Turn 19: Endgame! End of the Void!(2)

'''Yu-Gi-Oh! Infinity Hunter''' ARC 1 “Rising Star.”

Turn 19 “Endgame! End to the Void!(2)”

“Silent Void Wavern!”

Blake looked in awe as he saw the dragon at the field. Even he could no longer see the hole in the air that lead back to the arena. The Silent Void Wavern was that large that the shining red eyes of the dragon were lights in the darkness as White Cross – Silent Force had disappeared.

Gakyru – 150 Blake – 1500

“It has undefined attack points. Don’t tell me it has…..”

“If you meant to say equal attack and defense power to what Void Wavern had, then you are right (ATK/DEF: ?/? -> 15,800/15,800) with the 1,000 reduced from Void Wavern`s effect.” The dragon was as majestic as ever and the Blackthunder Phoenix looked really tiny compared to it.

“Further due to Silent Void Resonator, I gain 1000 lifepoints when used for Synchro Summoning a Silent Void Synchro monster.”

Gakyru – 150 -> 1150

“Next by Void Soldier`s effect I reveal one card in my hand to send one card from either my opponent`s hand or deck to the field per Life-Counter there is on my opponent. There is none now, but that does not matter as I now trigger my Silent Void Wavern`s effect, removing Void Altar from play to make Silent Void Wavern gain its effect until the end of the turn. I now gain 100 lifepoints for every card on my field, which is currently two.” Gakyru was standing hidden in the shadow of the dragon.

Gakyru – 1150 -> 1350

‘ ''More life point gain. Is he trying to get over me again?''’ Blake pondered and looked at Gillian, who was lying in the shadows of the rocks and the dragon. ‘ I have to get her out of here, before the place caves in, before anything bad happens to her.’

“And now I am finishing this duel!” Gakyru pointed to Blackthunder Phoenix. “Void Triforce Shadow!”

“I don’t think so.” Blake countered and his face down card flipped up. “ 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 suppose you can say that this duel is lasting at least another turn longer.” He slowly moved towards Gillian, who was still on the ground with closed 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;">“Fine then.” Gakyru lowered his duel disk. “I set this two cards face down and end my turn. This means of course that my Silent Void Wavern loses 1000 attack and defense points (-> 14,800/14,800)”

<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;">“My turn then.” Blake draws a new card. He smiled as he looked at the card drawn. “I activate  Upstart Goblin<span style="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 draw one additional card and you gain 1000 lifepoints. Next my Blackthunder Phoenix gains 1 Blackthunder-Counter [1]. The attack power of my Phoenix comes nowhere near the power of your Silent Void Wavern, but…..”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“But I have to intervene,” Gakyru intervened and his face down card flipped up. “Void Prison. Once per turn, by revealing 1 card in my hand, I can place either 1 Prison-Counter or a Life-Counter on one of your cards. I decide to reveal another Void Soldier from my hand and place a Prison-Counter on your Blackthunder Phoenix.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Thanks, but you really should not have done that. Activate Lineage of the Thunder. For every Blackthunder monster I have on the field, I can draw 1 card. I have three so I draw 3 cards.” As he slipped off three cards from his deck the face down monster he had on the field glowed. “Ah yes, my face down monster. I flip it over to reveal a new addition to my deck, Blackthunder Crystal Bearer (0/2400).”

<span style="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 monster appeared, it was a fairy donned in black armor. She had a headband of flowers, all green and red. Blake smirked as he picked a second card from his hand, one of the three he had drawn just yet due to Lineage of the Thunder.

<span style="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 up, Blackthunder Crystal Guardian (2400/0).” A new warrior appeared on his side of the field, donning black armor as well, holding one big shining silver crystal in his hands. “These are brother and sister. Due to their presence they activate an ability with both of them. For instance, they cannot be destroyed as either of them are 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;">“A set of cooperating cards, that is interesting. I remember a duelist that used them as well.” Gakyru smirked as he looked at the tiny monsters. “It is a bold defense, but not good enough to beat Silent Void Wavern.”

<span style="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 about that. I remove the Blackthunder-Counter from my Blackthunder Phoenix to increase its attack power by 400 (ATK: 3000 -> 3400).” Blake confidently lowered his duel disk while he had another card inserted in it. “I set this card 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;">“My turn.” Gakyru drew a new card and showed it to Blake. “This is a second copy of my Void Cross Wasp. Since I have revealed it, I can activate my Void Prison`s effect and place another Prison-Counter on Blackthunder Phoenix.” A silver circle of light appeared around Blackthunder Phoenix.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ Little does he know about my Blackthunder Phoenix` special effect.<span style="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 smirked and he knew Gakyru might have not calculated his Phoenix special ability. ‘ ''But I need another new plan. Either Blackthunder Helios Dragon must come out soon or I am toast …….. literally.''<span style="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;">“I activate the spell card Summon Void I, which allows me to once per turn mimic 1 card in my graveyard. I choose to mimic Void Altar this turn with Summon Void I, which after a card is revealed in my hand, allows me to gain 100 lifepoints per card on my field.” Gakyru smirked as he regained lifepoints.

<span style="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 – 1350 -> 1550

<span style="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 Blackthunder Crystal Guardian with my Silent Void Wavern! Void Triforce Shadow!” Gakyru ordered and the dragon shot down a blast of immense size, hitting Crystal Guardian, however as the blast had disappeared, the Crystal Guardian was still on the field. “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;">“Crystal Bearer`s effect, when both she and Crystal Guardian are on the field, I can once per turn negate battle damage.” Blake explained the continuation of the Crystal Guardian`s presence on the field. “Of course my Phoenix has gotten another Blackthunder-Counter already this turn. But due to the effect of Crystal Bearer, I must decrease her defense points to 0 until the end of the next 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;">“Well then, since Void Soldier is still on the field, I now destroy your Crystal Bearer with Void Soldier!” Gakyru ordered and the silver armored knight cut the Crystal Bearer in two halves, destroying it. “My Silent Void Wavern loses 1000 attack and defense points (ATK/DEF: 14,800/14,800 -> 13,800/13,800) 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 then,” Blake drew a new card and looked at it. “Perfect. First my Blackthunder Phoenix gains one more Blackthunder-Counter. Then I place this card face down to ensure my Phoenix` safety and mine.” He eyed his face down card carefully. ‘ At least if I lose with my Phoenix, the duel will end in a draw with that 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;">’

<span style="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 play is not really impressive sofar.”

