Sailor Moon Fan Fiction / Digimon Fan Fiction / Crossover Fan Fiction ❯ Sailor Moon Online: Gaiden ❯ Into the Duel World ( Chapter 22 )

Here is the next one-shot and I have to say that there is going to be something different this time. You know how the main storylines and plenty of the Gaiden stories have plenty of focus on three ‘certain characters’, two from Sword Art Online and one from Sailor Moon? Yes, blame me, but I’ve only started to notice that recently. I’ve tried to plenty of the main characters on ‘equal footing’, but hey, I’m not perfect. Well, this time, two different characters, this time for Digimon Adventure/Adventure 02, are the stars of this story with another SAO character, but I’m not saying who, everyone. That would spoil the story. You’ll have to read to find out, folks! Now, before I start, I must give thanks and credit to Belletiger and Kanius as well as Kanius’ YuYuGiDigiMoon fanfiction series, especially his The Invasion of the Rajita story, for giving me permission to use the idea of Valkyrie Sailor Soldiers and everything that’s a part of them in my fanfiction. I would like to give thanks and credit to Kanius and his YuYuGiDigiMoon series, including this author’s Dawn of Chaos story, and LazerWulf for giving me permission to use the idea for their version of Sailor Charon, namely the fact that she is Sailor Pluto’s sister among other things. I would also like to give thanks and credit to Matty G91 and this author’s story of Kamen Rider Lunar for giving me permission to use Kamen Rider Lunar, his looks, and everything about him as well as the UNI-SHOCKER organization as well as the idea of Darth Revan Sammy Tsukino, the other alternate versions of said character, and the basic plot of this one-shot.

 

Now, with that out of the way, as they say on SAO: Link Start!

 

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Warning: These stories may and will contain mature level intense violence, blood, gore, death, mild to explicit suggestive themes, including mind-control and brainwashing, mild to explicit bad language, and mature adult themes/situations!

 

Second Warning: Some to a lot of OOC (Out of Character) actions and mannerisms in these series of stories!

 

Prelude: A castle of stone and metal floating in the sky that consist of one hundred floors. Within this massive structure, there are countless cities, villages, towns, forests, plains, lakes, and whatever you can imagine. There is only one staircase that connects one floor with another and these staircases are located within dangerous mazes filled with monsters. The players with navigate through these floors to the top with nothing than the weapons in their hands. And yes, I said players.

 

This is the world of Aincrad, a floating castle in a virtual sky, and yes, I said VIRTUAL sky. This world and this floating castle world are in a realm made of digital information…the world of Sword Art Online. A world that was supposed to be game, but because a nightmare prison when its creator, Akihiko Kayaba, trapped the ten thousand players within this virtual world and if they die here, they will die in real life. The ten thousand players struggle in this ‘game death’ to reach the top of the floating castle where the final boss and the key to their freedom waits.

 

You may know this story and the stories that come after it, but do you know all of the stories? All of the tales that happened within the floating castle? What about the tales that happened after the floating castle was conquered? There are stories connected to the ‘tale’ of this floating castle, its ‘history’, and its ‘aftermath’, but they weren’t told…until now. These are those stories…

 

Sailor Moon Online: Gaiden

 

Story 22: Into the Duel World

 

Note: This story takes place after the events of World’s Song.

 

November 2025, ALO, Svart Alfheim, Flosshilde

 

Today, in ALO, we find Dai and Akari going through Flosshilde, the Ring of Ice, the third main region in Svart Alfheim, where Dai lets out a sneeze.

 

Dai says, shivering a bit, “Man! It’s cold!”

 

Akari tells Dai, with a smile, “Come on, Dai-kun, it isn’t that bad.”

 

Dai tells Akari, “Tell that to the icicles in my nose, Kari-chan. You’re an Undine and I’m a Salamander. We, fire fairies, DON’T do cold. Undines, like you, handle water and ice environments quite well, but we, Salamanders, don’t do cold.”

 

Akari tells Dai, with a pout, “You are starting to sound like Klein, Dai-kun.”

 

Dai retorts, “He may have had a point with Salamander fairies and ice cold places, Kari-chan.”

 

Akari says, with a smile, “Okay, I get it, Dai-kun.” Akari then chants out a cold protection spell and Akari asks, with a smile, “Better.”

 

Dai says, with a smile, “Better.”

 

Akari says, “Now, come on, Dai-kun. Let’s get to that quest.”

 

Dai says, “Right.” But then the two of them start to hear a lovely female voice singing in which Dai says, curiously, “Hold on!”

 

Akari asks Dai, “You hear that too?”

 

Dai says, “Well, I know that it isn’t just me.” Dai and Akari then take flight and race off to find the source, but they didn’t have long to fly in which they find someone sitting on a cliffside.

 

The person sitting on the snowy cliffside looks like a young lady of 17-18 years of age with long flowing silver hair that reaches to her rear end behind her back in which she also has circular buns that are held by rosy red rings with a red ribbon in each other flowing down, pink-red eyes, black and pink-red choker around her neck with a red ribbon attached to it, black and violet dress, black fingerless gloves with red sleeves around her wrists, and black thigh-high boots on her feet.

 

Akari asks, curiously, “A person?”

 

Dai asks, curiously, “Is it an NPC?”

 

Akari says, looking at the lovely young lady, “I don’t think so! Her cursor is green!” Dai looks at the person and Dai can see that her cursor is green, indicating that she is a player character in VRMMO world.

 

Dai says, “Hold up! She’s a player?! She doesn’t look like a fairy at all! She doesn’t have elf-like ears!”

 

Akari says, “I know, Dai-kun. An error? Maybe.”

 

Dai says, “If it is, she could contact the administrator.” Akari and Dai fly over to the young lady and she stops singing in which she turns towards them.

 

The young lady says, “Hello.”

 

Akari says, “Hi, there. I’m Akari and this is Dai.” Akari motions to Dai and he waves.

 

The young lady says, “I’m Yuna.”

 

Akari tells the young lady, Yuna, “That’s a nice song.”

 

Yuna replies, with a smile, “Thank you. I’m glad that you liked it. I’m actually here to practice.”

 

Dai asks, curiously, “Um, are you a player?”

 

Yuna responds, “Well…sort of. I’m not an NPC, but I’m not exactly a player either…a ‘regular player’.”

 

Akari and Dai give off confused looks and Akari asks, curiously, “What do you mean?” Before Yuna can answer, a massive storm hits them and all of them yelp as powerful winds hit them.

 

Dai yells out, “What the heck?!” Soon enough, Yuna yells out as she is swept up by the powerful winds.

 

Akari shouts out, “Watch out!” On pure instinct alone, Akari flies after Yuna and Dai flies after his girlfriend, but all three of them are overcome by the winds and they scream out as they find themselves within a massive tornado.

 

November 2025, Unknown world

 

On the paved road or walkway, we see the face of Akari, looking more like her IRL self, Hikari ‘Kari’ Kamiya, with her brown hair, opens her eyes, revealing her brown eyes like her IRL self, causing Akari to moan as she gets to a sitting position.

 

Akari asks, “What happened?” Akari then remembers what happened and she says, concerned, “The storm! Dai-kun! Yuna-san!” Just then she gasps as she looks over herself and she asks, “What happened to me?” Akari finds that she is wearing an outfit that Blue Angel/Aoi Zaizen, also known as Syke Zaizen in English Dub, of the Yu-Gi-Oh VRAINS, but the parts of the outfit that are blue in Aoi’s outfit is pink in Akari’s version.

