Ryu walked along and ducked down a hallway clutching his right hand which had began glowing faintly and burning. When he looked down at it he noticed that the golden light that usually shown through was not masked by a purple and black light.
"Ryu are you alright?"Jain asked him
"I'm not sure...but I feel stronger somehow....like I can do almost anything." he said while Jain watched the mark on his hand fade away only to be replaced by a new darker looking mark. Neither of them noticed the dark cloud that had shrouded his deck...

Missy said
Sandra was surprised that he responded to him...and since he failed to notice the smell she figured it was only she imagining things again. The pressure perhaps was getting to her, especially after that display of duelling talent. She really like that merit of being here, that and of course the whole spooky theme of this whole tournament, as she was guiding Lyall she stated to digress She shuffled her deck again, a impulse she had sadly yet not gotten under control. She did however find this whole idea ingenious! How better to make everyone play their best then this? She remember when she was younger and she watched the duellist kingdom tournament repeats on her TV. She loved really how Pegasus used all of his creativity to create one fantastical tournament witch she would have loved to be part of. Sadly she was far to young and inexperienced back then...now however, perhaps she could have won that tournament just as she might win this one. It was all in the cards after all....

Lyall chuckled and shook his head. Clearly this girl hadn't even begun to suspect that there was something more sinister going on and only saw everything as just another cute tournament gimmick. You know, because sealing most of the main exits was something that always happened in family friendly places. Now at the cafeteria, Lyall began making comments of his own.

"I'm more familiar with the Battle City tournament that was hosted by the Kaiba Corporation," he said as he browsed through the various food options available. "Specifically, the finals. There was a certain duelist there I found very intriguing, one by the name of Marik Ishtar. See, he too happened to mention this 'Shadow Realm', and during duels with his opponents..."

Lyall turned his head to make eye contact with Sandra.

"Well... there's clearly something very strange going on, especially considering the fact that his opponents wound up physically injured, even comatose. It's mostly played off as a /creative gimmick/ to keep interest, but some suspect otherwise..."

Sandra chucked as he told his story about Battle city. She had not personally visited the battle city tapes since during that time her studies in America had kept her busy. So this ''Mark Ishtar'' guy was unknown to her. So she took a feisty sandwich and soda with a good and light feeling in side of her...that got dashed as she was told about the comatose of some of the participants. That was indeed something quite creepy...but duelling using the duel disk system had reported damage by the placebo effect (if you think its going to hurt you it did). That could have been a likely cause...if a big enough thing hit you perhaps your body went whack. She started to munch on her bacon and ham ''kill your heart by cholesterol'' sandwich. As soon as she shallowed she said
''Back in the USA all the kids ate these. Tastes like sin on a bum'' She pooped her soda and took a chunk before continuing on her last dialogue with Lyall
''Well if you ask me shadow duelling sounds quite exhilarating. And since apparently we are all stuck in them how about you and i finish this meal and have one of these...'' She makes joke motions with her hands
''...Shadow duels?''

Clearly she would call his bluff, they would play, she would win, nothing will happen and then he will learn not to trust everything he sees on TV.

Kerykeion cocked her head at Lyall as she waited for him to respond. Shadow Dueling someone on a whim wasn't really his style, but as spontaneous as he could sometimes be, she never knew. Lyall simply stared at Sandra for a few seconds before his face cracked a smile.

"Haha, I'm all for a good duel, but considering you're also a competitor here, dueling you beforehand might not be such a smart idea. Wouldn't want to give my more special /talents/, right?"

Lyall selected his food items, settling for chicken tenders, fries, gravy, a corndog, and a cheeseburger. Oh, and a Diet Coke.

"Makes everything completely healthy!" He joked as he ate some of his food. He wondered who the next competitors would be.

The Delenare twins had been in the cafeteria for a little while now, and to their surprise two of the other competitors walked in. Aurund and Taerund walked over to Lyall and Sandra. Aurund was holding a simple glass of water, while Taerund seemed to have hot chocolate, that seemed to be boiling hot.

"Your the Lswarm guy, right? Well, I'm Aurund, and this is my brother, Taerund." He held out his hand, expecting a handshake. Taerund seemed to be way too engrossed in his overly-hot beverage to have a conversation.

The Arbitrator got up from his seat in front of the wall of monitors, and walked out of the room. Outside the door was a small bag, a package left for him. He picked up the bag and walked inside the room again. After opening the bag, he took a small remote-like device from it, and pressed the button on the top left of the device. The Arbitrator began to laugh at the events to come.

She chucked and took another zip of her nice soda with the taste of lemon. Again she felt very outlandish in both her choice of food and her manner of speech as she once again shallowed before eating, since eating with your mouth full was rather unpleasant.
''Yea we can wait for that, but when you and i face off in the tournament you better be ready for that spooky duel'' She used a napkin to shuffle her deck before she kept talking
''Wanna know something really creepy? Sometimes when i play...well how do i put this'' She sleeked back in her chair, how does one say something as uncrazy as possible...She racked her brain for a few seconds
''When people like you and i build decks...some cards..they kinda...feel at place.'' Yea she was going there...now just to make it clear
''Like if you left it out part of you would be incomplete..'' She looked at Lyall for a few seconds before breaking in to laughter at her own silliness and dusting her own dress off before going on
''I am crazy right?''

