Turn 18: Rise of the Silent Void (1)

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

Turn 18 “Rise of the Silent Void.(1)”

Casseius hovered through the long stone hall way, leading down somewhere. Paul and Rebecca were following her, slowly proceeding, having looked around nearly every second to discover a new drawing or rune encrypted in the wall. Paul was amazed by the detail in the human like drawings on the wall.

“Interesting, is it not?” Reias asked Paul and Paul nodded in agreement. “These drawings were made by our masters all these centuries ago.”

“They all seem to point to a certain point.” Paul noted as he was right. Every single human like drawing had his or her hand pointed forward. “They all seem to point in the way we are going. Where are we going?”

“To the inner sanctums of the original temple.”

“The original temple?” Paul wondered and he looked straight at Reias. “What do you mean? Are we not in the original temple?”

“No, you are not indeed.” Casseius hovered on, her white-golden dress dragged behind her. “The original temple was built by our masters in a complex environment and well protected. When the Great Storm over Eonis came, one of the most memorable events over this sacred island, nearly every defense was destroyed and we knew we had to rebuild it. We knew we had place the old temple in the middle of the structures. Our masters knew that before, but they died during the Great Storm.”

“Wow! Hold right there.” Rebecca intervened and she walked a little faster to walk alongside Paul and behind Casseius, with Reias behind them. “I thought the Great Storm over Eonis was just a myth.”

“Well.” Paul answered before Casseius could with something of a smile. “Did you believe Eonis existed before you actually set foot on this island?”

“You got a point there.” Rebecca agreed and she looked on in the seemingly endless hallway and after each group of stones in the wall there was another drawing. She noticed that there were no colors involved, although how would people that had lived for about thousands of years before them, know how to color? Though she was not surprised if they did indeed. “So the Flood on Eonis is true too?”

“What do you think yourself?” Paul joked and he followed Casseius, who was now near a light. “Everything, well nearly everything, is true about Eonis. There are even travel agencies that have spoken about this island, but Duel Tech, KaibaCorp and even the Pegasus Memorial Fund had cut them off from the island.”

“You really have been here far too long,” Rebecca thought out loud and Paul smirked as he had heard that. “So how far is it until we reach the original temple?”

“We are already there.”

Casseius pointed her staff at a group of bricks in the wall. They retracted into the wall and the bricks started disappearing, forming a door of sorts. Casseius and Reias were the first to step through. Paul was next to step through, but Rebecca took one more look around her noticing that the human like figures simply kept going on after the entrance. Where did they lead too?

“Are you coming, Rebecca?” Paul`s voice sounded through the hole. Rebecca nodded and stepped through the arch-like door that had appeared now in the wall. As she looked up and around, her mouth fell open as she stepped into a large, golden room with six tablets around the room and an altar in front of those tablets.

“Welcome to the original temple.”

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru was standing in front of the arch as the last of the mechanical cocoons descended from above, being pulled into the arch, into the Sacred Temple Gate. He had not noticed that Blake and Gillian had jumped off the cocoons on which they had descended with. Gakyru reached out into the Sacred Temple Gate, picking the Silent Core from it. The Silent Core slowly stopped shining and now became a single round orb with a small silver light in the middle.

<span style="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. Sacred Temple Gate! Show me the way!” Gakyru chanted as he raised his arms. “My goal is nearly there. The pawns are out of my way, they have served their purpose. Those who can oppose me are 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;">“Not exactly.” Blake had gotten up and stood behind Gakyru, who in a flash turned around and faced Blake and Gillian directly. “You overlooked one tiny thing. Well, actually two tiny things.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You do no longer matter, foolish boy. Get out of my way.” Gakyru had his hand stretched out as the Silent Core hovered above it. The Silent Core was once again full of light, having sent glowing rays of silver light out earlier, now simply sparkling. Blake did not move as Gakyru slowly approached him. “I said 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;">Gakyru made a gesture and Blake was thrown of balance as an invisible force pushed him against the nearby wall. Gakyru proceeded to the stairs from where he came. As they were blocked, Gakyru closed his eyes and raised his hands. At that same moment Blake got up again and raced towards Gakyru knocking him 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;">“You do not give up, now do 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;">“Not this easy 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;">Gakyru leaped up again and swung around, hitting Blake in the stomach. His hood of his cloak dropped and his black-red hair was exposed. His right eye had a scar above it and his left eye had nothing. Two locks of his dark red hair were coming down his head in between the eyes. Gakyru pushed Blake against the wall again.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You do not intervene.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gillian at that moment came charging in as well and Gakyru simply locked his eyes on her, raising her into the air. Gakyru had not even moved, but he did have control over the situation.

<span style="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 intervene. Walk away and do not look back.” Gakyru warned Blake and Gillian. “Walk away and do not intervene with my works. If you do this ends badly for you.” He raised his duel disk and tapped on his deck he used to defeat Lynn 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;">“After all that has happened, do you really believe I will just walk away?” Blake asked Gakyru. He was lowered on the ground by Gakyru, who dropped Gillian in a simultaneously same fashion. “Of course not, I am not allowing you to get out of here. Over my dead body.”

<span style="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 over hers?” Gakyru smirked and he suddenly raised his hands, having picked up Gillian, who was being strained by an invisible force. The Silent Core raised into the air, spreading out silver light. “Are you willing to step away when it means you will lose 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;">“She is my friend. Let her go.” Blake answered and Gillian looked at him, a little taken back by Blake`s comment. “Let her go.” Blake`s voice sounded a little more powerful, but Gakyru refused to do anything. “Let her go, I tell 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;">“To bad you have underestimated my power.” Gakyru looked up and a line of blood came down from Gillian. “She has roughly four minutes to live now. Step out of the way and she will survive. Stay there and she is gone forever.”

