Chapter 108: One last chance.(1)

Chapter 108 “One last chance.(1)”

A helicopter was approaching a rocky island. The island had a large cliff with grass and burned fields, as if a battle had taken place here. On the side of the helicopter three circles were carved, intersecting in the middle. It was the symbol of the Divine Cult.

The shadows of two people were seen through the window. The helicopter was approaching the island fast. As the air around them was blue and no clouds in it, only the wind could harm them. As the helicopter was being put down the shadows behind the window moved and prepared to leave the helicopter.

The door opened and out came Pamadala, or rather Lainna in disguise, and Coloseius. Pamadala was dressed in her usual black robes, Coloseius had put on a black and white attire, which was easier to wear than the ceremonial clothes he used to wear in the ceremonies of the Divine Cult.

“How far are we out?” asked Pamadala. She was looking around as she had no idea where she was or where she had to go. “Do you know how far?”

“Compasses do not work on the Island of Eon,” Coloseius spoke against her and he stepped forward on the next few rocks. “There are forces here at work that cannot be ignored when stepping into the wilderness of the Island. We must travel to the Well of Eon to find what we are looking for.”

“And what exactly are we looking for?”

“You know what we are looking for, the same thing that Master Lucian is looking for. The second deck, the Deck of Eon. Only that deck can beat Lucian’s hold on the fate of the Cult,” Coloseius pointed to Pamadala. “And of all people, you know all to well, how it is to have someone get a hold on you, someone unwanted.”

“Yes.”

Following Coloseius through the grass to something unknown yet, Pamadala noticed various unknown and undefined stone structures. Coloseius followed her gaze and smirked,nodding to the structures.

“Once, there was here a civilization,” Coloseius spoke. “One of the more advanced civilizations millenia ago. Before the Orichalcos, before the Millenium Items. The civilization was ruled by a select group of people, the Order of Eon. From there the Deck we search has come, from there I and Lucian are descendants, the latest descendants.”

“Why are you telling me this?” Pamadala was unsure what to think, even though her thoughts rather told her otherwise. She knew exactly what he was getting at. “I only came with you to provide security.”

“At this moment, there was no better moment for you to be away from the Temple,” Coloseius spoke, his face hidden in the hood, hidden beneath a mask that covered only the top of his head. “A certain event is happening that will change the course of the Divine Cult forever.”

“What event?”

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Aruya and Clayou entered the large chamber, where Promotheius was resting. Promotheius, the grand master of the Water Element of the Divine Cult. Aruya was carrying a small dagger with her, while Clayou had himself equipped with a duel disc.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Promotheius was lying on a bed, covered by navy blue sheets. He had not heard the footsteps of the approaching couple. Clayou stood back as Aruya moved over to the bed and raised the dagger.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“For your betrayal of the Divine Cult,” Aruya slowly spoke and she pointed the dagger right above Promotheius. “For your ignorance of our true goals, I deem you guilty.”

<span style="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 plunged the dagger into Promotheius, after which he woke up, breathing heavily, looking around seeing the female Grand Master standing bent over him. He stirred, looking for help towards Clayou, who refused 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;">“Bring him to the Judgment Chamber,” Aruya spoke. “I have a candidate to select.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Clayou picked the body of the Grand Master up. The Grand Master of Water was still breathing, but barely. Aruya turned around and walked out of the chamber through the other door at the other side.

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You do not wish to come past her now,” Coloseius spoke. He looked into the sky, seeing how birds were flying over. “We have to get to the Well of Eon before nightfall. If we don’t get there before nightfall, the waters turn dark and we have to wait for morning. The nights at the Island of Eon are extremely dangerous.”

<span style="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?”

<span style="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 Island harbors many more things than the mythical Well of Eon or the Sacred Deck of Eon, the Second Deck,” Coloseius explained and he was standing on top of the hill. Pamadala as she came to stand next to him, heard far cries after which a beam shot into the air in the distance. “Aaah…”

<span style="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 was 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;">“The Eye of the World,” Coloseius pointed to the source of the beam. “It relocates everytime someone visits 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;">“When was the last 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;">“When Grand Master Aruya and Master Clayou had come past the Spider Earthbound Guardian,” Coloseius smirked. “At least we know where the Eye is now. From there it won’t be long before we find the Well of Eon.”

<span style="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 stepped down the hill in a serious fashion, Pamadala followed him down and looked her eyes out, seeing so many magnificent flowers she had never seen before. As she came past them, new flowers started to sprout from the ground, turning out to be much larger then the normal size.

<span style="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 this place?”

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

<span style="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. But what is going on here?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I do not believe it is my place to tell you,” Coloseius spoke in a slow fashion. “Legend has it that there are three pillars on this island, each representing a constellation.”

<span style="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 did not answer my question,” Pamadala countered. “What is going on here?”