 

Just then Dai’s voice booms out, “Kari-chan!” Akari looks to the source of Dai’s voice and she is shocked to find Dai looking A LOT different!

 

Dai’s hair and hairstyle looks like his ‘IRL self’, Daisuke ‘Davis’ Motomiya, his eyes are also the same color as his ‘IRL self’, and he is wearing an outfit similar to Yusaku Fujiki’s/Playmaker’s outfit in Yu-Gi-Oh VRAINS.

 

Akari asks, stunned, “Dai-kun, is that you? What are you wearing?”

 

Dai tells Akari, curiously, “Um, Kari-chan, have you looked at yourself?” Dai says, with a smile, “Through I have to admit that it looks good on you, Kari-chan.” Kari gives an annoyed smile and she slaps him in the arm while she blushes as she looks over Dai since his current ‘attire’ is tight fitting showing a good amount of his well-developed male muscular form through not to an obscene level.

 

Akari asks Dai, “Dai-kun, what happened to us?”

 

Dai says, “We got hit by a weird storm. And it was weird that there has been no storm like that in ALO, not even in any area of Svart Alfheim.”

 

Akari says, with a nod, “Yeah.” Akari then remembers Yuna and she shouts out, “Dai-kun, what about Yuna-san?”

 

Dai says, pointing to all around himself and Akari, “I haven’t seen her anyway…wherever here is.” Akari then looks around and she is still to see that they are in a vast city that looks like a mixture of Feudal Japan and European Medieval elements that are mixed with elements that you see in fantasy games/anime/television shows, including elves, ogres, dwarfs, and the like, but what was most incredible is that a lot of the ‘creatures’ seem to be Duel Monsters.

 

Akari asks, stunned, “Dai-kun, where in the world…where in the universe or multiverse are we?”

 

Dai says, with a shrug, “You got me, Kari-chan. However, I think that we are in another virtual world.”

 

Akari asks, curiously, “What makes you say that?” Dai points up and Akari looks up to see what looks like clouds of ‘pixels’ with ‘creatures’ appearing through teleportation effects similar to the ones used in SAO causing Akari to say, a bit nervously, “Okay…”

 

Dai says, changing the subject, “Anyway, I don’t see Yuna-san anywhere.”

 

Akari says, “Let’s go find her. We should also ask around and find out this world.”

 

Dai says, with a nod, “Good idea.” Soon enough, Dai and Akari starts to explore this new virtual realm and they quickly learn about it.

 

As they continued to walk, Akari says, “It seems like this world is based a lot like Duel Monsters and the ‘spirit worlds’ that they come from.”

 

Dai says, looking at what looks like his duel disk as Davis attached to his left wrist, “And a lot of stuff including combat is settled by dueling.”

 

Akari says, looking at what looks like her duel disk as Kari attached to her wrist, “Yeah, but unlike ‘regular duels’ back home, losing a duel can be…deadly.”

 

Dai says, nervously, “I’ll say.” Just then they hear a familiar female voice scream out and Dai shouts out, “Kari, that’s Yuna-san!”

 

Akari says, pointing in one direction, “Over there!” Dai looks in the direction that Akari is pointing and he sees Yuna falling down to the ground after tripping in which she is nearly surrounded by a group of creatures that looks like huge goblins or trolls.

 

Dai shouts out, “Let’s go!” Before Akari can say anything, Dai leaps into action in which he gets in-between Yuna and the goblin-like/troll like creatures and he yells out, “Hold it, you rejects from a fantasy anime!”

 

Yuna says, surprised, “Dai-san!”

 

Dai asks Yuna, “Are you okay, Yuna-san?” Yuna nods her head as Akari goes over to Yuna and kneels in front of her.

 

Akari says, “Yuna-san, let me help you.”

 

Yuna says, surprised, “Akari-san…” Akari helps Yuna to her feet while the Dai confronts the goblins/trolls in which one of the ‘roughest’ looking ones, the obvious leader, comes up, displaying a duel disk similar to the style of the Supreme King Haou’s duel disk, but the duel disk is mainly grey with golden ‘highlights’ instead of black with golden ‘highlights’.

 

The leader of the goblins/trolls roars out, in a deep monstrous tone, “A puny human dares to stand in the way of Gragoff of the Skull Beaker clan? You must be stupid or brave, puny human!”

 

Dai gives a disgusted look and he says, “Have you heard of breath mints, pal? You really do have goblin breath!”

 

The group of goblins/trolls give out roars of indignation and the leader of the group, Gragoff, roars out, “How dare you compare us to our puny ‘cousins’?! We are mighty Hobgoblins and nothing like those puny little scavengers who we are ashamed to share blood with!”

 

Dai says, “Whatever, dude. Let me get to the point: Stay away from Yuna-san or I’m going to knock your ugly butt all this world!”

 

The group of now identified hobgoblins laughs at Dai and Gragoff shouts out, in a taunting tone, “That’s rich, human! You think that I fear you?! I could crush you like the ant that you are!”

 

Dai says, displaying his duel disk, “Why don’t you put your money where your ugly month is, you dumb oaf? You and me!”

 

Akari says, concerned, “Dai-kun…”

 

Gragoff says, displaying his duel disk with a confident smirk, “It won’t be too much trouble to deal with a puny human like you! Once I am done, the females shall be ours and I can’t wait to see how they taste especially with the looks of fear and despair!”

 

Dai gives an enraged look and Dai says, with an angered tone, “You are going to pay for those words, you scum.” A dark golden glow comes from Dai’s eyes and he says, with a deadly serious tone, “I was planning to go easy on you, but now, you just made me mad.” The hobgoblins see the dark golden glow and they flinch, but they regain their focus as Gragoff’s and Dai’s duel disks activate, dueling decks appear in their duel disks and get shuffled, the ‘energy blades’ containing their disk’s Monster and Pendulum Zones appear, and their disk’s touch screens display 4000 life-points as five cards come out of their decks which float in front of them.

 

“Duel!” Dai and Gragoff say in unison as their duel begins.

 

Starting Scores:

Dai: 4000

Gragoff: 4000

 

Gragoff says, “I’ll start this duel off! My turn!” Gragoff says, tagging one of the cards floating in front of him, “I summon Goblin Elite Attack Force in attack mode!” The card vanishes in pixels, reappears on his disk, and then Goblin Elite Attack Force (2200/1500) appears on the field in attack mode.

 

Akari thinks in her mind, “He didn’t draw a card? I guess that the rules are similar to those in Action Duels.”

 

Gragoff says, touching three more cards, “Then I activate three of my Goblin Thief spell cards! You suffer five hundred points of damage for each other and I gain five hundred points each time, punk human!” The three cards vanish into pixels and Dai grunts out as he is attacked by three versions of the fat goblin on the picture of the spell card, costing him 1500 life-points in total, while Gragoff gains 1500 life-points. Gragoff says, touching the final card in his ‘hand’, “Finally, I end my turn with one card face-down! Now, take your turn, human! You are going to need every card that you can get!”

 

Current Scores:

Dai: 2500

Gragoff: 5500

 

Dai says, as a card comes out of his deck, “We’ll see if you are laughing when I wipe that smirk and your life-points out of the park! My turn! I draw!”