<span style="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 worry, I have more coming soon.” Blake shifted a card from his hand. “First I remove 1 Blackthunder-Counter and increase the attack power of my Phoenix by 400 (ATK: 3400 -> 3800). Then I activate the spell card  Monster Reborn<span style="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 bring back Blackthunder Crystal Bearer (0/2400) in defense mode.”

<span style="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 you have brought back your once per turn battle damage negating monster. I am surprised you hold such a monster in your deck.” Gakyru looked at the three monsters on Blake`s field. “In the new world I stand for, there is no place for weak monsters, for weak duelists. Only the supreme rule.”

<span style="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, yeah. Continue my turn. I activate Crystal Guardian`s special ability to double the attack power of one of my monsters until the end of this turn. I choose my Phoenix of course (ATK: 3800 -> 7600). However doing this, my Crystal Guardian does lose all of its attack points (ATK: 2400 -> 0).” Blake draws the card from his hand he was eyeing at the beginning of his 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;">“You were not impressed by my previous plays?” Blake confronted Gakyru, who did not answer. “Then take this on for size. Megamorph<span style="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 round tablet infused itself with the Phoenix. “Since I am 50 lifepoints short on being equal with you, I can double the original attack strength of my Phoenix (ATK: 7600 -> 10,200).”

<span style="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 still not 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;">“I know, but I am not done yet. Next I remove my Blackthunder Agile Condor from my hand to increase the attack power of my Phoenix by 2000 (ATK: 10,200 -> 12,200).” The spirit of a black feathered bird was sucked into the Phoenix` body. ‘ I need 1,600 attack points to equal his attack strength and I need 100 more to defeat 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;">“Blake……” Blake turned to Gillian, who had woken up a little. “Blake use it. Use the card. You know which one I 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;">“Did you….” Blake questioned and Gillian nodded. “Did you slip it 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;">“Yes. It is in your Extra 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;">“ Pot of 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;"> activate,” Blake draws two more cards. “Perfect, exactly what I need. First I activate the spell card, Cursed Feather. By discarding 1 card from my hand I can lower the attack power of one of your monsters by 500. I choose your Silent Void Wavern (ATK: 13,800 -> 13,300). Next my Regression Synchro spell card. I remove my Griffin and my Blackthunder Mosquito from play in order to Synchro Summon!”

<span style="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 kind of Synchro monster is he going to bring out now?” Gakyru could not follow Blake for the moment as the Silent Core in the Sacred Temple Gate violently shook. “What kind of monster can possibly withstand my Silent Void Wavern?”

<span style="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 tune in my Blackthunder Griffin with my Blackthunder Mosquito! End of the tunnel, there is light! Light will guide us through Darkness! Synchro Summon! Rise,  Light End Dragon<span style="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 chanted as the  Majestic Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> spread out its wings and the light it spread out shook the opposing dragon. “Now  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">, battle with Silent Void Wavern! By reducing it`s power by 500, I can reduce your Silent Void Wavern`s attack power by 1500 (ATK: 13,300 -> 11,800).”

<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;">“But you still lose this duel! I win!”

<span style="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. Unfortunately my Crystal Bearer can negate the battle damage again once again. Which means  Light End Dragon<span style="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 destroyed yes, but it has served its purpose! Now begone Silent Void Wavern! Blackthunder Phoenix! Heavenly Divine Flare!” Blake roared as the phoenix spread its wings and emerged into a sea of fire, hitting Silent Void Wavern and destroying 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;">Gakyru – 1550 -> 1150

<span style="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 end my turn.” Blake breathed as his Phoenix lost all its power (ATK: 12,200 -> 3800 -> 2300). “You 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;">Gakyru – 1150 <span style="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 – 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;">

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Mason came running inside the tent. It was morning and Rebecca was still sleeping. She woke up with a shock, getting used to being woken up like that. Definitely after all that had happened yesterday. She did not know how she got back from the lake where they got back on the surface. She knew it was an hour before they returned to the camp, but how she did not know. She had spoken to Paul all the way and it looked like he was just as interested in this island as she 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;">“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;">“Paul has told me to inform you that he has to leave early back to the main land. There were unexpected complications in one of the M.I.D.S. labs, which he had to see. He wishes to speak to you before he leaves.” Mason was almost on his way back out as Rebecca stood up, pulling a dressing gown over 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;">“Tell him, I will be there shortly.” As she dressed up, various thoughts raced through her head, about what had happened the last few days. “And Mason, I want you to tell him I want to grab breakfast with him, before he leaves.”

<span style="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 madame.”

<span style="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 she had dressed up already, she walked out of the tent, finding herself soon face to face with Paul. Paul was dressed casually in khaki pants, green t-shirt and a brown jacket. He was wearing a dueling deck on his belt along with a 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;">“So you wanted to have breakfast with me before we leave?”

<span style="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 please.”

<span style="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 left together to the cuisine tent, where they pulled flasks of drinks and various sandwiches from the fridge. They walked out and sat down at a table where not many would bother them. A lot of their co-researchers were already around the crater.

<span style="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 is so important that they want you back to the lab?”

<span style="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, this time I do not go back to my lab, I go to the M.I.D.S. lab where a good friend of mine wants to show me something. A heightened spike in Momentum energy as he liked to call it. He is backtracking why and from where it originated. It may even have something to do with our findings the last couple of days.” Paul took a bite from his sandwich.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Very interesting,” Rebecca nodded. “As an archeologist I have no real idea what M.I.D.S. does exactly, but I have heard of their work. You must have high security clearance.”