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

<span style="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;">“Guys, it is Kamon!” Marcy had seen her brother, who was slowly approaching the group. The gates of the Golden City were destroyed and Rau, the  Gatekeeper<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">, was still in the infirmary. As they were on a heightened plateau of the Golden City, they could easily oversee the city.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kamon in the meantime had no trace of the <0>-symbol or his changed eyes. The only thing that was different was that his clothes had changed into the more darker clothes of what he used to wear. Even his duel disc was replaced by the usual duel disc he wore, the dragon-head like duel disc of him. He took the first few steps up the stairs to his friends, without them knowing what actually was going on.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Marcy was the first to notice him walking up the stairs and she was the first one to walk over to the top of the stairs, smiling broadly. Kamon looked up to her and gave her a small smile, but his eyes were staring over her shoulder, darting over the huge palace around them and then back to the sandy road in front of the Golden Palace where Shehbezzar, Scorass and Zen-Aku were still fighting.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">When he finally reached the end of the stairs, for a moment he seemed disappointed but then quickly changed his look, forcing a smile. However the moment of disappointment did not go unnoticed by everyone. Drake had seen it, while the others were rather happy to see Kamon 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;">“What took you so long?!” Xander clapped Kamon on the 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;">“I was busy,” Kamon answered. “With trying to get back 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;">“Well we are glad you are back with us, you are a bit late though,” Marcy told her brother and she pointed everywhere. “The battle’s over, we won thanks to Rontaro.”

<span style="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,” Kamon continued and he started looking around. It was obvious he was looking for something or someone.

<span style="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 Kamon?” Xander asked Kamon. “What are you looking for?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Not what,” Kamon continued. “Haven’t you heard it yet? She is gone.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Who is gone?” Drake now came to the front, participating in the conversation. “Who is gone, Kamon?”

<span style="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 gone,” Kamon continued and he looked around. “Where is he?”

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

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Raven?! He hasn’t been in here,” Xander countered and he pointed to the others. “Only us are here 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;">“Raven killed her,” Kamon spoke and the others did not understand, until Marcy grabbed a hold of him and hugged him. Kamon returned the hug, embracing his sister. A few tears left his eye.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Come on, let us go inside,” Marcy adviced her brother. “We’ll get to the bottom of that later on. You look starved.”

<span style="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,” Kamon followed the others. “Lets get inside.”

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“The Duel Monster Spirits were the one thing that you always overlooked,” Zen-Aku pointed that out to both Shehbezzar and Scorass. “My power and my drive to do what is right comes from the fact that the Duel Monster Spirits call out to me and help me. And they are what will guide me to victory.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Unfortunately for you,” Scorass sensed the  Shift<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> of energy within the Golden Palace. “Pure darkness has now entered the Golden Palace and there is nothing you can do to stop it.” He pointed to the palace in the distance.

<span style="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 for long, we brought reinforcements,” Zen-Aku started playing a tune on his flute, while fending off the direct attack of Scorass, while Shehbezzar managed to hold Scorass from the other side. Invisible entities started appearing from the ground and from the fallen bodies from both monsters and humans.

<span style="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 right,” Shehbezzar felt the  Shift<span style="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 well, while being supported by various spheres and spirits. “The  Shift<span style="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 occurring, the tide is turning 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;">“It is to late anyway, the damage has been done,” Scorass tried to be convincing. “The Golden City is in ruins.”

<span style="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 just an embodiment of our power, of our Light,” Shehbezzar spoke. “We are inside the Sacred Dimension, the most ancient dimension of all. Everything will repair itself.” He raised his blade, wiping away the first attack of the Fallen Sacred Guardian and then pushing him backwards.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Zen-Aku kept playing his flute, chanting the mysterious tones through the landscape, while more and more spheres started joining him. Various outlines of spirits started joining the two warriors. This flood of spirits should be seen from the Golden Palace. Zen-Aku suddenly jumped, dropping the blade and flipped over Scorass.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Scorass was dumbfounded as spirits started to surround him and close in on him. He waved around with his weapons, but unable to hit the bodyless spirits. Zen-Aku growled as he prepared to strike.

<span style="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,” Scorass told Zen-Aku. “You will only make matters worse.”

<span style="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 even if you manage to destroy me,” Scorass pointed into the sky where stars were gathering, forming a pentagram. “The war has just begun. We are done preparing, shoving pawns around. We will face you heads on 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;">“Is that a thread?” Shehbezzar wondered, pointing his blade at Scorass.

<span style="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 decide, but the war that was below the surface before, is an all out war now. And there is nothing you can do to prevent that,” Scorass spoke with his venomous tongue to the two opposing warriors. “Are you prepared to risk 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;">--

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kamon followed the others inside, Dustin and Xander close to him, eyeing him. There was still no sign of Dragen, the one who had lead the defense against the invading Army of Darkness.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kamon was eagerly looking around, almost furious that he could not find what he was looking for, which undoubtly was Raven as he stated before. Marcy paid no attention to her brother as they entered the large chamber where they were being presented to Merel for the first time, back when they did not know Lady Elm Re was actually Merel, their sister.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Marcy walked down to the right, fixing a table and setting it straight, pushing aside some debris. She also pulled a chair to the table and went back to the group, to her big brother Kamon to guide him to the chair. He seemed starved and tired and so Marcy wanted to help her big brother, but that would all change.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Step away from 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;">Marcy and the others looked up as Dragen appeared from the other side of the chamber. He came in, having his duel disc activated. The others were the first to step towards Dragen, wondering why and what he meant or said. He had a furious glance fixed straight at Kamon, who was behind the group.

