bopdog111: Cass needs some making up for Riley.
Ulrich362: Maybe Bopdog... there's not really anything she can do though.
bopdog111: She can try.
Ulrich362: We'll have to see what happens. Enjoy the chapter.
Disclaimer: We don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! ARC-V but we own the OCs!
Cassie was still upset after she explained the whole thing to Yuya. Yuya just hugged her gently. "Oh Cass..."
"I... I only thought she deserved someone better then a common person." Cassie told him with tears in her eyes.
Yuya frowned. "You're not just some common person, you're Cassandra Sakaki. One of if not the single most amazing people in the world. Or... worlds I guess after what Declan told us, but the point stands."
That made Cassie look up at him. Yuya was smiling before he kissed her forehead. "Get some sleep Cass, it's been a long day."
Cassie looked before nodding laying down as Yuya tucked her. Yuya walked down after that. "I think she'll be ok mom."
Yoko turned to him, "What happened?"
Yuya frowned. "It's not really my place to say. A lot in a very short time."
Yoko only nodded at that.
The next day at You Show Duel School...
"Cassie?" Allie asked when she and Yuya walked into the building.
Hearing that Cassie looked smiling, "Hey Allie."
Allie walked over and hugged her. "Are you ok?"
Cassie hugged her back saying, "A little better."
Allie smiled hearing that.
"Is there anything we can do?" Zuzu asked.
"I think... I should talk to Riley again." Cassie admitted.
"I'll apologize, and tell her that I'll be her girlfriend." Cassie said to them.
"Yeah... don't do that." Sora told her just before the door to You Show opened and Declan walked in.
They turned seeing him as Cassie widen her eyes before bowing, "M-Mr. Akaba, I'm so sorry about Riley!"
"It's fine, but I came because I'd like to challenge You Show to a match." Declan stated. "You remember what I told you before correct?"
They looked at him at that.
"T-The Dimensional War right?" Zuzu asked him.
"That's right, dueling amongst ourselves should help catch any weaknesses and improve our odds of winning." Declan stated.
"So your challenging all of us or just 1?" Skip asked him.
That caught them all off-guard.
"Y-You think you can handle all of us by yourself?" Zuzu asked.
Declan turned to her. "I meant students from both schools dueling. I may duel as well but I'll be back later today with some other students... and the chairwoman of the Leo Institute."
"C-Chairwoman... If you put it that way, and your the CEO then... She's a relative of your's?" Cassie asked him nervously.
Declan turned to her. "My mother, yes."
That made Cassie looked down with a nervous glance.
"We'll be back in an hour." Declan said calmly before leaving.
Cassie then started to shake, "She's... She's gonna yell at me or..."
Zuzu hugged her. "It'll be ok."
Cassie hugged her back.
"An hour... what should we do until then?" Tate asked.
"I... I can work an apology to Riley till then." Cassie said to them.
"Do you want help?" Yuya asked.
"I..." Cassie trailed off.
He just nodded in understanding. Cassie walked off to get to work.
"Will she be ok?" Allie asked.
"Apologizing is a big thing to do." Zuzu admitted, "We'll see."
Allie nodded.
1 hour later...
Declan walked in along with five other people. It was a woman in a red suit, Riley, a purple haired boy, a dark skinned girl, and a small green haired boy with a bamboo sword.
"Have you decided who from You Show will duel first?" Declan asked.
"I'll go first." Yuya answered as Cassie walked back in holding a piece of paper only to see the group from LID, and looked down nervously.
Declan nodded calmly. "Then I'll be your opponent."
"You?" Yuya asked surprised.
"Well I thought that LID doesn't want to use their real best too early." Yuya admitted.
"We're all on the same side, and your duel with the Sledgehammer was impressive." Declan noted.
Meanwhile Cassie was slowly walking over to Riley. Riley was just staring at the field holding her bear.
"Uh Riley?" Cassie asked to get her attention.
