Turn 24: Time of Death

'''Yu-Gi-Oh! Infinity Hunter''' ARC 2 “Infinite Search.”

Turn 24 “Time of Death.”

The figure of Ne’us strolled through the gate, his hood had not moved by the cold winds raising through the barren landscape. His red eyes were fixated on Justin alone as the white faced ghostly man. Ne’us raised his right gloved hand and the monster holding Justin released him.

Stay down!

Justin wanted to get up in front of Ne’us, but an invisible force kept him down. On top of the gate there was a Egyptian head dress with a fiendish face below it. Ne’us raised his hand and Justin was pulled up.

A fearful mortal, the voice of Ne’us resonated through the empty surroundings. ''A fearful mortal all alone in the void of dead. A fear for the octopus, a fear for the tarantula. Everybody has a fear for something.''

“No, I do not fear.” Sweat came dripping down from the forehead of Justin and he looked straight at Ne’us, trying to focus, while he did see land based octopus/tarantula fused monsters around him. “Just keep them a little away.”

No fear.

Ne’us raised his arm again and three wings formed around him. Two were bend in front of him, forming card zones and the third wing held a Duel Monsters deck along with space to place his hand in.

“What is that?”

Hahahahihahahahi. The ghostly man raised a card into the air throwing it in front of Justin. It was a Joker card, but where the face of the joker normally was, there was a skull now. ''You have been given a choice. A choice what to do. Whether you wish to live or you wander around the Dead Zone for an eternity. It will be your choice, what you will do with that choice.''

“I don’t….” Justin tried to walk away, but he was held in place by an invisible force like before. “I don’t want to duel now.”

As it looks to me, the ghostly man holding the Joker card answered before Ne’us did. ''You do not have a choice. So duel.''

“If I even wanted, I do not have a duel disk or my dueling deck. Last time I checked I got swooped down in the stadium and into the Door to the Other Side.” Ne’us raised his hand again and a duel disk materialized on Justin`s arm. “Oh well that solves that problem.” He then found his deck in his hand as well. He inserted the deck into his duel disk.

“I still don’t want to do this…..”

You have no choice, you see. Ne’us raised his hand behind him and the gate opened further, showing many souls, lost souls behind the gate flying around. Your friends are hanging in over there as well.

“My friends?”

Your friends, the pity souls that were recruited for the same reason, purpose and insane goal of your former leader, Gakyru. As Ne’us draws five cards and places them at the third wing, he made a fist, glowing with purple energy as three souls came around the gate, depicting Lynn, Jasmond and Tyson. Are you really so sure you wish to end up like them?

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Did they lose?”

Yes.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No, I do not wish to end up like them.”

Then duel me.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I seem to have no other choice then,” Justin activated his duel disk and his deck was auto-shuffled. “We will duel then.”

Very good.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Dark fog started to surround the two of them and the ghostly man disappeared from sight. We will duel indeed.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us – 4000 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 4000

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Gillian?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian looked down on Jennifer and Dyllan, still her duel disk being activated and not moving at all. The duel between Dyllan and Gillian had ended and when that had happened, Dyllan had sunk on the ground along with Jennifer.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Gillian, what is wrong?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You say you don’t remember?” Gillian asked her younger sister. “You say you have absolutely no idea that your new boy friend had challenged me to a duel and that I had to beat him in order to take control over the situation again?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No, I do not remember indeed,” Jennifer`s voice sounded rather rushed and panicking. “I really don’t know, Gil.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian grabbed Jennifer by the shoulders and looked at her straight in the eyes and nodded. She sat down on the garden chair with Jennifer in the other and Dyllan sitting across them on the grass.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Ehm Dyllan, I am not so sure whether Blake`s mother will be so happy that you are sitting on the grass,” Gillian quickly warned Dyllan with a smile. “I thought something was wrong, especially after you telling me you are with Gakyru. After what Gakyru had put us through, I did not believe it was that easy.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“After what Gakyru and our father put us through, you mean.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes, after what our father did indeed. But why did you not fight Gakyru`s control over you?” Gillian questioned Jennifer who looked at her. “I mean, you could still think right?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“We saw it happen, but we had no control over our bodies.” Dyllan finally spoke and Gillian and Jennifer looked at him. “We did not have any choice.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You always have a choice,” Gillian and Jennifer replied at the same time and Gillian smirked after Dyllan looked at them with a weird face, explaining. “Blake`s rule number eight, you always have a choice.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Thank god you are alright.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian, Dyllan and Jennifer turned around, seeing Blake, Lance, Yuni, Ken and Jason enter the garden. Blake hugged Gillian immediately and Ken and Lance walked down to Dyllan and Jennifer.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“What happened to you?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“We don’t know,” Jennifer once again replied to the newcomers. “We were at the front door, I had opened it for Dyllan, and after that our memories are swiped.” Blake nodded and let loose Gillian.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Same happened with Jason, although it happened to him, before we got to him. He was controlled and worshipped Gakyru. It means he is still at large,” Blake spoke and the others agreed in unison. “It means scenarios like these can and probably will happen again. It means we have to be extra careful.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I am sorry, I don’t know more anymore.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Blame Ken.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Excuse me?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Blame Ken,” Blake looked at Ken who shakes his head in a laugh. “Rule number ten, if you don’t know, blame Ken. It always worked for me.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">---

