Dragon-X: The Dimension of Dragons

by Fantasymaker76

The First Year of Duel Academy is over and the Summer Holidays are here. But an Old Enemy returns to steal the Old God Cards and use their power to take over the world. The team must band together again on another adventure to defeat them and recover the Old God Cards, an adventure which would take them to a whole new world.

25. The Ancient Temple Part 1:

The Ancient Temple Part 1:

The Spellcaster Faction at Andoral's Reach were celebrating. They had successfully managed to defeat an attack by the Warrior Faction and now they had shown the world that the Warrior Faction could be defeated. Grand Mage Fiona hoped that this could be used to encourage some of the remaining factions in the Bufferlands to join them and stop the Warrior Faction. But Fiona only knew that it was only a matter of time before the Warrior Faction regained their strength and attacked.

Fiona was also looking for someone. She was looking for the person who had saved the Spellcaster Faction from crumbling. The girl called Solona Amell. She and her powerful Dragon had been able to defeat the Meredith's Ice Barrier Dragon along with the other powerful Warrior monsters. Fiona was hoping that she could convince Solona to help lead them against the Warrior Faction as her powerful Dragons might be needed again. She soon found the girl she was looking for standing nearby talking with her friend who Fiona remembered as Neria.

Neria and Solona were looking for each other "So what do we do now Solona?" she asked

"Well we have to rescue my brother and our friends from the Warrior Faction" Solona stated as a fact "But the problem is that we don't know where they have taken them."

Fiona then came over "I know where they have taken your friends." She stated "The Warriors will have taken then towards an old prison called Aeonar. That is where they hold very important prisoners from when this war started."

"Do you know where this Aeonar is?" Solona asked

"I know where it is due to maps" Fiona replied "But it's deep in Warrior Territory, there's no way you can get there. We can't go that far into Warrior Territory and even if the two of you go in alone, that place is heavily guarded."

"Do you think you can build an army to attack the Warriors?" Solona asked "It will only be a matter of time before they return."

"I'll be able to raise more people after our victory here as his battle was a propaganda victory for us as well as a military victory" Fiona stated "But there is no way we can get into the Warrior territory alone. At least not without help. We never would have even won this battle if it wasn't for you."

Neria looked at Solona "Maybe the people of the Bufferlands can help." She suggested "They hate the Warrior faction for what they've done."

"But they don't like the Spellcasters either" Fiona stated "Rogue groups of spellcasters attacked the Bufferlands as well. They won't just agree to join us."

"Maybe we can convince them to fight" Solona stated "We have to try something because if we don't then we'll never get our friends back."

They were then interrupted by Alain "Grand Mage!" he called "We've spotted a small group approaching the fort."

"The Warriors are already back?" Fiona questioned

Alain shook his head "No, the group only has three people and they don't look so great. One seems tired and one of them has bluish hair, I've never seen anything like it."

Solona and Neria looked at each other "What did the other two people other than the blue haired person look like?" Neria asked

Alain thought for a moment on how to describe them "One of the others is a very short woman while one looked like a girl, but I can now tell is a man."

Solona widened her eyes as those descriptions seem familiar "Take me to them" she stated, "I have to see who they are."

"And who do you think they are?" Fiona demanded

Neria smirked "Friends of ours." She stated

…

Crowler, Zane and Sereda gasped in relief when they saw a small fortress nearby. They had been travelling for miles and they were looking forward to finally having a proper place to stay and come up with their next plan. "Do you think that whoever lives in this fortress is friendly?" Sereda asked

"We'll just have to hope so" Zane stated "Because if they're not then we may have to get out of here in a hurry."

As they approached the fortress, they saw that the fortress has been battle and almost looked like a ruin "Are you sure someone lives here?" Crowler questioned "This place is a dump."

Sereda looked around "This place has seen battle recently." She stated "We better be careful because the people here might be suspicious if there has been a battle recently."

Zane then watched as a few people appeared on the walls of the castle and one woman with long black hair looked at them before gasping "That is them" she stated "Let them in, I have to see them."