Missy said
She chucked and took another zip of her nice soda with the taste of lemon. Again she felt very outlandish in both her choice of food and her manner of speech as she once again shallowed before eating, since eating with your mouth full was rather unpleasant. She used a napkin to shuffle her deck before she kept talking She sleeked back in her chair, how does one say something as uncrazy as possible...She racked her brain for a few seconds Yea she was going there...now just to make it clear She looked at Lyall for a few seconds before breaking in to laughter at her own silliness and dusting her own dress off before going on

"Oh yes, and you'd better hope that duel is against me," Lyall said ominously. He smiled soon afterwards, which hopefully diffused the eerienesss of what he had said. It seemed to have worked, because moments later Sandra began to talk about cards and the "connections" you could feel to them. He knew what she meant.

"That's not entirely outlandish. Sometimes you get an odd gut feeling that those kinds of cards 'speak to you', letting you know they'll be useful later on."

Lyall held out his hand. Now was his chance to look through her deck and see what it was Kerykeion had mentioned twice up to this point.

"Do you mind if I look at your deck?"

Unfortunately, before he even got a response from her, two guys walked up to them and introduced themselves. These two.... oh yeah, Lyall definitely recognized something about them, and it wasn't even physically observable.

VarionusNW said
The Delenare twins had been in the cafeteria for a little while now, and to their surprise two of the other competitors walked in. Aurund and Taerund walked over to Lyall and Sandra. Aurund was holding a simple glass of water, while Taerund seemed to have hot chocolate, that seemed to be boiling hot."Your the Lswarm guy, right? Well, I'm Aurund, and this is my brother, Taerund." He held out his hand, expecting a handshake. Taerund seemed to be way too engrossed in his overly-hot beverage to have a conversation.The Arbitrator got up from his seat in front of the wall of monitors, and walked out of the room. Outside the door was a small bag, a package left for him. He picked up the bag and walked inside the room again. After opening the bag, he took a small remote-like device from it, and pressed the button on the top left of the device. The Arbitrator began to laugh at the events to come.

"Yeah, I am the wielder of the Iswarms," Lyall said as he shook Aerund's hand. He smiled, though his eyes weren't all too welcoming as they seemed to say, 'I know /what/ you are,' instead of 'Hey how's it going man?' He switched his attention to Taerund, who currently was enjoying an overly hot cup of chocolate that looked like it'd scald the mouth of anyone who drank it. He didn't seem to care.

As if their names didn't imply it, their appearances certainly did. They were twins, which was actually something Lyall could use to his advantage. If he managed to sway one of them to his side, the other was likely to follow.

"Nice to meet you. I'm Lyall by the way," the duelist said as he crossed his arms. This action might have been hard to do with a regular duel disk, but Lyall's device was able to shrink itself down to what looked like a metallic, slightly bulky forearm ornament.

"So.... what brings you two here? Having fun with all the Shadow Duel stuff?"

"Us? well-" Aurund was suddenly cut off by a sharp headache, falling to the ground suddenly, obviously knocked out. Taerund threw his drink down, and picked his brother up, and silently carried him out of the room, Aurund's bag being left in the cafeteria. He walked up several sets up stairs, before finally kicking open a grey door.

The arbitrator threw the remote on the ground, and it broke open. Inside the device was a set of 6 cards, all of them the same. He picked up the cards, and walked back to his chair and sat down. "Now, I just have to wait."

Ryu had fallen to his knees, the pain in his hand had gotten so intense he couldn't stand. The cloud that shrouded his deck was now gone but was replaced by a darker aura.
"Come on quit being a baby. " Jain said with a sneer. When Ryu looked up to her he noticed her armor had changed to black as well as her hair. Her eyes now looked a sinister red.
"Jain? What happened to you? " he asked concerned though he still hurt. The spirit knelt next to him and whispered in his ear.
"The same thing happening to you!" She said as Ryu's pain intensified to a point where he blacked out. When he finally woke up Ryu felt more alive than he had ever felt before. And a dark aura surrounded him.

Sandra sat there, waiting patiently for her chance to introduce herself to the twins that just showed up ,cute buggers to boot. But sadly the strange event where one brother got seemly too much of the drink in his system and then the other carrying him away stopped her in her tracks. She was also just about to help them, but again she was stopped before she got a chance...oh well, time to get back to what he was asking about seeing her deck...well she was not that stupid he would have quite a upper hand on her if he knew her whole deck
''Let me show the card i was thinking about instead'' She without looking took forth a card, and hell its backside towards Lyall, she looking at the card with almost gleaming eyes
''If any card was me...if would be this card'' She turns the card around and shows him that strange black and white artwork of a angel like being standing upright with his hands towards the border of the card
''The Chaos Fairy Luminas...my greatest card'' She holds towards him
''So...what do you think?''

Cybell smirked to herself. What did the appearance of the three overly-dramatic losers matter really? All she cared about was that the tournament was going on as planned. The white haired girl didn't pay any mind to the three drama queens' talk of being sent to the oh so spooky shadow realm. When she dueled them later on, and she would because no one else in the tournament stood a chance of beating her, she would win, and there would be three less clueless hipsters pretending to know how the game was "meant to be played". She wondered how the three would manage to shuffle their decks, what with them still using stone slabs for their cards and all. In the end, all that mattered was power. Bell wished everyone else would just shut up and drop dead so she could just kick the three "heart of the cards" koolaid drinkers where it hurt and leave with her winnings.

