Chapter 8: Mysterious Savior! Core Guardian Tevez!

Chapter 8 “Mysterious Savior! Core Guardian Tevez!”

“This is Section One, all clear in this part of the tower,” a voice came through the main communications console. On the console a number of screens were standing. A single man sat in front of it.

“Good,” the man watching the screens returned into the microphone. “Section Two? How are things down there?”

“So far so good, sir.” The voice was a little muffled but still came through. “Everyone is gone here, everyone has gone home.”

“Good, finish your round and check out afterwards,” the man behind the screens ordered and he looked up, revealing himself to be Graem. “Section Three, how are you doing?” The first thing he heard was static. “Section Three?”

“I am sorry sir,” the voice of a man came through. “There seems to be a lot of interference in the air. Section Three is clear.”

“Alright,” Graem replied into the microphone. “Finish your round and prepare for the night  Shift to take over. I’ll be up the rest of the night. Has Mr. McFlinn left yet?”

“Last time we checked, he was still in his office,” the man from Section Three replied. “I’ll make sure to pass by.”

“Affirmative,” Graem added and he placed a hand over the mic and thought, looking at a layout of the building. “Interference, strange…”

“I’ll finish my round now.”

“Yes, do that,” Graem finished. He then placed the microphone away before retrieving it. “Sections One and Two, do you experience any interference on the com?”

“Negative.”

“No sir,” the man from Section Two replied.

“Evidently Section Three has interference,” Graem spoke to both in unison. “Do me a favor and include Section Three, and Mr. McFlinn’s office in your rounds.”

“Yes sir.”

<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;">Graem placed the microphone away again, before taking a bit from the pizza that was lying on a plate in front of him. As he turned his attention to a small television set next to the screens, Graem was unable to notice the screens fading to black from time to time, including some static.

<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;">“You two know each other?” Illian wondered as Dragen and Kamon had just noticed each other.

<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,” Dragen answered. “We go back way long.”

<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;">Kamon smirked as he shook Dragen’s 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;">“Long time no see indeed,” Kamon admitted and he looked at Dyllan and Illian. “I do remember you, Dyllan, but who are 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;">“He’s another friend of mine,” Dragen told Kamon and he clapped Illian on the back. “This is Illian. He goes to the same school as I do and you 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;">“Ah okay, I am sorry Illian.”

<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;">“Sorry? You should not be,” Illian sounded excited. “I know someone who knows the famous Kamon McFlinn!”

<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;">“Knows?” Dragen sarcastically remarked. “I taught 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;">“Can I have your autograph?” both Dyllan and Illian asked Kamon at the same time, ignoring Dragen.

<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 sure,” Kamon sighed before turning to Dragen. “So what did you want to talk to me about?”

<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;">“Can we get somewhere where it is not as cold as now?” Dyllan protested. “It is over midnight by 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;">“We could go back to my hotel, Sara is there as well,” Kamon offered and Dragen nodded. “Okay, lets go back there then. It is not far from 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;">“Good,” Dragen smirked and Dyllan and Illian helped him up. They moved away and Dragen whispered to Kamon. “I feel like we are being followed.”

<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;">“Don’t you always?”

<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;">Graem sat down comfortably in his chair when he noticed from the corner of his eye, how Sam was standing in front of the door of the security room. A camera was installed above the door and only a few had a key card with the proper security clearance to enter the room.

<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 still doing here?” Graem wondered as he tapped a few keys on the keyboard. Sam was one of the many who did not have a proper security clearance to enter this room. The camera zoomed in on the face of Sam. “Vitals look like 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;">Sam stood there and looked right into the camera, smiling as he waved to it. Now Graem and Sam were not the best of friends. Sam just stood there, watching the camera and evidently knew Graem was there watching him, due to his next action.

<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 you are in there, Graem.” Sam spoke with a normal voice and he eyed the camera. “Can you let me in? I have a few things to deal with and I need security feed from inside the towers to do 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;">Graem thought and reached below the table. He pushed a button, making a red flashing light below the table goes on. A communication and monitoring device was placed below the table and would record anything that happened here. Graem pulled out his own key card and walked over to the door, which had a card reader on the side. He swept his key card through the card reader and the red light went onto green and the door clicked open.

<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?” Graem answered and he invited Sam in.