Riley looked down before moving away from her. Cassie handed her the piece of paper to her. Riley didn't take it and moved farther away.
"Riley." Cassie said to her.
"Go away." Riley told her.
Hearing that Cassie looked down in tears. Zuzu gently embraced her at that. Cassie let go of the paper as it flew down to Riley's feet. The dark skinned girl noticed and picked it up.
'Riley.
I am so sorry for saying you deserve someone better... I only thought that since I thought I was nothing but a common person someone who your family shouldn't waste your time on. And I realize that I do love you Riley, and I swear I wouldn't do anything like that again if you give me a chance. I want to make things right, and do this right.
From, Cassie.'
The dark skinned girl blinked in surprise reading that before turning to Cassie only to turn back to the duel. Cassie looked down, "Big sis... Am I a... Burden?"
"What? Of course you're not a burden." Zuzu told her.
Cassie hugged her tight so tight Zuzu thought she can't breath. Zuzu just held Cassie gently at that. Soon Cassie sat down against the wall. Allie frowned before sitting next to her.
"Allie..." Cassie trailed off.
Allie just hugged her. "I'm sorry Cassie."
Cassie hugged her back as the duel ended. Yuya looked shaken and was on his hands and knees with Declan just staring at him clearly having emerged victorious. Cassie looked to see, and widen her eyes, "Big bro lost?"
"Declan... could use almost all of them." Tate whispered in awe. "Fusion, Synchro, Xyz... and Pendulum."
Hearing that last mechanic made Cassie's eyes widen.
"Who should duel next?" Declan asked calmly. "And Yuya, it took a fair amount of time to understand the mechanic using the footage from your duel. Though Pendulum Summoning will be an invaluable weapon to stop Duel Academy, your father would be proud of you for creating something as revolutionary as this."
Cassie looked down before putting her goggles on, and stepping forward.
"Cass?" Zuzu asked seeing that.
"I'm next." Cassie said simply.
"Then so am I. This won't take long."
All but Cassie turned to the LID student that said that. It was Riley who just stepped up without saying anything as she activated her Duel Disc. At that the woman smirked but nobody noticed as they entered the dueling field.
The dark skinned girl walked to Zuzu, "Is there something about that girl I'm not getting?"
"It isn't anything you need to worry about." Zuzu told her.
The girl at that handed her the paper she picked up. Zuzu's eyes widened before taking it. "This doesn't belong to you. Keep your hands off."
"She dropped it." the girl told her.
Zuzu just nodded before turning back to the match.
(A/N (Ulrich362): Zuzu's never met this girl before and is just being protective of Cassie. She has no idea what kind of person the girl talking to her is and is worried about someone she cares about. It's not personal though.)
"Action Field: Skylander Academy activated." the computer said as they appeared in front of a school setting with different symbols showing elements on banners around.
Skylander Academy
Action Field Spell
You can use Action Cards, but you can only have 1 Action Card in your hand.
"DUEL!" Riley and Cassie said together.
(Dueling Theme: Satellite by Starset)
Cassie: 4000
Riley: 4000
Let the duel begin!
Cassie 1st turn:
Cassie drew looking over before saying, "I summon Skylander - Stealth Elf!"
At that a small elf with small bone like picks for daggers looking like a ninja appeared, "Silent but Deadly!"
Skylander - Stealth Elf
Earth Type
Level 3
Warrior
ATK: 1100
DEF: 900
When this card is targeted for an attack: You can discard 1 "Skylander" monster with a different attribute then this card, negate that attack. If this card is sent to the GY: Special Summon 1 "Skylander" monster except, "Skylander - Stealth Elf" from your GY. You can only use each effect of "Skylander - Stealth Elf" per turn.
Riley just nodded seeing the monster.
"Then I'll activate, Journey Through Skylands." Cassie added as a spell appeared.
Journey Through Skylands
Continuous Spell Card
If you don't control a "Skylander" monster: Destroy this card. Once per turn: You can Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower "Skylander" monster from your hand with a different attribute then 1 monster you control.
