"Did you hear that explosion?" A woman asked a man.

"Yeah. I hear they are sending out LDS officials to go check it out. But I'm going to go take a peek. Before the explosion, I was hearing roars of a dragon and a bird. If my ears were working right, I'm pretty sure I heard electricity too." The man responded as he went to go check the scene of the explosion.

Slowly, at the place of the explosion, both Yuto and Shun rose to their feet. However, both were feeling massive pain in their bodies and were very tired. However, that pain and feeling of exhaustion soon disappeared when they heard the voices of many people, and they were hearing footsteps, coming their way. In a flash, Yuto and Shun wall jumped to a separate roof above their alleyway. They positioned themselves so they were facing each other. They were staring at one another dead in the eye.

Shun looked down and saw LDS officials. Shun was about to jump down, however…

"Don't even think about it!" Yuto jumped over to Shun and blocked his way.

"Out of my way. I don't have time for this bullshit!" Shun cursed at Yuto.

"Shun. I'll make a deal for you." Yuto said.

"What is this deal?" Shun asked with an annoyed expression.

"For the rest of the day, you can't assault LDS students. Also, if you beat any LDS students in a duel after tomorrow, YOU CAN'T CARD THEM." Yuto put an emphasis on the last part about not carding the students. "Oh yeah, that goes for anyone who works at LDS too.

"Only for a week then. Deal?" Shun proposed.

"...It's a start. Deal. No crossing your fingers or your toes now Shun." Yuto told Shun.

"Hmph. Whatever. I'm going back to hideout. Come along if you like, I don't really care if you do." Shun told Yuto as he left the rooftop they were standing on.


Later

The LDS officials were coming back from where the explosion occurred, however, they had found nothing.

"President." Nakajima called for Reiji through his communicator when he was in the transport truck.

"Speak, Nakajima." Reiji calmly allowed Nakajima to speak.

"Unfortunately, we didn't find much. All we found was some debris from the wall along with those ominous talons. However, unlike the assault incidents, the victim didn't leave anything behind." Nakajima informed Reiji the news.

"Interesting. Perhaps the victim, was not a victim at all. Perhaps one of the Duelists was that Duelist from the Marco incident. I think the person Dueling him was trying to stop him. However, the person used Xyz, and they weren't a part of LDS. Also, I noticed something peculiar. If you recall, Marco was delivered to us sealed in a card a couple of days ago. Along with Tio, who was also in a card. However, if you remember, Sawatari was assaulted, however, he wasn't sealed into a card. Also, at the scene of the Tio and Marco incidents, there were talons on the walls (I'm just gonna say that there were talons on the walls for Shun's Duel against Tio in the anime, I can't remember.) However, at Sawatari, there was no sign of the talon marks, only destruction to the warehouse. This makes me believe that there are 2 Xyz culprits out there. I think the one in the Sawatari incident dueled the one in the Marco and Tio incident. We recorded some very strong summoning signals at the time of the Duel. This is only my assumption, of course." Reiji told Nakajima.

Nakajima remained silent. Reiji's explanation did make sense. But why was the Xyz Duelists dueling each other? Are they comrades? If so, then again, why were they Dueling? Why did the culprit from the Sawatari incident never attack again? These questions made Nakajima very frustrated.

"Report back to LDS. There, we will devise a plan." Reiji commanded Nakajima.

"Yes sir."


At the duel between Yuya and Mieru

The duel was already underway. Shark had appeared in the middle of it. Mieru had a ritual monster on the field and two face-up Monsters, while Yuya had Stargazer and Timegazer in his Pendulum Zones along with a set card. Shark stood at the entrance watching the duel, he just came in to hear Mieru say something interesting to Yuya.

"If you continue struggling like this, you'll do something that can't be undone!" Mieru warmed Yuya.

"Can't be undone?" Shark questioned. Yuya looked at Mieru with a blank expression.

"It doesn't matter what I say, does it? My turn, draw! I activate Tarotrei's effect. All Flip Monsters on my Field are put into face-down Defense Position! Full Sleep!" Mieru exclaimed.

"Flip Monsters?" Shark hadn't seen one of those Monsters in a while.