<span style="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 would not bother to kill her. Every soul, every human can be of use for 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;">“Get out of my way.” The Silent Core ascended into the arch, back in its original position. Gillian was cut open more and more. “Get out of my way or this will be the end for 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;">“I think your boss wants differently.” Blake pointed to the Silent Core. “I think he wants another duel, another fight to the death. Let her go and take me instead. If you win, I am out of 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;">Gakyru considered his options and then 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;">“Fine then, Blake Connolly. We will duel. You will experience the powers of the Silent Void first hand.” He released his grip on Gillian, who dropped down on the ground. “I will not lose against 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;">“You are one of many who had said that against me and every single one of them have been proven wrong.” Blake retaliated and he inserted his deck after moving to Gillian, seeing how she was doing. She was breathing, which was good. Blake gave her a tissue to press against the wound. “I am sorry, 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;">“Maybe it is better like this. If I face you and beat you, I do not have to worry about you anymore and I can clean this world from all unnecessary people.” Gakyru let his deck be auto-shuffled by his duel disk. “If I let you live, you would simply stand against me again on a different point in 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;">“Cut the chatter and let’s duel.” Blake drew five cards as his beginning hand and Gakyru did the same. “You are really fixated on cleaning the world of unnecessary people, are you not?”

<span style="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.”

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

'Gakyru: When I was young, I had discovered my abilities as a psychic duelist rather quickly. My parents back then were people that were rather well known. Neither of them were psychics, or even duelists so to speak. They were not interested in dueling as a phenomena that turned the world upside down.'

''”We have to get going!” A man picked Gakyru from the floor as he was dressed in a black suit. The man had dark red hair. On the ground was a holographic table where cards were laying upon. “What is this? We told you not to play this nonsense here!”

“I am sorry dad.” The younger Gakyru replied and he quickly picked the toys up and was about to walk out of the room as his father stopped him. “I will bring them away as you want, dad. I am sorry.”

“You have to learn it is not all about some ‘super special awesome’ children`s card game. From now on there will be no longer any playing of a card game in this house unless you have done your chores, which I believe you have not done.” His father picked the stuff out of Gakyru`s hands and three cards dropped on the ground.

“No, my favorites!” Gakyru duck to pick his cards up, but his father pushed him aside. Gakyru lost his balance and fell on the ground. His father turned around to him, taking the three cards, placing them behind them. “Dad, please don’t do that. Please!”

His father ripped the three cards apart. They fell on the ground on the holographic board, after which Gakyru slowly crept to them and looked at them. The cards slowly pieced themselves together and his father was astonished. Gakyru looked up.

“Now get down and help your mother.” Gakyru let a single tear as his cards activated on the board and the holograms of three swordsmen appeared. His father turned Gakyru around, but now Gakyru`s eyes were glowing and the three swordsmen, only holograms grew to human size. “What is this? Stop it!”

“You have pushed me for far too long.” Gakyru nodded and the three swordsmen, one in a navy blue outfit and a pirate`s hat, another one in a silvery white outfit, looking like a samurai and another one in grey armor and grey eyes advanced on him. “Leave me alone.”''

'Gakyru: It was the drop that spilled the bucket. It was too much. Then I knew that the world was not fair and would never be fair. My parents were the exact opposite of me. At that time I was care-free and fun-loving as you call it. My parents however ruined it for me; my parents awakened the darker side of my psychic powers, the darker side of my soul. They ruined my life, I ruin theirs.

And then, there was Master Divine. Master Divine was my master. The one that gave me confidence in what I could do. What we could do to make the psychic race the superior in the world. Although our methods were different, in beginning our ideals were the same. He wanted an army of psychic soldiers, I wanted the absolute power to reset humanity, to clean the world of the dark 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;">[i]“Why are you crying?”

<span style="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 slightly older Gakyru was sitting on a bench in front of a burned house. He looked up to the right as he saw a man appearing next to him. The man had a brown wig of hair hanging over his face. He wore a green suit with a dark green tie.

<span style="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 killed my parents.” Gakyru answered. He did not hesitate to tell, he did not cough in between. “I have caused the fire on the house. I could not control myself.”

<span style="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, now. Not always the death of a beloved one is bad.” The man sat down next to Gakyru who looked at Divine. “Did you love your parents?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Y-yes.” Gakyru answered with a cough. “Yes. I loved them as parents.”

<span style="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 lie 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;">“Yes, I loved them as parents.” Gakyru repeated and he looked at the eyes of the man. “Who are you to ask me that?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My name is Divine and I am the leader of the Arcadia Movement. The Arcadia Movement is the movement that helps people like you, like me.” Divine stood up and gave Gakyru a card. Gakyru looked at it. “I can help 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;">“Are you like me?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I am much more.” Divine walked out and looked back once more. “When you are ready, you meet me there.”

'Gakyru: And Master Divine was right. The deaths of my parents lead to a positive thing. I saw the world as it was. I saw the darkness that had spread through the world. I saw the despair people like me and others had and they were honestly scared for the people around them. And that is when I realized the world needed to be reset. The world needed to be cleaned of the dark 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;">******

<span style="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 basically are an egotistical guy who would take casualties when needed, even beloved ones?” Blake asked Gakyru. “You are prepared to kill off most of humanity just to reach your goal, a world of psychic duelists, where normal humans, dark humans as you call them, are a minority?”