<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 I said,” Sam spoke as the door closed and only muffled speech could be heard from behind the 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;">“This is where you have been staying tonight?” Illian asked Kamon while they entered the room Kamon and Sara stayed in after coming to Hisehade City.

<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, it is not much, but it’ll do before we get back to the mansion tomorrow,” Kamon explained to the others. He opened the fridge and pulled out three cans of soda and poured himself a glass of water. He handed them out to the others. “So Dragen, what did you want us to talk about?”

<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, strange things have been happening tonight. You may or may not have noticed 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;">“You won the regional tournament?” Kamon intervened and smirked. “Yeah that was strange.”

<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 was not what I meant and it happened this afternoon, and I am proud of it,” Dragen protested. “No, what I mean is that there was a power blackout this night and it seems that only our city block was hit by it, no sudden power failures. It happened to a few more places in the world.”

<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’s it?” Kamon was surprised. “You called me away from the apartment to tell me 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;">“Tell him about that man,” Illian whispered as he watched Kamon sitting on the couch.

<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 man?” Kamon wondered.

<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 man telling me to meet with you, or it may have decided the faith of the world in a good or bad way,” Dragen spoke quickly and suddenly. “It was like he was in some kind of trance and he did not remember anything of it 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;">“That may make sense of my dreams,” Kamon told Dragen and Dragen looked at him. “I had a dream, or rather a nightmare of a ruined Hisehade City.”

<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;">“Dude, it was probably a drunk man,” Dyllan tried to talk with the others. “Drunk people say all kind of things.”

<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;">“Maybe, maybe not,” Kamon decided and he looked at the door separating them from Sara, who seemed to be sleeping quietly. “You guys can stay here until the morning. Just don’t wake Sara up.”

<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;">“Sure,” the others nodded.

<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 go to my father tomorrow anyway and we’ll ask whether he heard something.”

<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 door to the security room opened and Sam stepped out holding a few tapes and disc’s. He looked up to the camera mounted on the wall, which usually had a red light on it, but now there was no red light. Sam smirked as he walked back over the hallway and towards the end of the corridor, leading to the elevators. He took out a cellphone and dialed a number, waiting for someone to pick up on the other end of the line.

<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 done?<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 voice at the other side of the line sounded raw and high-pitched.

<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,” Sam replied and he looked at the door. “All feed of us ever being here has been erased. It is taken care of.”

<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;">“ ''Clear up all loose ends, then let the host go free. We have no use for him anymore. They are nearly ready to begin the recreation.''<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 voice was waiting for a reply as he did not close the line. “ Do you have any doubts?<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;">“No, my master. What if they find out and they come after us? After all, the prophecy…”

<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 prophecy is only a prophecy and if they come after us, they will enter a harsh reality in which the laws of the Human Realm do not exist,<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 voice on the other side sounded calm and collected, but on the other hand also harsh and commanding. “ You have the three sacrifices, prepare them for entering.<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;">“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;">The line went dead and Sam placed his cell phone in his pocket, pressing the down button in the elevator. As he exited the corridor with the elevator going down, the door to the communications room opened quickly and in a flash a cloaked and masked man left it, shutting down the lights and the 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;">? - 2300 <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;">Security Guard - 400 -> 0

<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;">“Aaaaaaaaaah!”

<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 security guard grabbed his chest as a mysterious black figure was standing over him holding out a  Vorse Raider<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;"> card. The security guard was surrounded by black energy as he slowly faded away into nothingness instead creating a column of black energy from which a person looking exactly the same like the security guard stepped. The other man who was unknown by the shadows was revealed to be a security guard as well.

<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;">“Welcome to the Shadow World…”

<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 that moment a few of the security guards were knocked over when a masked and robed man entered the corridor. He had a black-white mask on his face, covering it and bright blue eyes.

<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 are servants of the Shadow World,” the security guard spoke slowly but calm and the man looked at him. “We serve the Shadow World and its 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;">“Your foul master will never again set foot here,” the man spoke and he looked at the security guards, each equipped with a duel disk. “Not as long as the prophecy stands.”

<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 Shadow World takes no care of the prophecy made by the Sacreds,” the front security guard spoke. “Our master has no time for such trivialities as the prophecy, the prophecy is one to be broken.”

