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It’s my turn Chapter 4

It’s been four months since Zarc was revived and three since he reappeared in Standard. Standing guard against the revived Supreme King Dragon, Yuzu with Serena, Rin and Ruri stand as Ray with the stronger Lancers helping them. This time, It’s Her Turn!

Previous chapters: 1 2 3

concept thought up by @skittymon originally.

“How could I let this happen?!” Serena thought as she gritted her teeth in frustration. Her eyes narrowed as she saw the black charred buildings and demolished roads in the City. It had been two days since Rin’s duel against Zarc but no one could call it a victory, not when he caused so much destruction. She could feel her frustration grow as she remembered him laughing like a madman, as Yuri no less. She could feel her teeth turning to dust as she grinded them before she heard someone calling her name, shaking her from her thoughts.

“Serena!” A manly voice yelled.

Serena smiled a bit when she saw the owner of the voice, Gongenzaka and Sora were running up to her.

“Need any help, if so the manly Gongenzaka will gladly do so” he said.

“Oh and why did you offer me any help? Are you looking down on me?” Serena asked with a bit of edge in her voice.

“Of course not. Just you were the only person cleaning up this area.” Gongenzaka defended himself.

“So you’re saying I’m antisocial then?” Serena continued

“What?” Gongenzaka looked in confusion.

“Gong chill, she’s pulling your leg.” Sora said with his arms behind his head.

Gongenzaka looked even more confusion before looking at Serena for confirmation. She simply gave a big smile which made Gongenzaka give a sigh in relief.  

“Please don’t do that. You nearly gave the manly Gongenzaka a heart attack.” Gongenzaka said in relief.

“Even if you did have a heart attack, you’d still outlive us all” Sora remarked as he took another lick from his lollipop.

“Thanks, but I just want some time alone.” Serena thanked her friends.

“Is because of what happened with Zarc?” Gongenzaka asked in a calm voice as Sora remained silent.

Serena looked to a frowning Ruri before nodding her head which caused Gongenzaka and Sora to frown.

“Is Rin ok? She looked a bit off after the duel.” Sora asked as he remembered how lifeless she looked.

“Not really. She wanted to help with the clean-up but honestly she couldn’t focus.” Serena said.

“Well that’s not surprising. From what I heard Rin and Yugo had a similar relationship to Yuya and Yuzu and well ….” Gongenzaka stopped as he couldn’t finish his sentence.

“What about Yuzu then?” Sora continued.

“She’s just tired.” Serena lied.

“Are you sure?” Gongenzaka asked again.

“It’s fine. But some alone time would be nice.” Serena answered causing Gongenzaka and Sora to sadly walk away.

“I think they know that you were lying about Yuzu.” Ruri said.

“What else do I tell them then? That Yuzu refuses to speak to them because she realizes that they lied to her.” Serena argued.

“I don’t know.” Ruri replied while Serena sighed.

“When did things become this difficult?” Serena thought as she remembered Yuzu’s pain and Rin’s tears.

 Inside a secluded space in Yuzu’s mind, Rin sat alone holding her knees as the image of Zarc reviving as Yugo replayed in her mind. Despite her best efforts, she kept seeing Yugo’s goofy face twist into a sadistic smile as one eye glowed an ominous yellow.

“Rin are you ok?” Yuzu asked.

“Ahhh!” Rin yelled in shock as she heard Yuzu’s voice. “Don’t sneak u…..ppp. Wait how did you get here?!”

“This is my brain. I would think that I have full access here. In fact I should charge you for being here.” Yuzu joked with a light smile.

“What’s the real reason then?” Rin calmly asked.

Yuzu opened her mouth about to defend herself before sighing and said, “I … I just didn’t want to see the other Lancers.”

“What happened?” Rin asked.

“They lied to me about Yuya.” Yuzu said in a resigned tone.

“Yuya?” Rin lied pretending to be calm.

Yuzu turned away from Rin and sat down so their backs were facing each other. She then said, “A boy whose voice I keep dream about. But if I had to be honest, they’re nightmares where he tells me to run.”

“How much do you remember about this Yuya?” Rin continued.

“Not much. Just he has the same last name as Yusho and Yoko, he loved to entertain everyone, Zarc for some reason can change into his appearance and that he ….. he … that’s all.” Yuzu said with a red face.