<span style="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 goal is a perfect world in which men are equal. Where there is no darkness inside our soul. And as long as there are people who oppose us, psychic duelists, there is a world to be cleaned.” Gakyru draws his first five cards as well as his duel disk sprang to life. “There is a war to be fought.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And you thought by gaining control and possession of both the Infinity Core and the Silent Core to be able to clean the world as you wish?” Blake asked Gakyru and Blake started to realize slowly now with the back story Gakyru gave him, what this was all about. “You want to create a perfect world for you alone to rule.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Perhaps, but if it means I have to duel once more to fulfill the quest, I will do so.” Gakyru nodded and walked forward, as did Blake. “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;">“Duel we will indeed.” Blake reached down to Gillian and smiled. “Hold on, girl. I win this game and we get out of here.” He then switched on his duel disk and looked at Gakyru. “I suppose the first move is to you 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;">Gakyru – 4000 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake – 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;">Gakyru swept off a new card from his deck, his eyes widening by the sight of the card he had drawn. He looked at his hand and pulled three cards 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;">“I set these three cards face down.” Gakyru placed them in his duel disk at the second, the third and the fourth spell/trap card zone slot. Three brown backed cards appeared at their designated positions. “I see you are not surprised by an unusual 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;">“No, I have seen many weird moves in my life, including someone playing  Dark Hole<span style="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 a field that was empty.” Blake smirked when he said that. “Totally random and useless.”

<span style="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.” Gakyru lowered his duel disk, having played the same strategy in the first turn as he deployed against Lynn in the previous duel. ‘ ''I am pretty sure he has totally no idea what the Silent Void can do for me. Whatever he will throw on me, whatever he will do, nothing will make him the victor of this 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;">“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;">“Activate face down card, Tomb of the Silent Void.” Gakyru`s card in card slot 2 flipped up and a tomb was flashed around on the battle field. “By revealing 1 card in my hand, I can force you to discard the top card from your deck. I reveal my Void Soldier from my hand.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ Does his deck evolve around milling my deck?<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="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 my second face down card activates, Sealment of the Silent Void. When a card has been revealed from my hand, I can place 1 Life-Counter on you.” The card in card slot 3 flipped up. Gakyru was pretty confident in his 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;">Blake – 4000 [1 Life-Counter]

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ ''Life-Counters?! I never heard of 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;">’ Blake had the panicking thought of any early loss in his mind 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;">“And last but not the least, I activate my third face down card, Banisher of the Silent Void. When a card has been revealed from my hand, I can either remove 1 card in your graveyard from play or deal you 500 points of damage. I choose to remove the card you discarded from play.” Gakyru smirked as he saw how Blake flashed Blackthunder Neo Crusader from his graveyard and pocketed it.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I have drawn an excellent card. Activate Blackthunder Troop. This spell card allows me to summon forth 4 Blackthunder Bird Tokens (500/500) to field.” Four black birds were flying around him. “Next I summon forth Blackthunder Guard Hound (1000/1000). Not only is it a Tuner monster, also I can use his effect to attack you 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;">Gakyru – 4000 -> 3000

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next I tune in my Guard Hound with one of my Blackthunder Bird Tokens! From the ashes of the fire, a flash spreads. The lightning strikes as ash clusters. Synchro Summon! Rise from the ashes, Blackthunder Blaze Salamander!” Blake chanted as his monsters became stars and after that three dimensional rings. A salamander appeared from the Synchro Gate, covered in blueish and red flames.

<span style="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 Synchro monster on your first turn. Very interesting, very interesting.” Gakyru commented on Blake`s move. “Of course, is it enough for you to get through my defenses? Is it enough for you to stop 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 soon find out.” Blake spoke with a confident voice and he lowered his duel disk as he looked at Gakyru. “I set this card. You go 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;">Gakyru – 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;">Blake – 4000 [1 Life-Counter]

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Rebecca looked around in the temple where she was now. Casseius and Reias were following her as Paul was looking at a few of the tablets around the room. Rebecca walked to the nearest tablet, which had the attribute symbol of 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 what are these?” Rebecca asked Casseius, while having touched the tablet. “I see clearly the Light attribute on this tablet? Is it a representation of the Light monsters in the Duel Monsters card game and their role in history?”

<span style="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.” Casseius came hovering next to Rebecca who was looking more closely at the tablet. “Here the Lightsworns, Kuraz, The Light Ruler, all exponents of the Light that live in this world or in any of the other dimensions. And we are not even sure if we are the only ones living in this dimension. People have searched space far, even reached Neos Space.” Casseius kept hovering in front of the tablet.

<span style="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 folks from the Light are my people. I belong to the Light as Reias belongs to the Dark. In this room there is no fighting between the opposite attributes. There is no fight on this island, we are all one and that is where our greatest strength lies.” Casseius looked proud as she touched the tablet 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;">“And our greatest weakness.” Reias came walking down to them and Paul followed them. “A peaceful island is great of course and the balance between elements is important. But because the balance is important, the balance is also easy to break. Only one element has to have vile intentions and the balance goes negative and the peace we have had on this island will be broken after so many years.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“A fact that is going to occur if the elements will accept your presence here at the island. The search for the two Core`s, the Silent and the Infinity Core, has disturbed them. The elements are arming themselves for an eventual battle if the total rotation of the two Core`s is negative, if chaos ensues.” Casseius levitated herself onto the ground and turned around facing the other tablets. “When that happens all spirits in this world will be loose and humans won’t know what happens.”

<span style="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 but sofar it has not happened yet, right?” Rebecca asked Casseius.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“No, it has not happened yet, but someday it will happen. All these little incidents with your friend, Paul, disappearing at this island, even dying was a test. They were tested by the elements if they were worthy. If they wanted to get rid of you, they would have done already. Same goes for you, Rebecca Azura. You and your brother now have both set foot here and therefore have been accepted by the elements.” Casseius walked to the middle of the room, having plunged her staff in the gem in the middle.

