Chapter 4: Lonely Heart
AN: Hey guys back with another chapter and the last one for a bit while I put out a chapter main fic. Also we got over a thousand views which pleasantly surprised me. Anyway let's just get right into this chapter.
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Early in the morning
"YOU WERE ON THE NEWS!" Julio's mother roared causing Julio to cower in fear. His mother was a kind woman but that didn't stop her from punishing her kids especially if it's something like this but thankfully she heard that he was forced into it. "I'M NOT GONNA GROUND YOU GIVEN THE SITUATION BUT IF THIS HAPPENS AGAIN!" She left it hanging in the air as the trio of spirits watched on in slight fear. His mother turned to them and they flinched but calmed down at her cheerful smile. "Now breakfast is ready so dig in!" She declared setting a large stack of pancakes. They instantly forgot the display and placed pancakes onto the plate. Julio took a bit to recover before digging in. After a few minutes of eating his mother spoke up.
"So care to explain where the other two came from exactly?" His mother questioned.
"Oh they were separated a while back until I found them. They apparently have more friends out there so there will be more moving in." Julio lied. He felt bad about it since he didn't consider lying a good thing to do but he knew he couldn't tell her that he was in life or death duels well at least for him since that woman escaped. He didn't know what happened to that man from yesterday but considering the size of the explosion and the fact that all damage in that duel is real he likely died or is severely injured so odds are he won't be seeing anyway he couldn't tell her because she'll start panicking and hyperventilating and she would try to stop him which he won't let happen because he promised he'd help them. "And yes they're all girls."
"Wow looks like your gonna make a lot of friends soon then and girls too." His mother said and Julio shrugged knowing what she was implying.
"Yeah maybe." Julio said finishing his pancakes and placing the dishes into the sink. "Well I'll be in my room. Dad should be back soon right?"
"Yes at about seven." His mom answered. Julio nodded before heading into his room leaving the others behind. He walked into his room and jumped onto his bed and pulled out his D-Tablet and began to look up videos on the Dueling looked up any recently uploaded duels and saw his duel with the man from yesterday. He noticed that the camera didn't pick up on the dark dome so he began to ponder it.
"Hey Dark any ideas?" Julio questioned and he spoke up.
"Yes it's quite simple only those who have a high spiritual level like being aware of having a duel spirit can see the barrier or if they are directly involved can see it." He replied.
"Thanks." Julio said as watched the duel till the end where the man was caught in the explosion and noticed something strange. It looked like a portal opened up just but it disappeared as soon as it came. "Did you see that?"
"Yes looks like he escaped." Dark growled.
"Yeah looks like we'll have to deal with him later." Julio commented as he turned off the tablet and heard a squeaking noise. He turned to Thump who was sitting by his bowl and Julio got up and filled up his bowl with rabbit food. He watched Thump eat for a bit before putting his sneakers on and grabbing his hoodie before walking out. He decided he wanted to go out on a ride. He entered the living room and found the girls and his mother looking at...Oh god.
"Wow he was so cute as a kid." Neptune cooed Julio flushed as he stared at what was going on. Baby pictures. He had heard about how mom's do that to people but he never knew the feeling since he only ever brought Kila over since Dan and his other friends prefered to meet at their places or the mall. Kila never saw them because she was there for about ninety percent of them. They then noticed he was there and they had a bit of an awkward silence.
"Oh hi." Neptune said and Julio stared blankly unsure about the situation before walking into the garage. He opened the garage and noticed Neptune and the others flying towards him.
"Hey uh where are you going?" IF asked curiously.
"Nowhere in particular just going out for a drive." Julio said as he grabbed his helmet.
"Oh let us come with you! I wanna see more of this city." Compa said excited.
"Besides we need to be with you just in case those guys attack again." Neptune pointed out and Julio contemplated that.
"Alright just let me go grab your cards." Julio said heading back to his room and picking up the cards of the girls and placing them into his deck. He walked back but was stopped by his mother.
"Julio where are you going?" She asked.
"Just gonna go on a ride and show the girls around the city." Julio responded and she nodded at the answer.
"Alright but I expect you back before seven." She said crossing her arms with a cold glare that caused Julio to pale.
"Alright." Julio said walking off to the garage.
"And don't try anything!" She called after him.
"You know I won't." He said in response. It was true since Julio had never had those types of feelings for a girl. He entered the garage and found the girl's waiting. He put on his helmet and got onto the runner and the girls hopped onto his lap except for Neptune who hopped into a inner pocket he had. He didn't question it since there wasn't enough room for the three of them on his lap. He turned on the runner and drove off and made his way to the highway.