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us – 4000 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 4000

I will start our duel of faith than.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> A new card was taken by the gloved hand of Ne’us from his deck. I start out with the spell cardAllure of Darkness, removing from play one Dark attribute monster and I draw two cards.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> A card automatically shifted from the wing into Ne’us graveyard slot.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ Where the hell did that card go?<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Justin wondered as he had absolutely no idea.

Since I have removed a Dark attribute monster by a spell card`s effect, I can activated the following spell card, Reverse Pentagram – Soul Curse.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> As the card came to life a pentagram upside down appeared on his side of the field. Now by discarding this Dark attribute monster from my hand, I summon forth Dark Grepher (1700/1600) to the field.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The evil and corrupted version of  Warrior Dai Grepher<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> appeared on his side of the field.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You play Dark counterparts of monsters, very interesting….” Justin laughed and looked at his first hand. ‘ Nothing I cannot handle.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

Now to activate my Reverse Pentagram – Soul Curse, I can switch the attack and defense power of my Dark Grepher (1700/1600 -> 1600/1700).<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">  Dark Grepher<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> lowered his sword. Now I set this card.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“A rather weak strategy,” Justin looked at the rather empty field of Ne’us. “For a lord of the Dead Zone, you are not impressive.”

Do not mock me.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The calm voice of Ne’us suddenly was no longer that calm anymore. I end my turn, and because I end my turn and activate the effect of my Reverse Pentagram – Soul Curse spell card, I can return one dark attribute monster from my graveyard to my hand.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The card flipped back into his hand.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“It is my turn then,” Justin draws a new card and places a monster card on the duel disk. “Come out Quart Knight-3 (300/300)!” The tiny knight appeared in front of him along with the clock hanging in front of him. “Next up,  Inferno<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Reckless Summoning!”

Wise choice.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us commented. My Reverse Pentagram – Soul Curse activates, switching the attack and defense power of my Dark Grepher (1600/1700 -.> 1700/1600).<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The pentagram around him glowed and  Dark Grepher<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> raised his sword again. Next for myDark Grepher`s effect, I discard one Dark attribute monster from my hand to discard one Dark attribute monster from my deck to my hand.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ What is he planning?<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Justin wondered and he looked at Ne’us patiently waiting for him to make his move. “I am not sure what you are planning, but I am not planning on being defeated. Inferno<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Reckless Summoning allows me to summon two more Quart Knight-3 to my side of the field.” Two more similar knights appeared on his side of the field. “Next they all have appeared with five Time-Counters each.”

''Aha, of course your Time Counter strategy. I am sure you are going to play your Time Transcending Cannon face down soon.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Justin spread out his eyes and Ne’us eyes became two lines of red energy. I can read you like an open book, Justin, I have studied you, followed you all.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I set these two cards and I remove one Time-Counter from each of my Quart Knight-3, increasing their attack power by 200 (3x ATK: 300 -> 500). Next finally my spell card  D.D. Borderline<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">. As long as there are no spell cards in my graveyard, neither player can conduct their battle phase and I don’t plan on playing much spell cards, so that’s good for me.” Justin smirked as an invisible force field spread out over him.

Interesting, but how sure are you that will last long enough to withstand me?

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“At least I can try. I end my turn.”