 

Gragoff says, pushing a button on his disk’s touch screen, “And I activate my trap: Minor Goblin Official!” Gragoff’s face-down card is revealed to be the Minor Goblin Official continuous trap card and Gragoff says, with an evil smile, “Since you have less than three thousand life-points, I can play this trap card and you must surrender five hundred life-points during every Standby Phase!” Dai gives a snarl as he grunts as his life-points drop by 500 more points and Gragoff says, with an evil grin, “Where is your big talk now, puny human?! I have already cut your life-points in half and I haven’t broken a sweat!”

 

Dai says, “You are going to break more than a sweat, you fantasy game reject!” Dai says, touching a card in front of him, “Since you have monsters and I don’t, I play Vice Dragon in attack mode!” Soon after, the card vanishes, reappears on his duel disk, and Vice Dragon (2000/2400-1000/1200) appears on the field in attack mode and Dai says, “Since I used this ability to summon him, his power is cut in half!” Dai says, pushing another card in front of him, “Then I play my Influence Dragon in attack mode!” Influence Dragon (300/900) then appears on the field in attack mode and Dai yells out, “And now, I tune Influence Dragon with Vice Dragon!” Influence Dragon becomes three stars that turn into three rings that surround Vice Dragon, turning it transparent, and as a column of light appears on the field, the two monsters’ cards ‘vanish’ from Dai’s disk causing Dai to say, “Clustering wishes become a new shining star, become the path that its light shines upon! Synchro Summon!” Dai yells out, as a Synchro Monster appears on his disk, “Let’s rev it up, Stardust Dragon!” Out of the light, Stardust Dragon (2500/2000) appears on the field in attack mode.

 

The goblins are shocked and one of them says, nervously, “Uh oh.” Soon after, the Dragon Head’s Mark of the Dragon appears on Dai’s right arm and the Dragon’s Claw Mark of the Dragon appears on Akari’s right arm causing Yuna to become curious when she sees it.

 

Dai says, touching another card in front of him causing it to ‘vanish’, “Next, I remove Vice Dragon from my graveyard to play White Dragon Wyverburster!” As Vice Dragon’s monster card comes out of the graveyard slot of Dai’s disk and another card appears on Dai’s disk, White Dragon Wyverburster (1700/1800) appears on the field in attack mode. Dai says, touching another card, “Next, by discarding one monster in my hand to the graveyard, I can play Defrag Dragon in attack mode!” Another card in Dai’s ‘hand’ vanishes, the card Dai touched appears on his disk, and Defrag Dragon (1000/600) appears on the field in attack mode. Dai then taps the last card in his ‘hand’ and he says, “Then I play Re-Tuning Up spell card! Now, I can summon one Tuner monster from my graveyard, but the Tuner monster must have a lower level that the monster currently on my fiend. So, I revive the one that I sent to the grave: Dragunity Javelin, come on down!” Dragunity Javelin (1200/800) appears on the field in attack mode and Dai says, “And now, I tune Dragunity Javelin with Defrag Dragon and White Dragon Wyverburster!” Dragunity Javelin turns into two stars that turn into two rings that surround Defrag Dragon and Wyverburster causing them to become transparent and when a column of light appears on the field, a new Synchro Monster card appears on Dai’s deck in which he says, “Great hydra of the snow and ice, awaken from your slumber and unleash the ultimate winter! Synchro Summon!” Dai then says, “It’s triple trouble for you with Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier!” Out of the light, Trishula, Dragon of the Ice Barrier (2700/2000), a triple headed dark blue and ice blue dragon, appears on the field in attack mode. Dai says, with a grin, “And thanks to the big guy’s ability! When he comes to the field, I can banish one card from your hand, field, and graveyard!”

 

Gragoff asks, shocked, “What?!”

 

Dai says, with a grin, “I think that you know what’s coming next! Since your hand is empty, there is nothing to remove, but your field and graveyard aren’t so lucky! I remove your armored goblins from the field and one of your Goblin Thief spells also hits the road!” Trishula glows an icy-blue in which Goblin Attack Force roars out in fear as they are frozen solid before they shatter while a card comes out of the graveyard slot of Gragoff’s disk in which it freezes and shatters. Dai then yells out, “And now, I attack you directly with both dragons!” Both Stardust Dragon and Trishula unleash their attacks on Gragoff in which he roars as he is plastered by Stardust Dragon’s Cosmic Flare while blasted by icicles from Trishula as they take a combined 5200 life-points from Gragoff.

 

One of the other goblin says, in shock, “Great Gragoff!”

 

Gragoff, who has icicles on him and a bit smoking, says, with a snarl, “You are going to pay for that one, wretched human!”

 

Dai says, with a grin, “Give it your best shot! I end my turn!”

 

Current Scores:

Dai: 2000

Gragoff: 300

 

Gragoff says, a card coming out of his deck, “It’s my turn! I draw!”  Gragoff touches the card in front of him and he says, as the card ‘vanishes’, “I play Pot of Greed! With it, I draw two cards!” Two more cards come out of Gragoff’s deck and the large hobgoblin gives a sly smirk at them.

 

Akari thinks in her mind, a bit nervously, “Oh, boy. I don’t like the one on his face.”

 

Gragoff says, touching one of the cards in his ‘hand’, “First, I place this monster face-down.” A face-down monster appears in front of Gragoff while the card appears on his disk and he then says, touching the other card causing it to ‘vanish’, “Then I activate my Dark Door! From now on, only one monster can attack during each battle phase. Now, try to defeat me now! My turn is over!”

 

Dai says, as a card comes out of his deck, “You asked for it! I draw!”

 

Gragoff says, “Remember my trap card! You were a fool not to get rid of it before! Now, you suffer five hundred more points of damage!” Dai grunts out as he loses 500 more life-points.

 

Dai says, with a grin, “Actually, I wasn’t since this duel is over.”

 

Gragoff yells out, annoyed, “You lie! You’re bluffing!”

 

Dai says, touching the card in front of him, “Let’s see when I play this! I activate my Shield Crush spell card! Now, one defense monster on the field hits the road!” Gragoff gasps in shock as his face-down monster ‘explodes’ as it is destroyed and Dai shouts out, “Now, Stardust Dragon, send this troll reject right into the crud! Direct attack with Cosmic Flare!” Stardust Dragon unleashes his attack on Gragoff and he screams out as it slams into him and vaporizing him into data pixels as he loses 2500 life-points as well as the duel.

 

Final Scores:

Dai: 1500

Gragoff: 0

 

With the end of the duel, the two dragons vanishes and all that’s left of Gragoff with a burn mark on the floor where Stardust Dragon’s attack slammed into him in which the remaining hobgoblins run off in fear, leaving a pretty surprised Dai in their wake as his and Akari’s Marks of the Dragon fade away.

 

Dai says, amazed, “Whoa.”

 

Akari says, excitedly, “Dai-kun, you did it!”

 

Dai says, with a nod, “Yeah, I did, but this place is no joke.”

 

Akari says, nodding as she looks at the burn mark, “No kidding, Dai-kun. The duels here are for keeps.” Akari then turns her attention to Yuna and she asks, “Yuna-san, are you okay?”

 

Yuna responds, with a smile, “I’m okay.” Yuna says, with a smile, “I like yours and Dai’s new outfits, Akari. They are really good on both of you.”

 

Dai and Akari blush nervously and Akari says, nervously, “T-Thanks, Yuna-san.”

 

Dai clears his throat and he says, “We should find in what kind of world we are in and how we can get back.”