"So Julio where are we going?" IF asked.
"I don't know. I guess we can head to the mall or the park or something." Julio said as he drove onto the highway. "You guys pick."
"Let's head to the park." Neptune declared.
"Alright better than doing nothing." IF commented.
"I agree." Compa said happily.
"To the park it is." Julio said as he got off the highway and towards the park.
Neptune's world
"Histoire." The fairy turned around from the sharicite to see Noire standing in front of her. "I'm ready to get going to the other world."
"Very well. You are aware of how they fight in this world correct?" Histoire questioned.
"Yes with that card game. I also remember we will shrink down until we are played during the game." Noire said crossing her arms. "The duelist is a male named Julio right?"
"Yes he seems to be very trustworthy. I could tell that he was very honest when he agreed to help us." Histoire said smiling as she remembered the determination in his voice.
"Well if you think we can trust him then I see no reason to think otherwise." Noire replied. At that moment a portal opened. "Well time to go."
"Indeed. Be careful. The enemy typically attacks almost as soon as you meet Julio." Histoire warned. Noire nodded before heading into the portal. The portal closed leaving Histoire alone.
The park
"Wow!" The three girls said in awe as they looked around the park. Likely due to how beautiful it was. The grass was very healthy and trimmed perfectly and there were gardens of flowers all with a variety of colors and large cherry blossom trees that the girls found especially beautiful and there was a sweet smell in the airplus the sky was clear and it added to the beauty of the park. There were several benches and picnic tables for people to sit on spread out over the park. There were vendors with food and other things around as well. There was even a small field set aside for dueling.
"It's so nice here." Compa said looking around.
"Yeah well Union City likes to take care of the nature in the area and especially this park. It's pretty severe to liter here too so there's almost none and the very little there is is cleaned by cleaning robots." Julio explained. "I sometimes come here to relax when I feel stressed out."
"I can see why it's very relaxing here." IF said looking around at the peacefulness of the park and it's calming feeling. Neptune decided to hop onto Julio's head since she didn't want to float. The two other girls clearly considered it as well but glanced at his shoulders.
"It's fine if you guys don't want to float you can ride on my shoulders." Julio said and the two went on to his shoulder with IF on the right and Compa on the left. It took a bit for them to get comfortable but they managed to sit down comfortably. Julio took a few steps in order to see if they could hold on and they nodded so he began to walk around and let them enjoy the park. Every now and then they'd ask Julio about the occasional statue but for the most part the group didn't talk much. However the nice atmosphere wasn't ruined by a growling sound. Julio glanced up and so did Compa and IF who looked up at Neptune who blushed and had an embarrassed smile.
"Sorry." Neptune said.
"You had breakfast like two hours ago!" Julio said in shock.
"Nep-Nep eats a lot." Compa said smiling cheerfully.
"Yeah I guess she didn't eat enough." IF sighed. Julio thought for a bit before giving a shrug.
"Well there's an ice cream stand over there. I could just get a large and we can share." Julio suggested.
"Are you sure?" Compa asked.
"Yeah odds are we were gonna stay here longer so I figured we'd eventually get hungry and since I'm the only one they can see." Julio dropped it there.
"Yeah good point. I do want to be here longer." IF admitted.
"Then let's go." Julio said walking to the stand. "What flavor?" He immediately regretted the question when the three began to argue over which flavor they should get. After ten long minutes they settled on neapolitan so they could get their own flavor while though Julio got a weird look from the man at the stand when he asked for four spoons. They decided to head to a bench away from other people in order to avoid freaking people out at the sight of three floating spoons and disappearing ice cream. The four enjoyed the ice cream and finished it after a bit while telling stories.
"Wait so you guys have to fight monsters all the time?" Julio said shocked. "It's one thing for me to fight monsters but I have my own monsters do that while you guys gotta fight with swords and things."
"Hey your method of doing things here is way more fun." IF said. "You don't have to risk your life. Well normally anyways." She added.
"Yessy. I wouldn't mind playing this game." Compa said excited.
"Yeah you should teach us how to play." Neptune said. "You have a lot of cards right?"
"Hmm." He responded with a thinking look. "Alright when we get back I'll show you all the basics of how to play and deck building."
"Alright!" Neptune declared.
"Julio?" Julio heard his name being called and turned his head to the left to see a familiar face. A girl Julio's age with long brown hair pulled into a ponytail, tan skin and two different eye colors the left blue and the other orange. She was short around Julio's height and was very cute. She wore a blue tank top under a white sweater with black shorts and white sneakers. She had a blue D-Tablet on her left arm. She had a friendly smile that gave off a warm feeling.