Since it was the end of your turn, I can return one Dark attribute monster from my graveyard and add it to my hand.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us draws a new card. ''Next stop, my Dark Eruption spell card. I can add one monster with 1500 or less attack points from my graveyard to my hand. Next stop, Infinite Cards. Now I can have as many cards in my hand as I want.''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ He seems to be wanting a big source of support and monster cards.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Justin pondered his opponent`s strategy. ‘ The only thing he has been doing is sending monsters to his graveyard and add them back to his hand.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

''I summon forth Dark Crusader (1600/400) to the field. And now my Reverse Pentagram – Soul Curse activates, switching their attack and defense power (1700/1600 -> 1600/1700) (1600/400 -> 400/1600).''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us saw how his monsters became weaker and he smiled. ''Next my trap card Broken Seal, which means I can return all Level-4 or below monsters from my graveyard and add them back to my hand. Next I must shuffle back two cards from my hand into my deck.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The one card he had returned was one of the two cards he shuffled back into his deck.

''Next my Dark Grepher`s effect, I discard one Dark attribute monster from my hand and discard one Dark attribute monster from my deck to my graveyard. Next my Dark Crusader gains 400 attack points due to discarding one Dark attribute monster (ATK: 400 -> 800). Now I end my turn since I cannot conduct an attack anyway due to your D.D. Borderline.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us smirked and his pentagram glowed again. Now I return the card I just send to my graveyard to my hand.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ ''He has a search engine which is unbelievable. His Soul Curse spell card is powerful, I wonder what kind of other powers his deck harbors.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Justin draws his next card and looks at it. “I remove a Time-Counter from all three of my Quart Knight-3, increasing their powers (3x ATK: 500 -> 700).” The swords of the knights glowed and Ne’us laughed in the same high and cackling manner as the ghostly man.

My Reverse Pentagram activates, turning back the attack and defense scores (1600/1700 -> 1700/1600) (800/1600 -> 1600/800).<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us then pointed at his  Dark Grepher<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">. ''I discard a Dark attribute monster from my hand and discard one from my deck. This also increases my Dark Crusader (ATK: 1600 -> 2000).''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next stop my Quart Time continuous spell card, which allows me to take another Time-Counter from my Quart Knight`s (3x ATK: 700 -> 900) every turn.” As three more lights took off from the knights, Ne’us was eyeing the face down card of Justin. “So you have figured out what it is?”

Indeed I have.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Then you’ll understand why you’ll never win. I have the ultimate back-up when it would go wrong.” Justin looked at his face down card, then at Quart Time and  D.D. Borderline<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">. “I set this card face down and summon forth Time Glory Traveler (0/0).” The tinier Spellcaster appeared on the field. “Now I tune in my Time Glory Traveler with two of my Quart Knight-3! With age comes power, with age comes wisdom! Rise from the millennia, fury of time! Rise, Superancient Time Sage (2900/2200)!”

Aha, your ace Synchro monster.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us shakes his head and raised his hand again, the dark clouds of the Dead Zone around them surrounding Superancient Time Sage. ''His future….. his future is not that bright.''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The ancient Spellcaster raised its golden staff and the remaining lights from the remaining Quart Knight-3 disappeared from its clock. “Superancient Time Sage can absorb the Time-Counters remaining on the field and acquire 300 attack and defense points for each of them (ATK/DEF: 2900/2200 -> 3500/2800). Now I end my turn.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us – 4000 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 4000

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“They have begun.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The younger man with the eye patch arrived in the chamber where they previously were. He had his eyes fixated on the bigger man with the infinity patch on the forehead, who was quietly sitting on the silver throne.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Has he begun?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes, he has begun with his first victim.” The younger lad pointed down to the globe hovering in the middle of the room. “Not long before he will vanquish the others as well. He has corrupted them.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No, he is doing exactly as has been predicted.” The older man looked into the globe as well, spreading his robes a little, revealing an silver-golden armor with long lines eventually coming together as infinity symbols. “The treats are moving in the web of destiny as they are supposed to. There is no need for us to intervene.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“When will there ever be a need for us to intervene?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Our predecessors failed when it came to changing the future in the way they wanted to change it, they failed where others did not fail. If the web of destiny unfolds as I expect it to unfold, there is no need for us to worry about the faith of the pieces in the web.” The man stepped away from the throne and down to equal level to the younger man.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And when we do have to worry?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“We will call together the others and move in to change the web ourselves. The Core`s are only pieces of the puzzle, like the Egyptian Gods were, the Sacred Beasts were and the Crimson Dragon and his servants still are.” The man then looked to the younger man and nodded. “You have to get back. You cannot stay in this way for a long time while your physical body is in the state it is now.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes, of course.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The younger man became surrounded by orange energy and disappeared in a flash. The older man disappeared through a side door.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">--

