized what happened and some felt sorry for him, Alexis, Chumley, Jaden and Syrus, while the others on the other hand, "Man…you really dodged a bullet there, huh Bastion?" she laughed as she patted him on the back.
Chazz placed a hand on Bastion's shoulder, "You really know how to pick them, huh?" he smirked.
All that Bastion could think of was, "Tania~" he shed a tear.
At Fonda's office
While Zane was reading the news of brand deal between SOL Tech., Kaiba Corp and Pegasus about something of a virtual reality called LINK VRAINS where it will debut in a couple of years, he noticed his Spirit Key stopped shaking. He placed his newspaper and looked at his PDA and found a message from Syrus that said who dueled, who won, what happened after the duel and where they were currently at.
While he was shocked by what happened and the conditions for the duel, he was sorta relieved that the stakes weren't as big from Camula's dueling and was glad that Bastion won against a Shadow Rider.
He then heard a weak voice, "Za…ne?"
His eyes widened as he looked around everywhere in the room as he thought he heard something, "Could it be that…no no, it was likely my imagination."
He was wrong when he heard the voice say his name again, "Zane?"
It was much louder, but not in a way that startled him. He turned around slowly and saw a shocked face from Honest, but at the same time, the happiest expression he could make, "Please, don't tell it's a joke, please." he said as he looked down and he was shocked.
It was Yusuke Fujiwara. The man that was possessed by Nightshroud. The man that was missing with many other students such as Atticus. The man that was his best friend.
"Yusuke, is that you?" Zane asked, waiting for an answer as Yusuke could only give him a confused expression.
"Yeah, of course it's me, Zane, who else would it be?" he asked as Zane was quiet. It was far too quiet for the Kaiser and his best friend to be this quiet when seeing him or Atticus. "Zane, is something wrong?" he asked as he saw in Zane's eyes.
Tears.
Not of sadness or anger.
But of joy.
"You're alive," that confused Yusuke, but before he could ask something, Zane went to do the unthinkable. A hug.
"Zane, are you okay?"
"I am just…just please let me have this, okay, Yusuke?" He asked Yusuke, despite not feeling well or his limbs, to still let his best friend hug him, despite almost ruining the equipment.
It was nice.
It was nice to see each other again, but for Zane, it really felt like two years, but not for Yusuke.
Yusuke looked around and saw tears of joy coming from Honest as well. Yusuke smiled as he saw two of the three people that he held close to his heart.
At an unknown location
"So, Tania failed?" asked the green haired Shadow Rider as he looked around.
"It appears so, it may seem that we might have underestimated them," said Amneal as he felt something wake up.
"Oh well, but still, I can't wait to see their reactions where they lose to either of us, don't you agree, Dennis?" asked the purple haired Shadow Rider to Dennis McField.
"Sorta, buddy, but I am more the type of guy to put on a performance before they lose, you understand?" asked Dennis with a smile on his face.
"Why of course I do, it's one of the most entertaining things to do, am I right, Ki-"
The green haired Shadow Rider slammed his hand on the table,"Don't you dare use my name. You are the only person that I won't allow that, don't you remember?" asked the green haired Shadow Rider.
The purple haired one smirked, "I do and that's why I enjoy doing that." the green haired duelist stood up, glaring daggers at the purple haired one, but Amneal stopped both of them.
"What did I say about respecting each other? This is no way to have a discussion." the green haired duelist looked away from Amneal's words as the purple haired duelist only smiled, "But on the other words, Dennis," the Shadow Rider himself looked at him, "You are the next one, remember?"
"Don't be silly, of course I do, but I want to wait a little. I don't want to ruin the surprise, understandable?" he asked as Amneal sighed.
"Alright, just make sure it happens before the final weeks of the semester, that's what Kagemaru told us, understood?" Dennis nodded, "Good. Now, you can go." Dennis went up and walked off the door. He waved at everyone, to which only the green haired one returned the favour as he was the only Shadow Rider that he liked and even considered him a friend.
"Good luck out there, Dennis." the green haired duelist thought.
Authors Note:
And done! That was faster than I thought (TBF might be cause I planned the duel during Camula's chapters). And it was a fun one! Well other than making me use Amazoness again, but hey, you can't win them all.
In the original canon, Bastion lost to Tania and Jaden defeated her, and I was honest, I was planning to do that, but then I thought it would be a slap on the face for Bastion so I made him win, and a close one!
Tania is a fun Shadow Rider since she is the most light-hearted one out of all of them in canon, and the same could be said in this, only for her to be second to Dennis. I really like that she was one of SRs to defeat a Key Keeper, but I really didn't care for the duels in those episodes, so I made it more exciting. She will appear in Season 3, and might be in the cast for Season 4, I am not sure yet.
Bastion is not in my top 5 favourites in Yugioh, or hell not even in GX, but he is still a character that I truly love. He is the only Ra Yellow, sans Hassleberry/Kenzan, that treated the Slifers with respect, and is the one that I love to watch and read about. His deck, or should I say decks, are so damn interesting since he is one of the only characters to not have a specific deck. He won't disappear like in Season 2 with him taking off his clothes and running naked around the school campus yelling about that he is a changed man (If it wasn't GX I would have been surprised), instead he will stay and duel in the rest of the Seasons.
Side note: I have made him use Water, Fire, Earth decks, and I only need a suggestion for a Dark deck since I already have a Wind and Light deck.
Dennis is the next Shadow Rider, but he won't be dueling the next chapter, a chapter after the next one. He is a fun one and I already have his opponent, and let's just say it is a one that I wanted to see in Arc V.
Next Chapter is Yusuke's chapter and him going back to Obelisk Blue as a freshman, and it will be playing respects and me bullying them.
Another side note: In my head I play a wheel called "Who should I bully in this chapter?" which mostly contains Crowler and Syrus, don't worry I like them.
In two weeks I will go in a trip with my class and it will make it so that I won't write anything for like 3 days, so the next chapter, or the chapter after that, will be late. My apologizes.
See ya later!
Made Up and Altered Cards:
Amazoness Empress: A Queen but with higher stats.
Amazoness Battle Spirit: A Riryoku, but in the Battle and even on the opponent's turn.
Instant Healer: Made only to scare everyone, jk…okay maybe not jk. I made this so I could give Bastion a second chance for the duel.