"Hazel!" Julio said getting up and hugging the girl who returned it leaving the three spitits confused. "It's been a while."
"I know! But I had to go and attend the nationals with the team and we had so much fun! But I'm super glad that I'm back and I can hang out with you guys again! Ooh I can't wait to see Kila! And Dan especially that hunk!" The girl said in a dreamy tone before quickly moving forward and to the girls who jumped. "And who are these cuties?! They're adorable and ooh see through are they holograms?!"
"You can see us?" IF said in surprise.
"Yep. I've been able to do it since I was little though everyone thought I was crazy and then I met Julio and Kila and that hunk!" She said dreamily again. "They then told me that I could see duel spirits and since you're surprised to be seen that must mean you guys are spirits and you guys are Julio's duel spirits! Unfair! Not only does he get a cool kick butt dragon but he also gets a bunch of cute girls?! I mean I love my duel spirit but come on I'd like one that was a bit more social with me!"
"Ummmmm." The girls said with eyes white and circular in shock like you'd see in anime.
"Oh this is my friend Hazel. She left a week ago to nationals." Julio said and she bowed. "She's a entertainment duelist or an action duelist as they're more commonly known."
"Yep it so fits with me since I got a lot of energy and I love exercise so I figured you know what I'll try action dueling and then I turned out to be amazing at it. I mean as a normal duelist Julio is better than me but when we action duel I normally win!" Hazel said happily as she clapped her hands together.
"I thought Nep was random." IF said in shock.
"Yessy." Compa said nodding in agreement.
"Hey I'm not that bad am I?" Neptune asked in shock.
At that moment as if there wasn't enough randomness something at high speeds flew into Julio sending him clear over the bench and onto his back. Julio let out a groan of pain.
"Yeah. This is is a running gag." Julio moaned since this was the third time in a row.
"Julio! OH MY GOD!" Hazel said moving around. "Are you okay?"
"Yeah not the first time." Julio said glancing at his chest to see a chibi girl with pale skin with very long black hair about waist length, worn up in long pigtails with two-piece black and blue ribbons. Her bangs were neatly combed, framing her face and she had very noticeable red eyes. She wore a dress with colors consisting of dark blue, white, red, and small amounts of gold lining and buttons. The dress part covers a red with black spiked lining cloth while the breast part was white, along with the skirt which had black lining on both layers and was rather short. Behind this was a blue bow, matching a smaller one worn around her neck attached to a black and white collar. In the center was a gold piece. She rubbed her head and grumbled before noticing she was on Julio's chest and hopped off him.
"Oh I'm sorry I didn't mean to land on you." Noire said panicking.
"It's fine." Julio said sitting up before he heard a squeal.
"NOIRE!" Neptune yelled jumping off the bench and onto Noire flattening her.
"OW! EVEN IN ANOTHER WORLD YOU LAND ON ME!" Noire screamed as Neptune hugged her. "GET OFF OF ME!"
"I'm sorry I'm just glad to see you here." Neptune said getting off of Noire.
"Jeez." Noire grumbled before getting up and pointing a finger at Neptune "Don't do that again."
"Okay cool it or you'll scare off the guy who's helping us." Neptune said gesturing to Julio who wasn't scared but amused.
"Hello names Julio and you're Noire from the looks of it." Julio said getting to his feet.
"Yes I am. I'm the CPU of Lastation." Noire said proudly before Julio spoke up again.
"So you're a loner." Julio said causing Noire to flush in embarrassment and stutter.
"Wh-Wh-WHAT?! WHY IS THAT RUMOR SPREADING IN ANOTHER WORLD?!" Noire screamed in shock.
"Neptune said you are." Julio answered which caused Neptune to freeze as Noire turned around with a dark aura around her. Neptune the sprinted away with Noire chasing after her screaming in rage.
"Those two never change." IF said sighing but had a smile regardless.
"Well those two are good friends and this is how they show it." Compa said happily. Julio chuckled before looking at the ground having remembered that there should be a card on the ground. He looked down and to his surprise found three cards. One card showed Noire as an effect monster but the other two were blank. One was a synchro monster so he assumed that it was Noire's goddess for and the other was a spell card. It was a quick-play spell but that was all he could figure out. Julio looked at the two goddesses and found Neptune was hiding up a tree with Noire looking for her. At that moment a man in a cloak moved forward and attempted to catch Noire but for some reason the man was sluggish and almost sleepy looking so she managed to avoid him with ease. Thinking quick Julio placed Noire and the new spell into his deck and a small glow surrounded her. The man turned his attention to the group and mumbled something as Neptune and Noire rushed towards Julio.