<span style="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 brother?!” Rebecca asked Casseius and she was a little oblivious. “My brother was never here. I am the only one of us two who has ever been 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;">“Dr. Robert Azura,” Paul remembered and Rebecca looked at him. “So that is why your name sounded familiar. I have worked with your brother the first few days when I got here for the first 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;">“You have worked with him? He never mentioned you.” Rebecca smirked and she sat down on a bigger golden stone. “True, we haven’t spoken much during the last years. He was busy with research and stuff. He did not focus on the ancient past as he likes to call it, but rather on the present and the future. Always involved with robotics.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Aaah, I remember yes.” Paul nodded and he just stood there for a few minutes before moving to the right side. “He told me about this temple after I got back from Eonis back to America on a video conference.”

<span style="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 primary interests were temples and how they were built. He told me.” Rebecca continued and she looked at Paul. “Do you have any reason to believe that Robert, my brother, was up to more?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I don’t know. He did show me a picture of the Earth Tablet with him next to it. I suppose that is where he knew this underwater temple from.” Paul slammed his fist on a stone. “I do not know what he is doing at the moment.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Neither do I. I did not speak to him before I left for this island.” Rebecca continued and Reias and Casseius shook their heads. “What is wrong?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You human always seem to get so into a discussion you completely forget why you are here or what you were doing here.” Casseius slid to the wall on the right and touched it, allowing the stones to part and form another arch. “Let us continue our journey.”

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 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;">Blake – 4000 [1 Life-Counter]

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My turn.” Gakyru`s three cards glowed again. “First Tomb of the Silent Void. I reveal my Void Soldier from my hand and force you to discard the top card from your deck.” Blake sends the top card from his deck to the graveyard. “Then Sealment of the Silent Void, placing 1 Life-Counter on 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;">‘ ''Again those Life-Counters. They must be dangerous enough for him to go through with it. Man, I have never dueled against such a deck before.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Blake sighed and he looked at Gakyru who was looking at 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;">Blake – 4000 [2 Life-Counters]

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next I activate the two spell cards, Infernal White and Void Altar. Infernal White forces me to play with my hand revealed, while Void Altar activates when I reveal a card from my hand.” Gakyru smirked and he looked at his full back row of cards. “Now I understand you do not understand why I would do that. It is very easy although.”

<span style="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 weird indeed. Infernal White does not allow his cards to be revealed from his hand, his combo would stop now. What is 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;">’ Blake looked as he held his hand in front of him, turning it upward so Gakyru could see 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;">“Infernal White will inflict 600 points of damage in your standby phase.” Gakyru looked at his hand. “Now I summon Void Cross Wasp (800/600). For every monster I have on the field, when it is summoned I can draw 1 card.” He draws another card. “Aha. I call this card to be a field 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;">“An Omnicard?!” Blake did not understand yet why, but he had a bad feeling about it. ‘ ''I utilize them too and they are quite tricky. Definitely if you never played against that deck he uses.''<span style="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, White Cross – Silent Force!” They were surrounded by eerie mist and pillars of white light shot into the air. “This Omnicard turned Field Spell Card, requires a revealing of a card 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;">“But you can’t do that due to Infernal White.”

<span style="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. That is why I end my turn.” Gakyru lowered his duel disk. “You can go 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;">“My turn then.” Blake draws a new card. “Aah, two can do that thing. I declare this card to be a monster card. So yes, I have drawn one of my own Omnicards now.” He lifted the card from his hand. ‘ I’ll need this card 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;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Infernal White activates and deals you 600 points of damage.” Gakyru`s card glowed and a beam of white light hit Blake.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake – 4000 -> 3400 [2 Life-Counters]

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I summon this monster in defense mode.” Blake placed a monster card on his duel disk. “Next I set this card face down and I attack your Void Cross Wasp with my Blackthunder Blaze Salamander. Flare Tongue!” The Salamander burst forward hitting Gakyru`s wasp and destroying it.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 3000 -> 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;">“When Void Cross Wasp is destroyed, I can deal you 100 points of damage to you per card in my hand, which is currently three.” Gakyru smirked as the spirit of Cross Wasp appeared next to him, became a beam of energy and hit Blake.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake – 3400 -> 3000 [2 Life-Counters]

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Card activate! 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;">.” Blake`s face down card flips up. “Now when I draw a card I gain 500 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;">“Infernal White activates.” Gakyru intervenes. “I deal 600 points of damage to you.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake – 3000 -> 2400 [2 Life-Counters]

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I activate my final card, Double Cyclone. By selecting 1 spell or trap card I have on the field and one spell or trap card you have on the field, I can destroy them both. I choose 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;"> and your Infernal White.” A cyclone appeared, blowing away the two cards and the white light that had surrounded the cards of Gakyru, now no longer was there. “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 and since you destroyed my Infernal White card, I can activate the combo again.” As he had drawn a new card his eyes widened. “Yes. This card is a monster card 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;">‘ Another Omnicard?<span style="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;">“First my Tomb effect, by revealing my Void Soldier from my hand I discard the top card from your deck to the graveyard. Then by the effect of my Sealment card I can place 1 Life-Counter on you. And last but not least my Banisher of the Silent Void, dealing you 500 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;">Blake – 2400 -> 1900 [3 Life-Counters]

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next Void Altar activates. When a card has been revealed from my hand. I gain 100 points for every card on my field, which is five.” Gakyru regained some of his life energy.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 1700 -> 2200

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next White Cross – Silent Force activates, placing 1 Silent-Counter on that card.” Another pillar of white light shot up into the air. “With this I place this card face down and end my turn. It is yours to go 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;">“My turn then.” Blake had drawn a new card and looked at Gakyru. ‘ ''All he has been doing so far is playing defensive and through his combo dealing damage and placing these Life-Counters. There must be something that is waiting to be unleashed.''<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Yes, there is something waiting for you. And soon it will become very apparent what.” Gakyru answered before Blake could ask any question. “You see my way of reaching a perfect world in which the psychics would reign supreme was a long one. I have dueled countless duelists to come where I am now. My fellow masters, who have done their jobs each came to me when I started recruiting for my army of perfection. We would fight under the banner that represented the balance between the Infinity and the destructive Silent Core.”