Zane widened his eyes when he heard the voice "Wait, that voice sounds familiar." He stated

Sereda agreed "That sounded like Solona."

"Solona!" Crowler gasped "Then we've found her then."

The doors opened and Zane saw Solona running down a set of stairs but he also saw a blond haired girl standing in the courtyard which they recognized as well "Neria as well!"

Solona and Neria smiled at the them while another woman came over "So who are these people?" she asked

Solona looked at her "Fiona, these are our friends, Sereda Aeducan, Zane Truesdale and Vellian Crowler."

Crowler would have normally gotten annoyed at not being called by his title of doctor but he didn't say anything as it would make his sound weird here.

"Any friends of our heroes are welcome here" Fiona stated

Zane nodded and looked at Solona "So how have you been?" he asked

"Not the best" Solona replied "This place is a nightmare, two factions of duellists are fighting each other for control. We only just managed to survive an attack by the enemy faction here."

"Then the best thing to do is to reunite with the rest of us and then get out of here" Crowler stated

"I agree" Neria stated "But we have a little problem."

"What's the problem?" Sereda asked

"It was not just us two here" Solona stated "Daylen, Aedan and Kallian were here as well. But they've been captured."

"Captured?" Crowler gasped "They were some of my best students. We must get them back!"

"That's the problem" Solona sighed "They've probably been taken to a prison deep in the Warrior Faction's territory. I don't know how we can get there; there are more types of summoning here that we don't even know that this world does know."

"You mean XYZ summoning?" Sereda questioned "We ran into that Servis fellow who beat Crowler using that method."

"This new summoning method is hard for us to understand" Neria stated "I've faced it as well and lost, we may not be so lucky next time."

Fiona then had a thought "There is a place that might be able to help you with understanding these summoning methods. Not far from here is an old temple dedicated to an Ancient God known as Andoral. This temple may have ways of teaching you to use these other summoning techniques."

Solona remembered that Andoral was another was of the Old God cards but she also remembered that Andoral was already in the hands of the Elder One. "But what if this temple has already been ransacked?" she questioned

"I doubt it" Fiona stated "I sent some of my people there recently before you arrived but in order to gain access, you have to pass a test by duelling but none of them have been able to pass the test."

Solona looked at Neria, Sereda, Crowler and Zane "What do you guys think of this?" she asked

"Well I know that we cannot waste time" Crowler stated

"But we'll never be able to rescue our friends without more knowledge." Sereda added

"So, it's best that we get this knowledge if we can" Zane claimed

"So the best option is to go to this temple and gain this knowledge" Neria finished

Solona nodded "Then we'll go to this temple and hopefully we can pass this test and gain access to the new summoning methods." She looked at Fiona "Where is this temple?" she added

Fiona brought over a map and pointed at where Andoral's Reach was marked on the map "If you take the road which takes you further into Spellcaster Territory and travel down the road which leads you into a T-Junction, turn right which takes you through a small mountain road and Andoral's Temple is located along that road, you'll find it easily as the Temple looks like an old temple, you'll know it when you see it."

"Thanks for that information" Solona stated "Now we should hurry, the longer we wait then the more danger our friends will be in." and then she along with her friends left Andoral's Reach to try and find the Temple.

…

Far away from Andoral's Reach, the Warrior Faction was making their way back to their territory but all was not well among their leaders.

"We were so close!" Meredith snapped "We were so close to destroying those Spellcaster fools and they were able to survive thanks to that Dragon!"

"But we've crippled their forces." Karras tried to reason "They're not much of a threat now."

"Not much of a threat?" Meredith questioned as she turned around to glare at Karras "Not much of a threat? This was a moral and propaganda victory for them. Now that they've beaten us, they could start to encourage the Bufferlands states that we've conquered to rise up against us. We cannot let that happen. Karras, I'm sending you to Redcliffe, it's a strategic location and we need to hold it to prevent an attack on our territory."

"What about me Commander?" Alrik asked

"I'm sending you with the prisoners to Aeonar" Meredith stated "I want you to question them as well as the other strange prisoners as to that girl who had the Dragon deck. We have to find a way to counter it; she is as much of a threat to us as the Spellcasters are."