"So now I summon Skylander - Hot Dog!" Cassie called as Hot Dog appeared.
"See Spot Burn!" Hot Dog declared.
Skylander - Hot Dog
Fire Type
Level 3
Beast/Tuner
ATK: 900
DEF: 1200
When this card is Normal or Special Summoned: Add 1 "Portal of Power" to your hand. When this card is sent to the GY: Inflict 500 damage to your opponent. You can only use each effect of "Skylander - Hot Dog" per turn.
"When Hot Dog is summoned, I can add Portal of Power to my hand." Cassie said adding the spell, "And now I use both of them to build th Overlay Network!"
Stealth Elf, and Hot Dog flew up.
Riley frowned at that.
"I Xyz Summon, Skylander Supercharger - Fiesta!" Cassie called as a man in black with gold shoes, belt bucket, and has a skeleton like head appeared.
"It's Party Time!" the new Skylander called.
Skylander Supercharger - Fiesta
Dark Type
Rank 3
Pendulum Scale: 2
Zombie/Xyz/Pendulum
ATK: 2100
DEF: 1900
Pendulum Effect: Will be revealed.
Monster Effect: 2 Level 3 "Skylander" monsters
Will be revealed.
(ORU: 2)
Riley frowned seeing the monster. "Is that it?"
"1 face-down." Cassie ended her turn.
Riley 1st Turn:
Riley drew her card only to frown. "I summon Film Magician in attack mode and that's it."
A small magician looking like a camera appeared.
Film Magician
Light Type
Level 1
Spellcaster
ATK: 0
DEF: 0
Cannot be destroyed by battle. If this card is attacked by an opponent's monster, during damage calculation: You can make this card's ATK and DEF become equal to the ATK of the opponent's monster it is battling during that damage calculation only.
Cassie looked at the monster.
Cassie: 4000
Riley: 4000
Cassie 2nd Turn:
She drew before running to an Action Card. Riley did the same before grabbing one. Cassie grabbed it before saying, "I activate Fiesta's ability! By using an Overlay Unit I can negate the effects of a monster in play!" (ORU: 2 - 1)
Riley's eyes widened. "What?"
"I negate Film Magician's!" Cassie called as Fiesta shined light on Film Magician, "I never took monsters with little points lightly Riley."
Riley just frowned as Film Magician's abilities were negated.
"But during this turn all damage you take involving battles is reduced by half. And now Hot Dog's ability! Since he was sent to the graveyard you take 500 points of damage!" Cassie called.
(Riley: 3500)
"And now Fiesta!" Cassie called as her Xyz charged, "And I activate Double Attack!"
Double Attack
Action Spell Card
Target 1 monster on the field; its ATK becomes double its current ATK during each Battle Phase this turn.
"This doubles Fiesta's attack points!" Cassie called as Fiesta glowed, "With that the damage from this battle you take is no more, no less!"
"I play my own Double Attack on Fiesta." Riley said quietly.
Fiesta: (ATK: 2100 * 2 * 2 = 8400)
"What's she doing!?" the woman asked in shock.
The attack hit.
Cassie: 4000
Riley: 0000
Cassie wins the duel!
Cassie's eyes widen in shock before running to Riley. Riley was looking down before walking to stand behind Declan. Cassie embraced her from behind.
"Let go." Riley told her.
"Riley please... Give me a chance... I'm so sorry." Cassie told her not letting go.
"He said let go, you already humiliated him in that duel isn't that enough?" questioned the boy with the bamboo sword.
"Riley's a girl!" Cassie snapped at him.
Riley's eyes widened in fear hearing that.
"What? What are you talking about?" the purple-haired boy questioned. "Are you blind?"
Cassie at that grabbed Riley's hand as she took her to a room for them to talk. Riley tried to pull away but failed. They soon arrived at a room for them to talk away from both schools as Cassie look down pulling her goggles as the tears building up got out before putting them back, "Riley..."
