Turn 15: Light of Time

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

Turn 15 “Light of Time.”

“What is that?”

Dr. Azura and Paul had entered a tent, a different one from where they left when they met each other. Paul was astonished to find himself face to face with two pieces of armor. Golden colored armor, one encrusted with a sun and the other one with the moon. Dr. Azura first patted the armor with the sun and then with the moon.

“Millennia ago, a king found this island by accident. He was the king who named this island Eonis and he was also the one who decided not to draw this island onto a map.” Dr. Azura picked a book from a table and showed it to Paul. “The king, also known as Mankyepka, decided never to talk about the island again after what he has seen here.”

“So what did he see here?”

“No-one knows. Although many people speculate he has seen exactly the same as what we are seeing here. Probably even the crater.” Rebecca Azura flipped through her book and showed Paul a drawing of a man standing near a huge crater. “This is of course not from that time, but this is an impression based on what stories have been telling us.”

“Interesting, but what do these two pieces of armor have to do with what we are searching here?” Paul wonders and Dr. Azura smiles, putting down the book and walking to the armor.

“What precise he did here, is unknown. As I said there are no records, no written at all, of Mankyepka entering this island or what he has done here. There were however two things he brought back from Eonis, two pieces of armor, representing the Moon and the Sun.” Dr. Azura picked a couple of photo graphs from a near table and showed them to Paul. “As you can see when we started searching here for the Stone we have seen in the crater, we came past these two armors.”

“Did you find anything else?” Paul wonders and they then heard footsteps.

“No,” a male voice replied before Dr. Azura could reply. “If you look closer at the armor you see two gems on the breast piece.” Paul looked at it, before turning around finding himself face to face with a grey haired man and a short beard. A little boy was standing next to him. “Hello Paul.”

“Dr. Reed, I did not think I would meet you here again.” Paul shakes hands with the man and then turned to the armor.

“These gems are a representation of the Silent and Infinity Core. It means these pieces of armor have been with the two legendary cores Dr. Azura had mentioned already.” Dr. Reed pulled out a laptop and opened it, allowing the boy to play on it. “But first things first. As I said I did not think I would see you here again.”

“Well unexpected calls brings unexpected turns of events, Dr. Reed. Dr. Azura here called me to invite me to come to Eonis again. I admit, I was a little hesitant since what happened last time.” Paul picked a chair and sat down on it. Dr. Reed dragged another chair to him and sat down on it too.

“Let’s say it is good to see you here again.” Dr. Reed sighed and pulled out a map from inside a drawer. “I agree that when you left last time, it was under bad circumstances and our research was ravaged by those sudden sandstorms. You remember this old temple we found back then? It was caved in when I returned here a year later.”

“A year later when I joined the expedition.” Dr. Azura continued. She picked a memory stick out of one of her pockets and inserted it into her laptop. “I am fairly certain you remember this temple right?”

“Yes, of course. We found it a week before my fellow colleagues, without my or Dr. Reed`s authorization explored the temple and found their demise, when ground broke away below their feet.” Paul remained silent for a minute. “It was also the day we found those four giant statues of animals.”

<span style="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 thought they were something else. They don’t look like animals we have found here in the region.” Dr. Azura continued and typed on her laptop. “It was the temple and the statues that brought us to the conclusions we have drawn sofar.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“So, where is the temple now?” Paul asked Dr. Azura and Dr. Reed. “If you dug it up, it must be crawling with our researchers 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;">“Correct,” Dr. Reed answered before Dr. Azura could answer Paul. “It is indeed crawling with researchers. Only thing is, we don’t know where it is right now. The temple and our researchers vanished during the night after we rediscovered the temple. The only thing left of what we have gotten from this temple are the two pieces of armor and the many scrolls subscribing in an ancient language, one used by the Silver Order, the Silent Core and the Infinity Core.”

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

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I start things off.” Gillian draws her sixth card and begins her turn. “I start off with a face down monster in defense mode.” A vertical brown backed card appeared on her side of the field and she smiled.

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Be aware that I still retain my championship status, regardless of Blake beating me. I have many ways to fight around your Time-related monsters.” Gillian then takes another two cards from her hand and placed them in the duel disk. “I set these two cards face down and end my turn.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Defensive play. Hmmm, this should not be too difficult.” Justin pulled a new card from his deck and looks at it. “Come out, Quart Knight-3 (300/300). As you may know once per turn a Time-Counter is placed on this card, making it 200 points stronger now (ATK: 300 -> 500). Next I place this card face down.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ ''I never played him in person, but I did hear what kind of deck he runs. Those Time-Counters are important in his strategy.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Gillian shakes her head, focusing on the duel now. “It is not spectacular, Justin.”