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake, Gillian, Ken, Lance and Grace walked through the city and Gillian and Grace were shopping a little, dragging the boys around the shops, making them carry the bags. Lance was continuously also reading in magazines and talking through the phone.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I can’t believe Gakyru would actually go that far to take over our friends to try and find his goals and try and get us out of the way.” Blake pondered while Ken was around him. They came around a card shop. “Hey look, it seems Beasher and Phillips is still open. Remember Ken? We used to come here and duel all the time.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Oh great times, great times indeed.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Let’s go inside,” Gillian spoke to her friends and she opened the front door. “We might see new and good duelists inside. Or find clues to whom have been controlled as well.” Blake raises his shoulders and drops them as well. They then enter the shop, seeing it being busy.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Hey Blake,” the man behind the counter greeted. “Never thought you would come around here again.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Well, it is always good to catch upon some old times, Ramon,” Blake answered with a smile and he went over to the counter, shaking the man`s hand. “We are here just for fun, not to duel. Now did you get some new packs?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yeah, Generation Ten packs, might have some new released Blackthunder cards if you are interested. I know some of the old Generation Nine packs have Black Feathers, but I suppose you are not really interested in these anymore….” Ramon informed Blake and Blake shakes his head in confirmation.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Indeed, since I lost Black Feather – Raging Gale Condor, I am no longer interested in Black Feathers, I know someone though who is,” Blake smirked and he walked over to some shelves where a couple of kids were and some older boys, around Blake`s age. He picked a G-10 pack from the shelve, G-10 standing for Generation Ten, and tore it open, while he listened in on the conversation an older boy had with some of his friends.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Great, I got a Magmacore Boulder, I have no use for that card,” the boy spoke to one of his friends. He had black hair, a pair of brown boots and blue jeans. He also was wearing a grey shirt with a picture of a flaming bird on it. “Really no use in my deck.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Oh here, Leon, I’ll trade it with you for this card, I remember you only had one in your deck,  Blast with Chain<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">.” Another kid handed the boy, apparently Leon, the card and Leon handed over the fire attribute monster he had gotten from his pack. “Great, another Magmacore Boulder, I don’t mind.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“So what exactly happened this afternoon, Leon?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Well. I and my girl Sari were sitting in the park when all of a sudden we were confronted by another friend of mine, Danny, who challenged me out of nothing. His  Demise, King of Armageddon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> proved to be a real match for me.” Leon explained and he tapped his deck box, which was marked with a flame symbol. “I had beaten him in the end, but the strangest thing was he did not remember dueling me afterwards. He did claim to serve some master Gakyru.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ He met one too….<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Blake realized and looked at the cards he had pulled. ‘ ''Great two new Black Feather cards and just one new Blackthunder card. Let’s try another pack. G-10 now.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“There also seems to come a celebrity duelist to the city tomorrow. Remember this Callen guy? He is supposed to be really good, uses some kind of Mindgame deck, horribly to fight,” the guy who traded Magmacore Boulder with Leon informed Leon. “Maybe you get a shot against him.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I don’t think so,” Leon shakes his head. “He only duels top ranked duelists or low rated duelists when he is in a tournament.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I did hear he wanted to duel Blake Connolly sometimes,” the trader guy continued. “You know Blake Connolly who was involved in the fight in the Aurora Stadium?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Of course, I know him. It was all over the news.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Hey…” Blake intervened in the conversation and they were surprised to see him there. “I am standing here you know?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Every kid quickly turned away, except for Leon who eyed Blake with interest and then extended his hand for a friendly shake.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Hey, I am…..”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Leon, I know. I heard you talking with your friends.” Blake shakes Leon`s hand with a broad smile. “So I heard you were challenged by a good friend for no real apparent reason?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yeah.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And after that, your friend did not remember anything?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No, he did not indeed.” Leon pointed to the guy not far from the to the trader guy. “It is him. I noticed a cross-shaped mark behind his ear when the duel started. I am not sure what kind of mark that is, but after the duel the mark disappeared.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yeah well, be on your guard anyway.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake went back to his friends and Leon back to his friends and when he turned around, there was a short flash of a cross-shaped mark behind his left ear. Leon smirked and joined Danny and the trader guy.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">---

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us – 4000 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 4000

My turn again.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us shifts off a new card from his deck placing it next to the other cards. Spell card activate, Reverse Pentagram – Forbidden Gate.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> As the spell card activate the gate glowed with golden energy.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I suppose your first Reverse Pentagram spell card activates?” Justin wondered and he looked at the Soul Curse spell card that glowed. “You know the Soul Curse card that switches attack and defense points.”