 

Akari says, with a nod, “I agree, Dai-kun.” Yuna nods her head in agreement with Dai and Akari in which the three of them head off, not knowing that they are being watched.

 

(A good time afterwards)

 

Within what looks like the center of an ‘old-fashion’ town, Yuna, Dai, and Akari are sitting down in which they are looking various ‘people’ go by.

 

Dai says, with a sigh, “Well, that didn’t help much.”

 

Akari says, “All that know is that this is simply known as ‘Duel World’ and a lot of stuff here is settled by dueling.”

 

Dai says, with a nod, “Yeah, but the ‘official duels’ have ‘safeties’ and there is nothing at risk other than pride and what you bet in the duel.”

 

Akari says, plainly, “But in ‘unofficial duels’ like the one with that overgrown ogre…”

 

Dai says, nodding her head, “No joke.”

 

Yuna asks, “So, what should we do?”

 

Dai says, “Find a way back, Yuna-san.”

 

Akari asks, “But how?”

 

Dai says, with a plain tone, “That’s a good question, Kari-chan.” The three of them sigh as they try to figure out how to get home.

 

Just then a male voice says, “You seem lost.” The three of them then look to see a handsome male elf with leaf green hair, short pointed ears, blue eyes, and wearing leaf green and white clothing under light silver armor.

 

Yuna asks, “Who are you?”

 

The male elf says, “The name is Trient. I’ve noticed that you seem a bit down. You must have a problem that you can’t solve.”

 

Dai asks the male elf, Trient, “You’ve got a solution?”

 

Trient responds, with a nod, “Yeah. Actually, it is common knowledge around her. If you have a problem, you meet up with Lady Yukara. I would say that I’m surprised that you haven’t heard of her, but you must really way out of town.”

 

Akari says, “You can truly say that.”

 

Dai nods his head in agreement and Dai asks, “Since you know that, got a bit of directions for us?”

 

Trient says, with a grin, “No problem, mate! I’ve got what you need right here!” He points to his head and he immediately starts to give directions to Dai, Akari, and Yuna.

 

(Sometime later)

 

Sometime afterwards, Dai, Akari, and Yuna are looking at a large Japanese style complex with a large neon sign that says: ‘Lady Yukara’s Everything Shop’.

 

Dai says, nervously, “Well, it is straight to the point.”

 

Akari says, with a nervous nod, “I’ll say.” The three of them enter the complex and when they are in the courtyard, they are shocked to be in a gorgeous Zen garden where they find a gorgeous young or young-looking woman with long flowing violet hair, a pair of white cat-like ears coming out of her scalp, long and alluring eyelashes, deep and gorgeous rosy pink-red lips, and wearing a gorgeous violet cocktail that hugs her gorgeous female frame excellently in which she has on a pair of knee-high violet high-heeled boots. She also has a white cat-like tail coming out of her tailbone area.

 

The gorgeous ‘cat woman’ says, in a sultry voice, “Hello there.”

 

Akari says, a bit nervously, “H-Hi.”

 

Dai says, trying to keep his blush down, “Are you Yukara?”

 

The gorgeous ‘cat woman’ responds, “The one and only, Dai-san. I’ve been waiting for you and Akari-san for a while.”

 

Dai and Akari gasp in shock and Akari asks, “How do you know our names?”

 

The gorgeous ‘cat woman’, Yukara, replies, “You can say that I’m a ‘seeress’ of sorts, my dear.”

 

Dai asks, curiously, “Seeress?”

 

Yukara replies, with a nod, “Correct. I can see lies, the past, present, and future, and then some. Right now, you need to find a way back to the ‘digital realm’ that you came from.”

 

Dai says, his eyes narrowing, “Well, you seem to be well-informed.”

 

Yukara tells Dai, “At ease, your majesty. I am not your enemy, but I’m not on your side.”

 

Yuna asks, curiously while looking at Dai, “Your majesty?”

 

Yukara says, with a sly smile, “Oh, your new friends have many secrets, but then again, Yuna-san, you have quite a few secrets yourself.” Yuna gives a look of surprise and Yukara says, with a sly smile, “However, secrets aren’t what you are here for…other than the secret of going home. I can tell you now that I do have the key to bring you home, but it will cost you.”

 

Dai asks, seriously, “How much?”

 

Yukara responds, with a sly smile, “More than you can afford, Dai-san.”

 

Dai says, “I saw that coming.”

 

Yukara says, displaying what looks like a pink-violet Real Solid Vision duel disk, “However, there is another way.”

 

Dai says, with a nod, “I get you.”

 

Akari says, displaying her duel disk, “Dai-kun, let me take care of this one.”

 

Dai asks, surprised, “Huh?”

 

Akari says, “You, my big brother, and TK…Takeru…have always been helping and saving me. I always had people to help and save me, but now, it is my turn.” Akari activates her duel disk as a dueling deck appears in her disk.

 

Dai says, plainly, “Kari-chan…”

 

Akari tells Dai, shaking her head, “No, Dai-kun. I want to do this…I need to do this.” Akari glances at Yuna for a moment and she tells Dai, “I will do this, Dai-kun.” Dai can see the determined look in Akari’s eyes and he sighs in which he nods his head in which Akari kisses him on the lips.

 

Yukara says, with a warm sultry tone, “The Star Dragon King and his princess. No taunt or joke here. I have to say that this truly warms my heart.”

 

Yuna asks, curiously, “Star Dragon King?”

 

Dai says, a bit nervously, “Long story.” Yukara activates her duel disk causing a dueling deck to appear in her disk in which both Akari’s and Yukara’s duel disks gain the ‘energy blades’ that contain the Monster and Pendulum Zones.

 

Yukara tells Akari, “Now, for the stakes in the duel. This duel is going to be official, so, there must be stakes in it. An ‘ante’.”

 

Akari asks, curiously, “Okay, what are they?”

 

Yukara says, “If you win, not only will give you the key to returning home, I will also present to you a little gift.”

 

Akari asks, curiously, “Gift?”

 

Yukara says, “That’s if you win, my dear.”

 

Akari asks, curiously, “And if we lose?”

 

Yukara responds, “You and your king must stay with me until you earn your way home. And believe me, it won’t be cheap, my dear.”

 

Akari says, “Sorry, but we won’t need to worry about that since I’ll be winning.”

 

Yukara asks, “So, you accept the terms?”

 

Akari says, with a nod, “Yes, I do.”

 

Yukara says, snapping her fingers, “Then the agreement is made and the contract is forged. The duel can begin.” Just then a series of four golden ‘halos’ appear around Akari and Yukara causing Akari, Dai, and Yuna to look confused and Yukara says, “These are the ‘safety system’ used in the ‘official duels’. They project a field that protects the duelists through it doesn’t mean that suffering damage to your life-points won’t…sting. However, it will prevent what happened in the last duel that your beloved had fought.”

 

Akari says, nodding her head, “I see. So, this is how ‘official duels’ work here.” Yukara nods her head in agreement and the duel disks’ touch screen display 4000 life-points as their disks shuffle their decks and after that five cards come out of their respective decks where they float in front of them.

 

“Let’s duel!” Akari and Yukara say in unison as their duel begins.

 

Starting Scores:

Akari: 4000

Yukara: 4000

 

Yukara says, with a sly smile, “Since we are both girls here, I think that I’ll let you take the first turn.”