“How did they lie then?”

“They acted like they didn’t know him but Zarc revealed that four months ago not only did the Lancers know him, but they even tried to help him.” Yuzu instantly answered.

“Can you trust Zarc though? He could be lying to cause in fighting.” Rin said.

“But what he said was true. The Lancers in the Fusion dimension knew about Yuya and lied to me about him!” Yuzu argued as Rin felt a pang of guilt.

“I’m sure they didn’t have any bad intentions for doing it.” Rin said.

“That doesn’t mean they have the right. These are my memories! I … I of all people should know who I loved!” Yuzu countered as Rin felt more guilt assault her heart.

After her outburst, Yuzu felt heat radiate from her face as she realized what she said. Desperate for anything to change the topic, she quickly asked. “So Rin, why are you depressed?”

Rin felt her eyes widened as she heard Yuzu. “What are you talking about?” Rin calmly answered.

“Just you seem a bit different.”

“Different how?” Rin said as her heart started racing.

“Well usually you’re pretty cool-h …” Yuzu said which caused Rin to remember Zarc’s words.

“I’m not cold!” Rin yelled as she interjected.

“Wait I never …” Yuzu tried to interject.

“I …  I just don’t want Yugo to spend his life as a demon! I … I never wanted to .. I never! “Rin started yelling as tears started to fall.

Yuzu quickly gave Rin a hug as Rin looked in shock. “Shhh” Yuzu silently said as she put her hands on Rin’s head. “It’s going to be fine.”

“It’s not. I … I” Rin said as she struggled to get words out.

Yuzu only hugged Rin tighter as Rin finally broke down crying. Rin couldn’t help but mentally mock herself as she cried. When Zarc had returned, she knew in her heart that that Yugo was gone. Even if his spirit still existed inside of Zarc, she could never free him that he was doomed to exist as a phantom inside a demon. Thus Rin decided to steel her heart and kill him, as much as she hated it and as much as she hated herself for deciding to do it. But if it meant that Yugo could have some form of peace, she would gladly kill her heart. But when Zarc had revived, instead of feeling rage that Yugo still had to live as a demon that had murdered innocents for laughs, she felt relief. As she saw Zarc revive as Yugo, she was happy that he was still alive which only made Rin cry harder at her weakness.  

 Reiji could feel his brain cells dying as the people in front of him continued to argue. Normally he would regard just such noise as unimportant but sadly the people arguing were the representatives of the four dimensions. He fought the urge to sigh and just said, “Representative as much as your arguments are interesting. I do believe we need to focus on my request.”

“To strength the Lancers?” Standard’s representative said with a sneer.

“That is correct” Reiji said as he ignored Standard’s representative’s attitude.

“What’s your reasoning” Synchro representative quickly added, hoping to diffuse the tension.

“Zarc’s latest attack has proven that the Lancers are too understaffed to stop Zarc.” Reiji calmly said.

“You mean being armed with realities’ strongest duelists aren’t enough to stop one threat?” Standard’s representative mocked.

“If you remember, Zarc has previously destroyed a dimension before. We shouldn’t underestimate his power.” Edo defended.

“Then why should we trust the Lancers to defend us if his power is that overwhelming? Especially considering some of the members” Xyz representative asked.

“We have Ray” Reiji added.

“Ray?” the representatives all said.

“Zarc’s mortal enemy. Twice she’s put a stop to him and we current—“ Edo tried to explain.

“If you have her, why are you trying to grow more powerful?” Standard’s representative inquired.

“Even if Ray can stop Zarc, that doesn’t mean there won’t be casualties if we don’t take the necessary steps to stop him.” Reiji said with a glare.

“Reasonable. So why now?” Synchro’s representative asked, as she tried to get the meeting moving forward.

“I admit our latest mission’s casualties was caused by our immaturity. Zarc was able to get past us because we didn’t think we would try to blend in with the crowd. But part of that was because we could only have 8 Lancers on standby, we couldn’t check everyone in our panic.” Reiji somberly admitted.    

“Why only 8? You stated that you have 20 members, why defend a dimension with less than half your forces?” Xyz’s representative inquired.

“Because we were scared that Zarc was lying. He has already proven to be a skilled planner and we decided it be better to leave the other dimensions some defense in case it was a fake out.” Edo answered.