"Understood Commander!" Alrik stated.

…

It had taken a while for Solona, Crowler, Zane, Sereda and Neria to arrive at the Temple which Fiona had told them about. The Temple had been built into the mountains and it looked like the Temple had been built in the remains of an old abandoned mine as there were many small mine entrances that were boarded up and the walls surrounding the temple looked as though they had been dug by using pickaxes.

"This place feels haunted" Neria stated

"If this place was an old mine then the work would have been done by Slaves" Solona stated "Andoral was the Old God of Slaves so it would make sense to have her temple where Slavery was used a lot."

"That's totally Barbaric" Sereda hissed "I can't believe that people were used as property."

"That was a long time ago in this world" Solona stated "But we can't argue about the past, let's find this temple and see if we can find anything that can help us and then get out of here."

Zane looked at her "You said that this Temple was for Andoral" he stated "I thought the Venatori already had that card, how do we know that this temple has no already been looted?"

"Fiona stated that there are guardians here who grant people rewards" Solona stated "We may have to defeat them in a duel and we'll win rewards."

"Well what are we waiting for, let's go inside" Crowler stated and then they all entered the Temple.

…

The Temple was pitch black and so Solona had to light a few flame torches which were old fashioned in their world. Normally they would use a flashlight but they didn't have any so they had to use an old type of torch instead. There were carvings on the walls which showed a dragon forcing people to kneel before him.

"The carvings look like they tell the tale of Andoral" Solona stated "They show Andoral enslaving the population of the land." Another carving showed Andoral leading an army in chains against a large demon horde before being slaughtered "I think this must tell the tale that Andoral led a slave army against the Fiend and Zombie Faction, but the army was destroyed. This is interesting but not very helpful."

Neria then found a not on the ground and looked at it before gasping "Hey Solona, you better take a look at this" she handed the note to Solona.

Solona then read the note out aloud "Thanks to the findings of Lucanus, I am sure that the location of the Old God Card lies inside the old mines beyond the Spellcaster Faction's fortress of Andoral's Reach. Go forth Calpernia and find the card in the name of the Elder One. Signed Livius Erimond." She looked at the others "It seems that the Venatori sent Calpernia here to recover the Old God card."

"We know that the Venatori already has that card but why would she leave this note behind?" Zane questioned

"She may have dropped it and forgotten about it" Crowler stated

"We should carry on and hopefully we can find the main chamber of this Temple." Solona stated and then they carried on forward through the old corridor but instead of finding a large room, they instead found a small square room that looked like a dead end.

"This can't be the end?" Neria stated "Maybe there's a secret passage. This trip can't have been for nothing."

"I sure hope not!" Solona growled "If it is then we've wasted time and my brother will be in even more danger!"

Zane gasped when he heard a crash and he turned around to see that a solid stone door had blocked their way back "Well, it seems that we've walked into a trap, we're not going back that way." Then there was another noise and Zane looked up to see a section of wall came crashing down and cutting the room into two pieces and separating the group. Zane was with Crowler while Solona, Neria and Sereda were on the other side.

"Are you two alright?" Solona called from the other side.

"We're find" Crowler called and then there was another rumble "Oh what now?"

This time, something good happened as the area that had been blocked before opened to reveal another passage. Zane called out to Solona "Hey, a new passageway just opened on our side."

"One did on our side as well" Sereda called

"I guess we'll have to travel down our passageways and hope we can unite at a different area." Solona stated

"We'll do that" Zane called "Good luck, we might need it."

Then Solona, Sereda and Neria began walking down their passageway while Crowler and Zane walked down theirs.

...

Crowler and Zane soon arrived at a large chamber "I sure hope that this isn't another trap." Crowler stated

"I sure hope so too" Zane stated "We have to find a way to the others."

There was one problem though, the room was pitch black and the only light came from the torch that Zane was holding. But that was quickly sorted out as when they entered the room, suddenly, the walls came to light when a number of torches along them lit up which illuminated the room. Crowler and Zane were on edge as this could just be another trap.