<span style="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 it is not spectacular now, but it will soon.” Justin shifted another card from his hand and inserted it in his duel disk. “Now I activate the continuous spell card Time-Factory, which in turn can place 1 Time-Counter on it [1].”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ Great,<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Kaito remembers from the stands, thinking back to his duel with Justin. ‘ That Time-Factory card supplies him with Time-Counters and he can so bring forth stronger versions of cards he plays.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I activate my Door to the Other Side card,” Justin flipped in a card and the black smoke appears on the field, giving rise to the gigantic door. “Next I end my turn. I’ll let you go and give it a try.”

<span style="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 begins with activation of my  Solemn Wishes<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> card,” Gillian smirked as her continuous trap card appeared on the field. “Next I draw of course and gaining 500 lifepoints due to my  Solemn Wishes<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian – 4000 -> 4500

<span style="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 summon  Jenis, Lightsworn Mender<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> (300/2100) in defense mode.” A male monster appeared on the field, dressed in a white cloak with golden bracelets on it. “Next,  Poison of the Old Man<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">, dealing you 800 points of damage.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 4000 -> 3200

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My Quart Knight has gained another counter (ATK: 500 -> 700).” Justin intervenes and he looks at his hand. “I do not yet have what I want.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next I flip up my  Skelengel<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> monster.” As the face down card disappeared a new monster appeared in a crouching position. “I draw 1 card due to its effect. Now also due to the effect of another monster I can do this. Come forward  Guardian of Order<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> (2500/1500)!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Of course,” both Kaito (from a far distance) and Tyson realized.

<span style="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  Guardian of Order<span style="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 Quart Knight-3!” Gillian ordered and the warrior, fully armored in white-golden armor attacked the smaller knight with the clock in front of it. “Sword of Order!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 3200 -> 1400

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Due to my Quart Knight-3 being destroyed, I can special summon Quart Knight-6 (600/600) to the field.” Justin revealed as a new knight appeared at his side with a bigger clock on his front. He also was wearing a wizarding hat. “Quart Knight-6 like his younger predecessor has the same effect, gaining 5 Time-Counters and removing 1 per turn, increasing its attack power by 300 (ATK: 600 -> 900).”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next stop,  Book of Moon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">. Flipping my  Skelengel<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> back face down, I end my turn.” Gillian slowly looked around the arena where the many mechanic cocoons were still around. “Now my turn ends.” She lowered her duel disk as she awaited Justin`s turn expectantly on what would come.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My turn,” Justin picks a new card from his deck. “ Call Of The Haunted<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> be revealed!” The card flipped up and from the purple smoke from the knight with the clock appeared. “Quart Knight-3 returns (300/300). Like the first time it gains 5 Time-Counters and remove 1, increasing its attack power by 200 (ATK: 300 -> 500).”

<span style="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 gain half of my lost lifepoints of last time due to my Door to the Other Side, as well as all my monsters are treated as Psychic monsters as well.” Justin spreads his arms as the door spread out smoke around 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;">Justin – 1400 -> 2300

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“That is one powerfull spell card.” Gillian remembered it from the duel between Lynn and Blake, when she played it as well.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next up my Quart Time continuous spell card. This card cannot only be not destroyed as long as there is at least 1 Quart Knight on my field, but also allows me to remove 1 more Time-Counter from a monster on my field.” Another gem on the clock of Quart Knight-6 disappeared (ATK: 900 -> 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;">“Interesting but they are not powerfull enough to beat my  Guardian of Order<span style="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 my  Jenis, Lightsworn Mender<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">.” Gillian commented.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I don’t need them to. I simply destroy your face down  Skelengel<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">!” Justin pointed at the face down monster and then to Quart Knight-6. “Quart Knight-6, deal with it! Clock Slash 6!” The sword of the knight hit the face down monster, destroying the angelic creature.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I can draw 1 card, since you flipped him up once again.” Gillian happily increased her hand size by one.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian – 4500 -> 5000