“So what, if we let you build an army then you can protect us?” Standard’s representative asked again.

“Not an army. But we do need an influx of force as Zarc’s attack on the City was revealed to be a distraction.” Reiji reaffirmed.

“What do you mean?” Synchro’s representative asked.  

“During Zarc’s attack, cyborgs similar to the ones that Roger made attacked LDS. In the rush they were able to steal some of my experiment technology and escape before the Lancers stationed in Standard could give chase.” Reiji calmly stated.

“What experimental technology?” Standard’s representative said with an edge in his voice.

“A portable mass teleporter” Reiji answered which caused all the representatives to look in shock. “This devise is based on the large teleporter in Heartland. It’s meant to teleport multiple people at once and is portable.”

“Why do you have that?” Standard’s representative asked again.

“If Zarc appears instantly in one of the dimensions, it would be better to mass teleport all the Lancers to his location then wait for them to arrive by Arc-V.” Reiji countered.

As Reiji said this, the room turned silent as the Standard and Xyz representatives looked as each other.

“Excuse me, I think I might be imagining this but Standard and Xyz representatives, you don’t really trust us do you?” Edo asked.  

“No you’re correct. I have trouble trusting the Lancers before and this meeting has only furthered the feeling.” Standard’s representative answered.

“Would be so kind to explain?” Reiji asked as he kept his annoyance in check.

“You think I didn’t notice when the Academia first attacked, you immediately jumped to announce the Lancers.” Standard continued.

“You believe I want to take control of Standard?” Reiji asked as he stared to glare.

“No, all of reality.” Standard’s representative answered with his own glare.

“Why would you think that?!” Edo asked.

“Mr. Akaba has cameras all over Maiami City, nearly all duel schools are under his control and he currently has the Lancers, an interdimensional collection of the strongest duelists in all of reality under his control. Do you think we wouldn’t be a bit worried?” Standard representative answered.

“I admit I that can seem worrying but the Lancers only want to defend the peace of the four dimensions.” Reiji rebutted.

“Do you really?” Xyz’s representative added which caused Edo to look in shock.

“What do you mean?” Edo asked.

“Well adding to this, in the roster you’ve given me, over one fourth of your members are Academia members.” Xyz’s representative added with a bit of venom in her voice.

“Ex-Academia members. We know that we have made many mistakes and we wish to correct them.” Edo added.

“Well that’s all well and good but can we really trust you?” Standard’s representative added in.

“We stood against the Academia and Zarc when he revived.” Reiji countered.

“Did you really stand against the Academia? Reiji Abaka, son of the Leo Abaka, The leader of the Academia.” Xyz’s representative said as his eyes narrowed.

“Are you suggesting that I was working with my father that abandoned me and my mother three years ago?” Reiji said as he felt his rage rising.

“Still working with actually” Standard’s representative added.

“Wait, wait! The Lancers helped my dimension when the Commons rioted, they were able to peacefully stop the riots and out the Academia agent Jean-Michel Roger. As well get the Academia forces in the Xyz dimension to stand down.” Synchro’s representative quickly added.

“But which Lancer did that though?” Xyz’s representative asked which cause Edo and Reiji to look uncomfortable. “Yuya Sakaki who became ZARC!” she yelled as her right fist hit the table.

Edo’s eyes widened in rage as he yelled, “He did not become Zarc!”

“Then why does Zarc look like him!” Xyz’s representative yelled for answers.    

“When Zarc was defeated the first time, he was spilt into four beings in each of the dimensions. Yuya Sakaki is merely one of them. During our battle in the Academia, he was absorbed by Zarc’s will due to my carelessness.” Reiji said as his fists started to tighten.

“Did you know about this when he joined the Lancers?” Standard’s representative asked.

“No.” Reiji calmly said as he gave a half truth.

“Even if that is true. That means the Lancers helped bring about Zarc’s revival.” The Standard’s representative continued.

“And we then fought him; as all of reality saw.” Edo countered.

“Yes we saw.” Xyz’s representative said which caused Edo to relax till she said, “but we also saw the Professor helping the Lancers.”

“To be fair, he didn’t really help.” Reiji added.

“Either way, your father helped against Zarc.” Standard’s representative added.