The card I just set, Performapal Call, allows me to negate a direct attack… and then I am allowed to add "Performapal" Monsters from my Deck to my hand whose total Defense equal the negated Monster's attack. With Petal Elf and Ouija Morrigan face-down, the only one who can attack me now is just Tarotray. With this, I can fend off a direct attack and add another monster to my hand… Yuya's thoughts were interrupted by Mieru.

"Didn't I tell you to stop struggling? Let me divine the consequences of your actions with this Action Card." Mieru told Yuya as the platform she was standing on lifted her up to an Action Card, which she picked up. She widened her eyes when she saw it. "This is...fine. Action Magic, Draw Lock! Until you send an Action Card to your graveyard, you cannot draw."

Chains appeared on Yuya's Duel Disk, shocking him.

"Draw sealing?!" Yuya looked at his chained up Duel Disk.

"The cards themselves are telling you to stop fighting against your destiny. I won't criticize you, just surrender." Mieru commanded Yuya.

"If I give here, my path to becoming a pro will...NO! I don't want that!" Yuya yelled to himself as he started running for an Action Card.

"It's come to this, and he's still…" Mieru whispered to herself. "If this is how it's going to be, then I have to end the Duel as soon as possible. I set one card and end my turn!"

The card I set, Reverse Reuse, is a Trap Card that allows me to Special Summon 2 Flip Monsters from my graveyard onto my opponent's Field in face-up Defense Position. When I activate this, I can use Petal Elf and Ouija Morrigan to end this Duel for sure. I can end it without fulfilling that prophecy! Mieru thought.

As all of this was going on, the chains holding up the chandelier slightly cracked. (I can't remember if it was holding up a chandelier but it was something like that.)

Shark's ears perked up, he swore he had heard something crack. He looked around quickly making sure nothing too dangerous was breaking. However, he could find what it was.

Yuya quickly ran up some stairs as he began his turn. "My turn!"

"Because of the effect of Draw Lock, you can't Draw a card!" Mieru reminded Yuya.

"I already know that! But still, I won't give up!" Yuya responded as he jumped off the stairs.

"Stop this already! Continuing this Duel won't benefit you in anyway!" Mieru told Yuya. However, her voice was heard on deaf ears, as Yuya grabbed a ledge, and continued to look for an Action Card. "Give up already!" Mieru continued. "Don't you hear me telling you it's dangerous!"

"Dangerous?" Futoshi questioned.

"Besides falling off, what's so dangerous about what Yuya-oniichan is doing?" Ayu asked out loud, while other members of the audience looked on in confusion.

"I don't know…" Tatsuya said to himself as he looked around the room for any sign of danger.

"Hmm…" Shark kept scanning the room. He heard Yuya yelling and looked up. Yuya was running towards a platform with an Action Card. It was at this moment Shark knew what was wrong, the chain was breaking.

"Yuya! Stop running! The chain is going to-" The rest of Shark's sentence was cut off by the snap of the chains, causing the platform/chandelier to collapse. However, Yuya kept running for the Action Card.

The entire thing collapsed, and the entire audience screamed in fear as a big dust cloud formed and blocked their view. When the dust cloud cleared, Yuya was nowhere to be found. This worried everyone, particularly Shark, Nico, Tatsuya, Futoshi, and Ayu. Mieru got a sad look on her face as she closed her eyes and looked away. However, at that moment, a piece of rock shifted off the pile, and out came Yuya's signature tomato-like hair.

The audience gasped in amazement and shock as Yuya stood up and showed that he picked up the Action Card. "Action Magic, Miracle!"

"Alright!" Tatsuya exclaimed.

"You did it, Yuya-oniichan!" Ayu lifted her arms up in joy.

"Shivers!" Futoshi exclaimed as he shook his butt.

"It can't be...his fate changed? He overcame his life-threatening crisis with a miracle!?" Mieru whispered.

"He opened up the previously closed-off path to his future!" A woman watching the Duel through a crystal ball is. (This woman has no significance, I don't know her name, I don't think her name was ever mentioned.)

"I send one Action Card to my graveyard in order to dispel Draw Lock!" The chains on Yuya's Duel Disk disappeared.

"He pulled it off with a miracle. This teaches me that no matter how bad and desperate things are…miracles can still happen." Shark said to himself as he smiled. But, he put a frown on his face again. "However...Yuya needs to bet this on his next draw! Can he perform another miracle?"