"Alright let's duel then." The man said in a tired tone as he activated his D-Tablet.
"Fine by me." Julio said as he placed the synchro monster in his extra deck and activated his own D-tablet. After there decks were shuffled they drew their cards.
"DUEL/Duel." Julio said with more excitement but the man was slow and tired causing Julio to feel a bit put off. The dome appeared sealing them and the girls in.
Julio LP: 4000 Hand: 5
Sleepy Man LP: 4000 Hand: 5
Turn 1
"I'll go first." The man said slowly and looking at his hand for a bit before setting a monster. "I set a monster and that's it."
Julio LP: 4000 Hand: 5+
Sleepy Man LP: 4000 Hand: 4
Turn 2
"I draw." Julio said drawing his card and glancing at his hand for a bit. "I summon my Alexandrite Dragon!" The dragon appeared and roared a challenge. "I set two cards and that's it for me."
Alexandrite Dragon
ATK: 2000 DEF: 100
Level: 4 Light
Dragon/Normal
Julio LP: 4000 Hand: 3
Sleepy Man LP: 4000 Hand: 4+1
Turn 3
"I draw." The man said slowly. "I sacrifice my face down monster and summon my Silent Swordsman LV 5." A man with green skin and carrying a large sword and wore a black and silver outfit. He stared down Alexandrite Dragon with an indifferent look on his face. "I then set a card and end my turn."
Silent Swordsman LV5
ATK: 2300 DEF: 1000
Level: 5 Light
Warrior/Effect
"No attack?" Julio thought to himself. "Was he being careful? I do have defensive traps but their not set yet but he seems to not care."
Julio LP: 4000 Hand: 3+1
Sleepy Man LP: 4000 Hand: 3
Turn: 4
~Megadimension Neptunia VII OST Will Be Venus~
"I draw." Julio said glancing at the card before playing it. "I activate Reinforcement of the Army!" The card showed Marauding Captain leading several soldiers into battle. "With it I can add a level 4 or lower Warrior-Type monster to my hand. I'll add CPU Neptune!" Julio said showing the card to the man before placing it into his hand as his deck shuffled. "I then summon her."
"Alright wish me luck guys!" Neptune declared rushing to the field and turning to her full size.
"Next her effect activates! With it I can add a equip spell from my deck to my hand. I'll add Junk Barrage." Julio said showing the card. "Next since I have a CPU monster on my field I can special summon Share Crystal to the field." The blue crystal appeared and Noire stared at the crystal in shock.
"A Share Crystal!" She said in shock.
"I now tune CPU Neptune with the tuner monster Share Crystal!" Julio declared.
"Time for a Nep-Tuning!" Neptune declared.
~End Theme~ ~Cue Record Scratch~
Everyone stopped and stared at her even the man as if they couldn't comprehend what she said causing her to sweatdrop. "What?"
"Just do the thing." Julio sighed.
"Fine." Neptune said pouting as she turned into stars while the crystal became three rings
~Resume Theme~
"Goddess of the land of purple progress! Come forth and help those you call friends! Synchro summon! CPU Purple Heart!" Julio chanted as a bright light shot through the rings and Purple Heart appeared landing on the ground and drawing her sword.
"So that's how we access HDD in this world." Noire said in amazement. "I wonder if we'll be able to access our Next Forms."
"Share Crystal's effect since I used it for the synchro summon of a CPU monster I can draw a card!" Julio said drawing the card and blinked since he noticed it was the spell from earlier. It now had an image of Purple Heart and another Goddess from his guess due to the same outfit and looks. He read the effect and decided it was better to wait to use the card. "Next Purple Heart's effect activates! Since I used CPU Neptune as the material she gains 500 ATK till the end phase and she can attack twice as long as she's on the field!"
CPU Purple Heart
ATK: 2500+500= 3000
"Next I equip her with Junk Barrage!" Julio said as the fire like aura appeared around her. "Alright Neptune take out the Swordsman!"
"Got it." She said with determination and jumped into the air in order to split the warrior in two but but was stopped by a red, blue and white vortex that forced her back.
"I activated my Negate Attack." The man yawned.
Negate Attack
Trap/Counter
"This guy is like the male version of Plutie." Neptune muttered to herself.