“After the battle, we locked him away.” Reiji rebutted.

“In a location that nobody but your own people know of!” Standard’s representative yelled which caused Reiji to go silent.

“How do you expect us to trust you Lancers when a fourth helped destroyed my dimension, one of you become our current threat and their leader is the Academia’s leader’s son! Who is currently keeping his father’s location secret!” Xyz’s representative yelled at the top of her voice.

“We did that to ensure anymore agents of the Academia still hiding don’t break him free.” Reiji defended.

“That doesn’t earn our trust though. In fact, Fusion say something, this mess is due to your dimension.” Standard’s representative snapped.

“I really can’t.” Fusion’s representative weakly said.

“Why not?” Xyz’s representative asked with a glare.

“As it was said, my dimension caused this trouble. I don’t have the ability to argue here.” The Fusion representative said with guilt in his voice.

“But what do you feel about Reiji’s request though.” Edo asked.

The Fusion representative showed more guilt on his face as he said, “I cannot help with this request. Our dimension doesn’t have the forces.”

“Really then who attacked my home?” Xyz representative said with spite.

“That’s the problem. We’re trying to sort out who is still loyal to the Professor and Academia. Until we have clean our government of Academia loyalists, it’s better to not have an army just yet.” Fusion’s representative sadly said which caused Edo to empathize greatly.

“It pains me to say it but we don’t have the forces either. As you two should know my dimension is still undergoing rebuilding our government. It’s still tricky to create a government that allows for equal representation from both the Commons and Tops. Due to this uneasy balance, we cannot make an army yet. I truly am sorry.” Synchro’s representative said.

“So I think that Standard and Xyz doesn’t trust us then?” Reiji said as he looked at them.

“Yes. Besides we just don’t have the forces either. Our army was decimated and we can’t find any citizens willing to rejoin.” Xyz’s representative coldly said.

“If you could at least tell us where Leo Abaka is, I’ll talk to the government about it.” Standard’s representative said which caused Edo to look shocked.        

“You do have a point. Maybe I’m being too secretive, the Professor is in the S---“ Reiji started before his duel disk let out an alarm. Once he saw the alarm, he started to scowl.

 Zarc waited patiently in the City as he stood on a random road, but after five minutes he started to feel a bit hungry. As he wondered if there was a burger joint nearby that he could steal from, he heard a voice from behind him yell his name which made him smile.

“Hey Serena.” Zarc happily said as he turned to face her.

“Zarc” Serena said with venom in her voice.

“Took you a while didn’t it?” Zarc said with a bit of disappointment in his voice.

“She brought back up!” a deep and loud voice roared.

Zarc’s eyes widen as he looked around and saw Jack, Crow, Shinji, Chojiro, Gloria, Grace, Sora, Sawatari and Gongenzaka surrounding him. Zarc gave an audacious grin which showed his fangs as he said, “Don’t you think this isn’t too fair?”

“You killed 2 dozen people!” Gongenzaka roared.

“I know. I meant for you guys. Bring an army next time.” Zarc arrogantly and calmly said.

“Why? So they can watch us kick your butt?” Serena arrogantly retorted.

“Well it would be fun for people to watch Rin break down.” Zarc calmly said.

Serena’s eyes widen when she heard that. She could feel her rage explode as she felt like ripping his head off his head, which was helped by the fact that he took Yuri’s form. “I dare you to say that again.” Serena coldly said as she readied her duel disk.        

Zarc quickly placed a hand in front of him as he said, “wait, wait, wait. I’m not here to duel.”

“What do you want then?” Serena coldly answered.

“To talk about Yuya Sakaki” Zarc said with a smile.

Before Serena could open her mouth, she could feel Yuzu inside of her force her way out. Quickly Serena’s blue hair turned to pink hair as Yuzu took control with a cautious look on her face. Zarc could feel his grin grow larger as he saw Yuzu.

“What do you mean?” Yuzu asked.

“Well based on how you reacted when I said his name two days ago and your obvious eagerness, you forget about him didn’t you?” Zarc asked.

“What’s your point?” Yuzu asked.

“I can tell you about him.” Zarc said as he transformed into Yuya which caused Yuzu’s eyes to widen.

“Why?” Yuzu asked as the other Lancers quietly but intensely watched the scene in front of them.