<span style="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,” Paul smirked. “Just a good 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;">“They think it has anything to do with what we have experienced here?” Rebecca asked to confirm whether it was true what she had heard. “The finding of the pieces of armor and the stone tablet and us entering the Temple of Eonis?”

<span style="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.” Paul however was a little agitated. “However be careful to whom you tell that. Rumor has it that not everyone involved in these games ever see the daylight again. There are like Reias and Casseius told us, certain fractions in the world that are longing to find Eonis and exploit their powers.”

<span style="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 I know, I know. But you have to admit, it does not always sound convincing when they do that.” Rebecca looked in the air and then back to the direction where they first found the temple. “Of course, we have both seen the same thing and of course I’ll keep it a secret, but after all these apocalypse theories, the next one just sounds idiotic.”

<span style="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;">“Say, the chopper arrives here in an hour. Let’s go for a walk.” Paul nodded and they both took another bite before standing up and leaving the camp.

<span style="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;">“Here they are, 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;">Ken and Laurence pulled one body bag inside a secluded room. Mr. O’Hare was waiting there along with two body guards and Mr. Gerardson. They were quite open to the public, which was why Mr. O’Hare did not dare to move.

<span style="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.” Mr. O’Hare turned to Captain Salwell. “I will not file charges against detective Bishop, but next time he gets in my way, I will make sure to file charges against him, captain.” Captain Salwell nodded and Mr. O’Hare nodded to his body guards. “Put them in the van. Do not open the bags until we are at the house. When we are at the house, do everything necessary to bring her to consciousness and in a well being state. Understood?”

<span style="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, 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;">The body guards loaded the body bag filled with Jennifer on to a wagon and drove it out of the room, quick enough to make sure the available journalists did not notice it. Mr. O’Hare shot another look at Ken and Laurence.

<span style="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 stay away from my daughters from now on. If you do not do so, you will be in a much worser condition then my daughter is now.” Mr. O’Hare was about to walk away when Laurence stopped 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;">“You know….” Laurence started but Ken shook his head and Captain Salwell was about to move to him. “Oh leave it. You have what you want, now get out of 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;">Mr. O’Hare left the room and Lance entered the room as well. Paramedics were busy checking up onto Jason and Grace, who were still unconscious. Two paramedics also entered the room along with a police officer, whispering something into Laurence`s ear.

<span style="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 yes.” Laurence turned Ken and Lance. “We have prepared a helicopter to go into the hole along with a couple of officers on hover boards. We are going down to below. I would like both of you to come. After all Blake and Gillian are still missing.”

<span style="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 Mr. O’Hare did not care about her.” Ken spoke and he looked around. “He did not even ask where she was when he left just yet.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Remember, that he did want to take her body with him previously. But as we do not know where she is or if she is alive or if she is with Blake, we can’t give him the body of Gillian.” Lance joined Ken and Laurence outside. “Yes, we will join you, Laurence.”

<span style="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 stepped into the helicopter waiting for them, which then took off, descending into the depth of the seemingly endless abyss below 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;">---

<span style="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 do you have any brothers or sisters?” Rebecca asked Paul. As they were walking over a sandy path, there were wide fields of grass around them. “I mean you have heard about my brother, Robert Azura of course, but I know nothing about 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;">“Well, I come from a long line of great duelists as they like to say themselves. My uncle in fact dueled against Alexis Torres, one of the big 5 World Champions. His warriors did not stand a chance against Torres` Gemknight deck, but alas, he dueled against a world champion. My grandfather was a world champion in its own time as well.” Paul smirked and he looked at his own deck on his belt. “But me, I have inherited the skills of my family, but I rather study then duel.”

<span style="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 is something you do not hear much.” Rebecca mentioned and Paul snickered. “Most of the people you meet now are more about dueling then studying ancients. I myself am not much of a duelist, I have met Alexis Torres only once face to face, but I do enjoy seeing the game a lot.”

<span style="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 your favorite 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;">“You should know already. After all you have seen it in the Temple of Eonis. It is  Dark Magician Girl<span style="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 I was never aware of her duel spirit presence around me before. It was a unique experience for me.” Rebecca bent down and picked a flow from the side of the field. “When I was little my brother always teased me for not having a favorite card. His favorite card, a Cyber-Dragon was a card he always carried with 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;">“Cyber-Dragon? Very interesting, a very few duelists use that card nowadays. It was popular in the times of the Truesdale’s. They have been sold for millions of copies ever since.” Paul looked at his deck. “I know a friend of mine was once looking for a  Cyber End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">, but these are very rare, I believe the last adversary of Alexis Torres controlled 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;">“He is still very interested in the Virtual Reality and cyber space and stuff like that.” Rebecca continued. “I was rather more into the ancients.” She picked her wallet from her pocket and pulled a photograph of her and a black haired man, around her age. “This is Robert.”

<span style="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 looks familiar to me.” Paul sought in his memory, but could not find a memory of himself seeing or meeting Robert Azura. “I am pretty sure I have met him before. But anyway, if you are home, what do you 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;">“I usually go to visit my mother and father as I see them the least of all. Robert at least sometimes comes to visit me here, but my father and mother are not in the position to travel now and probably never will visit me here.” Rebecca looked at the air. “At least in two months I am going home for at least a half year. We probably have some catching up to 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;">“Yeah, I probably do not have much time to spend with my folks, but they have supported me through the years.” Paul looked at his watch, slowing his pace down a little. “When my brothers went on to the Pro Circuit, I decided to go study and they allowed me to do so and that was awesome. The study in the end lead me to Eonis and the Temple of Eonis.”

<span style="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 is amazing.”