Though they had said that she wasn't allowed to do anything to them outside of dueling, she doubted it would matter much if she caved their face in with the first punch. It didn't matter what they laced their koolaid with, dead was dead. If she managed to get within murdering range, no force of heaven or hell would save them.

Cybell looked up at a camera that was looking right at her. "Piss off," she said with a smile, and she flipped off the camera before walking away. She wandered the halls as the other ignorant duelists watched the first brawl on the duel field. Her red eyes were drawn when the blonde loser summoned a magnificent dragon, but he was unworthy of the monster. The other duelist, the slimy one, was someone worth paying attention to. His deck was no joke, but he would burn in the dragons' fire like the rest. Though she continued searching the school, she found no sign of the three mysterious individuals. It looked like she would really have to just play their game until they came to her.

The doors leading into the cafeteria were thrown open, and a girl with hair as white as snow and eyes as red as blood stalked in as if she owned the floor beneath her feet. All she got was a cup full of ice before turning around and walking back across the space. As she passed by a table where the slimy duelist sat chatting up some dark haired girl, Cybell audibly crunched down on an ice cube. She didn't turn or stop walking, but for a moment it looked as if another version of her had. But the other version's eyes were blue. That girl stopped and stared silently at the invisible creature beside the slimy man. Maiden turned and flew after her human partner, fading away as she caught up. She rarely ventured out of her card long.

VarionusNW said
"Us? well-" Aurund was suddenly cut off by a sharp headache, falling to the ground suddenly, obviously knocked out. Taerund threw his drink down, and picked his brother up, and silently carried him out of the room, Aurund's bag being left in the cafeteria.

"Guess I'll be seeing you three later!" Lyall called out as Taerund carried his twin out of the cafeteria. Lyall hadn't misspoken when he used the number three instead of two. If those two were allied with the third cloaked man, then he definitely wanted the ring leader to know he was well aware of their abilities and was more than willing to meet.

Much to Lyall's satisfaction, Taerund had forgotten to take Aerund's bag with him in the rush. Now this was gold, there could be definitely be some useful information of their little cloaked group in there for him to sort through! Maybe there were even tidbits of their master plan somewhere within there too, making it all the more better.The duelist kept part of his attention on it as Sandra began to talk again.

He honestly wished she would just grow bored and leave, but this quickly changed when she pulled a single card out from her deck. The card was quite impressive, being a never before seen Synchro monster that held all the characteristics of an angelic entity, but the aura of dark being. Kerykeion seemed especially riled up by it.

"This is the card!" She told him. "I only felt it faintly before, but I know this is the card I sensed with her earlier. Chaos Fairy Luminas... it resonates with a power I'm sure will help magnificently in restoring my progenitors' second lord to power..."

Lyall smiled at the card. If Kerykeion was this impressed by it, then it was definitely something worth having by his side for his personal plans.

"I find it quite beautiful, much like its wielder," he said with small laugh as he sat down at a table to continue eating his food.

Some time later after Lyall had finished up all his food, the cafeteria doors were opened by a fierce looking, white haired girl. Well, more like they were burst open with the amount of force she used to get in. Lyall watched her. She carried herself with a high sense of superiority and authority, acting in a way that would intimidate any lesser duelists or people of weak wills. He knew this was the girl the Evilswarm spellcastress had mentioned not long ago, and now that he had seen her for himself he knew this duelist could be his most challenging opponent yet.

"A maiden spirit with the same aura as the Blue-Eyes White Dragon," Lyall repeated mentally. That particular dragon was the king above the "basic" dragons that roamed through the Duel Spirits' world, so there was no question as to why she actually did emanate some sort of grand power. But, Lyall himself had used dragons in the past, and he knew their power paled in comparison to the might of the Iswarms. Like with Ryu, Lyall would send out his Swarm to overwhelm her monsters, and successfully crush that arrogance she was obviously flouting.

She smiled at this retort and took a good look at her chaos fairy....then she said rather emotionless and cold
''Excuse me...'' She got up having finished her sandwich and walked away form Lyall. She walked straight past the new arrival in the cafeteria with a strange unhealthy looking face. She looked...happy sad if there is a face that looks like that, She was smiling but with sad eyes kinda like if someone had just said something really hurtful to her but she pretended to be happy. She nodded towards the girl and passed her and started walking through the corridor. Sandra was spinning. her head was hurting, her belly felt wack. She just manage to get to the toilet before collapsing.

''uggg...'' She moaned on the cold bathroom floor her back covered in cold sweat. This made no sense, had she just gotten poison in her food? No that's a silly notion since Lyall eat just as much food as she and he seemed fine. Her mind started to race, what if she had gotten something? Something bad? Now? Of course now, when ells? When she was just about to duel in one of her most important duels of her life and she got sick...then she heard something again...this time it was clearly coming from inside herself
''Rise'' She had to be going nuts....she stood up

A few moments later she goes to a vending machine and buys herself a soda, she was about to duel any moment so she better be on her best and freshest. And nothing said good and fresh like a ''sugar-filled high nothing good your body'', drink. She smiled and took one and started making self-ready

The setup was now complete. A message for Lyall, and a change of plans for the twins. Aurund was temporarily out of the game, but only temporarily. Now, for a brief message and a bit of fun. The Arbitrator began to speak into the microphone, once again.