"Leave me alone." Riley told her.
"Riley please. We need to talk." Cassie said to her.
"No... we don't." Riley replied.
"We do..." Cassie said to her hugging her.
"Let go of me." Riley said pushing Cassie away.
Cassie didn't before saying, "Riley... I'm so sorry for saying that."
Riley just frowned. "Leave me alone Cassie."
"I will make it up Riley. Please give me a chance. I will be better." Cassie said to her.
"... No." Riley said before leaving the room.
Cassie again embraced her from behind.
"Let go of me." Riley told her.
"Riley I love you!" Cassie yelled before kissing on her lips.
Riley froze at that before tears started running down her face as she shoved Cassie away and ran from the room.
"Riley!" Cassie cried before tearing up closing the door, and knelling down crying in her goggles.
She felt someone embracing her. She jumped at that.
"I'm so sorry Cassie." Yuya whispered holding her.
"Yuya..." Cassie said squirming.
Yuya let go but stayed kneeling next to her. She slid down the wall before pulling her goggles off, "I can't do anything right!"
She threw them off before placing her hands on her face continuing to bawl. Yuya frowned hearing that as he just stayed with her.
"What's wrong with me? I only made things worse!" Cassie cried, "Am I really a burden!?"
"Of course you aren't." Yuya told her.
"I didn't made things better with Riley!" Cassie yelled.
Yuya flinched at that before just looking down. "I... I don't know what to say."
Cassie ran out of the room. Yuya just watched her go before frowning. 'Dad... she needs you right now.'
She got back to where both schools were at against a wall that was behind them. Declan and his mother were talking with Skip. She listened to what their saying.
"... Duelists are somewhat decent, though the latter three need quite a bit of practice if they're to survive." the woman stated.
"Learning the advanced mechanics would definitely be useful, though Yuya and Cassie are fine." Declan added.
"Yeah we'll make sure." Skip told them.
"Well, if that's all we'll be going." the woman stated calmly.
With that they walked as Declan noticed Cassie from the wall that she's upset with tears running down her eyes looking down sniffing. A few minutes later everyone from LID had left.
Cassie hadn't left her spot.
"Cass?" Zuzu asked noticing her.
"I made things worse..." Cassie sniffed.
Zuzu held her gently. "Oh Cassie."
"I am a burden." Cassie sobbed.
"You aren't a burden on anyone." Skip told her. "You never have been."
"I didn't help Riley!" Cassie yelled, "I didn't made things with her better, and now she hates me!"
"I tried to tell you." Sora mentioned. "Honestly, it's probably better this way."
That made Cassie turn to him with widen eyes.
"I mean, what would you do if you two did end up getting attached and then during this war the worst happened?" Sora asked. "What if one of you didn't make it? Better off not having to suffer like that right?"
That didn't help as Cassie teared up before running off.
"What? I'm just saying it would hurt more." Sora mentioned.
"That wasn't what she want to hear." Zuzu told him.
Sora frowned before shrugging. "Well... maybe she shouldn't get involved then."
Cassie continued running off not looking out on where she's going. She just kept running.
BUMP!
"Agh!" Cassie cried falling down rubbing her forehead.
The person she bumped into turned around. Cassie said to the person, "Sorry."
She looked to see it was the dark skinned LID girl. She looked at Cassie before frowning. "Alright, what was that note?"
Cassie at that asked with tears, "W-What note?"
"The one you wrote to Riley." she answered.
Cassie looked down, "An apology to Riley..."
"Look, I'm not going to pretend I understand what's going on between you two." the dark skinned girl told Cassie. "All I know is sometimes things don't work out, and..."
"Julia let me talk with her."
Hearing that Julia turned to see who it was. It was Declan. Julia looked surprised before nodding walking off. When she left Declan frowned and stared at Cassie. "You really don't get it do you?"
"I now do. I'm a big burden, and she hates me now." Cassie said not looking up crying, "I tried my best to apologize but I made things worse."