<span style="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, I actually always wanted to become an astronaut, unlike all other children that wanted to become a top duelist like the legendary King of Games, Yugi Mutoh and his rival Seto Kaiba.” Paul took another bite from his sandwich before looking at his watch again. “There are 20 more minutes to spent. Care to join me at the crater once more before I am going 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;">“Sure.”

<span style="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;">Gakyru – 1150 <span style="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 – 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;">“My turn then,” Gakyru draws a new card and his Summon Void I glowed. “I select my Void Altar in my graveyard and treat Summon Void I this turn as Void Altar. Then I reveal my Void Distortion spell card from my hand, which activates my Summon Void I, allowing me to gain 100 lifepoints per card on my field according to my Void Altar card.” He was surrounded 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;">Gakyru – 1150 -> 1250

<span style="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 activate my Void Distortion spell card, which can only be activated by revealing 1 card from my hand.” Gakyru raised a card from his hand. “I choose my Void Soldier I still hold in my hand. Now by paying 1000 lifepoints I can return my Silent Void Wavern back to the field, with zero attack and defense points.” As the gigantic dragon returned to his side of the field, his field spell card slot opened.

<span style="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 – 1250 -> 250

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ Zero attack and defense points, that is easy to beat, but knowing Gakyru he will now most certainly play to maintain Silent Void Wavern on the field and I am not sure whether I can pull of another lucky move like Last 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;">’ Blake braced for what would be coming his way as the dragon was looming over 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;">“Now I activate my field spell card Sacred Tome of the Silent Void.” A heightened pedestal with a golden book with an image of the Silent Core on the cover appeared around them. “Now first of all I do no longer need to reveal a card from my hand to activate an effect. Next I choose to activate one of its effects and increase the attack power of my Silent Void Wavern by 1000 (ATK: 0 -> 1000).”

<span style="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 still need 1600 more to match the Phoenix.” Blake teased 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;">“Not exactly,” Gakyru continued his turn. “I now initiate an attack with my Silent Void Wavern!”

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

<span style="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 my Sacred Tome`s effect. Once per turn one of my monsters cannot be destroyed by battle. But also the second effect I can activate once per turn, instead of losing lifepoints I regain them.” Gakyru smirked.

<span style="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 – 250 -> 1850

<span style="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 since this is done again, 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;">“Good 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;">“First effect of Sacred Tome, allowing me to choose my Silent Void Wavern again as the monster that cannot be destroyed by battle due to Sacred Tome.” Gakyru intervened and Blake was not happy. “Second effect, my Silent Void Wavern gains 1000 attack points (ATK: 1000 -> 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 start off with equipping my Blackthunder Crystal Guardian with my Crystal Thunder Sword.” Crystal Guardian`s primary blade was switched with a crystal embedded sword. “Next I set this card face down.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Nice new outfit for your Crystal Guardian, Blake. Not that it will help any.” Gakyru looks at the towering dragon on his side of the field. “Next turn my Silent Void Wavern will even gain more attack points and be even stronger than your Blackthunder Crystal Guardian.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Even worser for me, when it battles my Crystal Guardian equipped with Crystal Thunder Sword, your Silent Void Wavern gains 300 attack points. Next my Crystal Guardian gains 2 Blackthunder-Counters due to my Crystal Thunder Sword.” Blake smirked.

<span style="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 due to his Blackthunder Crystal Bearer battle damage is negated for once per turn, so even if Crystal Guardian is destroyed he is in the game.<span style="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 shrugged looking at the Sacred Temple Gate and then at hole in the roof. ‘ ''And I have to be fast to beat him. I sense my enemies are coming closer.''<span style="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;">“Unless you are able to attack twice with your Silent Void Wavern I suppose you cannot defeat me next turn,” Blake smirked and he felt an itch in his leg. He grabbed down, seeing there was blood coming from the leg. ‘ I suppose this duel needs to end quickly both for Gillian and 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;">’ He smiled 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;">“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 then.” Gakyru draws a new card. “I activate Sacred Tome of the Silent Void`s effects again. First of all my Silent Void Wavern cannot be destroyed by battle this turn. Then as the optional effect, it gains 1000 attack points (ATK: 2000 -> 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;">“Good, but I place 2 more Blackthunder-Counters on my Crystal Guardian thanks to Crystal Thunder 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;">“Next the second choice of effect from Sacred Tome will be to remove a card from your graveyard from play. I choose to remove your Regression Synchro from play, so that you cannot pull that trick on me again.” Gakyru smiled wide when Blake pocketed the card and looked at Gakyru. “Why are you smiling?”

<span style="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 really should have removed a different card from play.”

<span style="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 is 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;">“Because a spell card has been removed from play, I can play this monster. Blackthunder Ghost Raven (0/0), a Tuner.” Blake smirked as a small black bird appeared on his side of the field. It had one red eye and one blue eye and for the rest looked like a raven. “And this one has a really nasty effect.”

<span style="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 really.” Blake nodded and Gakyru exhaled. “Oh well, I suppose I just need to get rid of your other monsters than. First your Phoenix. Silent Void Wavern! Attack his Blackthunder Phoenix! Void Triforce Shadow!”

<span style="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 – 1500 -> 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;">“However my Crystal Thunder Guard activates,” Blake intervened and a silver thundering shield appeared around him and his monsters. “Now since you attacked a monster which was not equipped with Crystal Thunder Sword, I can distribute the Blackthunder-Counters from the monster with Blackthunder-Counters to another monsters. I choose to place all four the Blackthunder-Counters on Phoenix. Plus as long as Crystal Thunder Guard is on the field, that monster cannot be destroyed by battle. So you still have to deal with my Phoenix.”

<span style="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 rather unexpected.<span style="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 looked at his hand, realizing he did not have much more choice. “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 then. Now tell me,” Blake started and Gakyru looked at him. “You told me why Justin and Lynn joined you. How did you meet Tyson and Jasmond?”