 

Akari says, plainly, “Thank you.” Akari thinks in her mind, “Most likely, she is trying to figure out my strategy.”

 

Yukara then says, “My dear, I’m not reading your mind, mind you, but since I know who you are, I do have a good idea on your dueling strategy and your deck.”

 

Akari is taken aback for a second and she thinks in her mind, “She has a point. If she knows who I am, then she might have a good idea that I’m a Signer, my dragon, and my deck, but it doesn’t mean that I can’t surprise her.” Akari says, touching two cards in front of her, “I take scale two, Mandragon, and scale eight, Predaplant Spider Orchid, and set the Pendulum Scale!” Two cards appear on the Pendulum Zones of Akari’s duel disk causing the word ‘Pendulum’ to appear on her disk’s Monster Card Zones in rainbow color, then two columns of light appear on the field, and two monsters, Mandragon (2500/1000) and Predaplant Spider Orchid (0/0), a sinister combination of a plant and spider, appears in the columns, one monster per column, with the number 2 below Mandragon and the number 8 below Spider Orchid. Akari shouts out, “Light that blooms new life! Shine down and bring forth a new power! Pendulum Summon!” Akari touches two cards in front of them causing them to ‘vanish’ and she says, as the cards appear on her disk, “Rise up, Gigaplant! And descend now, Fallen Angel of Roses!” A circle of light appears on the field, two ‘lights’ come from the circle, and those ‘lights’ are revealed to be Gigaplant (2400/1200) and Fallen Angel of Roses (2400/1300) in attack mode.

 

Yukara says, with a sly smile, “Two powerful monsters in one turn, huh? Very nice.”

 

Akari says, touching the last card in her ‘hand’, “And now, I activate my Card of Sanctity! Both of us must draw from our decks until we have six cards in our hands!” As the card ‘vanishes’, half-a-dozen cards come out of Akari’s deck while only one card comes out of Yukara’s deck since she already has five cards in her ‘hand’. Akari says, touching one card in her ‘hand’ causing it to ‘vanish’, “Since I just added this card by an effect, I can summon Rose Fairy to the field!” Just then Rose Fairy (600/1200) appears on the field in defense mode and Akari says, “Next, I give up my ability to Normal Summon to awaken Gigaplant’s Gemini power! Now, Gigaplant can summon any Insect or Plant monster from my hand or graveyard!” Akari touches a card in her hand and she says, as the card ‘vanishes’, “I choose Nettles!” Just then Nettles (1200/400) appears on the field in attack mode and Akari says, “And now, I tune Nettles with Rose Fairy!” Nettles turns into two stars that turn into two rings that surround Rose Fairy, causing Rose Fairy to become transparent, and as a column of light appears on the field, a Synchro Monster card appears on Akari’s disk in which she says, “Guardian of the garden, sprout forth and bring forth the beauty of nature! Synchro Summon!” She then yells out, “Come out, Garden Rose Maiden!” Out of the light, Garden Rose Maiden (1600/2400), a silvery-blond beautiful woman in a white dress with black rose in her hair, appears on the field in defense mode. A card comes out of Akari’s deck and she says, “And now, Garden Rose Maiden’s ability activates! I can put one Black Garden field spell from my deck to my hand!” As a card appears in Akari’s ‘hand’, she touches said card and she says, “And now, I activate my Black Garden!” The card ‘vanishes’ and the whole field becomes enveloped in thorny wives filled with dark violet rose buds.

 

Yuna says, amazed, “Pretty.”

 

Dai says, with a grin, “But deadly, Yuna-san.”

 

Akari says, touching another card in her ‘hand’ causing it to ‘vanish’, “Next, I activate my World Tree continuous spell card! As long as it remains on the field, it gains one Flower Counter for every Plant type monster destroyed.” Akari says, touching two more cards in her hand causing them to ‘vanish’, “Then I place two more cards face-down and end my turn!”

 

Yukara says, as a card comes out of her deck and appearing in her ‘hand’, “Now, it is my turn!”

 

Akari thinks in her mind, “I have a feeling that her deck has to do with cats.”

 

Yukara says, with a sly smile, “It doesn’t take a mind reader to know what you are thinking and in this case, you are right, but maybe not in the way that you are thinking.” Yukara says, touching two cards in her ‘hand’ causing them to ‘vanish’, “I take scale one, Lunalight Wolf, and scale five, Lunalight Tiger, and set the Pendulum Scale!” There are gasps of shock from Dai and Akari as two cards appear in the Pendulum Zones of Yukara’s disk, then two columns of light appear on the field, and two monsters, Lunalight Wolf (2000/1800), and Lunalight Tiger (1200/800), appearing in the columns, one monster per column, in which the number 1 is below Lunalight Wolf and the number 5 is below Lunalight Tiger. Yukara says, touching one card causing it to ‘vanish’, “Next, I activate the effect of my Lunalight Black Sheep! By discarding it from my hand, I can add one Polymerization spell card to my hand!” A card comes out of Yukara’s deck and it is added to Yukara’s ‘hand’ in which she touches said card and she says, as it ‘vanishes’, “Then I activate Polymerization! I fuse Lunalight Blue Cat and Lunalight Purple Butterfly in my hand!” Two cards ‘vanish’ from Yukara’s hand, Lunalight Blue Cat (1600/1200) and Lunalight Purple Butterfly (1000/1000) appear on the field, go into a fusion vortex, and as a Fusion Monster card appears on Yukara’s disk, she says, “I Fusion Summon Lunalight Cat Dancer!” Out of the fusion vortex, Lunalight Cat Dancer (2400/2000) appears on the field in attack mode.

 

However, thorny vines from the field wrap around Lunalight Cat Dancer, restraining it, and Akari says, “Due to Black Garden, your Cat Dancer’s power is cut in half and I gain one Rose Token!” Lunalight Cat Dancer then goes from 2400/2000 to 1200/2000 and one Rose Token (800/800) appears on Akari’s field in attack mode.

 

Yukara says, with a sly smile, “However, Lunalight Purple Butterfly’s ability activates! When it goes to the graveyard from my hand or field, one Lunalight monster on my field gains one thousand attack points until the end of this turn!” Lunalight Cat Dancer then goes from 1200/2000 to 2200/2000 and Yukara says, touching one card in her hand causing it to ‘vanish’, “Then I activate my Luna Light Perfume! I can now summon one Lunalight monster in my graveyard and I choose my Blue Cat!” Soon after, Lunalight Blue Cat (1600/1200-800/1200) appears on the field in defense mode, but it is restrained by thorny vines and another Rose Token (800/800) appears on Akari’s field in attack mode. Yukara says, with a sly smile, “While your garden cuts its attack power in half, it doesn’t stop her ability! I can target one other Lunalight monster and she gains double its original attack points until the end of the turn!”

 

Akari asks, nervously, “Wait! ORIGINAL attack points?!”

 

Yukara says, in a sly sultry tone, “That’s right, cutie. That means that she gains twenty-four hundred attack points!” Lunalight Cat Dancer then ‘meows’ loudly as it goes from 2200/2000 to 4600/2000 due to Blue Cat’s ability.

 

Dai says, nervously, “Oh, crap! That cat has some claws!”

 

Yukara says, with a nod, “Very good assessment. I also activate Cat Dancer’s ability and I release my Blue Cat to make your monster’s unable to be destroyed once!”

 

Blue Cat vanishes from the field and Akari asks, curiously and a bit nervously, “Why would you do that?”