<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 may or may not be,” the man continued, his eyes both fixated on the security guards, his right hand going below his cloak equipping himself with a dark grey duel disk of his own with black gems on it. “As long as I, Mysterio, am around the prophecy will stand and your master will not set foot 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;">“Then you, Mysterio, are to be eliminated from this world,” the security guard ordered and his eyes turned into a total black shade. “We will take you there personally.”

<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;">“Personally I feel more like hanging out here,” Mysterio activated his own duel disk, inserting his deck into it. “But very well, if it is a fight you want, a fight you will get.”

<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 Shadow World awaits.”

<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 us duel and then see about your Shadow World.”

<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;">Mysterio - 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;">Security Guard 1 - 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;">Security Guard 2 - 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;">Security Guard 3 - 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;">“Draw card,” Mysterio shifted of a card from his deck. He smirked. “Activate Guardian Treasure. This card forces me to put all my cards in the graveyard, but allows me to draw two cards from my deck to my hand every turn. End 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;">The first security guard picked up a card from his deck. “Draw card. Summon  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;"> (1600/200).” A dark armored knight appeared on his side of the field with the skull head. He held a big buster sword.

<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 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;"> eh?”

<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 effect. By the name of the Shadow World, I offer to you one card from my hand.” From his hand he placed a card into his duel disk’s graveyard slot. “Next Monster Effect activates,  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;"> gains 400 points (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;">“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;">“Second monster effect,  Sillva, Warlord of Dark World<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;"> (2300/1400) summon! Appear from your layer in the Dark World!” the security guard chanted as the fiend appeared on the field. It was a silver-black armored fiend. “Now I set two cards 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;">“Draw card,” the second security guard shifted off the card from his deck. “I activate  Card Destruction<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 we all can send our hand cards to the graveyard in order to draw a new hand of the same size.” He shifted off new cards from his deck, while his current hand was send to the 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;">“Now our monster effects activate,” the second and third security guard chanted in unison. “Summon forth  Sillva, Warlord of Dark World<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;"> (2300/1400)!” Two more Dark World monsters appeared on their 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;">“Interesting choice of tactic,” Mysterio agreed and at that moment his graveyard glowed for a short minute. ‘ Almost…<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;">“ Dark World Dealings<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,” the second security guard followed up on the mass summoning. “I now allow each player to draw one card, but we must also discard one card. Summon  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;"> (1600/200)!” A similar armored warrior appeared on his field. Each player drew one card and discarded one card, in Mysterio’s case leading up to losing the card he drew.

<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;">“Special Summon  Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World<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;"> (1600/1300)!” the second security guard chanted as a thin armored fiend appeared on his side of the 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;">“Draw card,” the third security guard started and he looked at his hand. “I activate the spell card Extra Gate. Now I select a number between one and twelve and if you happen to have a monster in the Fusion Deck with that level, you must remove it. I select eight.”

<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 happen to have none,” Mysterio admitted.

<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 do not either,” the first and second security guard confirmed.

<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;">“Extra Gate forces me to discard one card then from my hand to the graveyard,” the third security guard ordered and he took out one monster card from his hand and placed it in the graveyard. “Now summon forth  Reign-Beaux, Overlord of Dark World<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;">(2500/1800)!” The large 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;">“Now to finalize this round and our ascension into the Shadow World, I play Dark World Corridor, which allows me to add one Dark World monster from my deck to my hand and discard one more card from my hand to my graveyard. I end my turn with a face down card,” the third security guard concluded the first round.

<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,” Mysterio revealed and he picked up two cards from his deck. “Due to Guardian Treasure I can draw one additional card from my deck. Next since more then one turn has passed since I sent it to the graveyard, I can activate the spell card Core Shadow. It lasted three turns in the 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;">“You discarded it with Guardian Treasure.”

<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 discarded it with Guardian Treasure. Since it lasted three turns in the graveyard your so-called Shadow World dominion will get a taste of my Core Guardians! Summon forth Core Guardian - Besque (800/600). Now since I summoned a Core Guardian with less then 1000 points I can summon forth a copy of the card equal to the number of turns Core Shadow lasted in the 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;">Three armored warriors appeared on Mysterio’s side of the field. They each held a buster sword and a shield.