<span style="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?” Marcy asked and Dragen stopped far from the group, holding his duel disc at a ready. “Why is your duel disc activated?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Don’t you understand?” Kamon slowly spoke and he closed his eyes. “He has been tainted by darkness. He is here to stop 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;">“Don’t you listen to him Marcy!” Dragen countered and he pulled out the box the Swordsmen Trio got from Black Gem and White Gem. “That is not the Kamon we know. That is not Kamon as we were seperated from.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Marcy,” Kamon placed his hand on her shoulder. “I am your older brother, he is tainted by darkness I say. Don’t you believe me if I say so?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I guess,” Marcy hesitated, being conflicted. She trusted and loved her older brother, but she trusted Dragen with her life. Besides Dragen was the one along with her who had seen Merel and Kamon did not. “Is it true, Dragen?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Marcy, I am not the bad guy here,” Dragen urged her and the others did not know what they had to do. They were standing between Kamon and Marcy and Dragen. “Kamon’s Darkness within him is taking over. Right now he has some level of control over it, but the darkness will win and all that we have fought for, all that we are fighting for and all that we are going to be fighting for, will be for nothing.”

<span style="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,” Marcy disagreed with Dragen. “I believe it is your view that has been clouded. Kamon is my brother, he would never let something happen like 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;">“His view is clouded!” Dragen countered and he tapped the box he was holding. “What is inside here will proof it. What is inside here told me what happened, told me what will happen if we do not undertake action. It is Kamon, Marcy, believe me 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;">“Than what is inside that box?” Kamon challenged Dragen.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes Dragen,” Marcy spoke on a dark omnious tone. “What is inside that box?”

<span style="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…”

<span style="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;">-- FLASHBACK --

<span style="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 Swordsman stepped in front of him and grabbed him by the shoulder.

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

<span style="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 about 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;">“We are in great danger.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Dragen was dumbfounded by the appearance of the spirits of the warriors as he was all alone in the room. All three of them were in the room, each of them battle scarred, each of them worn out by a battle he had no idea of that it happened. Dragen looked at them one by one, noticing the box the grey armored swordsman was holding.

<span style="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? Why? What did Kamon 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;">Silent Swordsman put his fingers on Dragen’s head and Dragen saw flashes. Flashes of Kamon’s duel in front of the Gate with the Gate Servant, the power he unleashed by using Dark Messiah. The <0>-symbol. Kamon’s dark laughter as he entered the Gate to the Sacred Dimension.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Then other flashes passed by. The duel against Mutinus where he used the corrupted version of his favorite dragon to destroy the former pirate lord, now turned Earthbound Guardian. How Mutinus disintegrated when Kamon destroyed his last life points and completely disappeared, now once and for all defeated.

<span style="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 Swordsman ended the flashes with pulling his fingers from Dragen’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;">“Do you see now what he did?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes I do,” Dragen agreed and he sat down. “Why?”

<span style="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 Darkness of the Twilight has taken over. His anger was fed by the information given to him and he made the wrong choice. He gave into his anger and hatred for that one person and nearly devastated the King of Games,” Silent Swordsman 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;">“Wait, Yugi Mutoh was 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;">“Yes, by now I think Yugi Mutoh has returned to the Human Realm. We disappeared as well,” Silent Swordsman continued and he looked at his companions. “And we battled and won the confrontation with the very same fiend that was used by Kamon.”

<span style="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 understand…”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Bottom line is someone must free him,” Mystic Swordsman tells Dragen. “If we do not, we will never win this war.”

<span style="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 that someone is 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;">“Preferably yes, you are the only one, the only Sage who is capable of defeating Kamon at full power,” Blindstrike Swordsman answered and he tapped the box he held. “And these are the means meant to do it. If he does come over, use these. Convince him with power to return to 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;">“We are in huge trouble if this does not succed?”

<span style="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,” Silent Swordsman answered. “All is for nothing if you do not bring him back, by force or by reasoning.”

<span style="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 inside the box?”

<span style="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 when you need 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;">With these words the three spirits became spheres of light and disappeared into the box. Dragen slammed his fist against the table and picked the box 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;">“Damn it Kamon.”

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You are saying that…” Drake summarized the things Dragen just told him for himself. “We were wrong to bring in Kamon?”

<span style="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 no,” another voice answered before Dragen could. Rontaro appeared from behind a pillar. He was still dressed in the white-golden armor with the overcoat in the same colors. “It was the right choice to bring him 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;">“Rontaro?” Damien, Marcy and the others were surprised.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Tell me Kamon, what did it?” asked Rontaro to Kamon. “Was it the prediction of Sara’s death that did it? Was it the fact that you were helpless, to helpless to help your friend? To helpless to save her from the clutches of Raven?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Kamon, listen to me…” Marcy began and she turned to her brother. “That is not true. She …”

<span style="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 now Marcy,” Rontaro cut her off. “Not now. What was it Kamon? Was it the hatred for yourself, the hatred because you could not get out? Did you blame everyone? Especially yourself?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kamon was boiling from the inside, the others turned around against him. His eyes were closed, but when he opened them, they had the same blood red colored pupils and the black edges as he had previously. The <0>-symbol on his head activated and he pushed a few aside from his path. His duel disc changed as well, into the blackened version of his usual one. He entered the inner rotonda where Dragen was standing.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Dragen 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;">“Activate Mark of the Savior!” Dragen shifted off the first card from his deck holding it up and the Mark appeared around them filling the room. Kamon was surprised by the sudden move. He turned around, but bumped into an invisible border.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Let me out!” Kamon urged, his <0>-symbol glowing. “Let me out or…”

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

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

<span style="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 WILL KILL YOU ALL!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Marcy was taken back by the sudden outburst of Kamon and started to cry. Damien placed an arm around her. Kamon was surrounded by a dark aura and he activated the duel disc inserting his 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;">“This is what you wanted did you not?” Kamon asked Dragen. “You wanted a battle? You got a battle!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I did not want it to get this far Kamon,” Dragen promised his best friend. “But it seems I have no other choice.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“When I defeat you,” Kamon promised the entire room. “I will crush you all.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You will have to get past me first probie,” Dragen shifted the first five cards from his deck. “You’re on mate.”