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I end my turn with a face down card.” Justin rested his duel disk at his side, grabbing his side as it felt a little painful. “Ouch, these duels are more intense with this Door card then without them. Why did you make me use that card again?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Because we need a soul for the Silent Core.” Tyson had not moved since the duel had begun, but he was definitely interested in how it would turn out. “You should have used it in your duel against Kaito Shinmaru, but you did not. If you would have used it, all your problems would have been over 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 would have been food for the Silent Core, you mean?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I was not planning on being that direct, but if you insist. Yes, you would have been food for the Silent Core indeed.” Tyson patted at one of the mechanical cocoons. “You see once you have been absorbed by the Door to the Other Side, you see things into a different perspective. You need to make a choise, rekindle with every part of your soul and decide whether you want to live or not. Apart from the Silent Core release power it gives, it also acts as a tool of judgment. Once you pass through, you end up in the worst possible zone ever, the void between life and 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 have heard Master Gakyru speak about that zone. It is called the Dead Zone right?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No, the Dead Zone is different. The void I speak about is the one where you either choose for your will to live or your failure on living and your desire to die. There are several other ways. The Dead Zone is for those, with a rotten soul, that do not have the chance or don’t have the soul in which a small fraction of light is, and wander around eternally.” Tyson looked around him dramatically. “You could say it is the land of the living dead, though we don’t see the ghosts.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Sounds like a bad movie,” Gillian tried to intervene and continue on with 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;">“The Dead Zone is where Ne’us rules. The Star Guardian from the Silver Order, whose biggest desire always has been to lower the veil between the living and the death. To surpass death.” Tyson motioned Gillian to start her turn. “But enough talking now. After all, either of you will go into this state, not 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;">‘ We’ll see about that, you son of …..<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Kaito thought by himself, but at that moment he was distracted. He dove behind a corner as two golden armored men walked past. They did not see him. ‘ I have to get down there.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My turn then,” Gillian started her turn and once again her lifepoints took a raise. “I summon  Garoth, Lightsworn 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;">(1850/1300) to the field.” A new muscular man in white-golden robes appeared, holding a blade.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian – 5000 -> 5500

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yeah, in fact I do indeed.” Gillian then picked a card from her hand. “Now this card can be special summoned when I have 2 or more Lightsworn monsters on my field. Appear Gumaz, Lightsworn Swordmaster (1900/1000).” A new more heavily armored warrior appeared, holding two swords on its 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;">“Now Gumaz attack his Quart Knight-6!” Gillian ordered as the new warrior draws both of his swords and plunges them into the Quart 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;">Justin – 2300 -> 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;">“Next up, my Garoth. Attack his Quart Knight-3!” Gillian ordered again, but this time Justin`s card flipped up. “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;">“Rewind Clock.” Justin introduced her to his trap card. “When my lifepoints would be hitting zero, I can destroy all monsters on the field and reset my lifepoints back at 2300 as they were at the beginning of 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;">“To bad your Door won’t activate then next turn. Since you actually did not lose any lifepoints.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I don’t need this Door to win this duel. There is one opportunistic side anyway, both my Quart Knight`s are in the graveyard now. At least for me.” Justin looked at Gillian and looked with delight how she struggled to keep her cards in her hand.

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My turn then,” Justin draws a new card. “I remove Quart Knight-3 and Quart Knight-6 from play and summon Quart Knight-9 (900/900) to the field.” As the souls of the previous two knight disappeared into the Door to the Other Side, a new knight takes the field. He holds a big golden clock.

<span style="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 hate those things already.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You should, but not enough yet. I remove 1 Time-Counter from my Quart Knight-9 to increase its power (ATK: 900 -> 1300) and then by Quart Time, I can remove another one (ATK: 1300 -> 1700). Now I attack you again! Quart Knight-9, attack! Clock Slash 9!” Justin ordered as the knight hit Gillian directly.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian – 5500 -> 3800

<span style="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 set this card and end my turn. I’ll be waiting with anticipation on what you are going to do now.” Justin smiled malevolently as he wiped some of his dirty blonde hair from his face.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian – 3800 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 2300

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake, Lance and Yuni strolled around the upper areas of the stadium where it was dark and there were no people around. Yuni was in the middle and Blake and Lance were at both sides of the hallway.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“There is no-one around here.” Yuni whispers to her 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;">“We can see that,” Blake agrees and he looks around. “Wait didn’t we pass this point already?”

<span style="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 pointed to a sign with a floor plan, which showed the oval of the stadium and the hallway which they were walking through was shaped in the same way. Lance came over to him as he too looked on the floor plan.