After a minute of silence, both Crowler and Zane let out a sigh of relief as nothing had happened yet so they looked around the room. Despite the room being large, there was no sign of an exit and it looked like another dead end. However there was one thing that caught their interest, it was a large chest at the back on the room.

"I wonder what's in that chest?" Crowler questioned as he walked towards it.

"Keep back!" Zane shouted "That could just be another trap!"

Crowler stopped in his tracks, Zane was right and he had enough of traps. But before he could say anything, there was a bright flash which made both of them cover their eyes. When the light cleared, they saw someone standing in front of the chest. He looked very old as he had wrinkled skin and he wore a set of really ancient armour.

"I am one of the Guardians of this Temple!" he spoke in a deep voice "Who are you to enter this ancient place."

Zane was the one who replied "Look, we don't want any trouble." He stated "We just came here looking for something that can help us rescue our captured friends but we were separated from our companions."

The Guardian looked at them "For many years after the fall of the Dragon Faction, we guardians swore that the ancient cards of this temple would only fall into the hands of those who proved themselves worthy. Pass my test and you shall be granted gifts of newly created cards for your decks."

"And what happens if we lose?" Crowler asked

"Then you will be expelled from this temple with nothing." The Guardian replied "And don't worry about your friends, they too will have a test of their own."

"And what test is it we have to pass?" Zane asked. The man in reply held a duel monsters deck "A duel?" Zane questioned "Very well but who will duel you first?"

"Neither" the Guardian stated "I will duel you both at the same time."

"A two of one duel?" Zane questioned

"Aye" the Guardian stated

"If that's what he wants then that's how we'll duel" Crowler stated as he prepared his duel vest while Zane activated his own duel disk. The Guardian activated his own disk which looked like it was built into his armour.

"DUEL!"

Crowler: 8000
Zane: 8000
Guardian: 16000

"Since this is my temple, I'll go first." The Guardian stated "And then you'll both go one after the other before it goes back to me. Because of that, none of us can attack on our first turn and I draw two cards each turn." He then drew two cards from his deck. "I'll start my move by activating the effect of my Galaxy Soldier in my hand, now by discarding one light attribute monster in my hand, I can special summon him in defence mode." A green and white armoured man with strong fists appeared on the field (Level 5 Attack 2000 Defence 0). And my turn's not over because I can summon this, Galaxy Knight." A white armoured warrior with a sword appeared on the field (Level 8 Attack 2800 Defence 2600).

"Wait, that's a level 8 monster" Crowler cried out "You need to sacrifice two monsters to summon him!"

The Guardian smirked "That would be true but when I control a Galaxy monster, I don't need to sacrifice monsters to summon my Knight. However he does lose 1000 attack points until the end of this turn." The Knight lost some of his colour (GK Attack 2800-1800). "But now I can special summon a certain monster from my graveyard called Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon in defence mode."

Zane gasped "And from the way that you said that, that must be the card you discarded earlier with your soldier's effect."

"You're a fast learner" the Guardian stated and a blue dragon with transparent wings appeared on the field (Level 8 Attack 3000 Defence 2500) "And it gets worse for you, since I control two monsters with the same level, it means that I can use them to build the overlay network."

Crowler gasped "Oh no!" he gasped "Not this summoning method."

Then the Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon and the Galaxy Knight turned into purple particles and were sucked into a black portal "When the dragon with the power of the galaxy united with the galactic warrior, they form one of the best combinations in the galaxy, I XYZ summon Galaxy Eyes Prime Photon dragon in attack mode." An even larger version of the Galaxy eyes dragon appeared on the field (Rank 8 Attack 4000 Defence 3000). "That will do it for me." He finished

Crowler and Zane stood in shock; this Guardian had summoned a powerful XYZ monster on his first turn. If this Guardian was able to pull a move off like that, then even Zane and Crowler who were both experienced duellists would have big problems with this duel.