<span style="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: Oh, if you really want to know. Jasmond I met at a local tournament in Neo Domino City. She was lonely, no-one understood her. She had the rare ability to control water with her mind. Not create more water, no control it. Her unique ability made it that people came to dislike her, even though she won the tournament.'

''”Jasmond Stone is the winner of the Opal Tournament!” The MC was heard all over the stadium in Neo Domino City. “Next week she will duel in a battle against the famous Deformer duelist, Leo!”

Jasmond was standing in the arena and all eyes were on her. She heard boos and whistling coming from the stands as she had displayed her unique dueling in the duel. Being able to communicate through the Duel Monsters itself had shown the through nature of most people.

“Congratulations, Jasmond for this excellent though weird duel. How come you are able to do these things?” The MC asked Jasmond, who looked a lot more younger.

“I don’t know, I am just able too.” Jasmond was shy, definitely shy because of what she heard coming from the crowd. “But I won and that is the most important part for me. I won fair and square.”

“Here is your trophy!” the MC handed Jasmond the trophy and she raised into the air. However no-one was happy for her, there were no cheers for her, only deadly silence. She lowered the trophy and slowly walked away from the arena.

“Go home to your Dark Hole!”

“You don’t belong here!”

“They should never allow you in, witch!”

Jasmond looked around as the officials made no attempt to silence the crowd, who were furious about Jasmond`s win of the trophy. Jasmond slowly walked out of the arena as the doors behind her closed. She leaned against a wall.

“Why can they never be happy for me?” Jasmond wondered and she looked at the trophy she was holding. “This trinket, this trinket I have battled for. I deserve it. But they never gave me any acknowledgment of winning the cup. I deserve acknowledgement. I deserve the honor, the glory. Let them try and beat me next time.”

“You were superior.”

Jasmond looked up and saw Gakyru approaching her. He was wearing a brown jacket and pants and his dark red, black hair was reaching below his hat. He was wearing a golden duel disk on his right arm.

“Excuse me?”

“You were superior to him. You deserved to win the cup and you deserve the honor of having won the cup. They are just too weak to understand your true potential. They are too weak to understand your true powers.” Gakyru spoke and he reached down to his deck belt. “Now I believe you hope to find your victory in power or in soul. I can give you that, but in order to do so, you need to come with me.”

“Why?”

“Join me,” Gakyru spoke and he laughed. “Join me, and we will recreate this world. A world in which people like us, will be the superior race to the people that are not like us. The people that scream at us. The people that flame us, the people that act like trolls to us. The people that think we are inferior to them, because they are scared of our true powers.” Jasmond considered Gakyru`s offer for a minute.

“Where do I sign in?”''

'Gakyru: Three down, one to go. I had the force to be reckoned with. I was though missing one important factor. The factor that would be unbeatable. The factor that would go to all lengths to accomplish a mission. A factor that I found in a boy. A boy that easily had beaten the other three. A boy that had proven to be even a match to me. A boy, that would easily accomplish anything I desired.'

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

'Gakyru: Tyson yes. Tyson was the one factor that I needed. The one duelist that could beat his creator. The one that formed him like he is now. He was ruthless in duels already, but he bore the needless respect for other duelists with him. He needed to get rid of that respect to become one of us. He needed to be pure dark ruthless against other duelists, against other inferior duelists. That is why I valued his survival more than I did with Jasmond, Lynn or Justin.'

''”Go Tri Helios Zephyroid!” Tyson ordered as the huge winged beast spread its wings and took in sunlight to charge a blast. “Helio Flare Burst!”

Tyson – 3400 Man – 800 -> 0

“How can you be so ruthless?” the man wondered. He had fallen on his knees as Gakyru was watching from the sidelines. “Where did you become so ruthless that you do no longer care what happens to your opponents?”

“I have had my eyes opened to the truth.” Tyson explained to the man and he walked away, Gakyru following him. “I have had my eyes opened to the real world, a world that is not fair. A world in which a lot is wrong. A world in which you should be inferior to us, in which we are superior.”

“Don’t talk nonsense,” the man argued back and he stood up with difficulty. “How do you ever think you two will make it to reach absolute power?”

“We do not need absolute power,” Gakyru started but Tyson repeated Gakyru. “We only need the Silent and the Infinity and we have everything to create a Perfect World, a world in which we are the superior and you are the inferior.”

“But…..”

“Goodbye dad.” Tyson pointed to the man, who apparently was his father. “Tri Helios Zephyroid, Helio Flare Burst! Full power!” The winged beast unleashed a blast that was as big as a house, incinerating his father.

“Come my apprentice,” Gakyru guided Tyson away from the scene. “We have our work cut out for us.”''

Gakyru: And with that sign of trust and loyalty we started the group that later was known as the Aurora Remnant, seeking the Infinity and the Silent Core to create the perfect 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;">******

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Wait. Tyson was your first fellow 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;">“Yes,” Gakyru answered and he looked at Blake, smirking. “Tyson was the first, Justin was the last one to join our small group. Of course we have had other member. Ian, Gill Randsborg and a few others, but these were simple sacrifices. They would serve a greater purpose. I knew I needed Tyson, but I needed the others 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;">“You have done too much injustice to stay alive, Gakyru. I will no longer allow you to live here.” Blake draws his new card. “My turn then.” He looked at the card drawn and his face brightened.

<span style="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 you drew something 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;">“I tune in my Ghost Raven with my Crystal Bearer and Crystal Guardian!”

<span style="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? Level nine, that must mean it is coming……”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Correct! My soul, my fury, my power become one. The air thunders and the lightning strikes as my soul is unleashed! Synchro Summon! Blackthunder Helios Dragon!” The two monsters disappeared into the rings from the Synchro gate and became a beam of light out of which a marvelous dragon appeared. The soul of Blake, his favorite card, had appeared. A card that would pull him through no matter how no matter 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;">“I activate my Sacred Tome of the Silent Void again and choose my Silent Void Wavern to be unable to be destroyed this turn. Next I increase it`s attack power by 1000 (ATK: 3000 -> 4000).” Gakyru insured himself against the power of Blake`s newly appeared dragon. “To activate my second choice of effect from Sacred Tome, I choose to remove your Crystal Bearer from play.”