<span style="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 walking in rounds,” Yuni surprised herself with that. “Wow I can’t believe I said that out loud.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake smirked and he picks his flash light from his pocket and shines around, seeing a door he had previously missed at the right side of the hallway. He walks down to it, with Lance and Yuni behind 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;">“Do you see 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;">“Well no, but we are not that far in.” Blake sarcastically answered and he felt around, his flashlight was not really helping. “Where are 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;">“We are alone that is for sure.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">At that moment the lights went on and they were surrounded by four armored men, armed with duel disks and chains. They were all wearing a smiling mask, golden colored. They approached the small 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;">“Okay, then who are they?”

<span style="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;">An airplane landed on the strip of O´Hare International Airport. From the airplane the door opens and the brown haired Ken in his white jacket, with his black shirt and double infinity-symbol on it. He looks around and attaches his duel disk to his right arm. Ken picked his cell phone from his pocket and opens 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;">“Hmm, no messages.” He expected either Blake or Gillian to have called him while he was on the way. Least of all had he expected to see a message from Kamon, who by now should be dueling on that local tournament. “Kamon should be pissed off because I am not on that tournament, and we signed up in double duels.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Sir!” Ken looked up and he saw a steward walking down to him and the stairs. “I have a phone call on hold from an undisclosed location.”

<span style="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 mean you don’t know.” Ken sarcastically answered. He walked down the flights and the steward nodded, confirming Ken`s suspicion. “Yeah, doesn’t matter, probably Kamon who called me to inform when I would arrive at the stadium.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“The man did not sound like that.” The steward leads him to the nearest phone booth and Ken sighs, picking up the phone and listening to the other side as the steward leaves him alone. “Yeah, Kamon. I am in Chicago right now. What do you want? I will not be returning for that tournament.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“When are you going to show 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;">“Kamon, damn, don’t shout in my ear.” Ken bellowed back into the phone. “Can you calm down, please?”

The veil between the living and the death is lowering.

<span style="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, did you find that funny?” Ken asked through the phone. “Talking about the death is not funny.” Ken quietly sits down on a bench near the phone booth. He looks around, seeing no-one.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I did not say something,” Kamon tells Ken. “And besides…….”

As the veil drops, the death will cross over to the world of the living…

<span style="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 supposed to be here as I am about to get disqualified because you never showed up for our first tag team duel in the tournament.” Kamon sounded serious but also funny. “Now I can only duel in the singles tournament.”

……. and the living will never be able to cross into 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;">“It happens again!” Ken yells into the phone. He was lucky no-one was around, but Kamon who was on the phone.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Hmmm, as you act now, I probably should not have tagged with you anyway,” Kamon tells his best friend. “Anyway I need to get going as my next match is about to start.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Good luck.” Ken tells his friend and hangs up the phone. “Okay, whoever you are, come out. If you do not show a sign or yourself I cannot help you.” Nothing happened. Ken shakes his head and walks down to the exit where the same steward as before 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;">“Can I help you, sir?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes, can you call onto a cab please? I really need to go to the Aurora Stadium.” Ken asked the steward and he nods, picking the phone up, dialing a number and speaking into the horn. “Thank god, I haven’t heard that voice anymore. Maybe Kamon was playing a radio at the background.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">As he awaits the steward hanging up the phone, an image of a girl appears in a mirror at the far end of the terminal. She had a white skin and really red lips and her hair was all thrown around. She cracked a smile, and a really wide one too. The image then faded away again.

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

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake, Lance and Yuni were sitting on three wooden chairs as Mr. O’Hare, in his black business suit was standing in front of them. They were bound by ropes by both feet and hands and were guarded by the four golden armored men.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now tell me, what is your exact interest in this matter? I believe you have nothing here.” Mr. O’Hare taunted Blake. “Last time I remember was you defeating Gillian in a duel for the winning of a championship.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“So you do no longer refer to her as your daughter?” Lance asked Mr. O’Hare directly and he turned his attention to Lance.

<span style="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 no longer accept her as my daughter as long as she is around Mr. Connoly here. His father`s fame cannot be in league with our family`s wealth and status. If she refuses to stay at our family, she does not belong here.” Mr. O’Hare walks around the room as the door opens and a female assistant enters the room. “Ah hello, Nicole. Yes, can you inform them, I have to take care of some business and I’ll contact them tomorrow?”