"I end my turn there." Julio said a bit put down by this guys attitude.
Purple Heart
ATK: 3000-500= 2500
~End OST~
Julio LP: 4000 Hand: 3
Sleepy Man LP: 4000 Hand: 3+1
Turn 5
~Yugioh Ultimate Duel~
"I draw." The man said slowly as he drew the card. He looked at it and played it. "I activate Level Up!." Julio easily recognized the card from the amount of times Kent had used it against him. "I'll send LV5 to the grave and special summon my Silent Swordsman LV7 from my deck." The warrior disappeared but was replaced by a slightly taller and much stronger looking version of him with a much bigger sword.
Silent Swordsman LV7
ATK: 2800 DEF: 1000
Level: 7 Light
Warrior/Effect
"His effect activates so long as he's face-up all spell effects are negated." The man said slowly as the Swordsman gave off a green aura that caused Neptune to lose the fiery aura from Junk Barrage. "Now attack the CPU." The swordsman drew his sword and rushed at Neptune and slash at her and Neptune attempted to block but he got a lucky hit that sent her on the ground and raised the sword to finish her off only to meet a red energy dome that pushed him back.
Julio LP: 4000-300= 3700
"Why is she…" The man began only to get caught off by Julio.
"I used her effect when she would be removed from the field I can remove an equip card instead." Julio said as Neptune got to her feet. "You okay?"
"Yes I am. Thanks." Neptune replied.
"No problem." Julio said. "But we're in trouble since I can't activate spells."
"You can still activate traps right?" Neptune questioned.
"Yeah." Julio said but he had an uneasy feeling.
"I set a card and end my turn." The man yawned.
Julio LP: 3700 Hand: 3+1
Sleepy Man LP: 4000 Hand: 2
Turn 6
"My turn draw!" Julio said and glanced at the card. "I activate my trap Jar of Greed. With it I can draw a card!" Julio said drawing his card. "I set a monster and a card face down and that's it for me." Julio scowled since he was in a tough spot all things considered.
"He's got him locked down when it comes to attacking." IF said in worry.
"He's got a few traps and monsters to get around this so don't worry." Hazel said dismissively. "He isn't one of the top ten duelist in the city for no reason."
"He's that good?" Noire said in shock.
"Yes he's about seventh in terms of rank but that was before he got these new synchro cards." Hazel said in amazement. "He's definitely higher up."
Julio LP: 3700 Hand: 3
Sleepy Man LP: 4000 Hand: 2+1
Turn 7
"My turn." The man said drawing his card. "I summon Silent Magician LV 4." The magician was a small girl with white hair wearing white and light blue robes. "I then activate my trap Skill Drain by paying 1000 LP I can negate the effects of all effect monsters on the field." The trap showed a creepy dominic looking person being weakened severely. This then happened to all three of the monsters on the field but they managed to recover
Silent Magician LV 4
ATK: 1000 DEF: 1000
Level: 4 Light
Spellcaster/Effect
Skill Drain
Trap/Continuous
Sleepy Man LP: 4000-1000= 3000
"I then activate another Level Up!." The man said slowly causing Julio to scowl. "I send my Silent Magician LV 4 in order to special summon Silent Magician LV 8." The magician looked like a much older and more powerful version of the previous one
Silent Magician LV 8
ATK: 3500 DEF: 1000
Level: 8 Light
Spellcaster/Effect
"That's why you activated that trap so you can activate spells but that works for me too." Julio pointed out.
"I'm not done yet." The man yawned playing a spell. "I activate Emergency Provisions." The card showed cans of food and packets of what looked like crackers. "With it I can send spell and traps on my side of the field to the grave and gain 1000 for each one. I send Skill Drain to the grave." The card faded away and a blue glow appeared around the man.
Sleepy Man LP: 3000+1000= 4000
"That was a smart play." Hazel saidin shock. "He managed to get out a strong monster and get his life points back to normal."
"I attack Purple Heart with Silent Swordsman LV7." The Swordsman charged at Purple Heart who readied . Julio drew his card and realized it was
"I activate my trap Card Defense!" Julio declared. "I send a card from my hand to the grave and negate the attack and I draw a card to replace it." Julio said as a wall of cards blocked the attack. He drew his card and realized it was Noire's card.
"I attack with Silent Magician LV8." The man said drowsily. Julio gave an apologetic look to Neptune who simply nodded as the magician charged and fired a large blue sphere of energy that collided with Neptune causing her to scream out in pain as she was destroyed by the attack.