Declan sighed. "Cassie, let me ask what did you say to Riley?"
Cassie sniffed before saying what she said to him. Declan nodded. "Tell me Cassie, Riley told you about her life didn't she?"
"Yeah... Being in a war ravaged home." Cassie answered.
"Along with how she's been treated since being adopted by my mother." Declan noted.
"As a Duel Soldier..." Cassie sniffed.
"Exactly." Declan nodded. "Now, I want you to imagine something for me alright?"
That made her look up at him.
"Imagine for a moment you're treated as a tool, not given any opportunity to have your own personality. Raised as a weapon, a completely blank slate that's seen as just a means to an end." Declan told her. "With only a single person being able to give minor encouragement at best."
Cassie at that closed her eyes.
"Now, imagine that one day you meet someone who in less than one day makes you feel happier than you have in your entire life. Someone who is genuinely kind, without any prompting tries to comfort you and spends time with you and makes you feel like more than just a tool being trained for a war. Who goes above and beyond to make you happy." Declan continued. "Someone who it seems truly cares about you, the first person to ever act that way. Then they tell you there's someone better, that despite only ever meeting one person who saw you as a human being and could be there for you they said there was someone else. How would you feel?"
Cassie at that opened her eyes before looking down.
"Do you understand?" Declan asked her.
Cassie slowly nodded.
"You had to imagine that... Riley didn't." Declan told her.
That made Cassie look up at him.
"That was... and is her life." Declan finished.
Cassie looked down before asking weakly, "...Can you let me talk to her?"
"You're welcome to try, but we both saw how it ended before." Declan told her.
They walked to LID. Inside Cassie saw people studying the different mechanics in different large classrooms. Cassie didn't let that bother her as they head to where Riley's at. Declan paused at a door. "This is where Riley is."
As he left she took a peak to see what Riley's doing. Riley was in a chair with wires connected to her arms and head as she went through the motion of drawing a card over and over again. Cassie looked horrified at that walking in.
"What? What are you doing here?" the woman questioned.
Cassie didn't listen walking in front of Riley. Riley just continued the motion with a blank look on her face. Cassie grew tears before hugging Riley close to her, "Riley... I'm so sorry you felt that way."
Riley blinked in confusion before her eyes widened. "I said leave me alone."
"Declan helped me saw how dumb I was not seeing it sooner." Cassie said crying, "That I was the one person that helped you got a lot of happiness but when I said there was someone better it crushed you... I realized it now."
Riley tried to move to draw again but had tears building in her eyes. Cassie grabbed her hand saying, "I'm so sorry Riley..."
With that said she got the wires off her head.
"What do you think you're..." the woman questioned before Riley started sobbing and clinging to Cassie.
Cassie hugged her back as she continued pulling the wires off. Cassie could feel Riley trembling. Cassie rubbed her back after pulling off the last of the wires.
"Ca... Cassie..." Riley choked out miserably.
"It's okay. I won't do something like that again." Cassie cried to her.
"I'm... I'm so sorry." Riley choked out.
"No... I'm the one who should apologize." Cassie sobbed.
Riley blushed before kissing Cassie. "Can we start over?"
"Yes we can." Cassie said with a tearful smile before linking her arm with Riley's walking out with her.
The woman just stared at them in shock as Declan watched them leave. 'I just hope they can handle what's coming.'
Ulrich362: Well that happened. Also elephant in the room, thank Adventure Time apparently?
bopdog111: While my profile did say I dislike Yuri, or Yaoi, Ulrich did convince me that despite pairings is that how fics on them are good.
Ulrich362: Don't misunderstand, it's the quality of fic that I feel matters. Plus, as I mentioned Bopdog said he liked the show Adventure Time. Though as for what actually happened, all's well that ends well. Though it's far from over.
bopdog111: Now that Cass, and Riley made amends what awaits them?
Ulrich362: The Arc League Championship for one. See you in the next chapter.
bopdog111: Be sure to review!