I did not forget about Soul Curse.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The attack and defense power of his monsters switched again (1700/1600 -> 1600/1700) (2000/800 -> 800/2000). ''My new Forbidden Gate spell card turns around all monsters, spells and traps on your field designated positions after having left the field. Monsters are send back to the deck, spells are removed from play and traps are returned to your hand.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ Great, that makes it more difficult for me to find my older monsters and need to keep in check my spell and trap cards.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Justin was not happy with it at all. ‘ Oh well, then I will just need to do with what I have got.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

Last spell card, Reverse Pentagram – Shadow Nexus.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> A dark red turned around pentagram appeared at his side of the field. ''Now when a Dark attribute monster is returned from my graveyard to my hand, I can draw one card. When that card drawn is a Nexus spell card or a Forbidden One monster card, I can draw one more.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The deck of Ne’us glowed.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ ''Forbidden One? Wait, does he control a …..?''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Justin looked at Ne’us. “You are planning on summoning Exodia?”

''About time you figured it out. It is time to unleash my power on your D.D. Borderline. Mystic Space Typhoon activate.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The powerful winds blew away  D.D. Borderline<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">. ''And it is removed from play due to Forbidden Gate. My Dark Grepher`s effect, by sending 1 Dark attribute monster from my hand to the graveyard, I can discard 1 Dark attribute monster from my deck to my graveyard.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us shifted through his deck, found the card and slid it into his graveyard slot.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“After which you’ll use your Soul Curse spell card to return one of them,” Justin realized and punched himself. “Of course, how could I be so stupid?”

''You cannot comprehend the power of my deck, no-one can. Indeed as you tells Soul Curse returns one Dark attribute monster from my graveyard to my hand, after which Shadow Nexus activates and allows me to draw one card.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us draws a new card and smirked, shortly flashing it to be a monster card with Forbidden One on it. Now I hold three pieces of the puzzle.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And you probably have two of them somewhere stashed in your deck.”

''I never said that. I end my turn. Your turn, mortal.''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My turn then,” Justin draws a new card. “I tribute my Quart Knight-3 to summon forth Quart Knight-6 (600/600).” As the smallest knight disappeared, a bigger knight appeared with the clock around his neck and raising his sword, he made his intentions clear.

Activate trap card, Dark Spirit Art – Greed.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us flipped up his face down card, revealing a dark glow around the battle field. ''I release my Dark Crusader to draw two cards. You can negate this card by discarding one spell card. And my Soul Curse activates. (800/2000 -> 2000/800) (1600/1700 -> 1700/1600)''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You can have your free two cards.” Justin grunted and he picks a card from his hand. “Now my Quart Knight-6 comes into play with 5 Time-Counters as well, of which I remove one to increase my Knight-6`s attack power by 300 (ATK: 600 -> 900). Next I set this card.” Justin`s new card appeared face down on the field, next to the face down card he had on the field since the beginning of his first turn. “Now by Quart Time`s effect I remove another Time-counter from Quart Knight-6 (ATK: 900 -> 1200).”

And if I am right, your Time Transcending Cannon has gained another two counters.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us figured out and Justin was not reacting on Ne’us comment. ''I know your deck, Justin. I know your tactic. I have seen you duel before.''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Activate spell card Quart Overboost. Once per turn a Quart Knight can attack directly. Rolling a dice however decides how much damage is dealt.” Justin pointed to Quart Knight-6. “Go Quart Knight-6, attack him directly! Quart Overboost, roll die!” Two virtual die were rolled and rolled a 2. “That means 1000 points of damage are dealt to you as damage!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us – 4000 -> 3000

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next stop, Superancient Time Sage, attack his  Dark Grepher<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">! Time Magic! Transcending Fire!” The dark warrior was blown up and Ne’us lifepoints took a drop for the worse. “Now I end my turn.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us – 3000 -> 1800

''It is my turn then. Since my Forbidden Gate spell card did not activate Last Turn, I simply go ahead with my Soul Curse again, switching around the scores of my monsters if I had them. As I do not have them, activate new spell card Dark World Dealings. We each draw one card and then we discard a card.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us slid a card into his graveyard after which it glowed. A golden monster with a scythe returned to the field.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“A Dark World monster….”