 

Yukara says, with a sly smile, “This ability allows my Cat Dancer to attack all of your monsters twice in a row!”

 

Dai says, nervously, “Uh oh!”

 

Yukara says, with a sly smile, “Sorry, my dear, but this duel is over! Cat Dancer, attack her Rose Token!” Cat Dancer’s nails become long claws and she prepares to charge in.

 

Akari says, pushing a button on her disk’s touch screen, “I activate my trap: Spirit Barrier!” Akari’s face-down card is revealed to be the Spirit Barrier continuous trap card and Akari says, “As long as this trap card is in play, as long as I have monsters on the field, I take no battle damage from any attacks!”

 

Yukara says, with a sly smile and a nod, “Very good, but my Cat Dancer has another ability. When she attacks, you suffer one hundred points of damage.” Cat Dancer fires her nails in which Akari yelps as she is hit causing her to lose 100 points while Cat Dancer’s attack slashes at Rose Token, but doesn’t destroy and Akari’s trap negates all of the battle damage. Yukara says, with a sly smile, “However, your token is toast since my Cat Dancer can attack again.”

 

But as Cat Dancer prepares her second attack, Akari says, pushing a button on her disk’s touch screen, “I don’t think so! I activate my second trap: Impenetrable Attack!” Akari’s other face-down card is revealed to be the Impenetrable Attack trap card and Akari says, “This card has two effects and I use the effect where all of my monsters can’t be destroyed this turn, so, they are safe!”

 

Yukara says, with a sly smile, “But you aren’t, remember? My Cat Dancer scratches off another one hundred of your life-points.” Akari yelps as she gets scratched by a barrage of nails causing her to lose 100 more life-points and Yukara says, with a sly smile, “And I have eight more attacks to go!” Cat Dancer then attacks the rest of Akari’s monsters, each one twice, in which Cat Dancer’s effect costs Akari a total of 800 life-points, 100 life-points per attack, in which when Cat Dancer’s attacks are done, Yukara says, “Then I activate the other effect of my Luna Light Perfume spell card! By removing it from play and discarding a card, I can add one Lunalight from my deck to my hand!” The last card in Yukara’s ‘hand’ vanishes and a card comes out of her deck where it appears in front of her in which Yukara says, with a sly smile, “However, the card that I discarded was Card of Compensation! Since I discarded it from my hand, I get two more cards from my deck!” Two more cards come out of Yukara’s deck and goes into her ‘hand’. Yukara says, touching one card causing it to ‘vanish’, “I’ll set this card face-down and end my turn.” Cat Dancer’s attack goes from 4600/2000 back down to 1200/2000 since the effects of Blue Cat and Purple Butterfly have ended.

 

Current Score:

Akari: 3000

Yukara: 4000

 

Yuna says, amazed, “She’s good.”

 

Akari says, as a card comes out of her deck, “It’s my turn! I draw!”

 

Yukara says, pushing a button on her disk’s touch screen, “I activate my trap card: Thunder of Ruler!” Yukara’s face-down is revealed to be the Thunder of Ruler trap card and Yukara says, “I can activate this trap during your Standby Phase and when it is activated, you can’t take your Battle Phase this turn.”

 

Akari says, “I switch all of my monsters in attack mode to defense mode.” All of Akari’s monsters, minus Garden Rose Maiden, switch from attack mode to defense mode, and Akari says, touching both of the cards in her hand causing them to vanish, “And then I place two cards face-down and I call it a turn.”

 

Yukara says, as a card comes out of her deck, “It’s my turn, darling!” Yukara says, touching one card in her ‘hand’ causing it to ‘vanish’, “First, I play Pot of Greed! This card allows me to draw two more cards from my deck!” Two more cards come out of her deck, Yukara smiles slyly, and she says, touching another card causing it to ‘vanish’, “Then I play my Giant Trunade! Now, all spell and trap cards on the field return to our hands!” A powerful wind storm appears on the field in which the cards/monsters in Akari’s and Yukara’s Pendulum Zones vanish as well as Akari’s face-down cards and her Black Garden causing Yukara to gain two cards in her ‘hand’ while Akari gains five cards in her hand. Yukara says, touching another card causing it to ‘vanish’, “And now, I play my Card Destruction! Both of us must discard our hands and draw a new hand equal to the cards that we discarded!” Just Akari’s and Yukara’s ‘hands’ vanish in which Yukara draws four new cards while Akari draws five new cards. Yukara then says, “One of those cards was my Lunalight Kaleido Chick and when it is sent to the graveyard due to a card effect, I can add one Polymerization from my graveyard to my hand!” A card come out of the graveyard slot of Yukara’s disk and it appears in her ‘hand’. Yukara then says, touching one of the new cards in her ‘hand’ causing it to ‘vanish’, “Next, I play my Pot of Avarice! This card allows me to return five monsters cards in my graveyard to my deck, reshuffle, and then I draw two new cards!” Five more cards comes out of the graveyard slot of Yukara’s disk, they go back into her deck, her deck reshuffles, and two more cards come out of her disk and appear in her ‘hand’.

 

Dai says, with a groan, “Great. She has a brand new hand to cause us a major headache.”

 

Yukara says, touching a card in her hand, “Don’t be that way, cutie! I won’t hurt your princess…much. I activate my Polymerization! I fuse my Cat Dancer on my field with White Rabbit in my hand!” The card that Yukara’s touches ‘vanishes’ along with another card in her ‘hand’, Lunalight White Rabbit (800/800) appears on the field, and then goes into a fusion vortex with Cat Dancer causing a new Fusion Monster card to appear on Yukara’s disk in which she says, “I Fusion Summon Lunalight Panther Dancer!” Out of the fusion vortex, Lunalight Panther Dancer (2800/2500) appears on the field in attack mode. Yukara says, “And now, Panther Dancer’s ability activates! During this turn, your monsters can’t be destroyed when Panther Dancer attacks them for the first time, however, she can now attack them twice during the same time! Also, when she destroys a monster in battle, she gains two hundred attack points until the end of the battle! Battle!” Panther Dancer then attacks Akari’s monsters in which they aren’t destroyed in the first attack, but they are destroyed with the second attack, however, since all of Akari’s monsters are in defense mode, she loses no life-points. When the attacks are done, Panther Dancer has gone from 2800/2000 to 3800/2000 due to her ability, but when Yukara ends her Battle Phase, Panther Dancer goes back down to her original 2800/2000 with her ability’s effect ending. Yukara says, touching a card in her ‘hand’ causing it to ‘vanish’, “And now, I end my turn with one card face-down.”