<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;">“Since Core Guardian - Besque was summoned by Core Shadow, I deal 500 points of damage to you all for each turn Core Shadow was in the graveyard!” Mysterio smirked as each of the warriors increased their power gems in the middle of their armor by white 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;">Security Guard 1 - 4000 -> 2500 <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;">Security Guard 2 - 4000 -> 2500 <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;">Security Guard 3 - 4000 -> 2500

<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 since Core Shadow activated, I can activate this spell card Core Expansion. By tributing all my Core Guardian monsters I can destroy all monsters on the field!” Mysterio smirked as a magma filled core appeared on the field and then spilled all over the field, taking away the Dark World and  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;"> monsters.

<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;">“Ohoh…”

<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 my Core Guardian - Moonque (1400/200)!” Mysterio placed the one card he held in his hand. “I have yet to enter my Battle Phase. Attack him directly!” Mysterio’s attack was pointed at the first Security Guard.

<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;">Security Guard - 2500 -> 1100

<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 Moonque’s effect. When it successfully attacked directly, I can add one spell card from my deck to my hand,” Mysterio placed one card he had sifted out of his deck into his hand. “Then since I am still in my Battle Phase, I can remove one Core Guardian monster from my graveyard from play and allow Moonque to attack again! Attack him directly!”

<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;">Security Guard 1 - 1100 -> 0

<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,” Mysterio lowered his duel disk, his blue eyes gazing over the other two Security Guards. “Now I set the card I gained from Moonque and 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;">Mysterio - 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;">Security Guard 1 - 0 <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;">Security Guard 2 - 2500 <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;">Security Guard 3 - 2500

<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;">“Sara.”

<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;">Kamon sat down on her bed while the others were sitting in front of the TV or sleeping on one of the couches. He looked at her, he did not know she was a vast sleeper; she might have picked up the habit on the boat back to Hisehade City. As he tried to decide what to do, the head of the girl slowly turned to him. He saw her duel disk in the corner of the room, but her deck was in the deck case on her belt.

<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;">“Kamon?” Sara asked Kamon and he looked at her. “What is 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;">“You did not realize I have been gone for at least an hour?” Kamon wondered and she shook her head. “Wow, you really have changed a bit, you never sleep that deep.”

<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;">“Guess I was tired,” Sara sat right up as Kamon nodded and she looked around. “What time is 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;">“Nearly three in the morning,” Kamon spoke and he pointed at the alarm clock standing at the nightstand of Sara’s bed. “I just wanted to check out whether you were 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;">“As you can see,” Sara smiled and Kamon looked her in the eyes. “I am fine. Come on, Kamon, let me get back to sleep, I am pretty tired.”

<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,” Kamon smirked and Sara turned around again and Kamon took one more look at her, frowning for a second and then left the room. He shook his head as he entered the living part of the appartment.

<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;">“Everything okay with Sara?” Dragen asked Kamon and Kamon looked at him for a second.

<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,” Kamon sighed and he sat down in the vacant seat. “Yeah she is fine, just tired I suppose.”

<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 don’t sound to convinced,” Dyllan fed the discussion. “Did something happen during the journey back?”

<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, except for the duel against this Lean fellow, which was a hard one,” Kamon placed both his hands on the seat supports. “I need to get some fresh air.”

<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;">“Okay,” Dragen agreed. “So where do you wish to 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;">“The roof,” Kamon picked his coat. “It gives me some rest.”

<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;">“Okay, see you later.”

<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;">Kamon picked his duel disk with him, as if he expected to drop into a duel. He opened the door and walked outside. As the door closed, Illian looked at Dragen and Dyllan and looked with a questioning look.

<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 likes to look at the stars,” Dragen tried to take down the negativity.

<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;">Mysterio - 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;">Security Guard 1 - 0 <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;">Security Guard 2 - 2500 <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;">Security Guard 3 - 2500

<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;">“Draw card,” the second security guard declared and he swept of the next card. “I return my  Sillva, Warlord of Dark World<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;"> back to my hand to Special Summon Grapha, Dragon Lord of Dark World (2700/1800)!” A huge dragon appeared on his side of the field. Its menacing look and stature destroyed the surroundings and turned over all cards in darkness.

<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;">“ Card Destruction<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;">“That’s right!” the second security guard admitted. “When I activated  Card Destruction<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;"> this card was in my hand and now by having returned Sillva, I could activate Grapha’s special ability.”