Yes, Goldd, Wu-Lord of Dark World (2300/1400).<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The massive monster raised his axe to far heights. ''Goldd, show this mortal what no mercy means! Goldd Scyther!''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The golden monster strode forward hitting Justin`s Quart Knight-6.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 4000 -> 2900

I remove a Destiny Hero – Malicious from my graveyard in order to Special Summon one from my deck.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The fiend appeared in a flash before Ne’us pocketed it. I tribute my Goldd and my Malicious to Special Summon Greed Quasar (?/?)!<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The beige skeleton fiend appeared on his side of the field.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“That thing is ugly.”

Greed Quasar`s attack and defense power is equal to its level times 300 (?/? -> 2100/2100), plus it gains level equal to the level of the monster it destroys.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us smirked as the skeleton monster was on his field. Now I end my turn.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ ''His deck seems to be based around both speeding up the bringing of Exodia and Beatdown somehow. Though he has not shown to be rather skillful on Beatdown.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Justin draws a new card. “It is my turn then.”

As I am sure you are going to attack my Greed Quasar with your Superancient Time Sage, I have taken precautions to counter that.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us shortly raised and lowered his duel disk in an instant. But I have taken enough precautions already to win the duel in the next turn or the turn afterwards.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“We’ll see. First let us see if you can survive the attack of my Superancient Time Sage! Time Magic! Transcending Fire!” Justin commanded as the ancient sage fired a bolt of fire at the skeleton fiend, destroying it and leaving a part fried land behind.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us – 3000 -> 2200

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now I first remove two Time-Counters from my Quart Knight-6 (ATK: 1200 -> 1800). Now activate Quart Overboost`s effect. My Quart Knight can attack you directly!” Justin ordered as the bigger knight raised its sword and attacked.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us – 2200 -> 400

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And now it is time for my face down card I had face down all the time! Activate Time Transcending Cannon!” The card flipped up and revealed a blue metal cannon with a ticking clock on top of it. “During the turn it had acquired 16 Time-Counters and now by sending it to the graveyard, I can deal you 1600 points of damage! This duel is over!”

Activate spell card Spell of Pain.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“What?!”

Spell of Pain allows me to inflict the Effect Damage intended for me to you.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I know what it does! But how? My plan was perfect!”

Apparently not perfect enough.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 2900 -> 1300

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Oh well then,” Justin groaned and he looked at his hand, which was two cards strong. “I’ll set these two cards and end my turn.”

It is my turn then again.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us shifted off a new card from his deck and looked at. ''Activate Heavy Storm. I destroy all spell and trap cards on the field.''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Why would he destroy his own spell cards?”

Activate spell card Dark Factory of Mass Production.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The spell card flipped up in front of Ne’us. This simple spell card allows me to add 2 Normal Monster cards from my graveyard to my hand.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“The Forbidden One pieces…..” Justin braced himself for the upcoming attack of the legendary fiend. ‘ Oh man, I am done for.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

Unfortunately for you I only had one Forbidden One piece in my graveyard.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> He showed Justin the monster card,  Left Leg of the Forbidden One<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> and he placed it on the right of four other cards. [i] Ne’us picked the far right card from his big hand. I set this card face down and end my turn.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“That easy, eh?” Justin picks a new card up and looks at it. ‘ ''This won’t work, unless I attack him successfully now. I need something new, I need a winner and I need it now.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ He picks up his card he had drawn.

''I sense your fear, mortal. I sense your doubt.''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Well my doubt and fears are not the thing you have to worry about.”

''What then? Your Superancient Time Sage? Your Quart Knight-6?''

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“For starters.”

I don’t think so.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“We’ll see.” Justin trusted his arm forward as the Quart Knight-6 launched itself into the air and. “Hour Six Slash!” The six was shown to be fired from the sword, but plunged into a shield created by the face down card.