<span style="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 female assistant nods and bows, shooting one more glance at Blake before leaving the room. Mr. O’Hare seemed unmoved by the sudden appearance of Nicole, his assistant and he picks another chair out of the corner and sits in front of Blake and 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;">“You know that I have agreed on only one thing to help the Aurora Remnant on this and that is because the Aurora Stadium is a monument of the dueling progress this city has made. Due to my help and technology provided to the Aurora Remnant they have been able to get a lot more closer to the Infinity Core then before.” Mr. O’Hare was looking at each and every one of them, but nobody looked back to him. “I thought of the Aurora Stadium of being it as my former daughter`s next birthday present, but I guess that won’t happen now. Both my former daughters are done for now anyway.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“What did he promise you exactly?” Blake asked Mr. O’Hare. “You had to catch us in order to get gold or something?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Or something indeed,” Mr. O’Hare answers. “Master Gakyru was kind enough to borrow us his students from his clan in order to find you. And as long as the ritual is on the way, you will not be able to stop it. Because we are holding you here and when the ritual is done, you will be fed to the purpose of cleansing the world.” Mr. O’Hare smiled and walked down to the door.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Geeze,” Yuni suddenly burst. “She is your daughter and I am pretty sure your younger daughter, Jennifer, is here too. Are you really willing to give them up for the greater good? Are you willing to give them up for a better world?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And what if Gakyru succeeds?” Blake continued as he looked at Yuni, then at Lance and then at Mr. O’Hare. “What if he succeeds? Do you really think he will not toss you aside and keep everything for himself?”

<span style="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 he does betray me, he’ll pay for it dearly,” Mr. O’Hare opened the door and left through it. “Oh, and you three, shut up or my friends will take care of 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;">

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian – 3800 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 2300

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My turn.” Gillian draws a new card and looks at it. ‘ ''I need a monster with more then 1700 attack points in order to defeat this Quart Knight-9 and I still have no idea what his archetype is able to do. I have to be on my guard. This card will do if I can draw the necessary 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;">’ She picked a card from her 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;">“Have you made your next choise already? Maybe you should give up?” Justin taunted his opponent.

<span style="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 now, you aren’t scare off me now are you?” Gillian answered with a smile and she places a new card in a monster card slot. “I summon Cupid, Lightsworn Lovegiver (500/600). Now by discarding the top three cards from my deck I can draw 4 cards.” As the small fairy with bow and arrow appeared on her side of the field, Gillian draws 4 new 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;">“And every Level-2 or below monster gets summoned to the field.” Three new monsters appeared on her side of the field. A glowing green globe like monster, a cat with long lightning like ears and another bodiless monster with only the gloves, shoes and hat appeared. “My  Herald of Green 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;">, Rinyan Lightsworn Rogue and another  Skelengel<span style="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 total of levels is eight and your Cupid is a Tuner….. that means you are going for a Synchro Summoning.”

<span style="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 correct.” Gillian raised her hand and Cupid became two stars, soon transforming into two dimensional rings. “I tune in my Cupid, Lightsworn Lovegiver with my  Herald of Green 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;">, Rinyan Lightsworn Rogue and  Skelengel<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">! End of the tunnel, there is light! Light will guide us through Darkness! Synchro Summon! Rise,  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">!”

<span style="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 new dragon appeared on her side of the field. The white body and the many wings of the dragon brought forward a clear wave of light. The loud cry of the dragon was ear piercing as Gillian smirked.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">, attack his Quart Knight-9! Destroy it! Light Elimination!” Gillian ordered as the white dragon dives down and destroys the knight. “This’ll do some justice.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 2300 ->1400

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I end my turn now.” Gillian lowered her duel disk as her dragon lowered itself on her side of the field.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My turn then.” His field started to be surrounded by light as the Door`s gems glowed with light. “First I regain half of the lifepoints that I lost.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 1400 -> 1850

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now after this empowerment by the Door to the Other Side, I can also special summon Quart Knight-12 (1200/1200) to the field, who like his predecessors comes in play with 5 Time-Counters.” The new knight, bronze colored with a golden clock in front of it, appeared on his side of the field. “Next I remove 1 Time-Counter and allow the Quart Knight-12 to gain 400 points (ATK: 1200 -> 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;">“And due to Quart Time, you can remove another one right?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You are absolutely correct (ATK: 1600 -> 2000). Next I activate my face down card, which I had face down for about 6 turns already, Time Transcending Cannon. This card has accumulated all counters that have been removed from my cards, which is eight and that means 800 points of damage is coming your 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;">Gillian – 3800 -> 3000

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next up, my Quart Overboost continuous spell card. This card allows my monsters to attack directly, but when they attack, I must roll two dices to select the damage it deals then.” Justin explains as his new card appeared on the field. “Roll dices!” One landed on a 2 and the other on a 5.