Zane looked at his hand as he drew his card 'This is going to be harder than I thought." He thought in his head 'The only card I have that is powerful enough against that Galaxy Eyes is to use Power Bond to summon Cyber End, but there's no point in that right now, I don't have the cards to summon him and even if I did, he wouldn't be able to attack. So I guess for now I'll have to keep my defences up. "Since you control a monster and I don't, I can special summon Cyber Dragon in attack mode." A large mechanical dragon appeared on the field (Level 5 Attack 2100 Defence 1600). "And I can still normal summon so I summon Cyber Dragon Drei in attack mode" another mechanical dragon with yellow markings appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 1800 Defence 800). "I'll finish my turn by throwing two cards facedown."

Crowler then drew his card "I'll start by playing the spell card Ancient Gear Castle, this allows all Ancient Gear monsters I control to gain 300 attack points. Then I play the spell card Foolish Burial which allows me to send a monster in my deck to the graveyard. But he won't be in my grave for long because now I play the spell card Monster Reborn which summons him back. Say hello to Ancient Gear Golem." A massive mechanical Golem made from rusted metal appeared on the field (Level 8 Attack 3000 Defence 3000). And thanks to the castle, Golem gained more attack points (AGG Attack 3000-3300) "Then I will end my turn by throwing one card facedown since you said none of us can attack this turn."

The Guardian smirked as he drew two cards from his deck "I'll start my turn by changing my Galaxy Soldier back into Attack mode." The Galaxy Soldier stood up from his kneeling position "Then I will use my Prime Photon Dragon to XYZ another monster."

"Wait what?" Crowler questioned

The Guardian smirked "I can XYZ summon another XYZ monster from my deck using my Prime Photon Dragon if the monster I'm summon has an effect that allows this such as the one I'm about to summon. Normally it requires 3 level monsters but I could also use a Galaxy Eyes XYZ monster instead and all overlay units are transferred to this new monster." Galaxy Eyes Prime Photon Dragon turned into purple particles and was sucked into another portal "When one Galaxy Eyes is traded for another, their armour becomes even stronger. I XYZ summon Galaxy Eyes Full Armour Photon Dragon." A new Galaxy Eyes Dragon that had strong metal armour surrounding his body appeared on the field (Rank 8 Attack 4000 Defence 3500).

"He upgraded his monster!" Crowler gasped

"And now he has three overlay units" The Guardian smirked "And now I'm going to use one of them to activate Full Armour's special ability. Now my Full Armour destroys one monster on your field."

"Oh no!" Crowler gasped

"I think I will destroy that Golem" the Guardian stated and then one of the overlay units was absorbed by Full Armour and he sent a blast of purple fire which struck the Golem and destroyed him. "And now my monsters will attack; now I think I will play safe and destroy the monsters on your friend's field first. Galaxy Soldier, attack that Drei." Galaxy soldier jumped into the air and then punched through Cyber Dragon Drei and destroyed him.

Zane: 7800
Crowler: 8000
Guardian: 16000

"And now my Galaxy Eyes will attack that normal Cyber Dragon." The Guardian added and the Galaxy Eyes unleashed another blast of purple fire.

But Zane had another plan "I activate my facedown card, Attack Reflector Unit." He stated "This activates when you attack my Cyber Dragon, now Attack Reflector Unit reflects him into a new monster, my Cyber Barrier Dragon." Several large mirrors appeared on the field and a light reflected off them and onto Cyber Dragon which changed him into a large Cyber Dragon with pink markings and a barrier at the head (Level 6 Attack 800 Defence 2800). "And now once per turn, Cyber Barrier can negate your attack." Cyber Barrier created a field which blocked the Galaxy Eye's attack.

The Guardian smirked "Impressive" he stated "But you're not through this yet and you are in trouble. I place two cards facedown and end my turn."

Zane sighed as he drew his card 'He's right, my Cyber Barrier only blocks one attack each turn and he has low attack points so I'll only waste his effect if I keep him in attack mode. I guess I'll just have to use him for defence and forget about his effect.' He thought to himself "I switch my Cyber Barrier Dragon into defence mode. Then I'll summon Cyber Larva in defence mode." A small cyber caterpillar like monster appeared on the field (Level 1 Attack 400 Defence 600). "That will do it for my turn."