<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 did you not use any of its other abilities?”

<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;">“Thought of that,” the second security guard tapped a button on his duel disk. “Trap card, Trigger Happy. Now I can trigger its effect even if it has not been properly summoned. I can target one card on your field and destroy it! Begone Core Guardian - Moonque!”

<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;">“Actually,” Mysterio smirked as he dropped in a card he set the previous turn. “Since Moonque had added this card from my deck to my hand because of it’s direct attack, I activate it now. Destruct Ghoul!”

<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 does it do?”

<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 a Core Guardian monster is destroyed I can Special Summon two Core Defender Tokens (2x 1000/0) to my side of the field!” Mysterio smirked and he looked at the large dragon. “Come get 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;">“Grapha attack his Core Defender Token!”

<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, a Core Defender Token cannot be selected as an Attack Target until my next turn,” Mysterio smirked. “And you did declare an attack against my Core Defender Token.”

<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;">“My turn,” the third security guard opened his move and swept of a card from his black duel disk. “Summon forth Witch’s Apprentice (550/500). Now all Dark Attribute monsters gain 500 attack points.” All of his Dark World gained more power.

<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;">“Good move,” the second security guard admitted as his Grapha grew stronger as well (ATK: 2700 -> 3200).

<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 I attack your Core Guardian - Moonque with my Reign-Beaux! Rainbow Crasher Fist!” the third security guard ordered as the large demonic monster raised his fist and hit the Core Guardian 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;">“I remove  Necro Gardna<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;"> from my graveyard from play to negate the destruction and the attack,” Mysterio removed a card from his graveyard from play, flashing it shortly and the spirit of the fiendish protectors shortly appeared.

<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 with a face down card,” the third security guard concluded his turn and another reverse card appeared on his 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;">“My turn!” Mysterio shove of the next card from his deck. “Now I tribute all three my monsters to Special Summon my Core Guardian Tevez (2500/2000)!” A larger silver-golden armored warrior appeared. He had a single crest on his chest and a similar smaller crest on 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;">Security Guard 3 - 2500 -> 1500

<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?!”

<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 I use both my Core Defender Tokens, you lose 500 points of damage for every Token used for Tribute Summoning,” Mysterio revealed. He smirked as he flipped in another card from his hand to his duel disk. “Next Effect Dealer activates. By paying half of my life points…”

<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;">Mysterio - 4000 -> 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;">“… I can remove one monster from play, which in this case is Core Guardian Moonque.”

<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 ****…”

<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 my Core Guardian Tevez gains the effect of the removed monster until the end of the turn!” Mysterio smirked and he looked at the security guard. “Next Core Guardian Tevez’s effect activates, it gains 500 attack points for every monster on your side of the field which is three (ATK: 2500 -> 4000). Now Core Guardian Tevez, destroy his Witch’s Apprentice!”

<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 silver-golden armored warrior took down the apprentice witch and the third security guard dropped on his knees. He slowly disappeared into black smoke.

<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;">Security Guard 3 - 1500 -> 0

<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 not done though, since Tevez attacked succesfully I can add one spell card from my deck to my hand.” He selected another card from his deck and added it to his deck. “Now by activating Moonque’s acquired ability, by removing another Besque from play, it can attack an additional 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;">“That won’t be a problem!” the second security guard smirked. “I still have life points!”

<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;">“Not really…” Mysterio revealed the added card and inserted it into his duel disk. “Pump Up! This card doubles the attack power of my monster! Now begone fowl entity and release the original host!”

<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 same warrior who now had 8,000 attack points took down Grapha. Mysterio watched as the duel disks deactivated.

<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!”

<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;">Security Guard 2 - 2500 -> 0

<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 security guard was surrounded by black energy and disappeared as well. Mysterio was standing alone in the chamber as he moved towards the door, but did not open it yet. He pulled out an orb through which mystical energies were floating.

<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’s me,” Mysterio spoke into the orb as two barely visible figures appeared in it. “We have a big problem.”

<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;">“ ''Go see if everything is okay, then return to him. He must be protected,''<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 female voice came from the orb. “ ''It has happened earlier then I expected. Secure the area first then head over to 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;">“Okay,” Mysterio nodded and he put away the orb, opening the door finding the nearly extinct hallway. He moved on, noticing the shadows on the wall, who had no real defined owner except his own.