A very simple and common solution used by the mortal men.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The smoke revealed the infamous stopping trap card. Negate Attack.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I end my turn.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us – 400 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 1300

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Professor.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Troy came walking inside the wooden room and the Professor was standing in front of an altar with two lit fires. The Professor was reading in a thick brown leather bound book. As Troy looked over the Professor`s shoulder, his eyes widened.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Is it not rude to look over someone`s shoulder?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I am sorry, Professor, but that book……” Troy saw the many ancient symbols in it. “That book, I know it from somewhere.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I bought it from an auction.” The Professor smiled and his hand went inside his pocket, picking a watch from it. “You may have seen it in an auction house. How is your revenge hunting against Blake`s friends going?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Some things are disturbing me, or rather some people are disturbing me. It seems I am unable to locate them as I used to be able to before.” Troy sat down on the steps next to the altar. “People that do not want me to find Blake and his friends.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I know.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You know and you haven’t told me?” Troy sounded disappointed. “You know what is happening? I have seen reports of people being randomly attacked by their own friends. Is that what is standing between them and me?” The Professor turned around and simply walked down to the exit. “That’s it? You just walk away?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I am returning to my lab,” the Professor slowly spoke and he flipped a card towards Troy. “They are coming and they are already here.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Who?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Those who are standing between you and him.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">---

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Rebecca and Paul were inside the lab in the city, studying photo`s and graphs of various sites and data. Paul was also putting in data in one of the laptops stalled out on the table. Rebecca took a sip from her tea as she took a looking glass and watched the pictures with carefull attention.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“These were taken on the island itself?” Rebecca asked Paul as she took a closer look at the photo’s. “These are amazingly accurate. The symbols on these rune stones, what are they?” She pointed down to one picture on which one big stone with loads of runes.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No real idea. However I do have something else I want to give to you. Something that has been given to me after I left, after I saw you for the last time.” Paul picked a box from behind a second desk. It had symbols on them and he pulled off the top, revealing a scroll. “I am not sure from where it came, but I can say for certain it has been in the water for a while.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Reias and Casseius?” Rebecca asked hopefully and Paul did not really answer. “Oh come on, we have both seen them, you even more than once. I envy you for that, I would have loved to learn more of them than we know now.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Apparently the colleague of mine assumed it just came to the island with fisher man boats, because he did not believe a supernatural power would be existing on the island. And we know more of course.” Paul turned around the scroll and observed it. It had multiple wheels that you could turn with various symbols on it. “I wonder what is inside the scroll. If it is this complicated built, it definitely has something to hide.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Have you already attempted on finding out?” Rebecca asked Paul and he smiled, putting a hand on her shoulder. “You waited for me?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“As we were both there when we met them again, I thought it was most fair if I waited on you. After all I knew you would come some day.” Paul picked his laptop from his table and put it next to the scroll. He showed a picture on the laptop of the scroll. “You recognize those symbols?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“These were on these tablets in the crater as well!” Rebecca realized and Paul nodded. “They have a lot to do with Eonis and the mystery only gets bigger and bigger. I wonder where we are going next with this thing.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Probably some day back to the island, as my friend Gaspar Yrudonko told me. Wise man he was.” Paul pointed to a different photograph near them, showing himself and a man with dark red hair. They were standing on rocky terrain. “Oh well let’s see what we can do with it.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">---

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us – 400 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 1300

I believe it is my turn then.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Black smoke surrounded his deck as Ne’us put his gloved two fingers on his deck and slowly shifts off the card. A pentagram starts to shimmer behind him as a distant roar was heard. Ne’us smiled.

It is time then.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ Has he drawn the final piece of Exodia?!<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Justin panicked and he looked frightened as the pentagram became very real. “You drew it……”

Yes I did.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us raised his arms into the air as dark clouds packed together above him and golden arms appeared from the blue pentagram. I call upon thee, Exodia the Forbidden One!

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The legendary beast appeared from the pentagram, forward onto the battle field, rising high above Justin, who was scared until the bone. The massive hands of the beast formed an orb of golden energy.

Exodia, obliterate!

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Exodia reached forward and fired the beam of golden light, destroying everything in its path.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us – 400 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 0 [LOSS BY EXODIA]

Now bow to your faith.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Never!”

It looks to me like you do not have much of a choice.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ne’us raised his hand as the Exodia was still over Justin and the gate behind them was glowing with dark energies. The white face man joined him, laughing wildly and nodded to Exodia.