<span style="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 pocketed his card, but he kept smiling.

<span style="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;">“You’ll find out.” Blake pointed at his Helios Dragon. “I first allow it to gain 1 Blackthunder-Counter. Next I remove it to increase it`s attack power by 500 (ATK: 3500 -> 4000). Now we are even again! I set these two cards 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;">‘ He apparently did not want to suicide his dragon into my Wavern.<span style="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 looked at his newly drawn card. “I activate the continuous spell card, Black Void from my hand. Now this allows me to activate the White Void spell card 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;">“And what do they 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;">“Well then I choose to activate my Sacred Tome again and increase my Silent Void Wavern`s attack power by 1000 again (ATK: 4000 -> 5000). And now since I simply see no other option, I choose to attack your Phoenix!” Gakyru ordered and the dragon lowered down onto the Phoenix and Blake smirked.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Tough luck, Gakyru,” Blake picked the card from his duel disk and pocketed it. “By removing Blackthunder Phoenix from play, I can lower the Battle Damage to 0. Plus my Helios Dragon`s Blackthunder-Counter is removed and gains 500 attack points (ATK: 4000 -> 4500). Try 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;">“You did lose your precious Phoenix!”

<span style="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 no harm`s done.” Blake smirked and saw how agitated Gakyru actually was. “This duel is not over yet!”

<span style="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, but it is done almost.” Gakyru looked at his hand. “By removing my Void Soldier from play, I can special summon this, Void Sword Knight (1900/1200).” A new warrior appeared on his side of the field, taking the place of Void Soldier. “Now this card deals 300 points of damage 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;">Blake – 1100 -> 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;">“I set this card 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;">“This is so going to be over now.” Blake smirked and he draws a card. He nodded and smiled. “I told you this is so going to be over now. Activate spell card, Forced Betrayal!” The card was inserted into Blake`s 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;">“I first choose to activate my Sacred Tome`s effect and allow my Silent Void Wavern to gain another 1000 lifepoints. Then I activate my face down card, which is Tag Attack and tribute my Void Sword Knight to increase my Silent Void Wavern`s attack power by 1900 (ATK: 5000 -> 6000 -> 6950).” Gakyru smirked as the huge dragon was hovering above the smaller Helios Dragon.

<span style="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 does not matter anyway.” Blake smirked and he looked at his Force Betrayal card. “By discarding 1 card, I can randomly choose one card and if I guess the timing correctly, you draw 1 card, but the card is activated as well. If the activation is incorrect I lose 500 lifepoints and this card is destroyed. I’ll choose the right 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;">Gakyru turned it around, revealing it to be a really common card ………….. Solemn Wishes<span style="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, I cannot use that now, so I lose 500 lifepoints.” Blake was not happy as he looked at his lifepoints counter go down.

<span style="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 – 800 -> 300

<span style="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.” Gakyru grinned as he was yet to be beaten. “This duel is not yet over. I know about your Helios Dragon`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;">“Oh really?”

<span style="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 yeah. I have one simple card that can help me a lot, Blackthunder Zephyr (800/500)!” The small bird appeared on the field, however unlike the first, this one was quite happy. “This card can attack you directly!” The bird sped forward, hitting 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;">Gakyru – 1850 -> 1050

<span style="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, you need 1000 lifepoints to activate it and you do not have 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;">“I don’t need them.” Blake smirked and he inserted a card in his duel disk. “I simply activate Shrink. This means your Silent Void Wavern loses half of its attack power (ATK: 7950 -> 3975). Next the Blackthunder-Counter that was placed upon Helios Dragon is removed (ATK: 4500 -> 5000). And last but not least I equip him with  United We Stand<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> (ATK: 5000 -> 6600). I did have a back up strategy. And this is over! Blackthunder Helios Dragon! Attack 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;">The dragon rose into the air as it charged a blast in its mouth as Blake pointed towards 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;">“This is over!”

<span style="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, it is far from over!”

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

<span style="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 – 1050 -> 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;">Blake – 300

<span style="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;">A chopper was waiting on the grassy plains of Eonis as Paul was hurrying down to it, Rebecca following him. A few scientists were waiting for Paul to get in and Rebecca pulled him aside.

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

<span style="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.” Paul replied and he silenced Rebecca with a smile. “It was an accident and it will never happen 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;">“Yeah.” Rebecca continued to talk to him. “So call me when you found out anything about those tablets of yours. You have gotten me interested and it might help us further in our research.”

<span style="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, I will certainly do that. Maybe you and your friends can unravel more about this mysterious island then we have been able to until now.” Paul picked a flower from the grass and put it into Rebecca`s long 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;">“Yeah.” Rebecca held her head down as she stood back and Paul sat down in the chopper with a different pilot in it. Rebecca walked down to Paul and suddenly kissed him on the cheek as well. “I don’t think it was an accident this 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;">“I see.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Paul placed his laptop next to him and reached inside his jacket and picked a business card from his pocket. He gave it to Rebecca, after writing down a phone number on it. Rebecca smiled.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Here is my number at work and my cell phone number. Call me when you are on the main land.”

<span style="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, I would like that.” Rebecca looked at the card and widened her eyes. “Say Paul, I never caught your last name.”

<span style="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 last name?” Paul smirked. “Wow, you are one of the few to hear that one. My full name is Paul…… Paul Connolly.”