Julio LP: 3700-1000= 2700
"Nep-Nep/Neptune!" The girls cried out in shock.
"There wasn't anything he could do to stop it." Hazel said sadly.
"Is she dead?" Compa said with tears in her eyes.
"No she's just in the graveyard. She isn't dead so think of it like a waiting room till the duel's over or Julio brings her back." Hazel explained sending relief through the girls.
"Purple Heart's effect activates with it I'll add Share Crystal to my hand from my graveyard." Julio said as the card ejected from the grave and he placed it into his hand.
"I end my turn." The man said.
Julio LP: 2700 Hand: 4+1
Sleepy Man LP: 4000 Hand: 0
Turn 8
"I draw." Julio said looking at the card. "There's not much I can do right now. I'll just have to stall for now." With that Julio switched Alexandrite Dragon. "I switch Alexandrite Dragon to defense and that's it."
Julio LP: 2700 Hand: 5
Sleepy Man LP: 4000 Hand: 0+1
Turn 9
"I draw." The man said. "I attack your face monster on the left with Silent Magician." He said. The magician fired an energy blast at the face down and destroyed it revealing it to be Dark Blade who shattered. "Silent Swordsman destroy Alexandrite Dragon." The warrior shot forward and severed the dragon's head destroying it. "Turn end."
Julio LP: 2700 Hand: 5+1
Sleepy Man LP: 4000 Hand: 1
Turn 10
"I draw." Julio said and he looked at the card he drew causing him to grin. "I remove from play the Reinforcement of the Army in my grave in order to special summon Maker IF to the field."
"I'm up." IF said grinning as she jumped onto the field turning to her full height.
"I attack your Silent Swordsman with IF!" Julio declared. IF nodded and moved forward. "Her effect activates when she battles a monster with level or rank higher than her own level that monster's ATK is cut in half!" IF sent several blue glowing blades at Silent Swordsman who stumbled as they impaled him.
Silent Swordsman LV7
ATK: 2800/2= 1400
"Take this!" IF yelled as she slashed the swordsman destroying him.
Sleepy Man LP: 4000-700= 3300
"Now that he's gone I activate Pot of Greed!" Julio said. "I draw two!" Julio looked at the cards and smirked. "I drew Maker Compa so I can special summon her and I'm gonna summon her in DEF mode." Compa moved to the field in her full height and held her syringe in a defensive manner. "Next her effect I can target a CPU or Maker monster on the field and gain life points equal to it's level times 200. IF's is six so I gain 1200 LP."
Julio LP: 2700+1200= 3900
"Now for insurance I special summon my Share Crystal from the my hand since I have a Maker monster on the field." Julio said as the crystal appeared in DEF mode. "I set a card and that's it for now."
Julio LP: 3900 Hand: 3
Sleepy Man LP: 3300 Hand: 1+1
Turn 11
"I draw." The man said and played the card. "I activate my spell card Blustering Winds with it I can raise a monster on my side of the field's ATK and DEF by 1000 till my next standby phase. So Silent Magician's ATK goes up to 4500."
Blustering Winds
Spell/Normal
Silent Magician LV8
ATK: 3500+1000= 4500 DEF: 1000+1000= 2000"
That's a lot of points." Compa said in fear. IF felt fear as well but she masked it in order to calm Compa down.
"Next I activate Mystical Space Typhoon and destroy the face down you just set down." Julio's eyes widened as the card was destroyed revealing it to be Negate Attack.
"I attack Maker IF." The man said simply as the magician raised her staff and fired it at her.
"IF's effect activates you're monster's ATK is cut in half." Julio said as she sent multiple blades at the magician that weakened her.
SIlent Magician LV8
ATK: 4500/2= 2250
"Your friend is still done for." The man said and he was right because the attack collided with her destroying her causing Compa to cry out in horror.
"Maker IF's effect activates sent she was sent to the grave I can add a CPU or Maker monster to my hand. I'll add Purple Heart back to my hand so she heads to the extra deck instead
Julio LP: 3900-150= 3750
"I end my turn and my monster's attack returns to normal." The man said yawning again causing Julio to stifle a yawn.
Silent Magician LV8
ATK: 2250x2= 4500
~End theme~
Julio LP: 3750 Hand: 3+1
Sleepy Man LP: 3300 Hand: 0
Turn 12
In the graveyard
"Ow." IF muttered waking up in a dark void causing her to feel fear before hearing a familiar voice.
"Iffy?" A childlike voice said revealing Neptune approaching her. "You too?"
"Yeah that magician got me too." She replied. "I managed to get rid of the swordsman though."