<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 was a single door at the end and Mysterio opened it, revealing a large office. He looked inside, but apparently no one was there. As he entered it further, the door closed with a bang. Only silence was heard 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;">

<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;">“Move it maggots!”

<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;">Lean woke up in the cage like structure he was in. He looked up as he saw a group of people marching past. They were guarded by a group of near-humans. That is when Lean started to realize he might be somewhere else then the Earth.

<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!” Lean tried, but no one answered. “Where am I?”

<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 one listened, no one answered. As he continued to scout the surroundings he saw a large temple nearby and a couple of knights in dark grey armor appeared. As he looked more closer, their heads were boars.

<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;">“ Boar Soldier<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;">?” Lean was wondering as he recognized them from the cardgame.

<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 are not in Kansas 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;">Lean turned around, hearing a voice. It was a young man sitting in the corner. He had black hair, but it was dirty. His clothes were shabby as well.

<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;">“This, where we are, you are no longer where you came from,” the young man continued and he raised his head. “They took you too, eh?”

<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, some guy battled me on top of a hotel,” Lean explained to the young man. “How did you get 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;">“Same way you got here,” the young man stood up and he came to stand next to Lean. “I lived in Hisehade City, but roughly two years ago I was encountered by a group of duelists speaking about something called the Shadow World. They forced me into a duel… I lost.”

<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 see that,” Lean realized something. “So wait, you have been here for two years?”

<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 feels that way,” the young man nodded towards the temple. “That temple over there is where she held me first. Duel Monster Spirits, is what she collects. Her army is one full of Duel Spirits.”

<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 do they do 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;">“I do not know exactly,” the young man spoke and he saw how the big doors at the front opened. “But you can be sure you are about to be introduced to her.”

<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;">Kamon opened the door to the roof and he smirked as he saw the starry sky above him. He stretched his arms as he looked around. Nothing on the roof indicated, two duels had taken place here. He sat down on a vent shaft and looked over the city, the city where he had lived most of his life, where he met Sara and his other 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;">As he sat there, his eyes scouted the roof. His stomach gave him something to think about, it was grumbling. He required food, but Kamon thought there was something else going on, he could not shake of the weird feeling that something was wrong. It could not go away from his head, but he knew deep down something was wrong. The city might be sleeping, but after what had happened with Dragen and the others, it only strengthened his feelings.

<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 a stomach ache,” Kamon sighed and he looked around noticing something blinking on the far side of the roof. “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;">He walked over to it, realizing it was a duel disk.

<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 something happen here? Did a duel take place?”

<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 turned around the duel disk. It was a McFlinn Corp Duel Disk. He smirked, as it seems that they were still selling well. He then noticed something peculiar. He saw the initials “S.S.” and he squinched his eyes. There was only one duel disk with those initials.

<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;">“Sara…”

<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 then realized how the scene in the hotel appartment was weird. Sara was sleeping but something was off, something was really really wrong. And then he tied it together with what happened for the rest.

<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 have to get back…”

<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;">“Get up you maggots!”

<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 cage was rambling as a troll like creature stood before the cage. Lean opened his eyes as he saw what happened. The young man next to him was up first, bowing his head and placing his arms through the cage bars. The troll like creature placed a pair of cuffs around his arms and then opened the cage 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;">“Hey!”

<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 troll, who now turned out to be a  Giant Orc<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;">, dragged up Lean. As Lean looked around him, the cage slowly disappeared into the sand. Lean was placed into cuffs as well and taken away by a few Battle Footballers.

<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, what 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;">“Shut up maggot!” one of the four Battle Footballers snapped as he dragged Lean and the young man away from the place where the cage was.

<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 are we going?” Lean asked the young 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;">“You are going to meet her…”

<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;">Kamon burst into the room, but he was slammed back against the corridor’s wall as  Dark 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;"> expanded around the room. He was stunned to see that Illian was lying on the ground, while Dyllan and Dragen were locked into a duel with surprisingly Sara.

<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;">“Sara!”

<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;">“Kamon! Stand back!” Dragen warned his best friend. “Don’t come any closer! That is not Sara!”