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

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

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Zen-Aku watched as the spirits had Scorass trapped within their grasp. Shehbezzar stood up as well. They crossed their swords and fired an x-shaped beam at Scorass who was still entrapped by the sprits that Zen-Aku had summoned. Scorass saw the beam coming at him, but unable to move due to the spirits, he took the beam of power as a direct hit.

<span style="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 was flung backwards, this time being overpowered by the pure force of the two opponents opposing him. He grunted while getting up again and charged towards the two, however soon the spirits were blocking his path again. Slashing at them did not help so he decided to go right through 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;">“There is a wall,” Zen-Aku pointed out as the spirits parted way and Scorass could go right through. “There was a wall.”

<span style="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 point?” asked Scorass.

<span style="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,” Zen-Aku jammed his sword in the ground and jumped up supported by the sword. At that same moment the spirits of various monsters and humans joined together around Scorass and held him in his place. Zen-Aku came from above, but he landed behind Scorass and drove his blade into Scorass.

<span style="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 done,” Shehbezzar congratulated Zen-Aku and Zen-Aku nodded as Scorass dropped on the ground. The grin of Scorass puzzled both of them however. “What is he smiling about?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Did we forget something?” the Wolf Lord questioned the Sacred Guardian. “Is there a special way to defeat or kill a Fallen Sacred 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;">“There is none,” Shehbezzar answered. “Anyway you defeat or kill him is the 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;">“I am gone, but the battle is far from over,” Scorass announced as he stood up, his stomach open from the cut of the Wolf Lord. “The damage is done. The Twilight is ours and Master Oracion has left the Sacred Dimension for the Human Realm. The downfall of the Human Realm will soon begin!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Slowly he started to fade away. He looked towards the Golden City and told the others; “Your friends are battling each other now. That is only the beginning. Soon they will start fighting on who will duel who and than a rift has been created. You have won this battle, but you will not win the war. I promise you that.” With these last words he disappeared from the battle 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;">“Well that settles that,” Shehbezzar turned to Zen-Aku. “We must return to our friends right 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;">“Agreed.”

<span style="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 became two balls of light and flew towards the Golden Palace, where the battle between Kamon and Dragen was about to commence.

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kamon – 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;">Dragen – 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;">“Start turn,” Kamon flicked the first card from his deck, that was glowing with dark aura. His <0>-symbol glowed brightly as he searched his hand and took two cards from the hand and inserted them into his duel disc. “I set these two cards face down. Next I summon Ritual Burner (100/900) 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;">A fiend appeared, holding a small red shield in its hands and was surrounded by cups. It had a skull like head with various spikes on its armor. Kamon placed another card in his duel disc. “Now I can equip Ritual Burner with a Ritual Spell Card. I choose Shadow of the Dark Moon, which can be used to ritual summon any Dark attribute ritual monster. 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;">‘ ''Only two set cards and a weak monster? Man, this Kamon is a lot weaker OR simply a lot smarter then probie was. But I cannot let my guard 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;">’ Dragen pulled off the first card from his deck. “Draw 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;">“At this moment my two trap cards activate. Force of the Known and Force of the Unknown!” Two voids appeared above those two cards. “Now due to Force of the Known you lose 100 life points times the number of cards in your hand.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Dragen – 4000 -> 3400

<span style="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 Force of the Unknown?”

<span style="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 card is for later.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Since I control no monsters on the field, I summon Summon Knight (2000/1500) to the field in attack mode.” A warrior appeared, this one was wearing blue-golden armor with a crown like helmet. His armor manifested a card-like symbol and several stars placed around its armor, twelve in total. It had a large sword with a star for a handle.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Wait…” Kamon’s mouth fell open. “Are you trying to persuade me like this?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Like 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;">“Play some cards I used to play as well to show me the error of my way?” Kamon continued and Dragen shakes his head.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Just pure coincidence.” Dragen sifted through his deck and smirked. “By Summon Knight’s effect, I can remove one Warrior-type monster from my deck from play.” He selected a card and pocketed it. “Next stop,  Graceful Charity<span style="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 drew three cards and left two in the graveyard.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Dragen is starting good at least,” Marcy commented on Dragen’s move sofar. “Did he…?” She looked to Rontaro.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes he did,” Rontaro confirmed and Marcy smirked, knowing what Dragen had done.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“ Double 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;"> activate,” Dragen flipped his new card in. “I summon once more, come out  Junk Synchron<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> (1300/300)!” The machine tuner appeared on the field. Its engine on the back was roaring already. “Now by its effect, I can summon forth  Speed Warrior<span style="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;">“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;">“Remember I discarded two cards due to  Graceful Charity<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">?” Dragen placed the monster card back on the duel disc and the grey armored warrior appeared on the field. “Now I tune in my  Speed Warrior<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> with  Junk Synchron<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">! Rev it up! Synchro Summon! Junk Warrior<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> (2300/1300)!” The blue heavily armored warrior appeared on his field.