"At least you accomplished something. I didn't do much." Neptune pouted.
"Don't say stuff like that it doesn't suit you." IF said frowning before worry replaced it. "Compa's out there against that magician alone."
"Don't worry Julio still has Noire to bring out." Neptune said. "And she's super reliable."
"You're right we just gotta have in our friends out there." IF said confidently.
Back with the duel
~Cue Megadimension Neptunia OST Absolute~
"I draw." Julio said revealing it to be an equip spell. "If only I had Neptune on the field. I have little options and the cards in my hand can only stall for a bit. Wait that synchro monster. I have Noire in my hand so maybe I can bring her out." Julio checked over her effect and smirked. "Noire care to lend a hand?"
"Of course I do need to prove my worth." Noire said smugly.
"I summon CPU Noire to the field!" Julio said placing the card on his disc. Noire jumped forward and turned to her full height which was 5'1 and drew a rapier. "Next her effect activates when she's summoned I can add a quick-play spell to my hand from my deck. I'll add my spell Ego Boost."
CPU Noire
ATK: 1500 DEF: 1000
Level: 4 Fire
Warrior/Effect
Julio glanced at his extra deck to see a familiar glow and he smirked. "I now tune my level four Noire with my level three Share Crystal!" The crystal turned into rings that surrounded Noire who had turned orange and see through.
"Okay this just feels weird." Noire said before turning into stars.
"Goddess of the land of black regality. Come forth and show your strength to your foes! Synchro summon! Level seven CPU Black Heart!" Julio chanted as an image appeared on the card. A light shot through the rings and a woman with long white hair appeared her eyes a glowing teal with power symbols in them. Like Neptune she wore a black leotard but hers had silver and white on it. She had pure black sleeves which matched her gauntlets that had silver protrusions on the knuckle and she wore black knee high boots. She drew an enormous black and gray sword with a glowing blue blade. "Noire?"
"Yes but in this form I'm Black Heart." She spoke. Her voice had become a bit deeper and more arrogant sounding she turned to Compa. "I'm ready to take this guy down. You don't mind do you?"
"Nope." Compa said cheerfully.
CPU Black Heart
ATK: 2400 DEF: 2000
Level 7 Fire
Warrior/Effect
"So the next CPU is here." The man said in minor interest. Hey it was a bit different from his so far drowsy self.
"Next the Share Crystal's effect activates I can draw a card." Julio drawing his card. "Next Black Heart's effect! Since I used Noire as a material for her synchro summon she gains 400 ATK points plus she does piercing damage."
CPU Black Heart
ATK: 2400+400= 2800
Julio looked at the spell in his hand realizing the other goddess was Noire. He smirked as he reread the effect. "Next I activate the spell CPU Power Up! Since I have a CPU synchro monster on the field I can reveal a CPU synchro monster in my extra deck and give half of it's ATK points to the one I have on the field! So by revealing Purple Heart, Noire gains 1250 ATK points!" A astral image of Purple Heart appeared above Noire and a purple glow surrounded her causing her to smirk as her power rose.
CPU Power UP
Spell/Normal
CPU Black Heart
ATK: 2400+1250= 3650
"Battle!" Julio declared. "Noire take take out Silent Magician!"
"On it!" Noire said fiercely as her sword erupted into flames and she jumped into the air
"I activate Ego Boost giving her 1000 ATK during the damage step only!" Julio declared as a green glow surrounded Noire.
CPU Black Heart
ATK: 3650+1000= 4650
"Take this Volcane Dive!" She yelled as she slammed the blade onto the magician creating an explosion.
Sleepy Man LP: 3300-1150= 2150
CPU Black Heart
ATK: 4650-1000=3650
"I activate my trap Explosive Breakout! When a monster I control destroys a level eight or higher monster and sends it to the graveyard that monster loses 800 ATK and can attack again!" The trap showed a monster jumping out of an explosion.
Explosive Breakout
Trap/Normal
CPU Black Heart
ATK: 3650-800= 2850
"Finish this guy off Noire!" Julio declared as Noire jumped out of the smoke an at the man.
"This is for my friends!" Noire yelled as she slammed her blade into the man's chest sending him flying back.
Sleep Man: 2150-2850= 0
Julio Wins
"Alright!" Julio declared jumping into the air. Julio then turned to Noire and walked to her. "You're awesome!"
"Thank you. Glad to see you're very skilled at this game." Noire replied. A glow surrounded her and Compa turning them back to their chibi forms. "But this is very annoying."