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

'Gakyru: I met Justin when he was still a street duelist. A duelist that was beating others left and right, being put away into a prison because he did not have control over his powers back then. He was discriminated, people did not accept him as he was. And with him it all started.'

<span style="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]Justin – 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;">Gakyru – 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;">“I remove 1 Time-Counter from Quart Knight-6, increasing its power.” Justin who then had brown hair and his knight with the golden clock was hovering in front of him. “See what you can do against it now.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru, younger then he was now, had a  Thought Ruler Archfiend<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> (2700/2300) on the field and two face down cards. Gakyru smirked as he looked at his hand and then at Justin. He flipped a card from his hand.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I activate Door to the Other Side!” Gakyru flipped the card into his duel disk and the giant door appeared at his side. “Now since you have dealt me damage in the previous turn, I can regain half of it.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 2300 -> 2750

<span style="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,  Emergency Teleport<span style="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 gate next to Gakyru appeared and from it a shadow leaped. “Appear from my deck,  Mind 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;"> (100/200). Next tune in  Mind 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;"> with  Thought Ruler Archfiend<span style="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 the battle of the mind, the fearsome warrior appears! Stars shatter as the mighty steps are heard! Rise from the Stars! Synchro Summon, Hyper Psycho Gunner (3000/2500).” The black silver armored warrior with gun like gauntlets at the end of his arms appeared from the Synchro 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;">“Oh 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;">“Hyper Psycho Gunner,  Overdrive<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Gunner!” As his wing like back stretched out behind him, he fired from the gun like gauntlets at the Quart Knight, destroying it. “And that is game.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Justin – 800 -> 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;">Gakyru – 2750

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru stretched out his hand and helped up Justin, holding the Door to the Other Side card up, retrieving the powerful door from the field. Gakyru handed Justin a card and smiled. He nodded.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“You are what I seek, Justin. I have a better future for you. A future in which our kind of people are respected and treated as equals maybe even gods. Help me and there will be no threatening from any other people anymore. Help me and we can make this world perfect.” Gakyru turned around and was waiting for Justin to reply.

<span style="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 can I sign in?”

'Gakyru: Justin was the first of the few that actually wanted to join me. In time more would join our cause, but many would go lost in the few years that we were operating until today. Today they have served their purpose, they have done their job and their efforts will continue into a better world. We, the psychic humans, we the more powerful kind of humans, will become gods.

I met Lynn not long after I met Justin. As Justin and the few other I had rallied behind my cause, and the down fall of Master Divine in mind, we knew we did not have the Arcadia Movement to count on and those who were previously in the Arcadia Movement were not to extreme enough as we were.'

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 1900 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Lynn – 200

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru had  Thought Ruler Archfiend<span style="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 field with one face down card, 1 card in the hand and he looked at Lynn`s field, who at this moment only held Doom – Gaia Crusher (0/2100) 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;">“I remove Psychic Shock from my graveyard from play to summon forth one Psychic monster from my hand to the field. Appear to me,  Mind 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;">!” Gakyru ordered as next to his Archfiend a new Psychic monster appeared.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“A tuner…..” Lynn knew what was coming from Gakyru. She knew it added up into level nine, which means a surely powerful Synchro monster was going to appear.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I tune in my  Mind 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;"> with my  Thought Ruler Archfiend<span style="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 the battle of the mind, the fearsome warrior appears! Stars shatter as the mighty steps are heard! Rise from the Stars! Synchro Summon, Hyper Psycho Gunner (3000/2500).” Gakyru chanted as his new monster appeared from the Synchro Gate, raising its gun like gauntlets.

<span style="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 rare card!” Lynn claimed. “I have heard that the card is nearly impossible to get, only available to high ranked duelists.”

<span style="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 over qualify. Hyper Psycho Gunner, attack! Overdrive<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;"> Gunner!” Gakyru`s new Synchro monster released a wave of lightning bolts from his gun like gauntlets and destroyed the Gaia Crusher. “Now, the difference between the attack power of my monster and your Gaia Crusher is dealt as damage to you.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 1900 <span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Lynn – 200 -> 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;">“You are indeed the best.”

<span style="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 have to feel down, Lynn. Join me and we built a new world. A better world in which people like us reign supreme over the other humans. Your parents abandoned you. Abandoned you and left you for grabs at an orphanage. Do you not want revenge?” Gakyru helped Lynn up. “If you stand with me, we will become more powerful than ever.”

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

<span style="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 serve under the flag of the Silent Core. We find the other half of the balance and we create the perfect core, a perfect world and we will rule it.” Gakyru turned around and Lynn slowly followed him. “Will you join 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;">“Yes.”

'Gakyru: I did not realize than, that the only way to create the perfect world was to eliminate them in the end. As far as I did not want to, I had too to fuel the Silent Core and find the Infinity Core. They served their purpose and the new world, the new perfect world that is coming into existence will be a result of their sacrifice. In the end only one can be the leader of the new world.'

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

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Many people called me insane, yes, but I do not believe there were many Psychic duelists that did not share my views. When Divine was killed, the Arcadia Movement was left defenseless to madness. Incompetent people tried taking over where Divine left it. People sought for a steady leader, someone that did listen to their inner wish to be accepted or even better, worshipped. And my wish and theirs will soon be true.” Gakyru shifted off a new card from his deck. “But first I deal with 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;">“My combo activates again,” Gakyru announced as his three face up cards glowed. “First I reveal the Void Soldier in my hand to force and discard 1 monster from the top of your deck. Then Sealment allows me to place 1 Life-Counter on you.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake – 1900 [4 Life-Counters]

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Then Banisher deals 500 points of damage to you and Void Altar allows me to regain 100 lifepoints per card on my field which is five.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 2200 -> 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;">“Then my White Cross – Silent Force activates and places 1 Silent-Counter on it [2].” Gakyru finally shifted another card from his hand. “Next I summon Void Soldier (1700/1200) to the field.” The soldier reappeared, in silver armor and being held together by a single core, looking like the Silent 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;">“I have seen that knight before.” Blake thought out loud. “I just don’t know where and when.”