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

<span style="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,” Dragen concluded his first turn, having two monsters on his field. “Show me how far your mind has wandered to the darkness.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You have asked for it,” Kamon pointed to his face up cards. “Force of the Known activates, I deal you 100 points of damage per card in your hand.” Dragen showed he only had one card in his hand.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Dragen – 3400 -> 3300

<span style="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 draw a card,” Kamon levitated his new card to the height of his eye and looked at it. “Activate Ritual Spell Card attached to my Ritual Burner, Shadows of the Dark Moon, which allows me to Ritual Summon any dark attribute monster to the field. From my hand I tribute my  Ultimate Obedient Fiend<span style="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 Ritual Summon my Dark Sphere of Life!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">One of the dreaded Sphere monsters of Kamon appeared. Its pulsating outer shell unveiled a more mechanical structure within the Sphere. Kamon raised his hand as a card flipped from his 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;">“Due to the presence of my Force of the Known and Force of the Unknown, I can activate this card from my deck, Dark Precense.” The card spread out a dark mist, spreading around the area. The others, except for Dragen backed down. “This card gains one Presence-Counter for every monster on the field, once per turn. That is five and Dark Sphere of Life gains 400 attack points for every counter on the field. (ATK: 0 -> 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;">“2000,” Dragen realized. “That is barely enough to beat my Summon Knight. And if you destroy my Summon Knight, you unleash what I have hidden.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Quit jabbering,” Kamon spoke and he inserted a card in his duel disc. “Now 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!” Dragen slipped the next card from his deck and his smile widened. “Activate spell card,  Card of Sanctity<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">, which allows us both to draw until we hold six cards.” His hand size increased by the five new cards he drew. “I equip  Junk Warrior<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> with  Junk Barrage<span style="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 the spell card Surging Fusion.”

<span style="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 spell card,” Kamon realized as the continuous spell card took the field. “You plan on summoning a Fusion Monster.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Correct,” Dragen’s spell card glowed as he pocketed a card from his hand. “I remove  Zaborg the Thunder Monarch<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> from my hand from play by the effect of Surging Fusion.” The spirit of the Monarch appeared shortly on the field. “ Junk Warrior<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">, attack Dark Sphere of Life!” The warrior attacked and  Junk Barrage<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> glowed.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“ Junk Barrage<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> was the right choice,” Xander, who was on the side lines, told the others. “It can deal half of the power of the destroyed monster as damage to the opponent. That means Kamon gets another blast.” After  Junk Warrior<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> destroyed the Sphere monster, another blast of lightning hit Kamon.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kamon – 4000 -> 3700 -> 2700

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Fool,” Kamon removed the card from his duel disc and placed it in his graveyard slot. “When Dark Sphere of Life is destroyed and send to the graveyard, Dark Sphere of Death is summoned.” Another Sphere appeared, this one filled with magma, but clearly a mechanical structure was seen within the sphere monster. “This card too gains 400 attack points per counter on the field (ATK: 0 -> 2000). However Dark Presence still has to activate, placing another five counters on this card (Counters: 5 -> 10) and this increases the power of Dark Sphere of Death as well (ATK: 2000 -> 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;">“Darn it,” Dragen realized the predicament he was in. ‘ Either I must destroy that card or keep my monster count low.<span style="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;">“What will you do now, Dragen?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I set these two cards and than play  Dian Keto the Cure 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;">, gaining 1000 life points. That is all 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;">Dragen – 3300 -> 4300

<span style="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,” Kamon shifted off his next card from his deck and looked at it. “My Dark Presence gains another five counters due to there being five monsters on the field (Counters: 10 -> 15 / Dark Sphere of Death ATK: 4000 -> 6000).” His eyes glowed as he looked over his hand.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ What is he doing?<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Dragen wondered and he looked at his card. ‘ ''He’ll beat me in one shot. Is the actual Kamon holding his dark side back?''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ I cannot take the chance he might go easy on me because Kamon is holding him 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;">’ Dragen prepared for what was to come from the dark side of Kamon. His hand hovered above the buttons of his duel disc.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Attack his  Junk Warrior<span style="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 he does attack 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;">’ Dragen concluded and pushed the button. ‘ ''Well then, it is time for a hidden trap. But why not for the kill?''<span style="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  Junk Warrior<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> was annihialed by Dark Sphere of Death, his trap card flipped up. “ A Hero Emerges<span style="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;">Dragen – 4300 -> 600

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Dragen is at 600 already…” the others were not to happy about 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;">“With  A Hero Emerges<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">, you can select one random card in my hand, and if it is a monster, I can summon it.” Dragen held up his hand. “Choose, Kamon.”