<span style="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 means?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I can deal you 1000 lifepoints of damage,” Justin explained and he smirked as Quart Overboost released lightning onto Gillian and she screamed because of it. “You got that right, it is real damage 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;">Gillian – 3000 -> 2000

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

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My turn then again,” Gillian draws a new card. She pointed to  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">. “Before making my next move I place this card face down. Now  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">, destroy his Quart Knight-12! Light Wave Emission!” The Quart Knight was destroyed by the waves of light unleashed by the white dragon.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 1850 -> 1250

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

<span style="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, now you feel the effects of your own powers,” Gillian spotted against Justin and he grunted. “Now,  Charge of the Light Brigade<span style="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 discarding the top three cards from my deck, I can add one Lightsworn monster from my deck to my hand. I add  Wulf, Lightsworn Beast<span style="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 my hand.” She picked a card from her deck and placed it in her 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;">“Next up,  Poison of the Old Man<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">, I deal you 800 points of damage!” Gillian placed the card in her duel disk, dealt damage and picked it back 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;">Justin – 1250 -> 450

<span style="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 has me down to my last 450 lifepoints. Now I know why I hate this Door card so much, I know what it can do to either of us. I have to destroy it before she wins of me. I have to destroy that card.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Justin was sweating a little, keeping his grasp at the cloak he was wearing.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now I end my turn,” Gillian lowered her duel disk and she looked at Justin. ‘ ''He is sweating and nervous. Something about the cards he used frightens him like hell. Something about this Door to the Other Side frightens every single duelist. A fear that is induced by the powers of darkness that flow inside this Door. Something much bigger is going on here. I can see through the opening of the Door, souls of people who have been trapped, to never get out afterwards.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ She then looked at Tyson, who was still at the side lines. He had his arms crossed and looked at Justin.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“M-my turn,” Justin shaked a little as he draws his next card. ‘ ''Ah this should do the trick. Finally I can secure my survival even if I lose.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ A horizontal card appeared on his side of the field. “I place this card face down and then I remove my final Quart Knight, Quart Knight-12 from play in order to summon Full Clock Knight (2000/2000).” A golden, blue and green colored knight appeared with his face nearly visible through the visor.

<span style="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, a new ace 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;">“It is my ace card.” Justin clarifies. “Now by removing my Rewind Time card from my graveyard from play, I can make my Full Clock Knight gain 500 attack and defense points (ATK/DEF: 2000/2000 -> 2500/2500). Next I attack your  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">!”

<span style="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 you do that?” Gillian wondered as she retaliated. “ Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> counter-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;">Justin – 450 -> 350

<span style="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 should do the trick as you have commanded your monster to attack, I can activate the following card,  Malevolent Catastrophe<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">!” Justin shouted thriumphantically. “I am willing to give up my chance at lowering your lifepoints by Quart Boost to get rid of the nightmare that is on my 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;">‘ So it is that Door to 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;">’ Gillian nodded and she looked how the  Malevolent Catastrophe<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> card destroyed the Door to the Other Side, leaving behind a huge cloud of dust. ‘ At least the possibility for me to lose my life to that Door is over.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="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 knew he would try 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;">’ Tyson sighs and smiles at the same time. ‘ That is why the Door to the Other Side is so much more but a mere Duel Monsters card.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And now since I have gotten rid of the Door to the Other Side I both saved you and myself from doom. You can thank me for that.” Justin gloated over his victory as the dust slowly started to lift.

<span style="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 what is that behind you?” Gillian pointed out as she pointed to a gigantic shadow behind Justin, slowly appearing. The Door to the Other Side was still intact and still on the field. “I thought you destroyed 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 Door to the Other Side card is destroyed, yes – “ Tyson proceeds to explain as he claps. “ – but the ancient structure, the true Door to the Other Side, coming from the void we could call Hell, is very much indestructable. It will only leave the field when it has devoured a soul. So now let us see who actually pulls the plug out of the other`s 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;">“I-I am sorry. I could not finish it off.” Justin apologized to himself. “But if it means destroying her, I will do so. I place this card face down and end my turn.” He waited for Gillian to make her 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;">“Draw!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I activate  Call Of The Haunted<span style="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 bring back Full Clock Knight!” Justin sprung his face down card and the Knight returned to his side of the field. “Now I can equip him with Full Clock Charm, which increases it`s attack power by 1000. Now try and beat 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;">“Oh, I will.” Gillian smirked as she looked at her picked card. “Especially after your last move. I place this face down and I attack your Full Clock Knight with  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">!” As the dragon rises into the air, it dives forward into the Knight, who raises its sword, preparing to defend itself.