<span style="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 is light over 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 helicopter with Ken, Laurence and Lance was maneuvering around the many obstacles inside the hole of the arena. Ken was standing on one of the spoilers of the helicopters searching for 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;">“Get down there, they might be 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;">As they approached further, the head of Silent Void Wavern broke through an upper level of concrete wall, roaring loudly. The helicopter was able to quickly pull out and evade the monster`s head, before coming into collision with the dragon`s 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;">“Blake!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ken was barely able to see anything, but vaguely saw two shadows standing inside the enormous void of light. He recognized the dragon of Blake on the field and the Silent Void Wavern with some surprise.

<span style="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 – 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;">Blake – 300

<span style="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.” Gakyru shrieked as he grabbed his head. “No, I will not lose!”

<span style="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 have just done so!”Blake answered and he was barely able to stand, but he did see the helicopter approaching. “Now give up and undo what you have done!” Gakyru shakes his head and smiles vile.

<span style="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 cannot do that. Even if you defeated me, you cannot bring back your friends. Your friends and all the others are now under the vile law of the Master of the Dead Zone. And your friends will never ever return to the world of the living!” Gakyru held up his hands and turned to the Sacred Temple Gate, slowly approaching 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;">“Gakyru!” The voice of Laurence Bishop boomed from above and Gakyru bothered to look and see police officers get down. “You are under arrest for terrorism and misdeeds against humanity. You have the right to remain silent…..”

<span style="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 is right, I have the right to remain silent, but I do not have the right to remain here,” Gakyru smirked and he turned to the Sacred Temple Gate. “Silent Void Wavern, finish them off will 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;">“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;">Gakyru made a jump for it as Laurence appeared to have reached for his gun and other officers firing at Gakyru. Gakyru jumped into the Sacred Temple Gate, whose light was slowly dimming. Gakyru was gone, just vanished from the arena, vanished into the Sacred Temple 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;">“Do not shoot!” Laurence commanded. “We need him alive!”

NOW IT IS 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;">Silent Void Wavern – 0 -> 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;">Blake – 300

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Wow, hold on.” Blake interrupted. “This is no gauntlet duel. You cannot just take over. I defeated him!”

'''YES, YOU HAVE DEFEATEN THE HUMAN GAKYRU. BUT YOU HAVE NOT DEFEATEN ME. ACTIVATE  SHADOW ARM. THIS CARD ALLOWS ME TO TURN AROUND THE EFFECTS PLAYED OUT Last 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;">“Excuse me?”

'''YOUR BLACKTHUNDER HELIOS DRAGON`S ATTACK POWER IS LOWERED TO 0 AND I DO NOT HAVE TO PAY LIFEPOINTS LIKE YOU HAD TO. NOW I SUPPOSE 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;">“I-it is your turn indeed.” Blake was confused at what had happened. Since when were Duel Monsters able to duel on their own?

'''THIS IS JUST The Beginning of the End, MORTAL. ACTIVATE SACRED TOME`S EFFECT TO INCREASE MY ATTACK POWER BY 1000 (ATK: 6950 -> 7950). NOW I ATTACK YOUR BLACKTHUNDER HELIOS DRAGON'''

<span style="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;">Silent Void Wavern – 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;">Blake – 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 dragon was destroyed. Blake was slapped in the face as everything went black in front of his eyes. Last he felt was rocks falling onto him and voices screaming. He had no memory of what happened 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;">“Blake……”

<span style="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 slowly opened his eyes. He looked around as he was lying on a stretcher in the arena of the Aurora Stadium. Ken, Lance and Laurence were standing around him. All were shaken up, but they seemed 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;">“What happened?”

<span style="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 were taken out by the blast of that dragon,” Ken explained and he looked around. “It vanished afterwards. It did cause you and Gillian to get caved in.” Blake moved, but felt a stitching pain in his leg and arm. “Oh, right you have broken you leg and arm.”

<span style="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 took us quite some time to get you out of there.” Laurence explained and he nodded to the right. Blake looked and saw Gillian lying on another stretcher. “Oh, she’ll be okay, she is still unconscious, but doctors said there would be no permanent 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;">“Thank god,” Blake answered and he lied down. “Did you manage to save the rest? Did you manage to get 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;">“Yes and no,” Ken answered. He tapped on Blake`s leg and smiled, when Blake cried out of pain. “Sorry. Gakyru completely vanished after we found you. Even this arch that was in the arena is gone. We have no idea what had happened. We did manage to get out 10 people, including Grace, Jennifer and Jason. They are in a comatose state, but they are fine for 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;">“Great,” Blake sighed. “Does not make me much more happier but I am glad the rest of us is alright. Did you get 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;">“No. He disappeared after being allowed to get out by Captain Salwell. He tried taking Jennifer with him.” Lance and Laurence pulled a different stretcher with him. “But we outsmarted 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;">On the stretcher there was another body bag and they opened it, revealing Jennifer was 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;">“Wait,” a fellow police officer intervened. “If Ms. O’Hare was not inside the body bag taken by Mr. O’Hare, then who 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;">Blake, Ken and Lance looked at each other and smirked, making wide grins and had some fun together.

<span style="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;">“It was Yuni of course who was in there.” Laurence replied. “We switched her with Jennifer. Which reminds, I have to send a car and pick her 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;">---

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">In a dark and dusty realm, a lone man in a dark overcoat was standing in front of a familiar arch way. Many orbs with lightning bolts and lights were hovering above him as he looked up and he 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;">“The world is going to get ready. The veil is dropping and the dead are ready.” The man raised his hat to reveal his glowing red eyes. “Soon, there will be no light in the Human Realm. Soon the world will know what darkness is.”

<span style="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 looked around, before pulling something out of his pocket and throwing it into the archway.

<span style="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 is no living in the world of the dead.”

<span style="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;">“So I can get out in just three days.”

<span style="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 was sitting on his hospital bed and he was inside a private ward. Gillian was seated next to him in a different bed. On the other side of the ward there were Jason, Grace, Jennifer and Kaito lying in other beds, while Ken, Lance and Yuni were standing around Blake.