“The goodness in my he –ahhahahhhhahahah. Oh god I couldn’t keep a straight face.” Zarc said as he broke down laughing as he held his sides causing Yuzu to wince as she saw Zarc as Yuya laugh.

As Zarc continued to laugh, the Lancers’ duel disks started to beep. All but Jack and Gongenzaka checked them and looked in shook as they saw the alert.

“Hey Yuzu! We have to go!!!!” Sawatari panicked as the others started to run.  

“Why?” Yuzu asked with a bit of an edge in her voice.

“Roger is attack the institution where the Academia students are being kept!” Sawatari yelled which caused Yuzu, Serena and Ruri’s eyes to widen.

“What you aren’t curious why your heart flutters when you see me as Yuya and why I can change into Yuya.” Zarc said.

“Yuzu! Stop staring at him and listen to my silky smooth voice. We need your help!” Sawatari yelled.

Yuzu gritted her teeth as she didn’t know what to do. While she admitted that the Academia students going free was not something anyone would want but it wasn’t a smart idea to leave Zarc alone especially when they had seen what he could do. And if Yuzu was honest with herself, she wanted to know about Yuya and his connection to Zarc.

As Yuzu mired in indecision, Jack yelled, “GO!” shaking Yuzu from her thoughts.

“Yuzu, go! They are going to need you.” Gongenzaka continued.

“What about Zarc?!” Yuzu argued.

“We’ll stop him.” Gongenzaka calmly answered.

“Nice way to keep her away from the truth.” Zarc said.

“Why are you so desperate to keep her here? Seems a bit desperate to me.” Sawatari shockingly countered.

Yuzu gritted her teeth as she turned away from Zarc and started to run to the Arc-V portal.

“You sure about this?! They lied to you, can you trust them???!!!!” Zarc yelled.

“They did lie to me, but I still trust them more than you, Zarc.” Yuzu coldly said as she continued to run with Sawatari which caused Zarc to grin.

“Well this failed.” Zarc said as he threw his hands in the air.

“What are you trying to do?” Gongenzaka said.

“Mess with her head a little.” Zarc said with a smile which caused both of them to growl.

“ZARC!!!!” Jack and Gongenzaka yelled.

“well time to go.” Zarc said as he started his duel disk.

“Are you running away, you coward?” Jack taunted.

“Not really, just you two aren’t really worth the effort.” Zarc retorted.

“Scared that we’ll bring out Yuya’s soul?” Gongenzaka taunted.

Zarc gave a grin as he said, “if you could do that, Yuya would already free don’t you think?”

“So why do we give a try then!” Jack yelled as he turned on his duel disk.

“again you two are not worth the effort.” Zarc said as his smile turned into a scowl.

“Some symbol of invincible strength, you run with your tail between your legs when challenged. And you think you can destroy all of reality?” Jack calmly mocked.

“What did you say?” Zarc said as venom sneaked into his voice.

Jack and Gongenzaka smiled as they saw their bait had worked. Like Reiji said, Zarc might not be as easy to anger as before, but he was still proud of his power.  

“I was planning on leaving you fools alone. But allow me to show why I’m the Supreme King Dragon.” Zarc said as his eyes started to glow red.          

“Soooooo how ahead do you think Crow and the rest still are?” Sawatari said as he and Yuzu ran through Arc-V.

Yuzu kept silent as they continued to run, Sawatari was about to give up before finally asking, “are you angry that you had to leave before Zarc could spill about Yuya?”

“No.” Yuzu curtly replied.

“Then why are you so angry? You’re with the Lancer’s strongest man, Neo New Ultra strong duelist badass bishonen strong Sawatari!” Sawatari yelled.

“Do you really want to know?” Yuzu coldly said which made Sawatari instinctively move away.

“yees.” Sawatari nervously said.

“Did you think I would be all sunshine and flowers after I learned that you all knew about Yuya but lied to me?” Yuzu coldly said.

“We had a good reason for it” Sawatari said in a small voice which Yuzu coldly ignored as she ran forward.

Sawatari frowned as he saw her run ahead and mentally apologized to her and Yuya.  

  “Magician’s Right Hand activates, I negate your fusion! Go Sky Magician catch them” Yusho yelled as his monster threw his rings around the freed Academia students, preventing them from using their duel disks.