<span style="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 revealed it already multiple times to you,” Gakyru sarcastically joked and he flipped a card from his hand. “Void Weapon activate. This continuous spell card allows me to pay multiples of 500 lifepoints once per turn to place 1 Silent-Counter on any card on my field. I pay 2500 lifepoints and place 5 Silent-Counters on Silent Force [2 -> 7].”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 2700 -> 200

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">‘ ''In one risking move daring to do this to me? Is he mocking 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;">’ Blake wondered why Gakyru would pay such a big amount of damage just to place counters on a card.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Now Void Soldier, attack his Blackthunder Blaze Salamander!” Gakyru ordered and to Blake`s surprise the warrior actually destroyed the salamander and lowered his lifepoints. “You see with Void Weapon on the field, my Void Soldier gains an additional 1000 attack points during battle (ATK: 1700 -> 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;">Blake – 1900 -> 1300 [4 Life-Counters]

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“My turn 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;">“My turn then.” Blake draws a new card. “First I activate the ability of a monster in my hand, Blackthunder Cocoon (0/2200) and pay 1000 lifepoints to special summon it to the field.” The big cocoon appeared on his field. “Once per turn I can place 1 Blackthunder-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;">Blake – 1300 -> 300 [4 Life-Counters]

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And my combo activates, revealing my White Cross – Angelic Eyes from my hand to force you and discard your top card from your deck. Then Sealment of the Silent Void activates again and places 1 Life-Counter on you.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Blake – 300 [4 -> 5 Life-Counters]

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“And finally my Banisher of the Silent Void, Void Altar and Silent Force activate. I remove the send card to the graveyard from play.” Blake was forced to pocket a second copy of Blackthunder Guard Hound. “Then I regain 100 lifepoints for every card on my field, which is now six. And Silent Force places another counter on it [8].”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 200 -> 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;">“Next I summon Blackthunder Knife Knight (800/500) in attack mode.” A warrior dressed in a black armor with feather patterns and many knifes appeared on his side on the field. “When successfully normal summoned I can deal you 500 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;">Gakyru – 800 -> 300

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Next I equip him with  Mist Body<span style="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 place this card face down, ending my turn.” Blake lowered his duel disk and waited for Gakyru to make his 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;">‘ He expects me to fall for that trap.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’ Gakyru picked his next card from his deck. “My combo activates. Reveal Angelic Eyes from my hand.” As the spirit form of his monster flashed on the field, Blake was forced to discard the top card from his deck, Blackthunder Zephyr. “Then Sealment of the Silent Void activates.”

<span style="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 – 200 [5 -> 6 Life-Counters]

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Blackthunder Cocoon gains another Blackthunder-Counter as well [2].”

<span style="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 does no longer matter. Banisher activates removing a card from your graveyard from play.” Blake was forced to pocket Blaze Salamander. “Then Void Altar activates granting me 600 lifepoints.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 300 -> 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;">“And White Cross – Silent Force gains another Silent-Counter [8 -> 9]. Next I remove all Life-Counters and removing all monsters from my graveyard from play from you [6 -> 0] to special summon White Cross – Angelic Eyes (0/0)!” Gakyru placed the monster card on his duel disk as the white colored eye appeared on his side of the field.

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Not exactly. White Cross – Angelic Eyes gains 500 attack points for every Life-Counter removed (ATK: 0 -> 3000). Now Angelic Eyes, obliterate Knife Knight!” Angelic Eyes rose into the air and all of a sudden the area became inverted before returning normal. However Blake`s card was flipped up. “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;">Blake – 200 -> 4200 -> 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;">“Nutrient-Z. When there is damage that is dealt higher then 2000, I can activate this card and gain 4000 lifepoints before damage calculation. And now I am up on the life point table.” Blake looked at Gakyru who was rather pissed. “And Knife Knight still exists because of  Mist Body<span style="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.”

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

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

<span style="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 and Rebecca were under a hatch which was rather up high and Reias and Casseius were behind them. Reias pointed up and signaled they had to go there. Paul was the first to climb 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;">“Where are we going?”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“To the outside world again,” Casseius replied and Rebecca looked at her. “Don’t worry, you won’t be needing your breathing gear.” Rebecca reluctantly followed Paul and Casseius and Reias disappeared.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Where did they go too?” Rebecca asked Paul, who pushed against the hatch. “Paul …. I don’t think that is a good 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;">As the hatch opened, all Rebecca could see was blue air above them and Paul was just as amazed as her. As he climbed out, he helped out Rebecca. They were standing on top of a stone tower as it looked. It was sticking out of the water and around them they found themselves surrounded by a ring of small hills.

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

<span style="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 never seen this place before.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“This used to be the meeting place of the Attributes. Six times a year our masters came together, each time hosted by a different Attribute. This is also the final place we will be taking you too.” Casseius and Reias were still with them, but this time in spirit form. “Head west from here and you’ll get back to where you started.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Why did we never see this place before?” Paul wondered. “It has not been pictured on any of the maps.”

<span style="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 seems you have not looked hard enough then. Now I bid you two a fare well.” Reias and Casseius bowed before disappearing from the tower. Paul and Rebecca looked around and looked 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;">“Any idea on how we are getting 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;">---

<span style="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 got them 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;">Ken was with Jennifer, Grace and Jason, who were still unconscious. The last of the cocoons had disappeared through the hole in the ground. Yuni and Lance were talking with Laurence Bishop. Two police officers were standing guard as Bishop was pointing to the hole and a helicopter entered the arena from above.