<span style="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 card,” Kamon selected a card from Dragen’s hand. Dragen turned it around, revealing it to be one of the Monarchs, Mobius.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I summon forth  Mobius the Frost Monarch<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> (2400/1000),” Dragen summoned the ice blue king-like monster to the field. “Unfortunately since I did not tribute summon it, I cannot activate its effect … 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;">“I set this monster in defense mode,” Kamon summoned a monster face down defense mode and looked at Dragen’s other face down card. “I have an idea what that may be. I end my turn with a face down 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;">“Start turn,” Dragen slipped a new card into his hand and pointed at his face down card. “Activate trap card, Trigger Happy. Now when a monster has been special summoned or is special summoned, once per turn I can automatically activate that monster’s effect at will. Trigger Happy, activate Mobius’ effect. Destroy spell or trap cards!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I suppose that means bye bye Dark Presence,” Drake commented on the 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 bye bye Dark Presence plus Shadow of the Dark Moon,” Dragen tells the others while Mobius’ power blows up the face up spell card and the face down card. “What?! Statue of the Wicked<span style="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;">“When  Statue of the Wicked<span style="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,” Kamon revealed as a yellowish cat statue appeared on his field. “I summon a Wicked Token (0/0) to the field in defense position. Plus when Dark Presence is destroyed, the Battle Phase cannot be conducted that 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;">“Damned,” Dragen crushes his own fist almost in the ground. “Surging Fusion activate. I remove one monster from my deck from play by its effect.” He revealed  Raiza the Storm Monarch<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ ''That is his second Monarch already that he removes by that effect. Dragen must be up to something, he would not just carelessly remove these monsters from play. Does he have…?''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Marcy wondered.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“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;">Kamon – 2700 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Dragen – 600

<span style="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;">Coloseius and Pamadala continued their journey over the fields which were partly sand and partly grass. The sun was shining, but Pamadala had no idea what exactly to expect wherever they were going. She saw various craters at both sides, she expected them to be meteorite craters.

<span style="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 wonder what these are?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“How?” Pamadala asked the obvious question when Coloseius spoke before she asked. “You read my mind.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“It does not take a psychic to know what you want to know,” Coloseius responded and looked around. “These craters are rumored to be leftovers from the war that once befell on the Order of Eon. And don’t worry we are getting 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;">They passed another rock structure and Pamadala was by now wondering why they were walking and why not use another means of transportation. Pamadala had pulled off her top cloak, revealing the light weight dark armor carrying under it, with the symbol of the Divine Cult on 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;">“We are getting near the Well of Eon,” Coloseius told Pamadala while they quietly and slowly approached the point to where they want to go. “The Well of Eon is a mystical place where many that died find their way to the Light.”

<span style="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 people actually would come here to die?” Pamadala asked Coloseius and the man nodded. “Do people travel here when they are about to die?”

<span style="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,” Coloseius answered. “Only people who have grown up or were born on the Island of Eon can find the Well of Eon or must be brought there by someone. You are neither, so you are brought, but you do not find the same benefits as I do or even Master Lucian. Because he too, he too knows about the Well of Eon. I might even say he is gifted by more knowledge then I am about the 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;">“And all those people in the Divine Cult?”

<span style="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 may have some blood of Eon families, but they were not born or raised on Eon,” Colseius explained and he patted his deckbox. “I attained my deck here, I gained possession of it here. When you die here, your spirit lives here for an eternity. You can pass on when you want, but until then you remain here. You will be one of the Guardians of Eon 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;">“Given the surroundings, there are a lot of Guardians of Eon 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;">“Yes there are.” Coloseius eyed the various spirits hovering around the lands of the island. “There are indeed.”

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">She was however stopped by a handsign of Coloseius and stopped dead in her tracks. They had stopped in front of a rock structure, which was a kind of wall. The rocks looked quite brown to her.

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

<span style="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 green brown chamber was lit by the sunlight coming through the windows. The windows were gigantic in size and were shining on a wooden bed where an older man was resting. It maybe was a little early for a rest but no pre-defined times were set in the Divine Cult. The man was clad in the dark grey ceremonial robes of the Divine Cult, supporting green tints that had leaf patterns in 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;">The two brown wooden doors opened at the end of the room. Aruya entered, walking slowly, hoping not to wake the man up. She was dressed in her ceremonial robes of the Grand Master of the Darkness Element. The black tints of her robes reflected nothing. She slowly moved through the room, first to the windows, overlooking the gardens outside and than to the man on the bed.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Clayou entered behind her, dressed in his ceremonial robes as well. He closed the doors silently and locked them, no-one could get out. As he stood guard over at the door, Aruya moved towards the bed and pulled out the same dagger she used previously.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“For your betrayal of the Divine Cult,” Aruya spoke as she leveled the dagger above the man, who slowly started to wake up. “For your ignorance of our true goals, I deem you guilty.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Our true goals?” the man brought out and he looked to the face of the female Grand Master. “Your views on our true goals are different from mine yes, but mine reflect those of the Divine Cult.”

<span style="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 deem you guilty,” Aruya placed the dagger’s tip on the body, while the Grand Master lying there was lying still. “And I hereby sentence you to the Judgment Chamber.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No…”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">She pushed and the dagger’s tip disappeared into the body of the man, blood starting to leak out. Aruya stepped away as the man spat out his last breaths of air, before slowly closing his eyes, his pupils stil fixed on Aruya standing next to the bed. She placed her hand over his eyes and closed 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;">“Bring him to the Judgment Chamber,” Aruya told Clayou and she moved to the windows again, seeing various people on higher places. “I have another candidate to select.”

<span style="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 will,” Clayou bows and picks the body from the bed, heaving it over his shoulder and leaving the room through a back door.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Aruya too, left through the main doors, after sweeping away the blood on the sheeth she held under her cloak. The room then turned silent, but a pair of eyes was lurking behind the curtains on the wall. They closed itself and disappeared. No trace of the pair of eyes was seen.