Just as Yusho took some time to breathe, two more students jumped out with their Ancient Gear Ultimate Hound Dogs. As Yusho braced himself for the attacks, two more figures jumped out.

“I Ritual Summon Cyber Angel Vrash” Asuka yelled as her ace destroyed the monster in front of her.

“I tribute summon Road Raven Red Queen” Yoko yelled as her ace scared the dog to join her side to the student’s shock.

“Attack!” both women yelled as their monsters defeated the students in front of them.  

“Thanks” Yusho thanked both women from the bottom of his heart.

“No problem Mr. Sakaki” Asuka said with a smile.

“Protecting you is kinda my job” Yoko joked with a smile.

Yusho smiled in response before he looked to the defeated Academia students. 10, that was all they had captured, only 10 students out of a few hundred. Yusho’s teeth clenched as he remembered the panic when their alarms rang. In the 17 minutes it took to get here, all the students being held in this psychiatric intuition were freed and given their decks and duel disks back. They then spent the last 15 minutes trying to take down as many Academia students as possible with just the three of them. Yusho could feel his rage grow as he knew the reason they hadn’t covered much ground was because of his bad leg, he might be the leader of the Fusion section of the Lancers but he was their weakest link right now.

“I fusion summon Ancient Gear Chaos Giant(Level 10 Attack: 4500 Defense: 3000)” A student yelled as a huge dark blue giant with a huge red cyclops eye appeared in front of Yusho, Yoko and Asuka.

The three of them looked in shock and fear as they saw the huge mecha towering over them.

“Fuck!” Asuka yelled as she saw the huge machine which Yusho and Yoko mentally agreed.

“Go Flower Cardian LightFlare (Level: 10 Attack: 5000, Defense: 0) take down that abomination!” Chojiro yelled as his monster sliced the mecha in half which then exploded, knocking out its owner.

“Chojiro! You’re back” Yoko happily said as she saw her friend.

“Hey guys, mind if I …. Cut in” Chojiro said with a huge grin on his face.

“I’m so happy, I’m going to ignore that horrible pun.” Yusho said with a grin just as large.  

“Which is why I said it. The only time I could get away with it.” Chojiro said.

“Not that I’m happy that you’re back but does that mean reinforcements have arrived?” Asuka asked which caused Chojiro to smile.

 Roger smiled as his plan was going smoothly, most of the Academia students were freed and Reiji Akaba’s portable mass teleporter was warming up. But as Roger was stroking his ego, an Academia student can running in a hurry.

“Lord ROGER! We have trouble.” The exhausted student yelled.

“What is it?!” Roger said in annoyance that someone interrupted his thoughts but he did smile at being called lord.

“The Lancers, they …” the student yelled.

“Yes, yes I know, three of them are here. What does it matter?” Roger said in absolute confidence.

“They’re forcing their way in, we’ve lost a fourth of our forces!” The student yelled.

“A fourth?! How could you lose around 50 students to three people?!” Roger yelled in shock.

“They brought reinforcements.” The student tried to explain.

“How many?” Roger calmly asked.

“4 ….” The student said in a small voice.

“You FOOLS!” Roger yelled as he started to ruffle his hair. “Gather the strongest and loyal students to my location immediately.”

As the student quickly ran to deliver his order, Roger started to grin his teeth in rage that Zarc failed to keep the Lancers at bay. Worthless Dragon, he thought as he started to walk to his controls.

“This is what I get for trusting a dragon that failed to destroy reality twice. Sergey WAKE UP, we have work to do.” Roger said as he turned on Sergey, who awoke as mechanical whirring filled the area. “Just five more minutes” Roger thought.    

Explosions echoed in the air as the Lancers fought to move deeper into the devastated institution. Yells roared in the background as the battles continued, while the Lancers quickly moved forward as a straight line with Yusho on Yoko’s bike behind them as his Magician’s Right Hand kept negating the Academia’s Fusion spells, which was proving to be an essential advantage. While the Lancers knew that their formation wasn’t efficient in any way, it was working and so they didn’t complain.  

“Mad Chimera attack!” Sora yelled as his ace finished off another Academia student.

“Hey do you think this is …..” Chojiro started.

“No stop!” Sora yelled.