<span style="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, we got them all out.” Ken confirmed against one of the officers and nodded to the helicopter. “Were we expecting visitors?”

<span style="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, Captain Salwell was on his way and we needed the helicopter to get down the hole,” the officer explained and Ken nodded as he saw a grey haired man stepped out of the helicopter. He was wearing an official police uniform and approached Laurence Bishop. “I thought he would not want to become personally involved.”

<span style="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 you see. The media have gotten attention from this and since he wanted to make a good impression, captain Salwell came down here himself.” The officer helped up Ken and Ken followed the officer to Bishop and Captain Salwell.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Get these civilians out of here.” Captain Salwell ordered the moment he saw Ken approaching. “I want this scene cleaned up before the media arrives. And go down there and find out if there are any survivors.”

<span style="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, this is Ken…..” Laurence Bishop started, pointing to Ken and Salwell ignored him. “Without him, we would have been unable to save the few people that are still 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 good that we saved the 10 people that are here, but their condition is still unknown. You,” Captain Salwell pointed to Ken. “You stick around. I have some questions to ask when we are done with the preliminary investigation 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;">As Captain Salwell left Ken and Laurence alone, Yuni and Lance joined them. Laurence shook his head and Ken nodded. Lance and Yuni backed down again, walking back to the entrances through which they had 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;">“We are going to move the people to the hospital, there are in total 190 people missing from accidents involving the Aurora Remnant. Everybody involved here is suspected of being involved with the Aurora Remnant.” Salwell told his fellow officers. As he picked a communicator from his belt, the helicopter appeared from the sky. “I am going in there.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">A second helicopter approached the stadium as well, with a man sticking out with a camera. It started to descend on the smaller part of the arena floor that was still complete. A reporter and the camera man appeared from it. Captain Salwell walked down to them and shook their hands.

<span style="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 rather fond of protecting his own reputation. He is also known to be friends with Mr. O’Hare and his company.” Laurence explained to Ken and the others. “Speaking about Mr. O’Hare.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Ken looked to the point where Laurence pointed to. Mr. O’Hare entered the arena, looking around and frantically searched for something. Ken and Laurence walked down to him as he had already grabbed a cellphone.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Can we help 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;">“You….” Mr. O’Hare recognized Ken and grabbed him by the collar. “You helped them escape and now I lost control over this situation.”

<span style="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 this situation ever under your control?” Laurence joked.

<span style="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 be joking, young man. I can get you fired anytime I want. Now I want you to release my youngest daughter`s body, before the media get air from my daughter`s body being here.” Mr. O’Hare urged Laurence and Laurence shakes his head. “It is your choice, young man.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Mr. O’Hare suddenly turned around and walked down to Captain Salwell and the reporter. He knocked on Salwell`s shoulder and spoke to both him and the reporter. Salwell nodded and walked down to Laurence and Ken.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Inspector Bishop, you are hereby suspended from this investigation. Last order for this operation from me is to hand over the bodies to Mr. O’Hare.” Captain Salwell was rather urging and Laurence nodded. “All of them. And take your friend with you.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“He has nothing to do 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;">“That is enough. You have heard me, Bishop. Now do it.”

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

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 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;">Blake – 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;">“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;">“And my combo cannot activate this time, since I have no cards in my hand to reveal.” Gakyru intervened, trying to create a scare attack to Blake. “So please, entertain 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;">‘ It is risky and means I force his combo to activate, but I have no 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;">’ He flipped the card he had drawn from his deck out of his hand. “ 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;"> activate! This allows us both to draw until we hold six 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;">“Good.” Gakyru had reinforced his hand. “Now Tomb of the Silent Void activate!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Not so fast, activate  Heavy Storm<span style="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 destroy all spell and trap cards on the field.” All cards were destroyed except for White Cross – Silent Force. “What?!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Silent Force cannot be destroyed by spell cards. Try again. It does mean my Silent Force card gains another Silent-Counter [10].”

<span style="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 Blackthunder Cocoon gains another Blackthunder-Counter [3] and next I activate the spell card Counter Gift.” Blake flipped the card in his duel disk and laughed. “Now I select my Blackthunder Cocoon and place another Blackthunder-Counter on it [4]. Now I tribute my Blackthunder Cocoon attached with 4 Blackthunder-Counters to summon forth Blackthunder Griffin (2300/1700). Now I equip my Blackthunder Griffin with  United We Stand<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">, raising its power to 4700!”

<span style="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 Evil Buster!” Gakyru`s card from the graveyard activated. “This card can also be activated from the graveyard. During the battle phase all my monsters attack power is lowered to 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;">‘ ''Why would he do that? That is suicide!''<span style="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 shook of his thought and pointed to Blackthunder Griffin. “Blackthunder Griffin, attack his Angelic Eyes! Thundering Firewing!” The griffin rose into the air and fired fiery blasts from her wings, hitting Gakyru and Angelic Eyes.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Bad luck for you then. Once per turn Angelic Eyes can negate the Battle Damage. Which makes it a pity for you that this attack went through. As far as I can see now, you have nothing else to attack with.” Gakyru pointed to the face down monster on Blake`s side of the field. “To bad for you I suppose.”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“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;">“My turn then.” Gakyru draws his next card. “To bad for me, I no longer have my combo, but don’t worry, I won’t need it to defeat you. I have drawn exactly what I need.” His Angelic Eyes glowed with bright white energy and. “I place 1 Life-Counter on you and remove it through my Angelic Eyes` effect to deal you 500 lifepoints 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;">Blake – 2000 -> 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;">“Next I activate this spell card, Battle Drawn. I pay half of my lifepoints and force all of our monsters to attack!” Gakyru gloated as all of the monsters glowed and they rose into the air.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 900 -> 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;">“And now I activate my Evil Buster trap card from my graveyard again, since it is still in my graveyard. My monster`s attack power is lowered to 0.” Griffin roared and flew at the Angelic Eyes monster, however the invisible barrier once again flipped 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;">“I negate the Battle Damage, but Angelic Eyes is destroyed now.” Angelic Eyes burst open and a new creature appeared. A wyvern with huge crystal wings roared loudly as it appeared. “You have just set in motion your own downfall. You have summoned forward, Void Wavern (?/?)!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“What is THAT?” Blake was surprised. He had not seen that monster before. “Wait, it has undefined attack power!”