"Unfortunately, one of the competitors in the tournament has gone a bit ill. Aurund Delenare seems to be in a coma. I have rearranged the brackets, his duel will be the last one tomorrow, and Cybell Yvenstar will be taking his place in the next duel, her opponent being Sandra Yamanari. The duel will begin immediately. Both duelists, please meet at the stage and decide on the duel type, all others please take your seats in the stands of the main arena. It is once again, time to duel." He ended his message with a short laugh, and then cut off the microphone.

Taerund had just left the room where Aurund would now be resting, and began walking towards the cafeteria, to check on his brothers bag.

Lyall frowned a bit as Sandra just got up and left, which was kind of ironic considering he wanted her gone just minutes later. Then he remembered why. The bag left behind by the twins! Now that there was no one else around, Lyall had a good opportunity to steal it with no trouble. He went for it and slung it over his shoulder before quickly heading out through another exit of the cafeteria. Didn't want to bump into Ms. Mean Girl and Sandra after all.

The duelist was now walking through a hallway looking for an empty place that was mostly out of everyone's way. That way he could sift through the bags contents with no interference. He stopped to look at the door names, and there seemed to be what was a custodian's closet.

"How cliché, but it works."

He stepped into it and shut the door behind him silently, afterwards turning on the closet light.

"Now let's see what we have here," Lyall said with a grin, opening the bag...

Ryu stood observing himself he had clearly changed in a way. He walked to a bathroom and looked at himself in the mirror. He looked the same but his eyes were now a deep sinister red. He grinned and walked from the bathroom toward the cafeteria.
"Jain hurry up!" He barked to the duel spirit.
"Y-yes master." She said her breath catching at his sudden personality shift. Ryu looked down at his right hand and smiled. Now he had truly arrived.

Just as she finished her Soda she had finally gotten her dueling opponent, A miss Yvenstar, a name she had not heard off but then again she herself was not the most famous name in the dueling world. And since she couldn't ride motorcycles she hoped they would duel classic face to face. She was best at that sort of dueling. As she was walking towards the main arena she was wondering what kind of deck her opponent ran, it could be anything considering the tournament had very few cards on its banlist and even fewer clues on what the 3 black hooded teachers would be running. Perhaps she would finally face off against a Toon deck as she always wanted...ech low chance considering the fact that as far as Sandra knew the only Toon cards in the world was in Mr.Crawords deck back in Industrial illusions.

She entered the main arena where already some scrubs had showed up for her first tournament duel. Looking around she felt rather confident. After all she had a good solid deck in her hands with some of her favorite cards and combos. Walking up the main stage she shuffled her cards and put them in her fancy custom ordered black duel disk. It had a separate slot for the Extra deck built right in to the side. So when she summoned her ace it would pop right up on the duel disk with but a push of a concadle button. She used to think it was the only feature that reminded her that she used to be rich. She supposed...she supposed.

Cybell stopped walking as her name was said over the speakers. So she was given an even weaker opponent? She crunched another block of ice and turned around to go to the dueling arena. If she was lucky, one of the stupid masked retards would make the mistake of showing up. She wasn't even giving her new opponent a thought. Whoever she was, she sounded insignificant.

She walked onto her side of the duel field and held of her left arm. A sleek white duel disk with what looked like a blue sapphire in the center unfolded on her arm. The masked bastards weren't here. Might as well finish up this waste of oxygen quickly then. Hey, she had black hair. This was the girl slimy had been chatting with in the cafeteria. Could they be friends? If she brutalized this girl in a duel, would slimy be angry? Cybell smirked. Even more incentive to crush her.

"Hey little girl," Cybell called over, though she was in fact younger than her opponent, "why don't you just give up now and save me some time? I have no interest in beating people who don't even deserve to be dueling me in the first place."

Sandra who was just about to reach out a hand in good spirit and friendless stopped in her tracks for the 3th time today...really? This was her response? To be an arrogant jerk face. Sighing she replied

''No I think not. Instead I say we duel now and then see who is weaker. Also since I am nice lady I say we vote on which style of dueling we shall use. I vote standard. What do you think''? She shuffles her deck as she is conversing with this very unfriendly and unlady like foe. She at least looks like a good challenge if nothing ells. But does she have to be so filled with hate? Bah Sandra would show her. A good duel will do them both good.

"Standard is fine." Cybell's red eyes didn't look down as she picked up her deck and shuffled the cards with flair. The cards seemed to stream upwards out of her right hand to her left against gravity. She shuffled them normally after that and returned the deck to the deck slot of her white duel disk. "Duel start." Five cards seemed to jump from the deck to her hand.

''Good...Also Sandra.'' Sandra draws her starting lineup as the crowd gives an applaud if only out of kindness to the two on stage. Looking at her hand she feels rather confident again...Wonder what she would be facing
''Go ahead. Give me your best shot...''