"Alright! With this, I can bet it all on this one card. Draw!" Yuya looked at the card and gasped in shock. "Fusion!? This is Yuzu's...why is it in…" Yuya suddenly had a flashback to earlier, where he overslept and was late to the duel. He was quickly gathering up his cards and accidently took Fusion.

Back then! Kgh, I was betting my future on this draw! Yuya thought to himself.

He was placed in a gray void, however, he didn't notice this yet.

"Why did I draw a card I can't use?!" Yuya yelled. However, at that moment, an image of a dragon with dual-colored eyes appeared in his head. An image of using Fusion played in his head.

In the real world, Yuya stood up and put a smile on his face. He walked up the leftovers of the chandelier and held out his arms and faced the audience.

"Ladies and Gentlemen!" Yuya yelled out as Tatsuya, Ayu, and Futoshi got smiles on their faces while Mieru got a shocked look. "Already setting my Pendulum Scale is the Scale 1 Stargazer Magician and Scale 8 Timegazer Magician. With this, I'm able to summon any monsters between levels 2 and 7. Swing, pendulum of souls! Draw an arc of light across the ether! Pendulum Summon! Appear now! My monsters!" Yuya yelled as beams of light came out of a circle in between his Magicians.

"Take a good look at these gallant figures!" Yuya called out to the audience.

Entermate Kaledio Scorpion: Level 6, 100 Atk, 2300 Def

Entermate Partnaga: Level 5, 500 Atk, 2100 Def

Odd Eyes: Level 7, 2500 Atk, 2000 Def

"I activate Tarotray's effect! My face-down Monsters will now be flipped up. Full Rebirth! With Petal Elf's Flip effect, all of my opponent's monsters are switched to Defense Mode! Isn't it great you avoided your fate of destruction? Now I can win this duel with a clear conscience. At the end phase, Ouija Morrigan will destroy all Defense Monsters you control, and for each one destroyed, you take 200 points of damage. Your life is at 300, this is the end." Mieru told Yuya.

"This again. What does Yuya have planned?" Shark wondered.

"I wonder about that, miss." Yuya replied.

Mieru slightly blushed out of surprise. "Miss?"

"I activate Entermate Spring Goose's effect! By banishing this card from my grave, I can return 2 cards on the field to my hand. Return, Stargazer, Timegazer." More images of the monster appeared in Yuya's head.

Just wait, I'm going to free you! Yuya thought to himself.

"I release Entermate Kaleido scorpion in order to Advance Summon the Level 5 Stargazer Magician." Kaleido scorpion disappeared as Stargazer took the field.

Stargazer: Level 5, 1200 Atk, 2400 Def

At this moment, Sora and Yuzu came out of the entrance, making it to the duel just in time. They noticed Shark, but didn't say anything to him because they wanted to see the duel.

"Good, it's not over yet!" Sora told Yuzu, who caught up.

"Now!" Yuya started as he lifted up a card from his hand.

"That's-!" Yuzu got interested in the card he lifted.

"From my hand, i activate the Magic, Fusion!" Yuya declared as he placed Fusion in his Duel Disk, this shocked everyone as all of the audience gasped.

"What?!" Nico Smiley yelled out in shock.

"Fusion?!" Shark said with a tone of hate and surprise, however, no one except Sora heard the hate in his voice, but Sora pushed it aside.

"Yuya's going to Fusion Summon!?" Sora let out while Yuzu kept on watching.

The Extra Deck of Yuya's Duel Disk was shining with a yellow light. "The Monsters I will fuse are Stargazer Magician and Odd Eyes Pendulum Dragon! Wielder of mysterious powers, become the bright light and dwell in the eyes of the dragon! Fusion Summon! Come forth! Arcane dragon wielder of ancient magic! Rune-Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Yuya chanted as his new Monster appeared. Roaring out loud, excited to be released.

Rune Eyes Pendulum Dragon: Level 8, 3000 Atk, 2000 Def

"Th-This is…" Both Shark and Nico said at the same time.

"A 3000 attack Fusion Monster?!" Mieru exclaimed, however, she regained her composure. "But too bad, you won't be able to wipe out my life with that! Your fate of defeat remains unchanged!"

Yuya smiled. "Miss, if Rune Eyes Pendulum Dragon used a Spellcaster-Type Monster that was on the Field as a Fusion Material, I change the amount of times it can attack based on the level of that Spellcaster."