"It's not that bad." Coma said smiling.
At that moment Neptune and IF returned looking baffled.
"Huh did you win?" Neptune asked.
"Yep." Julio said.
"Good. I guess Noire finished this off?" IF asked.
"Yep." Julio said again before noticing the sleepy man disappear into a portal. "Well he's gone."
"Darn it." Noire exclaimed.
"Don't worry they'll be back." Julio sighed. "Well that duel wasn't so tough."
"Yeah from the looks of it these guys are just fodder." Hazel commented. "Also care to explain what's going on?"
"We'll do that next chapter." Neptune said. "The dude writing this is getting a bit lazy."
"Ahh I get it." Hazel said while Julio was confused at what they were saying.
"Umm what are they talking about?" Julio asked.
"Don't worry about it." IF said sighing like this happened all the time.
"Okay." Julio said before beginning to explain.
AN: Well that's a way to end this chapter. Sorry about taking longer than usual to put this out but I had a bit of trouble deciding on Noire's effect. As you can see I also added a spell card. As for Hazel she'll be playing a major role in the story. Side note next chapter Julio won't be dueling against any henchmen so expect something different.
Now I'll respond to the reviews.
Randomperson2021: Glad you're liking it.
Dark 7 Thunder: Thanks for the review. Not gonna go over you're review since I already answered you with that PM.
Fireking492: Glad to see you like the story and I will be uploading as much as I can and as fast as I can.
Kamencolin: Thanks I'll try my best to keep it up.
Guest: No that's not the reason why he uses Dark Rebellion. I'll reveal why he uses him in time so you'll have to be patient.
EL Hunter: Thanks for the suggestion I tried it out with this guy and I'll be putting more with the next ones. Glad to see you're enjoying it so far.
Guest Quest:
1. I'll be sure to do that from now so don't worry. Also I did display Dark Rebellion an Scarlight in previous chapters.
2. Fixed the whole Vylon Prism thing. I just used the chant that Sora used when he summoned it but I'll be sure to add a bit more to it later.
3. As you can see I did that with Black Heart and I'll head back to fix Neptune's.
4. I will I'm just using the anime effects for very specific ones like Card of Sanctity since I find the anime effect more usable. As for the banned cards I'm gonna avoid using some as much as possible but I'll make exceptions for cards like Monster Reborn. As for IF I'm making a couple of edits with the requirements to special summon her and her ATK lowering effect.
5. Don't worry he'll be getting more cards relating to the CPUs and Maker's soon as you've seen with the spell card. Don't worry about the whole deck. I plan on having the defeated villains return with upgraded decks in the future which is why you didn't see cards like Frightfur Chimera.
6. I talked it over with Max I'll be keeping Zarc to a minimum with strong desires to duel the other dragon users and the occasional berserk moment. As for the connections to the anime characters like Yugi or Yusei existed but they are long dead.
7. Yes I will very much appreciate the help. Sorry for not answering more clearly.
MaxGundam1998: Already answered you with the PMs but once again thanks for the review it means a lot.
Now we have the card effects also I'm gonna start underlining this part.
CPU Noire
Level 4 Fire attribute ATK: 1500 DEF: 1000
Warrior/Effect
If this card is normal or special summoned you can add one quick-play spell from you're deck or graveyard to your hand. If this card is destroyed by battle or card effect you can add one Share Crystal to you're hand from your deck or graveyard.
CPU Black Heart
Level 7 Fire Attribute ATK: 2400 DEF: 2000
Warrior/Synchro/Effect
Requirements: One Share Crystal + One or more Non-Tuner CPU or Maker monsters.
If you used CPU Noire as a synchro material this card gains 400 ATK and can deal piercing damage as long as it's on the field. If this card would be removed from the field you can send a spell from your hand to to the graveyard instead. If this card is sent to the graveyard you can add 1 Share Crystal or CPU or Maker monster from your graveyard to your hand.
CPU Team UP
Spell/Normal
If you have a CPU synchro monster on the field reveal a CPU synchro monster in your extra deck then target one CPU synchro monster on the field it can gains half the attack of the revealed monster until the end phase.
So what do you think? Are they too overpowered? Leave anything you have a problem with when it comes to the effects. Also if you have any suggestions for cards feel free to leave any ideas in the comments
Please leave a review with your thoughts, ideas, and favorite parts. If you have any deck suggestions that Julio should go up against than feel free to suggest it. Custom card ideas are also welcome. Any constructive criticism is appreciated but flames are not.
Next Chapter Title: An Explosive Temper.