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(Turn 1)
Cybell brushed her hair aside. "My best shot would be overkill against someone like you," she said matter of factly. She picked one card out of her hand, and the shape of a girl materialized behind her shoulder. "I summon Maiden with Eyes of Blue in attack position, set one card face-down, and end." The blurred duel spirit shot towards the duel field where she became defined and visible to the crowd. It was a girl that looked a lot like the one that had summoned it, except where the duelist's eyes were blood red the monster's were as blue as the sky.

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(Turn 2)
Really? Sandra was not born yesterday. A monster with 0 attack points surely packed some sort of powerful special ability in her trunk. Not to mention the fact that she put one card face down
''Are you this friendly with all your opponents? My move!'' Sandra draws a card in a classic duel motion and again checks her hand. Surely she could get something out of this..But her hand needed some extra firepower...mmm..
''I'll start by playing my magic mallet card.'' A picture of a hammer appears on the field
''Now I just take the cards I don’t want...like these 3...and shuffle then back and draw 3 new. Simple?'' A fast reload of her hand and Sandra checks....not good.
''I put 2 cards face down...then I shall summon my powerful assault beast in attack mode.'' A roaring beast warrior with a mace and armor made of leather appears on her center board of her duel disk.
''It comes packed with 1900 attack points'' But that was all she could do. Taking a stand back she says
''Why aren’t you happy? We are just starting on a fantastic duel...you should lighten up. I end my turn''

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(Turn 3)
"1900? Is that all?" Cybell yawned. 1900 attack wasn't even enough to get her out of bed in the morning. Either way, that monster was useless against her dragons. It didn't even have an effect it could use on the field. Truly a useless monster. "Sorry, but that's not going to help you. Feel free to think otherwise though. I think I'll just end without doing anything for now. No need to play my hand when you haven't even gotten anything worth destroying on the field."

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(Turn 4)
Sandra just looked at her...how dare she...what kind of gall did she possess...she was going smite that girl so hard she would feel it in to next year. She drew a card
''Fine then you punk'' She plays another magic mallet
''I think you recall how this works.'' She takes her whole hand and shuffles it back
''3 new cards to me'' She looked at her new hand...and she smiled...perhaps this duel was going to be fun after all
''I activate one of my face-down, a card known as a trap monster, Embodiment of Apophis.'' Rising from her face down card a snake like being with a sword and shield rises next to her Assault beast.
''Now I think I add one more card to this trio, a monster called Vylon Prism'' A square-thing appears with angel wings and a halo next to her other two beings. She now takes a more relaxed position and asks her opponent
''Why do you duel?''

Cybell smirked. "I duel to prove my superiority over people like you. The weak have no place thinking they can rise any higher than they are. But most importantly, I duel because I want to."

Sandra sighed, of course she gave an response like that...why did she except otherwise
''I duel to forget...forget what I used to be in the eyes of those who should have cared for me the most...'' She makes a motion with her hand and started chanting
''In the void between light and dark, here meets a creature that is forever twisted between his love and his duty. Where one is alone the twins are strong. I call to the field my instrument of forgetting. The Chaos Fairy LUMINAS!'' Her Vylon Prism and her Apophis both disappear in a round green ring as the lights in the ceiling starts to blink and flicker. Sandra pushes her special button and takes her two monsters of the disk. Behind her a being made of strange white bright black stuff appears. Its massive wing flaps carrying it down to the field. Soon it stands next to her and her assault beast.
''First special ability of my Chaos fairy sadly means that my Assault beast is destroyed.'' A being in front of her lifts up the beast warrior on question and eats it alive. In quite a gruesome display
''That is what I mean...forgetting what was'' She looks at the two cards she has left...yea. She would do this
''I place one card face down and end my turn.''

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(Turn 5)
"From the way you say its name with such flair, I assume this is your great trump card?"

Sandra only response is to smirk and do a lame impersonation of the girl standing in front of her
''Oh people who are so weak like yourself should know when you lose, why don't you just give up so I can get back to kicking puppies and drinking virgin blood?''

Cybell looked up at the big dark fairy. It was depressingly weak, but it was stronger than the puny monsters that had been blended into its birth. It was at least worth destroying. She drew one card.

"I summon Elemental HERO Prisma in attack mode and activate his effect to reveal Blue-Eyes White Gold Dragon in my extra deck and send one Blue-Eyes Gold Dragon from my deck to the grave." The winged hero made of glass cracked and folded into the shape of a great dragon. "And then I'll activate my face-down: Soul Resurrection. Blue-Eyes Gold Dragon, come join me for this bit of sport." The air in front of the girl shimmered as a beast of immense size was summoned. Though it was shaped exactly as the glass creature, the original dragon radiated a golden light that the fake could not replicate.

"And then I'll send my dragon to my hand with the spell card: A Wingbeat of Giant Dragon. This card also tends to destroy all the spell and trap cards you have set over there. Sorry about that."