"My move" Crowler stated as he drew his card "And I'll start by activating my facedown card, Ancient Gear Reborn, this allows me to bring back my Ancient Gear Golem to the field with an extra 200 attack points plus the 300 from my Castle." The Golem returned to the field and then gained extra attack points (AGG Attack 3000-3500). "Next I play the spell card Pot of Greed which allows me to draw two new cards from my deck." Crowler drew two cards from his deck "And now I summon Ancient Gear Wyvern in attack mode." A large mechanical Wyvern made of scrap metal appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 1700 Defence 1200) and then it also gained attack points thanks to Ancient Gear Castle (AGW Attack 1700-2000). "Now I play his ability which allows me to add One Ancient Gear card from my deck to my hand so I choose to add the spell card Ancient Gear Tank which I will now use on my Golem which gives him another 600 attack points." A large mechanical tank appeared which the Golem then sat inside (AGG Attack 3500-4100). "Now my Golem has more attack points than your Galaxy Eyes, so attack and don't even think about using your facedowns as when my Golem attacks, you can't activate any of them until the end of the damage step." Golem lined up his tank and fired a shot which struck the Galaxy Eyes.

Zane: 7800
Crowler: 8000
Guardian: 15900

Crowler smirked "There's goes your best monster" he stated

"Is he gone?" the Guardian questioned which left Crowler and Zane confused until the smoke cleared which revealed the Galaxy Eyes Dragon was still on the field.

"What!" Crowler gasped "But how?"

The Guardian smirked "I may not have been able to play any traps but I could still activate the effect of my Photon Protector, by discarding him, my Galaxy Eyes isn't destroyed."

Crowler groaned as now his plan to destroy Galaxy Eyes was gone. He could have taken out the Galaxy Soldier but that would have just destroyed both monsters and lowered his defences. And Crowler knew what would happen next turn. "I place one card facedown and then end my turn."

"My move" the Guardian stated as he drew his card "And once again I use my Galaxy Eyes special ability so now by using another overlay unit, that Golem is once again destroyed" Galaxy Eyes absorbed one Overlay Unit and then sent a blast which destroyed the Golem again.

Crowler smirked "Since my tank was destroyed as well, you take 600 points of damage" he stated and a ghost version of the cannon shot the Guardian who didn't react.

Zane: 7800
Crowler: 8000
Guardian: 15300

"And now my Galaxy Eyes will attack hat Wyvern." Galaxy Eyes sent another blast which destroyed the Wyvern and created a large explosion that sent Crowler flying backwards who cried out in pain when he hit the floor.

Zane: 7800
Crowler: 6000
Guardian: 15300

"DR Crowler!" Zane gasped in shock

The Guardian was not done yet "And I still have my Galaxy Soldier on my field, so now I will destroy that Cyber Larva." Galaxy Soldier jumped into the air and punched Cyber Larva which destroyed him.

Zane smirked "When Cyber larva is destroyed; I can summon another one from my deck." A second Cyber Larva appeared on the field.

"Well then, I guess I shall end my turn now" the Guardian stated

Zane drew his card and smirked at what it was; 'Now I have what I need to destroy that Galaxy Eyes, but I'll have to watch out for those facedowns.' "I'll start by summoning Cyber Dragon Zwei in attack mode." A mechanical dragon with green markings appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 1500 Defence 1000). "And now I activate his ability, by revealing a spell card in my hand, his name becomes Cyber Dragon until the end of the turn. So I reveal my Power Bond spell in my hand which I will now activate to fuse Cyber Dragon Zwei which my normal Cyber Dragon in my hand to summon Cyber Twin Dragon." Zwei and a normal Cyber Dragon were sucked into a portal and a two headed mechanical dragon appeared on the field (Level 8 Attack 2800 Defence 2100). "And thanks to Power Bond, his attack points double until the end of this turn." Cyber Twin Dragon roared as his attack doubled (CTD Attack 2800-5600). "I'll now switch Barrier Dragon back into attack mode and then I'll have Cyber Twin attack that Galaxy Eyes and your Galaxy Soldier, go Double Strident Blast." Both heads of Cyber Twin let out a powerful blast which engulfed both Galaxy Eyes and the Galaxy Soldier and destroyed them.