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“Not for long, due to your own mistake of allowing me to bring forth Angelic Eyes, I was able to absorb twice the damage your Griffin would have done, which is a lot. Void Wavern however gains the damage Angelic Eyes has negated, but doubled!” Gakyru smiled as the attack and defense points of his monsters skyrocketed.

<span style="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 over 9,000!” Blake panicked as he slowly turned to his left where Gillian was still laying on the ground.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“It is worse. It is over 18,000!” Gakyru trumped him and the Void Wavern rose into the air. “Nothing can stop me now (?/? -> 18,800/18,800). Now I reduce the attack and defense power of Void Wavern by 2,000 (ATK/DEF: 18,800/18,800 -> 16,800/16,800) and remove all cards in your graveyard 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;">‘ ''Damn, I am cut off of my Zephyr for direct attack next turn. It would be a little cheap game-wise but I don’t care.''<span style="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 looked again at Gillian who was lying on the ground, still haven’t moved. ‘ Aaaah, who am I now to bother about game-wise fairness, not like Gakyru is going to do 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;">“I end my turn, since Void Wavern cannot attack during the turn that effect has been activated. Good luck in beating it, Blake.” Gakyru smirked and noticed the sounds of the helicopters far above them. ‘ ''I do not have to worry about those. They will never arrive here in time. I’ll be gone before they 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;">“My turn then.” Blake looked at his drawn card and smirks. ‘ Now the Phoenix will rise.<span style="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 slapped a new card on his duel disk. “I summon forth another copy of Blackthunder Mosquito (900/200). Next I activate the spell card Level Pact. By discarding up to three cards I can lower my monsters level by that many levels.”

<span style="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 not enough for Helios Dragon. Top what he gets now is Level 8. No, he is aiming for a different Synchro monster. Blaze Salamander is gone 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;">’ Gakyru suddenly realized what the monster would be. ‘ Now I know.<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I discard 1 card to lower my Mosquito`s level by one.” Blake saw his Mosquito become a little smaller. “I tune in my Mosquito with my Blackthunder Griffin! As the thunder rolls and fires are burning. From the ashes a new force rises. Become the Dark Phoenix! Arise, Blackthunder Phoenix!” The giant black fiery phoenix rose from the ground, hovering behind Blake.

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

<span style="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 once per turn I can place 1 Blackthunder-Counter on it [1] which I remove to increase the attack power by 400 (ATK: 2600 -> 3000). Next I set this card face down.” In front of Blake and the Blackthunder Phoenix a card materialized. “Blackthunder Phoenix, destroy his Void Soldier!” The soldier was gone in a flash and the Phoenix evaporated it.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Gakyru – 450 -> 150

<span style="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 Void Weapon spell card saved me again this time. Had it not been there, I would have lost already. A shame really for you.” Gakyru mocked Blake.

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">“I end my turn.” Blake held his own right arm as it hurt. The damage was very realistic, he was dealing with a superb psychic duelist. However this also meant Gakyru would be worn down by the duel, but he did not seem like he was worn down by the 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;">“My turn then,” Gakyru draws a new card and smiles. “Oh yes, this is going to end very soon, very soon indeed. I summon forth Silent Void Resonator (900/0)!” A cube appeared in front of him and next to the enormous Void Wavern. It had a small core inside with golden 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;">“That is a Tuner as well. 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;">“Correct my young friend. My White Cross – Silent Force has acquired 10 Silent-Counters and therefore can I tune in my Silent Void Resonator with my Void Wavern!” Gakyru raised his hand into the air. “I remove my Silent Force from play! Tune in Silent Void Resonator with Void Wavern! The world splits apart in good and evil, but the mind of humanity is split in dark and darker! Become the soul of the void and rain destruction upon the unholy ones! Synchro Summon! Rise…..”

<span style="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 Level 12 Synchro monster?!<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">’

<span style="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 the Synchro Gate a gigantic dragon appeared, who with his crystal wings overshadowed Blackthunder Phoenix. It had the representation of the Silent Core in the middle of his chest as the head of the dragon lured down over his silver crystal body. It had two smaller darker wings just below his paws and there were various horns coming out of his body.

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

<span style="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;">Yes, we have indeed gone into the first more-parter episode of the season. I hope I did not disappoint you all with dragging this duel for another episode. A lot has happened so far and it is good to spread it out, definitely after seeing that this episodes once again takes two posts at Pojo (nearly 8,000 words).

<span style="color:rgb(225,228,242);font-family:verdana,geneva,lucida,'lucidagrande',arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:normal;text-align:left;">Why did you not let Angelic Eyes be destroyed in the first place? I don’t know, I wanted to last it another turn…….. nah, just kidding, there is a reason, but I have not shown it yet. And yeah, Void Wavern`s attack power is ridiculous but eh, aren’t we getting used to 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;">Originally this duel would have featured Gillian as well. Gillian also would have lost at the end of this episode. However, in that scenario Gillian had not come to terms with Blake and simply dueled because she wanted to get rid of Blake. I like this version better. Also Gillian would have revealed a new deck and Blake would have reverted into his Black Feather deck (the deck he used before he switched to the Blackthunders).

<span style="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 19!