<span style="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 what are you thinking? Suiciding your dragon into my Knight? This is gonna be easy.” Justin smirks as he counterpointed at the Knight. “Full Clock Slash 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 lower the attack and defense power of my  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> by 500 (ATK/DEF: 2600/2100 -> 2100/1600) to lower your Full Clock Knight`s attack power by 1500 (ATK: 3000 -> 1500). Now lets see who will survive this battle! Light Wave Emission!” Gillian commanded as the attack went through and the Full Clock Knight exploded. Justin fell on the ground as his lifepoints changed.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 350 -> 0

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I win!” Gillian smirked and dropped on her knees, breathing heavily for the difficult win she pulled off. But then she saw Justin was still standing. “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;">Justin – 350 -> 1350 -> 750

<span style="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 right, my Full Clock Charm`s secondary ability.” Justin kicked in. “When destroyed, I gain 1000 lifepoints, which means I am still in the game. And of course it is my turn next.” He patiently waited for Gillian to finish her 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;">‘ Clever guy,<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Tyson remarked and he looked around the stadium, spotting movement around the upper levels of the stands. ‘ It seems my next opponent has arrived already.<span style="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 end my turn,” Gillian gave in and she thought about the last move. ‘ ''I was so close, but of course, he was not about to give up either. I shall have to defend until my next turn, or he should fall for one of my traps.''<span style="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;">“My turn.” Justin draws his next card and looks at his field as he no longer had Full Clock Knight on the field. “Activate  Monster Reborn<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">. I bring back my Full Clock Knight (2000/2000) fresh from the grave.”

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next I remove my Full Clock Charm from play and increase the attack and defense power of my Full Clock Knight by 500!” The flaming energies around the blade of the Knight became brighter. “Next I target your left face down card with Mystic Space Typhoon.”

<span style="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 hit the wrong one.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Tyson realized the moment Justin made his move. The card flipped up to be  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 fool hit the wrong card. He should have gone for the right card.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Ouch, that’ll hurt next 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;">“Yes it will,” Justin smirked and pointed at  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">. “And now Full Clock Knight is stronger than your  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">. Full Clock Knight, attack his  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">! Full Clock Slash!” The dragon was struck in the middle, destroying it upon impact.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian – 2000 -> 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;">“And now I’ll show you the mistake in your strategy.” Gillian`s second card flipped up. “You should have destroyed this card instead. This is my trap card, End of Light! When  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> is destroyed, this card is activated and your Full Clock Knight loses 1500 attack points (ATK: 2500 -> 1000).”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“WHAT!” Justin shouts and he grabs his head in disbelief. “I can’t believe I fell for that.” He looks at his empty hands, he had no cards 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;">‘ And so the second falls.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Tyson attached his dark green duel disk to his arm. ‘ Just one more to go, Master Gakyru.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="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 h-have n-no o-o-other choice.” Justin looked at Gillian. “I end my turn. Please have mercy.”

<span style="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 spoiled the chance at mercy when you guys kidnapped my sister, me later on and Grace and Jason. You have failed.” Gillian draws her next card and looks at it. “I play  Premature Burial<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">, paying 800 lifepoints and summon forth my  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> from my graveyard!” The great and  Majestic Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> appeared at her side again (2600/2100).

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian – 1600 -> 800

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">! Light Wave Emission!” Gillian ordered as the dragon opened his beak and fired a blast of pure light at Justin, destroying the Full Clock Knight and forcing Justin on his knees.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian – 800 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 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;">As  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> disappeared, Gillian heavily breathed and grabbed her side as she felt a stinging pain. She looked around as nothing seemed to happen to her, but Justin was sitting on his knees, while the Door to the Other Side slowly opened.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No, n-no, please.” Justin stretched his hands to the sky as Tyson slowly approached him. “Please show me mercy.” His eyes glowed but it seemed not to affect the door or Tyson. His clothes were slowly ripped apart.

<span style="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 you doing with him?” Gillian asked Tyson.