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“We are there?” Pamadala asked Lucian while looking around. To her they were simply walking through a rock structure. The path they followed lead up into the structure and Coloseius clearly knew where they had to go.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes,” Coloseius repeated, while reaching the top of the rock structure and overlooking the surroundings. “We are 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;">Pamadala joined him and her mouth dropped. Lainna had barely seen such a surrounding as herself or as Pamadala. There was a large pool, leading into a cave. A pool with clear water. There were no fish in it, but the plants living in it went into the sky, all pointing to a certain point in the sky.

<span style="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 are they doing?”

<span style="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 plants live in a different environment here,” Coloseius stepped over the edge and pulled of his hood, revealing his bald head and crown like head attachment before entering the path down. Lainna could now see you could walk around the cave with the water streaming into it, into an unknown destination.

<span style="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 the Well of Eon?”

<span style="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,” Coloseius approached the stream and cupped his hands, bringing some water from it. He drank from it and stood up again. He eyed the rocks behind the entrance of the Well, when he reached for his silver colored duel disc. “We have company…”

<span style="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 done Lainna…”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">From behind the rocks, Lucian appeared and looked at Lainna and Coloseius. Lainna, in the guise of Pamadala, had hoped he would not reveal her identity until the right time. Lainna moved away from Coloseius who eyed both her and Lucian, who now was on level with the others.

<span style="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 Coloseius,” Lucian placed his left hand. “Let us enter the 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;">---

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kamon – 2700 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Dragen – 600

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Draw card,” Kamon pulled a new card from his deck. “I declare this card to be a spell 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;">‘ He has an Omnicard inside that 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;">’

<span style="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 activate!” Kamon inserted the card into his dark duel disc. “Omni Fusion! I remove my Force of the Known and Force of the Unknown from play!” The two trap cards disappeared into a purple-colored  Fusion 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;">.

<span style="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 that?” Marcy complained. “I thought such things were still experimental?”

<span style="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,” Drake filled in. “However fusing traps or spells to create a monster is not unheard of. Besides we are in a different dimension, everything can happen 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;">“By the effect of Omni Fusion as a spell card, I have removed them and I can summon the monster to the field!” The  Fusion 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;">expanded, revealing a smoke appearing from it. The smoke slowly started to take form, the form of a hideous scorpion like monster. It had three large yellow eyes on the front. “Come forward Fadeless Scorpio (0/0)!”

<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;">“A enormous monster…”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Fadeless Scorpio attack his  Junk Warrior<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">!” Kamon ordered and the scorpion like creature attacked. “When Fadeless Scorpio attacks, I select 1 monster on my field and Fadeless Scorpio gains half of the attack power. I select Dark Sphere of Life, which has 6,000 attack points (Fadeless Scorpio ATK: 0 -> 3000). Win this battle! Dual Dimensional Crusher!”

<span style="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 trap card!” Dragen flipped up his trap card. “This battle is not over! Draining Shield<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Dragen – 600 -> 3600

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Activate spell card Savage Sword,” Kamon inserted the card in his duel disc, but instead of on his field, it was equipped to Summon Knight. “Instead of equipping it to my monsters, I equip Savage Sword to your Summon Knight by paying 1000 life points.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kamon – 2700 -> 1700

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next one face down card and end my turn,” Kamon lowered his duel disc and looked at his former friends. “How do you feel now? Does the despair already come 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;">“What is he talking about?”

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Probably,” Dragen slipped the new card from his deck. “I’ll gibbslap him when the duel’s done.”

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Watched to many NCIS,” Xander made it clear for her and she 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;">“Anyway it is my turn I believe. Activate effect of Surging Fusion. I remove my  Thestalos the Firestorm Monarch<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> from play by its effect,” he pocketed his next Monarch and looked at Kamon. ‘ I just need to remove one more Monarch.<span style="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;">“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;">“Trigger Happy activates,” Dragen continued his turn. “I activate Mobius’ effect, destroying 2 spell or trap cards on the field. Be gone Savage Sword, be no longer a threat to 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;">“Unfortunately I expected you to do that,” Kamon balled his fist and pointed it at the disappearing sword from Summon Knight. “When Savage Sword is destroyed, my opponent loses 1000 life points.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Dragen – 3600 -> 2600

<span style="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 your face down card,” Dragen pointed to the card Kamon had put face down. It was revealed to be Wind of Dark Change. “Well probie, I certainly do not know what that card would do to me, but I am certainly prepared to take the risk.”

<span style="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,” Kamon let him wait in suspense. “…does nothing.”

<span style="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 that Kamon coming through?” Marcy marked hopefully.

<span style="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 for Kamon it would be a rookie mistake,” Dragen turned his attention to his hand. ‘ And I have the way to bring him back … that is if he destroys Summon Knight.<span style="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 move done yet?” Kamon asked agitated.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I set this card face down and drop it for now,” Dragen slid in a new card and ended his turn. “Well Kamon, we have come this far, how far are you willing to go?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Do not test me,” Kamon’s eyes turned in a furious fire of red light as the <0>-symbol glowed and the ground started shaking. “I know all about your Summon Knight. You will use it to summon one of your stronger Warrior monsters.”

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

<span style="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 trap card,” Kamon’s trap card flipped up. “Fear Reaping. Every time I draw a card, I can destroy a monster on the field and than activate an effect according to the card I drew.” He performed his Draw Phase.