“What?” Chojiro asked.

“Do not jinx this!” Sora replied.

“Oh you’re being stupid.” Chojiro said.

“I’d listen to the talking diabetes machine” Crow added.

“Oh come on, I can’t believe you guys believe in jinxes.” Chojiro said annoyed.

“Talking diabetes machine?” Sora asked.

But before Crow could explain, the ground spilt as purple flames seeped out of the cracks. The Lancers looked in shock as a black winged amorphous monster with purple lines shining on its body rose form the cracks as a huge man stood in front of the beast.

“Earthbound Servant Geo Grasha attack!” A monotone robotic voiced yelled as purple flames shot out of the monster’s mouth.

“Dodge!” Yusho yelled as the flames flew towards them.

“I. TOLD. YOU!” Sora said in between his teeth as he jumped out of the way.

“I didn’t say anything!” Chojiro replied as he dodged.

As the purple flames hit the ground, a large boom was heard as purple flames created a huge explosion that blinded everyone.

Yusho groaned in pain as he heard a loud ringing in his ears, he opened his eyes and saw that most of the purple flames had gone out and struggled to get up as he felt piercing pain from his left leg. He looked around and saw Yoko next to him, knocked out. In his panic, he quickly started shaking her as he started to scream, “Yoko, wake up. WAKE UP!”

“Uhhh. Where’s the bastard that hit us.” Yoko groggily said to Yusho’s relief.

Yusho then quickly turned around and saw Asuka and her Vrash was still fighting the monster that attacked them. As he got ready to help her, he heard footsteps behind him and saw two Academia students.

Yusho smiled and said “While I would love to put on a show, this isn’t the time.” as he struggled to stand.

“You two are not taking a step forward.” The Academia students said as they readied their duel disks.

“I really want to speak with your parents.” Yoko said as she readied her duel disk.

“Duel!” the four of them shouted.

 “Why are you two doing this? You’re some of the Academia’s greatest duelists??!!” some students shouted as they blocked Grace and Gloria.

“We just realized that the Academia was wrong.” Gloria coldly said.

“And that it was way more fun to duel with Yuya!” Grace happily added which caused Gloria to blush.

“What is so good about him that you and commander Phoenix would betray the professor.” They continued.

“His dueling was the best that I have ever seen and if I have a chance to learn it, I’ll gladly carry the name of traitor” Grace happily said.

Gloria facepalmed as she said, “you really liked Edo’s line huh?”

“What? It was cool!” Grace defended herself.

“Shut up and duel!” an Academia student yelled as she readied her duel disk.

“Duel!” They all yelled.

 “I blame you” Sora said as he looked at Chojiro.

“I didn’t say anything! And I doubt me saying anything would cause that blob thing to attack us!” Chojiro defended.

“Guys … maybe stop the comedy routine and help us?” Shinji said as he pointed the Academia students surrounding them.

“So why do you think we’re so popular?” Chojiro asked.

“Maybe these kids know about my love for th…. Wow does that sound wrong.” Crow said as he looked around.  

“What does it matter? You’ll all be cards soon.” An academia student said.

Crow grimaced as he heard those words and yelled, “you’re kids, stop taking about murder!”

“What murder? This is allowing you scum to become part of the Arc Area Project. Be honored!” Another academia student said with a sneer.

Shinji’s face twisted into a frown as he heard that which Crow noticed.

“Bring up bad memories?” Crow asked.

“Yeah of what an idiot I was, just like them. Ignoring how others felt for my ideals” Shinji said as his eyes narrowed.

“Well you will get plenty of time to think over it as a card” another academia student taunted.

“Shall we then?” Sora said with a smile.

“Duel” They yelled as the Action cards started to fall.

 “Vrash guard!” Asuka yelled as the abomination shot purple flames again. Vrash quickly created a shield of energy surrounding her and her master.

“Impressive. Well just what I expect from the Academia’s teachings.” the robotic voice once again spoke.

Asuka’s eyes narrowed once she heard that sentence but just as she was going to command a second attack she heard a beautiful melody come from behind her. Her eyes widened as curved wind flew over her head and hit the abomination square in the chest as the melody grew shriller in tone. She turned her head to see an unsettlingly quiet Yuzu staring straight ahead.