<span style="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 show him what disobedience does.” Tyson explains and he stretched out his hand, raising Justin into the air, almost choking him. “And now he pays the price with giving up his life in this mortal realm.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“P-please, don’t do 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;">Tyson made a throwing away gesture and Justin was steered into the Door to the Other Side, disappearing into the endless depths as they heard a final scream. The Door slowly disappeared as Justin`s body was reserved into one of the mechanical cocoons. As Gillian tended to her own wounds, Tyson slowly approached her and the dueling field, activating his duel disk.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“What? Do you want me to duel you to? There is no honor in beating me now.” Gillian protested, starting to slowly stand up, but she fell down pretty quickly. “Ouch.”

<span style="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, it is not you I will face in the final match of the ritual.” Tyson tells her as a green ring appeared around them, shoving all mechanical cocoons to the sides. Ancient symbols appeared in the green rings. “The final duel is about to commence and you will witness the uprising of the Aurora Remnant and the combination of the two Core`s! No, you are not my opponent but he is.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“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;">“Let me go!” a familiar male voice sounded and Gillian turned around to see Kaito being brought into the arena, being strangled by two muscular men. He was wearing his duel disk. “You’ll pay for 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;">“On the contrary. I am giving you the chance to stop the final master,” Tyson tells Kaito. He tapped onto his duel disk. “One way or another, Master Gakyru has reached his purpose and whether I am on his side or not, I have done what I must 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;">“What do you want from 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;">“We duel here and now to complete the ritual. Beat me, and you have a straight path to Master Gakyru. Be beaten and I have no use for any of you, as we are unstoppable then.” Tyson smirked and he pointed to Kaito`s duel disk. It activated as well. “We 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;">“Very well then.” Kaito nodded and inserted his deck. “We 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;">

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Paul, Dr. Azura and Dr. Reed left the tent in which they previously were examining the two pieces of armor that the expedition had dug up during their research on Eonis. Dr. Azura was wearing her hair loose 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;">“So where can I start?” Paul asked Dr. Azura and Dr. Reed. “If you want my help, I need a place to work. And give me some time to examine those pieces of armor.”

<span style="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 and I will be working in the crater,” Dr. Azura tells Paul and she hangs up her lab coat in one of the SUV`s. “We will be around the stone in the crater the most of the time to find out what more mysterious properties and powers this stone and these Core`s hold and what and when the negative and positive rotations take place and what effect they have.” Paul followed Dr. Azura to the crater once again.

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Please call me Rebecca. Everybody calls me Rebecca. It should not be any different for you.” Dr. Azura smiles and Paul nods and he picks his sunglasses from his pocket as the sun shines. “Sorry I should have warned you already.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Don’t worry, Rebecca,” Paul answers and he follows her up to the upper edge of the crater. “I can take a little sun. So when people are done here, is there some base camp here? Do you do anything here in your free 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;">“We managed to take a portable duel arena with us, so my men could play Duel Monsters while they had time off. I carry a deck of my own. And yes that is the favorite passing of time while we are not at work,” Rebecca smirked as she was a little ahead of Paul. Some people came back from inside the crater.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You should see that, Rebecca,” a passing man told Rebecca while walking back to the tents. “Something has changed.”

<span style="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;">Rebecca hurried up to the edge of the crater and puts on her mouth cap as her eyes widen. Paul runs after her, standing next to her as he too was amazed. Paul and Rebecca simultaniously shake their heads.

<span style="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 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 don’t know.” Rebecca sighed and she looks around. “I really have no idea.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Where the stone was lonely before, the stone now had risen into the air, revealing part of a tablet beneath it. On top of the partly revealed tablet there was the Infinity symbol and the head of a dragon was vaguely shown.

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

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">I could have added one more scene to this turn, but in the end I decided not to. I do not know where my fascination with the  Light End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> comes from, but I like it a lot, along with its counterpart  Dark End Dragon<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">. I have decided to focus Gillian`s deck more on Lightsworns than on a random LIGHT attribute 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;">In the first draft of this turn, the final scene would not have appeared at all, but I felt like showing it. It adds more mysterie to what is already happening and I hope you all enjoy it. And of course like always with my stories, there is a reason for everything that happens and every detail in the story may be important later 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;">Also the second arc, ARC 2, is going to be called  ARC 2: Infinite Search<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">. You will soon find out why I have called it like that, but be prepared that it is going to be suspicious as usual.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">See you for Turn 16!