<span style="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, go for Summon Knight…”

<span style="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 will make this a bit interesting,” Kamon pointed to  Junk Warrior<span style="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 will destroy your  Junk Warrior<span style="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 than revealed his card he had drawn, a spell card. “And since I drew a spell card, I must destroy a monster on my field.” Dark Sphere of Life blew 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;">“Haha…”

<span style="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’s so funny?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Since you blew up your Dark Sphere of Life by a card effect, you cannot summon forth Dark Sphere of Death to your field.” Dragen smirked as the feint image of the sphere hovering above them faded 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;">“You learn quickly…”

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“How about this than?” Kamon opened his hand and pointed to Summon Knight. “Dual Dimensional Crusher!” Fadeless Scorpio went forward and put its claws around the knight, however a barrier reflected it. “Crap…”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“That’s the Kamon I know, falling for traps I set,” Dragen shaked his head. “ 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;">! The easiest trick in the book and you still fall for 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;">“The Battle Phase is ended, but you cannot endlessly throw counter trap cards against me,” Kamon spoke to him. “I set this card and so my turn comes to an end.”

<span style="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 so my turn begins,” Dragen shifted his next card from his deck. ‘ ''Finally the card I require. If only he knew what we had in store for 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;">’ He pocketed a card from his hand and Surging Fusion activated. “I activate Surging Fusion and remove this monster 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;">“Have you got any idea to what monster he is working towards?” Marcy asked her other friends.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I have heard rumors of Dragen putting some new Fusion Monster in his Extra Deck. I thought he only carried the Warrior Synchro’s, the Overlord Synchro’s and the Helix Draken Fusion?” Lean asked the others.

<span style="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 so did we…”

<span style="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 Helix Draken?” asked Dustin.

<span style="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 a card he used to use back when we were on the run from Darkness during the Second War against Darkness four years ago,” Dyllan explained and he looked at the others. “Helix Draken was part of the Helix series of cards Dragen added to his deck to supplement his Monarchs.”

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

<span style="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 expect you will attack me 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;">“Why should I?” Dragen claimed and he pointed to Summon Knight. “Summon Knight can clearly not stand up to your Fadeless Scorpio.” He looked expectingly to Kamon. ‘ Come on Kamon take the bait.<span style="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 am no fool,” Kamon sighed and looked at the face down card of Dragen. “You probably have a Monarch support card there that can support your Mobius.”

<span style="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 see if you attack me,” Dragen challenged Kamon.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Dragen, be careful!” Marcy warned her best friend’s brother. “That is not my brother and he is not your 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;">“Tell me something I do not know!” Dragen slid a card in his duel disc. “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,” Kamon saw how his Fear Reaping glowed. “I draw a card and destroy your Mobius. Even if that was a Monarch support card, you should activate it by now.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I…” Dragen rested his hand on the Monster Card Zone slots of his duel disc. “… do not activate anything.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I have drawn a monster card,” Kamon showed the monster he had drawn, Storm Sorcerer. “This means I must pay 500 life points.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Kamon – 1700 -> 1200

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

<span style="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 use my Fadeless Scorpio’s effect, but I do have enough power to destroy what is dear to you!” Kamon ordered as he pointed to Summon Knight. Dragen smirked as the scorpion creature approached it and enclosed the knight with its claws. Kamon balled his fists. “Dual Dimension Crusher!”

<span style="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 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;">Dragen – 2600 -> 1600

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“For 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;">“By Summon Knight’s effect I 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;">The armor of the knight exploded as the card Dragen had pocketed when he summoned Summon Knight, flew from his pocket and inserted itself in his duel disc. A navy blue armored warrior with a pirate’s hat appeared. It donned silver metal accents around its armor and overcoat and carried a large blue-silver buster sword with it. It had blonde colored hair and white gloves around its hand.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“ Silent Swordsman LV3<span style="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;">“What?” Kamon was unable to bring something out at that moment as the revelation of his former partner was revealed.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Maybe he will knock some sense in you,” Dragen revealed as his face down card activated.

<span style="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 this?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Bond of Brothers!” Mist appeared around Dragen as the shapes of two more warriors appeared on the field. “When  Silent Swordsman LV3<span style="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 field, I can Special Summon these two…”

<span style="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 second warrior to reveal itself was shorter than Silent Swordsman. This swordsman was dressed in a more samurai fashion. It had purple underdressing and a silver armor on top of it. A pointy hat was on top of the head of the swordsman as he carried a large halve cycle buster sword.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“ Mystic Swordsman LV2<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">The third warrior to reveal itself kneeled on one knee as it made its entrance. Not only was it dressed in a grey tunic with light weight armor over it, he had messy brown hair and large grey eyes. He carried no hat, but he did carry a large buster sword and a set of silver daggers on his belt.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And your friend,” Dragen concluded. “… and ever lasting partner…”

<span style="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 last swordsman joined  Silent Swordsman LV3<span style="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  Mystic Swordsman LV2<span style="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 centered their buster swords in the air, clashing them together eyeing Kamon, with the final swordsman not taking his eyes of Kamon.

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

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

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Maybe it was a bit of an akward moment to end this chapter, but I got where I wanted to be. I completely forgot to post this chapter last week and by the time I remembered it was nearly this weekend already, so I waited until today to post 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;">The deck Dragen uses now, is a hybrid of his own deck and Kamon’s deck. Yes, Ardee for instance has asked me how is Dragen going to combine these elements? Well, Kamon’s cards are in there for the psychological effect of course (I love psychological warfare) and Dragen obviously holds onto his own cards.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">We are done with the set up stage, now the war is all on!

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">See you for 109!