Yuzu’s eyes narrowed as she saw a muscular body that just seemed unnatural, especially that impossibly thin waist. The more she looked at him the more she felt sick as she felt her jaw tighten and head hurt.

“Sergey …” Serena said with widened eyes.

As Yuzu heard his name, her eyes widened as the pain in her head multiplied before she started to yell because of the pain. Ruri and Serena quickly looked to Yuzu before they felt the same pain invade their souls, before long all four started to scream in unison. Yuzu clenched her head as hundreds of images flew through her mind. She saw a monster of Sergey’s electrocute Yuya right before her, Sergey attacking Sora and Tsukikage, him grabbing her and finally seeing a hurt and exhausted Yuya call out to her as she was being taken away.

Yuzu gritted her teeth as she stared straight at Sergey. “I did not need that today”, she coldly said as her eyes narrowed.

 Roget’s eyes narrowed as he stared at his tablet which to his annoyance only showed the word error. He tried to calm himself with the knowledge that he had transported the remaining Academia students not facing the Lancers safely to their base. As he went to check the timer, he heard a large screech as the metal wall in front of him bent outwards and a damaged Sergey landed at his feet with a resound boom. He quickly looked at the newly made hole in the wall to see an infuriated Yuzu with four monsters floating next to her.

“My my how nostalgic.” Roget said with a sneer.

Yuzu’s eyes narrowed further as she remained deadly silent.

“Why so quiet this time? What nothing about how I’m wrong? How smiles are the true way for an ideal world.” Roget undainty said.

“Give up before I decide to use force.” Yuzu warned as her monsters shuffled.

Roget felt sweat roll down the side of his face before he heard a small beep. His worry quickly disappeared as he started laughing.

“What’s going on?” Yuzu yelled as a barrier started to form around Roget and Sergey.

“I win!” Roget cheered.

“Bloom Passeri, Bloom Boreas, Bloom Liger and Bloom Mozarta attack!” Yuzu yelled as her monsters attacked. She watched in frustration as the barrier stopped her monsters’ attacks.

“Looks like Zarc was right.” Roget bragged.

“What do you mean?!” Yuzu yelled.

“Without Yuya Sakaki, you’re nothing but a ghost of yourself!” Roget yelled.

Yuzu’s eyes widened and she yelled, “What do you mean? What do you know about Yuya?!!!”

Roget only gave a sneer as the barrier started to glow flooding the room in light, forcing Yuzu to close her eyes. She quickly opened her eyes when the room had dimmed down.

“Wai….” Yuzu started before seeing that Roget and Sergey had disappeared. Yuzu started to grit her teeth before she threw her head back and yelled with all her might.  

“Scarright attack Clear Wing Synchro Dragon!” Jack yelled as his ace spewed fire towards the green and white dragon.

“You activate my trap card, Negate Attack! You’d think the king would be careful over face down cards. How disappointing.” Zarc said with a light tone as he waved his head with his hands in the air.

“I’m not the King anymore.” Jack said before he pointed at Zarc. “That you, Yuya!”

Zarc smiled, “What is this peer pressure class, cause you’re being a broken record Jack.”

“Broken Record or not, Jack and I will awaken Yuya’s spirt no matter what Zarc!” Gongenzaka yelled.

Zarc’s eyes widened as a hologram screen with Roget’s face appeared in front of him.

“Zarc, I upheld my part of the plan, the students are in our base.” Roget calmly stated.

“Give me five minutes.” Zarc said.

“We have to go.” Odd-Eyes roared.

“What?” Starve Venom roared in confusion.

“We need to finish them!” Clear Wing roared.

“This is a waste of time and Zarc might get hurt.” Odd-Eyes roared in worry.

“When has our master ever been hurt by these scum.” Dark Rebellion yelled.

“There’s no point on risking injury anyway. Let’s go!” Odd-eyes begged.

Zarc sighed and answered, “You’re lucky today that I have to go.”

“Wait you’re not leaving! I know that you’re in there Yuya!” Gongenzaka yelled with all his might.

Zarc gave a sneer in response before all four of his dragons released beams of energy from their mouths.

Jack and Gongenzaka looked in horror as the dragons attacked and quickly ordered their monsters to defend the City from further damage. They look in frustration as Zarc’s body transformed into light as he teleported away.