Crush him.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Exodia bent down as Justin was to frozen to do anything at all. The fist plunged into the ground as Justin was unable to move and Ne’us and the white faced man simply were standing there. The fist of Exodia raised back into the air and Justin was no longer there. He was gone.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Doctor!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">A nurse came running into a hospital reception and a male doctor looked up as he looked at one of the main monitors and frowned his eyebrows. There was shown that one patient was flat lining.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Get the crash cart in there!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The nurse hurried away as the doctor rushed to a room, where four persons were lying in a row at the right side. He pulled the curtains around the first bed. At the left side of the room, Kaito and another blonde-haired man were lying, still in a coma. As the nurse came in with the crash cart, the doctor stopped her. He felt whether noticed a pulse, but he shook his head.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Time of death, 4:35 PM.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">As the curtains were pulled away again and the sheet of the bed was pulled over the head of the person lying in it, it was revealed to be Justin. The doctor wrote something on the card at the end of the bed and turned to the nurse and the other patients, including Kaito.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Inform the next of kin,” the doctor told the nurse. “This is the first of the in coma returned victims of the Aurora Remnant. What the hell is going on here?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The other three patients next to the just passed away Justin, were revealed to be Lynn, Jasmond and Tyson, the three masters of the Aurora Remnant.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">---

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The gate in front of Ne´us was fuming with black smoke as Ne´us hood still showed nothing of his face as Ne´us entered the portal of the gate. The ghostly white faced man followed him and the doors of the gate slowly start to close.

There is no living in the land of the death.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us contemplated as he raised his hand into the air and released a strain of black lightning into the air. There will be no living in the land of the living soon either.

What will be our next victim, master Ne’us?<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> The white faced man sounded rather anxious to move on. Will it anybody be of interest?

''I need to take care of three more people first before we move on to our intended target. They need to be out of the way before we move on.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Ne’us set a step over the border of the gate and he slowly began to disappear and the doors to close. Make sure they are entertained.

Yes my master.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">-

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Extract him and her.” Gakyru spoke to an unknown source at the other end of a mirror in his chambers. “Sever his deck from his most prized monsters and make sure that the opponent you send into the battle is an opponent that can actually take him on.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Behind him the Mouth of Ne’us was resting as a medallion. Gakyru felt uneasy around it as he felt like being watched while executing his own perfect plans. Gakyru turned to his own two deck boxes on a nearby table.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ ''Powerful energies I feel from the deck that has been given to me by him, more powerful then the powers existing in my own Silent Void deck. Soon I need them out of my way to begin my descent into the perfect world. Soon my dreams will be fulfilled and the Aurora Remnant will rise back to greatness and I will possess both the Silent Core and the Infinity Core.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Gakyru pondered in his own thoughts. ‘ ''But I will need to test my opponent`s strength. My greatest threat has reinforced himself with new friends which may in possibilities and powers be a greater threat to me than before. Luckily Rau is on his way to eliminate at least one side of the problem. My old friend.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“We’ll see you tomorrow, okay?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake and Gillian said goodbye to Ken, Yuni and Jason as they were standing next to their duel runners in an ally. Blake and Gillian watched as the others left on their duel runners home and Blake reached out into a hidden compartment in his duel runner and picked out a second helmet.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Allow me to give you a ride home, miss.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian gracefully took Blake`s hand and stepped on the back of the duel runner. Having started the engine, they drive off into the distance. Gillian all of a sudden shrieks as a little kitten runs in front of them and Blake barely manages not to hit the kitten.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Damn kitten,” Blake cursed but made sure he was able to convince himself the kitten was okay. When he stood up, he saw that Gillian`s face had turned white. “What?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Behind you….”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake turns around and the last thing he feels is something hard hitting him. The last thing he sees before everything turns black around him are three black clad man, grabbing Gillian, who was knocked down as well and Mr. O’Hare.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">To be continued……….

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">RANDOM INFINITY HUNTER TRIVIA:

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Although only mentioned, credit for Magmacore Boulder goes to Magmacore Soldier who allowed me use of the Magmacore archetype in case I was ever short of an archetype. Also this chapter featured a deck of which I will never use again anymore probably, aside from Justin`s Time Magic deck, since he basically died, we’ll never see him again, but also I am going to change Ne’us` deck drastically. Still based around Exodia and the Reverse Pentagrams, but no longer the flood of Dark attribute cards used. His deck will feature cards I have not used for a really long time.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Btw, the effect rulings of  Dark Crusader<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> and such are done wrong in the first couple of turns, I ignored them during the rest of the duel, but I did not want to rewrite them so I left it like this.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Also this turn featured the introduction to Leon, the only person in Infinity Hunter based on a real person and a good friend of mine, called Leon. He has been helping me a lot on Infinity Hunter.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Oh and Project EG is still running, so if you want to participate, please inform me.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">See you for Turn 24!