 

Akari says, as a card comes out of her deck, “My turn!” Akari says, touching a card causing it to ‘vanish’, “I start off with White Rose Dragon!” Soon after, White Rose Dragon (1200/1000), a white and black young dragon with a white rose bloom coming out of its back, comes to the field in attack mode. Akari says, touching another card in her ‘hand’ causing it to vanish, “When this little flower comes to the field, I can play another Rose Dragon monster from my hand and I choose Red Rose Dragon!” Just then Red Rose Dragon (1000/1800), a young black dragon with green feathered wings and two rose blooms coming out of its back, appears on the field in attack mode. Akari says, “And now, I tune Red Rose Dragon with White Rose Dragon!” Red Rose Dragon turns into three stars that turn into three rings that surround White Rose Dragon, turning it transparent, and when a column of light appears on the field, a Synchro Monster card appears on Akari’s disk causing her to say, “Cold flames shall envelop the whole world! Pitch-black flower, come into bloom! Synchro Summon!” Akari shouts out, “Come on out, Black Rose Dragon!” Out of the light, Black Rose Dragon (2400/1800) appears on the field in attack mode in which Akari’s and Dai’s Marks of the Dragon appear and glow on their right arms, once more, in which both Yukara and Yuna take notice, and Akari says, “Red and White Rose Dragon’s effects now activate! Since Red Rose Dragon was used for the Synchro Summoning of a Plant Synchro Monster or, in this case, Black Rose Dragon, I can take one summon one Rose Dragon from my deck or hand! And I choose Blue Rose Dragon!” A card comes out of Akari’s deck, appears on her disk, and Blue Rose Dragon (1600/1200) appears on the field in attack mode. Akari says, as another card comes out of her deck, “Then I add another card from my deck to my hand!” The card that came out of Akari’s deck appears in her hand and she then says, “And finally, White Rose Dragon allows me to send one Plant monster from my deck to the grave since she was used as Synchro Material!” A card comes out of Akari’s deck and ‘vanishes’ in which Akari says, touching one card in front of her in which it ‘vanishes’, “Then I activate my Block Attack trap card and switch your Panther Dancer from attack to defense mode!” Panther Dancer then switches from attack mode to defense mode.

 

Yukara says, with a sly smile, “I see.”

 

Akari says, “And now, I activate Black Rose Dragon’s ability! I remove one Plant monster from my grave to switch your Panther Dancer to attack mode and making her attack zero!” A card comes out of the slot of Akari’s disk, ‘vanishes’, an image of Rose Fairy appears, goes up to Black Rose Dragon, and Black Rose Dragon ‘eats’ the image of Rose Fairy in which Akari yells out, “Rose Restriction!” A pair of black thorny vines comes out of Black Rose Dragon, bind Panther Dancer, force her into attack mode, and Panther Dancer goes from 2800/2000 to 0/2000 in which Akari shouts out, “Black Rose Dragon, attack! Black Rose Flare!” Black Rose Dragon unleashes dark violet flames with black rose petals that slam into Panther Dancer causing her to howl in pain as she is destroyed in which Yukara grunts as she is hit and slightly burned by the flames as she loses 2400 life-points.

 

Yukara says, pushing a button on her disk’s touch screen, “I activate my trap: Lunalight Reincarnation Dance!” Yukara’s face-down card is revealed to be the Lunalight Reincarnation Dance trap card and Yukara says, “When a monster of mine is destroyed, I can add two Lunalight monsters from my deck to my hand!” Two cards come out of Yukara’s deck and appear in her ‘hand’.

 

Dai says, with a sly smile, “It doesn’t matter! Kari-chan has one more attack and you have nothing to defend yourself!”

 

Akari yells out, “Blue Rose Dragon, end this duel! Direct attack!”

 

As Blue Rose Dragon prepares to attack, Yukara says, touching a card in her ‘hand’ causing it to ‘vanish’, “Not so fast! I activate my Crouching Tiger Quick-Play Spell card! I discard one Lunalight monster from my hand to lower the attack power of one of your monsters by the amount of its attack points!” Yukara touches another card in her ‘hand’ causing it to ‘vanish’ and an ‘image’ of Lunalight Blue Cat (1600/1200) appears on the field where it leaps ‘into’ Blue Rose Dragon causing it to roar out as it goes down from 1600/1200 to 0/1200 causing its attack to do no damage to Yukara.

 

Akari says, touching two cards causing them to ‘vanish’, “I end my turn with two cards face-down.” Just then Blue Rose Dragon goes up from 0/1200 back to its original 1600/1200 due to the effect of Yukara’s spell card ending.

 

Current Scores:

Akari: 3000

Yukara: 1600

 

Yukara says, as a card comes out of her deck, “My turn! I draw!” Yukara says, touching a card in front of her causing the card to ‘vanish’, “I’ll start off with Card of Burial Magic! I remove three spell cards from my graveyard and then I draw two new cards from my deck!” Three cards come out of the graveyard slot of Yukara’s disk, ‘vanish’, and two more cards come out of her deck in which Yukara says, touching another card causing it to ‘vanish’, “Then I activate my Fusion Sage! With it, I can bring out one Polymerization card from my deck!” A card comes out of Yukara’s deck and appears in Yukara’s ‘hand’. Yukara says, touching, yet, another card and causing it to ‘vanish’, “Then I play Monster Reborn! I use it to revive Lunalight Panther Dancer!” Lunalight Panther Dancer (2800/2500) then reappears on the field in attack mode. Yukara says, touching, yet, another card and causing that card to ‘vanish’, “Then I play Polymerization! I fuse my Panther Dancer on the field with Lunalight Wolf and Lunalight Tiger in my hand!” Two more cards in Yukara’s ‘hand’ vanish causing Lunalight Wolf (2000/1800) and Lunalight Tiger (1200/800) to appear on the field in which they go into a fusion vortex with Lunalight Panther Dancer where a brand new Fusion Monster card appears on Yukara’s duel disk. Yukara then says, “Now, get ready for the most alluring dancer of them all, darling! I Fusion Summon Lunalight Leo Dancer!” Out of the fusion vortex, Lunalight Leo Dancer (3500/3000) appears on the field in attack mode and Yukara says, slyly, “Sorry, sweetie, but it is over! Leo Dancer, cut down her Black Rose Dragon!” Lunalight Leo Dancer slashes Black Rose Dragon and it roars out as it is destroyed in a strong explosion in which Akari grunts as she loses 1100 life-points. Yukara says, with a sly smile, “Due to his ability, Leo Dancer can attack twice per turn! Now, attack her Blue Rose Dragon and end this duel!”

 

Leo Dancer charges in to attack Blue Rose Dragon and Akari yells out, pushing a button on her disk’s touch screen, “Activate trap!”

 

Yukara says, with a sly smile, “I’m sorry, but my Leo Dancer can’t be targeted by card effects much less destroyed by them.”

 

Akari says, with a smile, “Then it is a good thing this trap isn’t targeting her. I activate my Double Down trap card!” Akari’s face-down card is revealed to be a trap card with a picture of poker game with one person pushing all of their chips into the ‘pot’ in which Akari says, “And now, the battle damage that I take with this attack is doubled!”

 

Yukara asks, shocked, “But why? My attack is enough to take out your life-points without that trap! Why do this?!”

 

Akari says, pushing another button on her disk’s touch screen, “Because of this!” Just then Leo Dancer’s attack strikes home and Blue Rose Dragon roars out as it is destroyed in a massive explosion covering Akari in a lot of smoke and flower petals.

 

Dai yells out, worriedly, “Kari-chan!”

 

Yukara says, shaking her head, “Well, this duel is over. My attack would have taken nineteen hundred life-points, but your foolish trap doubled it to nearly four thousand.” However, when the dust fades, Akari is still standing with 2100 life-points instead of 1900 in which Yukara asks, confused, “Wait! Why did your life-points go up instead of down?” Just then she gasps as she sees a Nutrient Z trap card and she says, shocked, “That trap!”

 

Akari says, with a smile, “Yep! My Nutrient Z trap card! Since I was about to take two thousand or more points in damage, this boosted my life-points by four thousand giving me more than enough to survive your attack!”

 

As the shock wears off, Yukara says, with a sly smile, “That’s why you played that other trap. Clever.”