Sandra again just smiled and said
''Bad luck for me I suppose'' She did a hand motion
''Fortunately one of those cards happen to be one my true favorites...go ASSAULT MODE ATIVATED'' A picture of a screaming man holding a card up in the sky is shown
''Fancy that, now...you figured my trump card was on the field...well that is only half true. Some monsters have...a hidden side. A side of power. And I am about to unleash that right now. Here goes nothing, I tribute the chaos fairy already on the field in order to unleash his true form.'' The gray being is removed from the field is a flash of light as a eerie silence is left its place. Sandra closes her eyes and lets her finger lightly touch every card in her deck feeling after just the card she needs...and she finds it, pulling it out in a dramatic motion
''ASSAULT MODE CHAOS FAIRY LUMINAS!'' A massive being of flame, light, and power appears now with an almost ear shattering roar. Two massive wings which are sitting on a hooded armored being who wields a sword of pure flame takes its rightful place on the field. She picks up her face down card and removes it from the board and puts in her graveyard
''As you where.''

"Oh no, not an even bigger fairy," Cybell said in a perfect monotone. "It looks like I'll have to think up an even bigger fairy joke for it now." She sighed and shook her head in disappointment. "Whatever, I'll just end with that. Feel free to play with your fairy friend now." The glass dragon cracked and folded in on itself until the glass winged hero stood on the field again in his original shape.

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(Turn 6)
Sandra looked down...then she looked up with nothing but contempt in her eyes.
''I draw'' She looked at the card and looked up
''Respect is clearly something you lack you waste of space. I teach it you the hard. Chaos Fairy Luminas crush that Prisma with Divine Flame Buster'' The massive angel picks up his sword and rushes over to the very small Elemental hero. With one might smash The Chaos fairy smashes it and then Sandra looks at her opponent
''You talk quite a big game, but push comes to solve you're nothing but an arrogant punk with a broom up your arse.'' Sandra places one card face down again and then passes the turn to her opponent
''It’s time now for your comeback sweetie''

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(Turn 7)
Cybell stared down at her feet as her life points dropped down to 6200. She looked up with the same smirk on her face as before. "Good, it looks like you already know what's about to happen here," she said. She slipped a drawn card into her hand to sue later.

"I hope that face-down can save you," she said, flipping a card from her hand around and placing it on the field. "White Lightning Fusion!" A column of brilliant white lightning descended from above as Cybell sent Blue-Eyes Copper Dragon and Blue-Eyes Gold Dragon from her hand to the grave. "Come and show this angel how to fall, Blue-Eyes Yellow Gold Dragon." The lightning's flash faded, and a long and sleek dragon floated in the air there. Its golden scales were even more radiant than the other dragon's had been, and it had a mane of long golden barbels that drifted around its face.

Sandra stood unimpressed again mimicking her foe
''If you think an overblown lizard with 500 points less than my mighty creature is going to fighten me then your sadly mistaken''

"I don't think I am. I normal summon my dragon to have it gain its effect. You seem to have not noticed that my dragon is a gemini monster. The first part of his effect makes his name also 'Blue-Eyes White Dragon', which means I can use my spell card Burst Stream of Destruction to wipe your angel off the field."

Sandra stood there in shock
''You can’t...''

The radiant dragon opened its mouth, and it was as if a door to the core of a star had been opened. The blast of white flames incinerated everything in its path. When the great dragon closed its jaws and the white light's glowing afterimage faded, there was one less angel standing to oppose it.

Sandra took the blast as she crossed her arms, biting her teeth together she shouts back
'''Whenever assault mode version of a monster is destroyed the original version of that monster takes it place. So return to the field Chaos Fairy Luminas!'' Like out of a egg shell the original chaos fairy appears before the hallow husk assault mode angel dies in a explosion
''I am not defenseless yet.''

"You said that perfectly. You are not yet defenseless. I haven't completely stripped your field and deck just yet." Cybell stood just as confident as she had been since walking onto the duel arena floor. "I set one card and end my turn. Let's see what you can do."

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(Turn 8)
Sandra lights up
''With pleasure...I draw!'' She draws again....and this time she seems rather content with her draw
'''I think I start off with another face down card...and then, might chaos fairy attack her dragon with void buster!'' Her angel winds up for a mighty steam of blackness towards her dragon while Sandra stands there finally getting in to the duel proper. It was time for this overgrown clown to see some real dueling skills

The steam sadly backfires and hits Sandra straight in her face pushing herself backwards and draining 200 of her until then untouched life points.
''Sure my life points might take a dip....but my chaos fairy can’t be destroyed in battle...and to make him even better he lets me take any one card from my graveyard and put it on the top of my deck...and think i got the perfect choice in mind...'' She pulls out Assault mode Chaos fairy Luminas and shows it to her opponent
''Next turn this bad boy is going straight in to my hand.'' She tend stands up
''That ends my turn''
7800 LP

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(Turn 9)
Cybell drew. Not the best draw, but it would be useful later on for sure. "I guess all that's left is to attack your goth pixie then," she said with a fake smile. "Blue-Eyes Yellow Gold Dragon, White Lighting Flare!" The great dragon reared back, golden flame arcing between its long barbels. An arc of white light burned from its head.