"What?!"

"It fused with Odd Eyes Pendulum Dragon!" Tatsuya exclaimed.

"Stargazer's level is 5!" Ayu noted.

"If the Fusion Material's level is 5 or 6, it can attack 3 times!" Yuya revealed, shocking everyone, even Sora and Shark. "It's showtime!" A spirit of Stargazer Magician turned into a tiny green ball as Yuya jumped on Rune Eyes, soon, there were multiple green spheres (I'm not saying balls cause that sounds wrong.) All spheres combined into a triangle shaped beam, each ball representing the triangle's points were placed on the circle on Rune Eyes' head. Rune Eyes roared and jumped at Mieru's Monsters.

"Battle, miss." Yuya said as Rune Eyes ran across the wall. "I attack Ouija Morrigan, Petal Elf, and Tarotray! Now here comes the climax! Eternal Shining Burst!" Two of the three spheres on Rune Eyes slammed into a Petal Elf and Morrigan, however, a beam of green light shot out of the last sphere at Mieru's Ritual Monster. Before the attack connected, Mieru looked at Yuya, who winked at her, it was at this moment, Mieru found her 'fated' person...aka she got a crush on Yuya.

Mieru fell back and screamed softly as her monster was destroyed and her life Mieru: 4000-0 Lp

Shark looked at Yuzu and Sora. "Hey, you 2."

"Hmm, what is it Shark?" Yuzu asked.

"Tell Yuya he did a good job, I need to go take care of something." Shark lied. Well, he lied about needing to go take care of something, he actually meant Yuya did a good job.

Shark left the room in a hurry and went to go tell the others what he saw. He still couldn't believe, Yuya Fusion Summoned!

"First when I meet him Yuya said he doesn't have an Extra Deck, later that day, he Xyz Summons. Now, he says he doesn't have a Fusion Monster, he Fusion Summons today. What is going on here?" Shark asked himself as he kept running.


Ok. This chapter was basically a repeat of the Duel in the anime, except with some of Shark's thoughts. I am sorry for that. I am also sorry for the short chapter. However, since it's Christmas, I wanted to spend time with my family, so I made this chapter short. Hope you guys understand.

Next chapter will have a repeat Duel (sorry) and it will have the buildup to a Duel the chapter after. If you guys want, you can guess the Duel that will happen in 2 chapters. I'll give you a hint, the Duel never happened in the anime, but a lot of people wanted it to happen. Also, the Duel is a one-on-one.

Here's the preview.

Shark returns to hideout to find out that Shun and Yuto had a Duel, and that they worked some things out with each other. He also tells them (and O'Brien) about Yuya Fusion Summoning and how he said he didn't have a Fusion Monster before, which sparks some interest in Yuto. Now days later, Masumi lures Shun into a trap in order to Duel him. She calls Hokuto and Yaiba and the 3 team up against him. Meanwhile, Yuzu is looking for Masumi but is stopped by Yuto. Shun manages to beat the 3 kids, however, he is then confronted by Akaba Reiji.

Venomous Blade: I kind of wanted Yuto to win, but I decided against because although Shun is blinded by rage, he is still a Duelist with remarkable skill. Anyways, about the doktor, I always thought he could do more than act like a hated sadistic character that controlled and took away the shine from the REAL Bracelet girls.

Matrixnis: Don't worry, Yuto will Duel way more times. He is the protagonist of this story after all. I just want to make sure that he isn't taking all of the glory. In the anime, it was Yuya, Yuzu in the beginning who had the shine, and that was it, albeit, Shun did have some great Duels. Yuri and Yugo were great characters, and Yuto got killed off too early despite being a good character. After the Synchro arc, Yuzu and the other girls were treated horribly, and the other characters other than Yuya didn't do much. Thanks, I'll just spell doktor. It fits the character more, cause when I write out 'doktor,' it seems like the name of an evil character, lol. But we all know that actually is true. About the people, I realized my mistake, I should have some random people have said something like, "What was that?!" Or "Did you hear that explosion?!" Well, maybe not the second one, cause I just realized that was the first line of the chapter. Thanks for catching me on that.

That's all for now guys. Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter and I hope you guys have a great Christmas.

Take care, goodbye!