<span style="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 has been one full week now since the battle,” Ken told Blake and he shakes his head. “And all this time we have found no way to bring them back. The doctors have found no way to bring them 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;">“Oh, I am sure there is a way.”

<span style="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 is always a way,” Yuni continued with a smile. “Like how you three got me as crazy as impersonating Jennifer O’Hare to keep her safe. Man, that was a bumpy ride.”

<span style="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 imagine that,” Gillian replied, who had bandages over her head. “Ouch, my head hurts a lot.”

<span style="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 imagine 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 were not in the heat of battle, Ken.” Gillian replied and at that moment they heard tingling sounds coming from the other side of the ward. Three nurses came in and checked upon those patients.

<span style="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 wrong, doctor?” Ken asked a passing 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;">“They are waking up.” The doctor replied to Ken, while hurrying to check upon them. Slowly one by one, Jason, Grace and Jennifer opened their eyes and smiled. “It is a miracle. Never did we expect them to wake up on their 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;">“Is there any reasonable explanation, doctor?” Lance wondered and the doctor shakes his head. Gillian was already out of bed, hurrying over to her sister, hugging her. “Gillian, easy girl.”

<span style="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 so glad you are okay!” Gillian hugged her little sister tightly.

<span style="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, get off me….” Jennifer managed to get out. “I can’t breath.”

<span style="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 quickly let go and the doctor check upon Jennifer and spread his 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;">“She is perfectly healthy,” the doctor claimed. “Like she was never in a comatose state before.” He checked upon Grace and Jason, who had now gotten company of Blake and the others. “You two are exactly the same.”

<span style="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 Blake made room for the doctor and the nurses to check upon Jason and Grace he eyed his friends with delight.

Never did I thought we would have to go this far to proof our friendship.

<span style="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 sat down in his wheelchair as he rode back to his bed and saw his friends celebrating with each other.

''Never did I thought we would have to pay such an high price to win this. Gakyru was beaten, but he is gone and we know, no……. I know he will be back. I know he will be 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;">At that moment Blake looked outside seeing a clinic-clown outside. He smiled as the clown waved to him too and then turned to a little boy and extended his hand. Blake opened his eyes.

''Sometimes at the most unexpected moments you find things that surprise you. Sometimes you see people you never thought you would see again. Sometimes you see things happen you hoped that would never happen 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;">“Give me a hand!” the clinic-clown enjoyable spoke as the boy reached for his hand and pulled it, pulling it off. The clinic-clown smiled and surprised the boy by firing art around. The boy enjoyed it a lot.

''And sometimes you just have to let things go the way they go. The light will win, how hard the dark will press, the light always wins. And when you are in the company of your friends, there is light around you, because you are around those who you cherish. Hold that light and if I may give you an advice, never let it 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;">As Blake looked around, the clinic-clown gave him a wink, before disappearing. Blake smirked and looked at his bed, finding a card at his bed side. He had no idea how it came there. It was a Joker 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;">“Guys.”

<span style="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 was broken out of his concentration as Yuni was standing over the bed of Kaito along with the doctor and the nurses. She looked rather worried about something and Blake wheeled over to the bed 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;">“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;">“It is 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;">“What is it?” Blake demanded to know. “What is wrong with 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;">“He never woke up.”

Never let it 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;">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;">TOTAL WORD COUNT = 131.770 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">TOTAL PAGE COUNT = 305 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">FONT = Times New Roman, 12 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">CHARACTERS = 721.194 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">TOTAL CAC COUNT = 254

<span style="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 record isn’t 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;">Yes, as you may have guessed, Turn 19 is indeed the final turn of  ARC 1: Rising Star<span style="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 was a real adventure to write this and it was a lot of fun. I started this fanfic on February 23, 2010 and look where it has brought 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;">I could take the time to thank you all personally for everything, but you know I thank you all. I thank you for reading Arc 1, I thank you for thinking with me. But it is not over, of course not, Arc 2 is going to happen soon. XERO Slayer, 027982, Tempest Star, BlaK, ShadowBlade and Twisted Fate, I thank you for reading and replying (and XERO, for our conversations over MSN of course, may they be forever and 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;">).

<span style="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 are a couple of people I owe special thanks to for ARC 1. First of all my three dear friends Leon, Humpie and Wolven/The_Wolf. Without them I would not even have considered putting this all on paper. And they are thanked for imputing their numerous CACs of which many I haven’t used yet. Second of course to my CAC submitters, The Quiff who allowed me unlimited access to his Gold Wire website, thank you, Quiff! And my other friend Happyloo, who was the submitter of the Doom archetype.

<span style="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 last but definitely not the least, Xander1216. He was there since the beginning of TDDS and has supported me with advice and CACs ……………. and Kaito. Without him there would be no Kaito and Blake as the lone Black Feather user until Crow would come in. A big special thanks goes 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;">The duel was originally going to last another turn in which I would have overthrown the records of strongest monster, by a massive built-up towards two super-powered dragons and a crap load of new CACs for both Blake and Gakyru, including more “Blackthunder Crystal” cards, which are the new sub-archetype for the Blackthunder archetype. This is also however an explanation for you guys as the Blackthunder archetype is very versatile. Every type of the game appear in it and you’ll see a lot of types coming past. Blake has a lot of these cards, but there are also Blackthunder duelists that focus on specific types. The one thing they all have in common is that they are all DARK attribute and all work with Blackthunder-Countes and their immunity to other types of 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;">Also from Arc 2 on, I am cutting off 5D`s influence from Arc 2 on. Episode 1 till 113 are still considered canon in Infinity Hunter, from 114 nothing matters except what I think is important for Infinity Hunter. This means maybe different teams in the WRGP and different roles for the Polar Gods, if I ever use 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;">Wow, looks almost like this fanfic is finished …… lol ……. but no, of course not. ARC 2: Infinite Search<span style="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 on the way. Turn 20 will be released after I return from my trip to Hungary, which will be around the 8th of July.