Zane: 7800
Crowler: 6000
Guardian: 10100

"I play my facedown card, Galaxy recovery" The Guardian stated now since my Galaxy Eyes Full Armour was destroyed, I can add my normal Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon to my hand."

"You'll need him." Zane stated "I still have my Barrier Dragon, attack with Sonic Shriek." Barrier Dragon let out a supersonic shriek which blew the Guardian backwards.

Zane: 7800
Crowler: 6000
Guardian: 9300

"And now I end my turn" Zane finished "Which now means I have to take damage equal to the original attack points of my Cyber Twin since I used Power Bond." 'But it was worth it to get rid of that XYZ monster and now his field's wide open for Crowler's attack.'

Zane: 5000
Crowler: 6000
Guardian: 9300

"My move" Crowler stated as he drew his card and smirked "And now I sacrifice my Ancient Gear Castle, by doing this, it counts as the same number of sacrifices as to how many monsters I have summoned, this allows me to summon Ancient Gear Reactor Dragon in attack mode." A massive mechanical dragon made from scrap metal appeared on the field (Level 9 Attack 3000 Defence 3000) "And now he will attack you directly and you can't activate that facedown thanks to his ability." Ancient Gear Reactor Dragon let out a breath of hot steam which made the Guardian groan in pain.

Zane: 5000
Crowler: 6000
Guardian: 6300

"And since my Reactor Dragon attacked, his ability now activates which destroys that remaining facedown card on your field" Crowler added and Reactor Dragon's steam burnt the facedown card which shattered. "I'll end my turn with that."

The Guardian drew two more cards from his deck "You may have defeated my Full Armour, but this duel is not over yet, I have more than one copy of some of my monsters so I discard my Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon again in order to summon another Galaxy Solider in attack mode." A second Galaxy Soldier appeared on the field. "Now I use his ability to add Galaxy Wizard to my hand which I will now summon." A tall wizard wearing a white robe appeared on the field (Level 4 Attack 0 Defence 1800). "Sure he may not look like much but I use his ability to sacrifice him and summon another Galaxy Knight from my deck." A second Galaxy Knight appeared on the field. "And with Monster Reborn, I bring back my Full Armour Galaxy Eyes back from the graveyard." The Galaxy Eyes Full Armour Photon Dragon returned to the field.

Zane and Crowler gasped in shock "He's got his monsters back!" Crowler gasped

"True but my Cyber Twin Dragon is still stronger and that Full Armour has no overlay units since it came back from the graveyard" Zane stated "That means he can't use his Full Armour's ability."

The Guardian smirked "Well I have a few cards that will counter that, such as an old favourite spell card, Lightning Vortex."

Crowler and Zane widened their eyes in horror "Not that card!" he gasped

The Guardian smirked "I can only wipe out the monsters on one of your fields so say goodbye to those Cyber Dragons." A lightning strike took out Zane's Cyber Twin, Cyber Larva and Cyber Barrier which left him defenceless except for his facedown.

"And my Full armour can get even better by using him as an overlay unit for a new XYZ monster" The Guardian added, "only this one is one rank higher." Galaxy Eyes Full Armour Photon Dragon turned into purple particles and was sucked into a vortex "When the power of the Galaxy grows, so does the power of darkness to increase their strength, go rank up XYZ evolution, I XYZ summon Galaxy Eyes Dark Matter Dragon." A much darker dragon which looked more like a demon appeared on the field (Rank 9 Attack 4000 Defence 0). "And there is more, I can remove the overlay unit that my Dark Matter Dragon has and now he can attack twice this turn." This made Crowler and Zane gasp in horror "Now Dark Matter, take out that Reactor Dragon." Dark Mater swooped into Ancient Gear Reactor Dragon and wrapped around the machine and soon the mechanical dragon turned into a pool of goo which fell to the ground.