''Nice move....'' Sandra looks down on the field
''But its the last move you'll ever make, activate trap card!'' An all too familiar card activates on the field
''Mirror force will remove your puny dragon before it even gets a chance to touch my fairy. How sad. All that build up all that arrogance all for nothing.'' A round reflective bubble appeared in front of her chaos fairy
''It’s over''

The blast of white flame was bounced back into the dragon’s face, destroying it, but when the smoke cleared, the angel was trapped inside a cage made of arcs of the same white flame. Bell yawned at her opponent's futile resistance. "I am saddened by the loss of my dragon, but at least he can still annoy you after death." The cage of white flame exploded.

As the flame cage explodes the angel remains
''I dare say you are wrong there...by discarding my hand my mighty chaos fairy can't be destroyed. It remains as strong as ever.''
She stood there now handless and rather happy
''What’s that look on your face? Is that enjoyment I see?''

Cybell waved her hand. "I will leave what you see to your own interpretations. For now, I'll just end my turn and allow you to make your angel all big and scary again."

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(Turn 10)
''Oh I can't do that yet'' She draws a card and shows it to her opponent who has never told her what her name is.
''Without Assault mode activated this creature of mine is worthless. But, I hope I can change that. Activate spell card, Assault teleport!'' Her face down is put face up
''Now we send this card back in to my deck and hope the gods favor me with some good stuff. 1 card in 2 cards out..let’s see'' Sandra shuffled her card back in to her deck and draws 2 new.
''Next I think I shall proceed with attacking you directly. Void Buster!'' The fairy once again shoots its black steam but this time at her opponent's life points
''Tough break!''

Cybell yawned simply to annoy her opponent. "Yeah, I suppose it is. I activate my face-down: Call of the Haunted." White lightning flashed from above again, and Blue-Eyes Yellow Gold Dragon once again loomed over the dark fairy. "No direct attack for you," Bell said lazily. She was beginning to enjoy herself against this angelic punching bag. It was surprisingly good at not dying, a quality she much appreciated in a monster.

''VOID BUSTER'' The attack flies straight in to the newly reborn gold dragon, and just like before it gets bounced back to Sandra dealing another 200 damage. Covering her hands and face again when the rebound hits she grinds through her teeth again
''This time I am adding the assault mode activate from my graveyard to the top of my deck. That means I can activate it next turn. for now I place one card face down...this will...'' Suddenly she stumbles a bit and puts her hand up towards her head shaking it a bit
''End...my turn'' Damn headache coming at the worst of times
7600 LP

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(Turn 11)
Cybell drew a card and actually smiled. Perfect. Now she could wipe that angel off the face of the earth whenever she wanted, assuming it didn't die before she had to use that.

"I normal summon Blue-Eyes Yellow Gold Dragon on my field to have it gain its effect. And now I'll have it attack your angel. White Lightning Flare!" The dragon again reared back as white flames arced from its barbels. The flames shot out and again encircled the angel in a cage of white flame. The dragon and the angel both exploded into white flame. Call of the Haunted was sent to the grave, the monster it was targeting gone.

Sandra's chaos fairy is hit
''Did you forget already? He can’t be destroyed! She discards her hand again and her fairy remains.
''It’s just like our past...it can't go away on its own. Why are you acting like this? Sitting there, pretending to be bored and bland? What are you pretending to hide?

Cybell smirked, an all too familiar occurrence in this duel. She wasn't even taking her opponent seriously. "I'll end my turn," was all she said. A ball of golden flame appeared in front of her and rapidly grew into a small yellow sun. Blue-Eyes Yellow Gold Dragon uncoiled back onto the field.

Lyall sifted through the contents of Aerund's bag, hoping to find something significant that pertained to the three Shadow Duelists. Instead, he was met with random trinkets, candy bars, and fish magazines. Awesome! Now he could learn all about fish and underwater ecosystems! Lyall huffed and rolled his eyes in disappointment, plopping the magazines back into the bag.

"Useless..."

When he said this though, he noticed a nice little enveloped had slipped out from the pages. Huh... okay, now this was going somewhere! He lifted up to the light and opened it, pulling out a single piece of paper. It was a letter signed by some doctor named Delenaere, but it was short. It didn't say anything other than he was leaving somewhere and was enclosing a card within the envelope. Curious to see what it was, Lyall opened the envelope once more, pulling out a card. Before he could see it though, his attention was interrupted by a voice announcing the falling ill of one "Cybell Yvenstar's" opponent and his replacing with Sandra. And the closet light popped too, making it pitch black, the only light coming from the narrow space under the door.

"Ugh..."

Lyall folded up the letter with the card inside before placing it back in the envelope. Putting that in his inner coat pocket, he left the bag in a corner and exited the small room, quickly making his way to the dueling stages.

"Well there's two familiar faces..."

He obviously already knew who Sandra was (her last name, before at least), and now he had a name to place with the haughty looking girl that had strutted through the cafeteria earlier. Lyall would definitely be watching this duel closely. He wasn't disappointed, especially when he saw Chaos Fairy Luminas appear on the field. The monster had a great way of keeping itself alive, and the assault version of itself could revive its former self if it was destroyed. Longevity and revival, now these were two things Lyall definitely needed.