<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;">Kamon looked at Sara, seeing how she was surrounded by  Dark 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;"> and her eyes were taken over by a red glow. Her hair was spreading wildly around her head and body as her duel disk and body was enveloped by red and black energies.

<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;">“Attack,” Sara commanded as a dark creature shot forward and hit  B.E.S. Crystal 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;">, which was a miniature version of the real deal. The creature (2500/1000) destroyed the Crystal Core and Dyllan dropped on the ground, unconscious.

<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;">Dyllan - 400 -> 0

<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;">Kamon looked at Dyllan and Illian who both now were unmoving on the ground. Sara smirked as she saw Kamon approaches cautiously, however her grin changed into a dark sneer, blowing back Kamon again with a surge of  Dark 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;">. This allowed Dragen to get up again, and hit Sara right on in the stomach, knocking her on the ground. The dark energies and wind disappeared and Kamon was able to safely enter the room, after which he rushed to the aid of Dragen.

<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;">“Tell me!” Kamon ordered. “Where are they? Where is Sara? What 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;">“Haha,” Sara smirked as she transformed into dark energie and blew Kamon and Dragen against the ceiling. As they were pinned down there, a portal appeared in the appartment and the dark smoke dragged Illian and Dyllan in it. Then the smoke came together and transformed into Assassino.

<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 are you?” Kamon asked 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;">“My name is of none importance yet,” Assassino spoke slowly. “But you are. If you want to see them again, you must travel to where we are.”

<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 are 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;">“A dimension beyond your reach now, not the Shadow World, but away from this mortal realm,” Assassino spoke slowly and he held out his hand. Two sets of cards floated from Kamon and Dragen’s deck. “To make sure you will come…”

<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 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;">“Come to where we are,” Assassino spoke again this time calm and collected. “And everything will become clear.”

<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;">Assassino disappeared into black smoke again and into the portal. Kamon and Dragen were no longer pinned down on the ceiling and the portal was still open. Kamon tried to make a run for it, but as he came closer, the portal closed.

<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;">“NOOOOOOO!”

<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;">“Kneel!”

<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;">Lean and the young man were forced on their knees and Lean managed to look to the left where he noticed a familiar face. She was sitting on her knees as well, her head lowered to the ground.

<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;">“Jen…”

<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 girl looked up and saw Lean, cocking up a smile.

<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;">“Lean!” Jen smirked as she tried to hug Lean, however they had no chance as the guards poked into their backs.

<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 two know each other?” the young man asked.

<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,” Lean nodded and he nodded to Jen. “That is Jen, a good friend of mine.”

<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 talking!” the  Battle Footballer<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;"> near them shouted as they were sitting in front of a large staircase. Lean noticed someone approaching from the top. The person on top was female and was wearing long robes.

<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;">“Jen,” Lean nodded to the young man. “Meet…”

<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;">“Rontaro,” the young man spoke under his breath. “Nice to meet you too, Jen.”

<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;">“Likewise,” Jen nodded. “I saw that girl from the boat as well.”

<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;">“Silence.”

<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 voice sounded commanding but calm as the person from the stairs approached the end of the stairs and stood in front of them. The person in front of them was female and was wearing black robes. She had crimson armor below it and was supported by a wooden white staff. She had long brown hair.

<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;">“Before you stands…” the  Chaos Sorcerer<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;"> approaching from the right told the audience. “Dark Sorceress Pamadala, Dark Lady of the Different Dimension!”

<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 DARK DUELIST 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;">This concludes Arc 1 of Season 1. I have reached the point where I wanted to be in an eight-episode arc. Now things will really get rolling. Two characters made a first appearance before they originally did in the original Season 1, Rontaro and Pamadala. Their roles are exactly the same, but their appearance sooner. It involves the fact that I wish to speed certain things up and get to a certain point at a certain 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;">Originally I am not sure anymore what happened in Chapter 8. An original outline for the rewritten Chapter 8 had involved a duel between Kaito and Pamadala, which would have meant that the shadowy figure from the previous chapter would have taken Kaito and his sister into the Different Dimension. However I choose to not do that in favor of a duel for Mysterio within the first ten chapters of Season 1. Kaito will return later in the story.

<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;">Anyway, Happy New Year for everybody! I will celebrate it greatly I think!