Zane: 5000
Crowler: 5000
Guardian: 6300

"And like I said before, my Dark Matter can attack twice so take attack the blue haired boy." The Guardian added and Dark Matter swooped onto Zane and the contact he made caused him to groan in pain and fall to the ground

Zane: 1000
Crowler: 5000
Guardian: 6300

"You should have attack Crowler" Zane stated as he pushed himself up to his feet "Because now I can activate the trap card Damage Condenser, this allows me to summon a monster from my deck with less attack points that the damage I just took, so say hello to my Cyber Dinosaur." A mechanical dinosaur appeared on the field (Level 7 Attack 2500 Defence 1900).

The Guardian smirked "Well my Knight and Soldier can still attack your friend directly" he stated and the Knight slashed Crowler with his sword while the Solider punched Crowler hard which knocked him to the ground.

Zane: 1000
Crowler: 200
Guardian: 6300

"I will end my turn with that" The Guardian finished "Now you better make these moves count otherwise my dragon will defeat you on my next turn."

Zane cringed 'He's right' he thought 'I don't have anything in my hand that can help and I don't have the materials to summon Cyber End or Cyber Laser which would have been able to beat that Dark Matter. I guess I'll have to just hope Crowler can do something on his turn but I can still bring down his lifepoints.' Zane looked at his monster and then at the Guardian "Alright, Cyber Dinosaur, attack that Galaxy Solider." He ordered and the Cyber Dinosaur charged and scooped up Galaxy Solider and then crushed him in his jaws.

Zane: 1000
Crowler: 200
Guardian: 5800

"I now end my turn." Zane finished and then he looked at Crowler "It's up to you Crowler; I sure hope you can help finish this because if you don't then we're finished."

Crowler nodded and he looked at his hand where he saw he had Ancient Gear Soldier and Limiter Removal in his hand. Those wouldn't be much good but when he drew his card, he smiled "I play the spell Card of Demise; this allows me to draw until I hold five cards in my hand." Zane drew and then he held five cards in his hands and he smiled as now he had what he needed "I play the spell card Monster Reborn, this allows me to bring back my Golem." Ancient Gear Golem returned to the field "But I'm not done; now I play Polymerization to fuse Ancient Gear Golem on my field with my Ancient Gear Soldier and Ancient Gear Knight in my hand." Golem along with spirits of Crowler's Soldier and Knight were sucked into a large portal "Unite the wisdom and savagery of past ages, they create a powerful behemoth, I fusion summon Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem." A massive centaur like monster with the upper body of Ancient Gear Golem appeared on the field (Level 9 Attack 4400 Defence 3400). "And I am ending this duel here thanks to the final card in my hand, Limiter Removal; this card doubles the attack points of my Golem." Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem growled as his attack doubled (UAGG Attack: 4400-8800).

"8800 Attack points!" the Guardian gasped

"This card now had the strength to end this duel." Crowler smirked "Ultimate Ancient Golem, attack that Galaxy Knight and finish the rest of his life points." Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem charged forward and then lifted his arm up and smashed Galaxy Knight and created a large explosion which blew the Guardian backwards onto his back.

Zane: 1000 (Winner)
Crowler: 200 (Winner)
Guardian: 0000

"We did it." Crowler cheered "We beat the Guardian."

The Guardian managed to push himself up to his feet and look at Crowler and Zane and smile "Impressive, it had been a while since anyone has been able to beat me in a fight."

"So I take it we're earned our reward?" Zane stated

"You have indeed." The Guardian spoke "But before I reward you, you must wait until your friends have pasted their test. You should see how their doing."

Then the wall opened up to reveal another room on the other side of the wall and on that side was a room just like the room that Crowler and Zane were in. Both of them gasped in shock at what they saw. It was another duel with a Guardian with Solona, Neria and Sereda facing off against a massive red dragon with black markings.

Chapter End:

Notes: Well another chapter complete and the next chapter will be the second duel in the Temple and I wonder if anyone can guess which deck Solona, Neria and Sereda will be facing. Also next chapter, we will be seeing some familiar characters that we have not seen for a while. I am also finally working on another chapter of the Wolf Awakens and I will have that chapter finished soon.