Lyall admired how Sandra could stay just as calm and confident during her duel, especially when Cybell had brought out that impressive dragon. In some instances though, she appeared melancholy, which made Lyall wonder why for a while before turning his attention back to the duel. Cybell was obviously very keen on special summoning her powerful beasts as quickly as possible, and he probably would have admired her style even more if she didn't kill it with that repulsive arrogance. Lyall's face changed to show some sign of contempt. He knew her kind well enough, there was a rat's nest of them in both the high and low society of Aria City, each displaying their arrogance and spite in a variety of ways. Hopefully Sandra could pull off a victory to put the other girl in her place.

Ryu had moved through the emptying cafeteria like the others at the start of the duel. From the hall he watched the two females duel it out in a great display of skill. While he liked the girl Sandra's determination he loved Cybell's attitude and the way she acted as if she had already won.
"What do you think Jain?" he asked the spirit next to him. "That Cybell is one tough girl eh?"
"Indeed but just wait until they get a taste of our new power." she said grinning.
"Our new power?" he said turning to her, his eyes glowing slightly. "This power is mine and mine alone. you serve me and would do well to remember that." he said while staring the duel spirit down.
"Yes sir...sorry sir" she said looking back at him.
"There now lets watch this duel then I want to find Lyall and show him just how much we've changed. Maybe even get a little show of power in before-hand" he said turning back to the duel and grinning.

(Turn 12)

Sandra draws a card or rather she draws Assault Mode Activate. With all the pieces again on the game board she needs to think over how she will trigger he trap card. Its easy, that gold dragon will use its speciall ability she would trigger her trap card. That would make the gold dragons speical ability fizzel and make it destroy itself.
''Mmm...I place one card face-down. I think you know what it is.'' She places her trusted card face down
''That would end my turn.''

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(Turn 13)

Cybell drew a card and looked up at her opponent. Play time was over.

"I play Dragon's Mirror to fuse Blue-Eyes Copper Dragon and Blue-Eyes Gold Dragon in my graveyard to summon a second Blue-Eyes Yellow Gold Dragon." A second immense dragon covered in golden scales appeared beside the first. "And then I activate White Lightning Fusion to combine those two dragons into an even stronger beast. Blue-Eyes Platinum Dragon, take to the field!"

A cold white light filled the field as a massive dragon descended from above. It looked more like a serpent than a dragon, until it unfolded its wings. Six immense wings nearly encircled the entire arena, and the dragon's mirror-like scales reflected its own white light in all directions. The dragon roared its supremacy over the puny angel before it.

Cybell looked across the field at her insignificant opponent. "And that's not all. I use Platinum's effect to summon one of those Blue-Eyes Yellow Gold Dragons back to the field in attack position and send one Blue-Eyes Silver Dragon to the grave. By normal summoning Yellow Gold Dragon, it also gains its effect."

The red-eyed girl smirked. This wasn't game over, merely a show of power. "Blue-Eyes Platinum Dragon, attack that angel. White Lightning Star!" The dragon didn't move, but its entire body crackled with energy as its body became brighter and brighter until it couldn't even be looked at. And then all the light was pulled back, gathered between the tips of the beasts' six wings and crushed into a tiny pinprick of light. The dragon brought the star above the angel and dropped it. The arena exploded with a light even drighter than the dragon. Had the angel not been indestructible, there would have been nothing left.

Sandra braced for impact as the dragon's attack hit her fairy dead on
''Again my creature stands as powerful as ever, and might I add I can now put a card on the top of my deck...and I choose my mirrior force trap card'' She puts her chosen card on the top of her deck

Fine then, do as you wish. "Yellow Gold Dragon, attack as well with White Lightning Flare." The golden dragon's head again grew surrounded by white flame, and again a cage of white flame surrounded the opponent's angel.

Sandra smiled now all she needed to do was activate her assault mode and her opponents dragon would not have a target
''I knew that was coming so I....'' She stops dead in her tracks...she just stands there, frozen in her activation pose without her card turning up on the field.

Cybell says nothing as the angel and her dragon are both destroyed, but as soon as the field is cleared of all monsters but her dragon, she speaks. "What the hell was that!?" Her crimson eyes burn with anger. She is not the type to accept anything but her opponent's full effort. To win against someone who doesn't try their all is simply humiliating. "What the hell was that," she says again, quieter this time but equally dangerous.

Sandra stands there frozen again in the same pose....something was wrong, she wanted to go on dueling, she had the plan to turn this around. She would have played her trap card then her Assault overload to deal 2000 damage to the both of them.
''Sandra'' a voice inside her called. Oh no...
''Your body is not yours any longer. Release it to me. As you promised'' She had never done that...who..wait she regonised that voice

Suddenly Sandra makes a jerk motion, like someone pulled on her like on a string back in to her standing pose. With a harder tone then she had before
''There was nothing I could have done. I concede this duel to you.'' Her duel disk closes down and to the buing crowd she turns around and starts walking off

Cybell knew that her opponent was lying. She had lost on purpose. What. The. Fuck! The hologram dragon coiled around as if looking at the girl that had summoned it before flickering out. Cybell turned and stepped off the field. The duel was over, but she wasn't done with her opponent. Not by a long shot.

This pound of flesh was now his. Her wish was to never remember who she was or where she came from. Now that would not only become a reality...it would be its pleasure. Starting to giggle softly to its self as it strolled down the halls in its new body, it soon broke in to a cackling mad laugh
''Foolish girl. Now you're mine. HAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA''