A Japanese Weresheep in Mutsuba Town
Author's Note: Time for a new pairing! Enjoy the story and R&R.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to or of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GO RUSH! series.
Pairing: Developing Yuhi x Chupataro.
Summary:
There are some forms of alien activity even MIK turns a blind eye to. The truly alien activity between Chupataro and Ohdo Yuhi, for instance.
Chapter 103: After Being Soulless
"All the comrades that support you have fallen. The bond you believe in so much no longer exists! What point is there in suffering so much by yourself? And it would be in your best interest to carefully examine the situation of this Duel! Do you really believe you hold any hope of victory the way you are now?"
The king of a lost civilization could have uttered these words.
They could have come from the Creator.
But in fourth-wall-breaking fashion, they were Kuaidul's meditations to himself regarding his oncoming demise (perhaps toward all Velgearians), bequeathed in the recording device he left behind.
"Face reality. You are nothing more than a cursed soul. That is the truth. Your pain and your worries…Feelings that you have felt over the span of endless time…I alone am the only one capable of understanding your suffering."
Plunging slowly into the abyss, two in the water. Two souls, air bubbles rising as they fell. Chupataro, without his robot. And Yudias Velgear, naked as the day Kuaidul pushed him at the Go Rush Yu and had him learn the words of the Creator engraved into the Relic.
On the night of a large and hardly recognizable celestial body of Earth
A warrior
shall carve open an unknown path with Rush Duels
and become a light for the universe
"The labyrinth in your heart."
The room in Chupa's mind that time.
The galaxy in my chest.
"Put an end to all of it. Bring your existence back to nil!"
That's right, chupa. Chupa used to be nothing, chupa. Friends…family…Chupa had no one, cabra.
That is right. We Velgearians are artificial beings. Before, we did not have bodies or souls.
Nothing…Null, from the very beginning…
And if they lost everyone, they'd have nothing left…
"Do you not wish to join your friends? It is over."
Disappear? Am I going to disappear? Like Zuwijo?
"No, as the lone proto-Karutumata, I can tell you this isn't the end!"
Not…the end?
"This isn't the end of the story."
Memories of the past. A body. Can someone who holds no existence have them? Something in the heart that can never be erased?
"Do you have something like that?"
Something at the bottom of the abyss?
At the bottom of the ocean?
"It's that part of you, Yudias…Since long ago, I have always –"
Zuwijo. Yudias cried into the water. I see…I never noticed it…Deep within my heart, among the bonds I have woven with my comrades, there is a vessel of memories…That is my everything…I am not nothing…As long as I still have the vessel inside of me, no matter how much time it takes, Velgear can still be reborn!
Yuhi…Damamu…
Zuwijo…Dinois…Muda…My countrymen…
A soulless liar.
The Milky Way pinched and pulled…moulded into a form – a vessel – for a future soul.
"You think it's weird?" Yuamu asked.
"Of course it's weird!" Manya replied. "Meeeg-chan this and Meeeg-chan that! It feels wrong for him to like a Monster Card so much, you know? After all, the monster inside the card isn't a real thing. It's all fictional."
Fictional.
Chupa…To meet the real Meeeg-chan, Chupa put Chupa's own soul and a piece of Yuhi's soul into her card, chupa. Chupa tried to create the real Meeeg-chan, and from that, Damamu was born, cabra.
But if that card were to be completed, nothing would be safe.
Chupataro remembered. His conversation with Zaion.
"I believe an incident with a certain card in this era will change [Yuga]."
"A certain card?"
"S'btian had record of it in his memory bank. A card that can tamper with one's memories."
"Tamper with a person's memories, chupa? There's such a card?"
His memories of Yuhi and Damamu. Their memories of him.
The memory…of Rush Duels.
Yuhi…Damamu…If Rush Duels never existed, Chupa wouldn't have you, chupa.
Resurrection of the Dead could take it all away. Everything up until now, and everything after.
Kuaidul, allow me to answer you. There has never been a moment where I thought this body that was given to me was solely my own. Why is it that I, after losing all my people…Why am I still standing here after all this time? It is not because UTS impeded my attempts to duel. It is because I know I must endure…in order to lift up the voices of the friends still surrounding me!
"Yudias Velgear! A warrior from the far reaches of the galaxy that now runs through a new battlefield called Rush Duels!"
Yudias! Yudias! Yudias! Yudias!
Chupataro wanted to hold on to what he had.
Yudias was holding on to what he'd already lost. Who he'd bring back, no matter if walls, mountains, or planets blocked his way!
Sorry, Yudias! These bonds with Yuhi and Damamu…Chupa can't cut them under any circumstances, chupa! So –!
My bonds with Zuwijo and all my Velgearian brethren! Let them be the foundation for our next Velgeard!
Win, chupa! WIN, ZAION!
WIN, PHASER!
This was the thinking of Yudias' eternal friend? The friend Yudias believed in?
This was Yudias Velgear? The man for whom Ohdo Yuhi and Ohdo Yuamu were so important?
"My turn! Ruthless Cheap-Priced Furniture Draw! I summon Sky Emperor Minion!"
"Haa!" the einheri loosed a battle cry on summon. (Level 3 LIGHT Cyberse/Effect ATK 1000 DEF 100)
"I activate Sky Emperor Minion's effect! I excavate the top four cards of my Deck, and add Space Yggdrago or a Cyberse-Type Maximum Monster from among them to my hand!"
"A Cyberse-Type Maximum Monster?"
"Wait! Does that mean –?"
"If you are dead set on Maximum Summoning, I'll meet you blow for blow!"
Ragnarok was upon Phaser again.