 

Akari says, as three cards come out of her disk, “Speaking of my Double Down trap card, it gives me one card for every one thousand life-points that I lost. Since I lost over three thousand, it gives me three cards. Oh, plus, since you destroyed Blue Rose Dragon, my Black Rose Dragon returns to the field!” Black Rose Dragon (2400/1800) roars out as it returns to the field in defense mode.

 

Dai shouts out, excitedly, “Way to go, Kari-chan!”

 

Yukara says, with a smile, “I end my turn.”

 

Current Scores:

Akari: 2100

Yukara: 1600

 

Akari says, as a card comes out of her deck, “My turn! I draw!” Akari says, touching one card in her ‘hand’ causing it to ‘vanish’, “I activate my Graceful Charity! I draw three new cards from my deck and discard two from my hand!” Three cards come out of Akari’s deck, appear in her ‘hand’, and then two cards ‘vanish’ from her ‘hand’ in which Akari says, “Next, I activate the effect of one of the cards that I sent to my grave! The trap card, Blooming Rose! Now, I can remove my Black Rose Dragon from play and return this card to the bottom of my deck, but during the next Standby Phase, my dragon comes back!” Black Rose Dragon roars out as it vanishes in a swirl of rose petals while said card comes out of the graveyard of Akari’s disk and returns to her deck.

 

Yukara asks, confused, “Why would you do that?”

 

Akari says, touching a card causing it to ‘vanish’, “You are going to find out when I play my Trap Booster spell card! By discarding one card, I can play one trap card from my hand!” A card ‘vanishes’ from Akari’s ‘hand’ and she says, touching another card causing it to ‘vanish’ as well, “And I choose my Cosmic Blast trap card! When a Dragon Synchro Monster is removed from the field, you take damage equal to that dragon’s attack points!” Yukara gives a look of shock as an image of Black Rose Dragon appears on the field and unleashes a storm of rose petal at Yukara, who just smiles as she knocked down by the storm causing her to lose 2400 life-points as well as the duel.

 

Yuna says, excitedly, “She did it!”

 

Dai says, with a grin, “I knew that she would!”

 

Final Score:

Akari: 2100

Yukara: 0

 

With the end of the duel, the final ‘images’ fade away and Yukara says, with a sigh and sly smile, “It would have been nice to have the cute company, but oh well. Well played.”

 

Akari asks, “Thank you for the duel. Can we have the way home?”

 

Yukara creates a golden key and she says, with a smile, “Yes, here you go.” The golden key glows, creating a bright light that forces Akari’s, Dai’s, and Yuna’s lights in which they don’t see lights going into Akari’s and Dai’s duel disks, and shoots out into the sky some distance away in which she says, with a sly smile, “The portal home is open, but you must hurry.”

 

Dai says, with a smile, “Well, what are we waiting for? Let’s go!” Akari gives a respective bow as she hurries off with Dai and Yuna to head home.

 

After they are gone, Yukara says, “Maybe I should have told them of the last challenge ahead?” Yukara shrugs and she says, “I’m sure that they can handle it. And I’m sure that they can handle the gifts that I gave them.” Yukara gives a stretch and a cat-like yawn as she relaxes on the ground.

 

(A short time afterwards)

 

Dai, Akari, and Yuna are running through the streets of the town as they looking up at a portal showing Flosshilde, the Ring of Ice.

 

Akari says, “It’s Flosshilde!”

 

Dai says, with a nod, “You know it, Kari-chan!” The group arrives at a park where the portal is floating above and there is a column of golden light coming from the portal in the center of the park. Dai says, with a grin, “Follow the ‘golden brick road’!”

 

Akari says, with a giggle, “You mean ‘YELLOW brick road’, Dai-kun.”

 

Dai says, “Whatever. It is the way home.” The group heads straight for the portal, but then a mystical forcefield surrounds the portal and ‘golden light’ that’s the ‘path’ into the portal causing Dai to yell out, “Hey!”

 

Just then a male voice shouts out, “You aren’t going anywhere!” Just then a brown cloaked figure leaps in front of Dai, Akari, and Yuna.

 

Dai yells out, “Hey! Are you the one that did this?!”

 

The brown cloaked figure says, in the male voice, “Indeed. And you aren’t going through until I have a duel against you.”

 

When the cloaked figure points at Dai, Dai asks, curiously, “Me?”

 

The brown cloaked figure says, “Yes, you! You are a duelist of the Elemental Hero style of dueling aren’t you? I can sense it!”

 

Dai says, nervously, “Well…”

 

The brown cloaked figure says, “Don’t deny it! I can smell the power of the Elemental Heroes on you!” The brown cloaked figure throws off the hooded cloak to reveal a male elf with short silver hair, a red mask over his blue eyes, and wearing an outfit similar to Aster Phoenix’s classic outfit with what looks like a silver Real Solid Vision duel disk attached to his left wrist in which the silver haired male elf says, “I am Aegis and a master of the Destiny Hero style of dueling! The Elemental Heroes and Destiny Heroes have been fighting for a generation and it is time for it to end! I shall beat you, a user of the Elemental Heroes, to prove that the Destiny Heroes are destined for greatness!”

 

Dai says, nervously, “Okay…”

 

The male elf, Aegis, says, with a sly smile, “If you wish to get home, then you will need to duel me. This barrier will only drop with my defeat and this portal won’t last long.”

 

Dai says, with an angered snarl, “Fine!” Dai then steps forward, brings out his disk, and pushing a button on his disk causing a holographic screen displaying two decks in which he thinks in his mind, “It is a good thing that my Elemental Heroes deck as well as my dragons deck came with us!” Dai pushes on one of the decks displayed and that deck appears in his duel disk. Akari and Yuna step aside as Dai comes forward and Dai says, “Let’s do this!”

 

Aegis says, with a nod, “We shall see how brave you are after this!” Aegis snaps his fingers and the ‘safety system’ used in ‘official duels’ in this world appears in which Aegis says, “This shall be an honorable duel!”

 

Dai thinks in his mind, “Says the guy preventing us from leaving to get his precious duel!” Dai and Aegis activate their duel disk causing the ‘energy blades’ that contain their disks’ Monster and Pendulum Zones to appear, their decks are shuffled, and as their disks’ touch screens display 4000 life-points, five cards come out of their respective hands and ‘float’ in front of the two duelists.

 

“Game on!” Dai and Aegis say in unison as their duel begins.

 

Starting Scores:

Dai: 4000

Aegis: 4000

 

Aegis says, “There will be no leeway from me! I shall take the first turn!” Aegis says, touching one card causing it to ‘vanish’, “I shall start with Polymerization!” Two cards in Aegis’ ‘hand’ then ‘vanishes’, Destiny Hero-Defender (100/2700) and Destiny Hero-Departed (1000/0) appear on the field, and Aegis says, as the two monsters goes into a fusion vortex, “I fuse Defender and Departed to bring out Destiny Hero Dangerous in attack mode!” A Fusion Monster card appears on Aegis’ disk and out of the vortex, Destiny Hero-Dangerous (2000/2600) appears on the field in attack mode and Aegis says, touching another card causing it to ‘vanish’, “And then I place one card face-down and I end my turn!”

 

Dai says, as a card comes out of his deck, “It’s my turn! I draw!”

 

Aegis says, pushing a button on his disk, “I activate my trap: Destruction of Destiny!” Aegis’ face-down card is revealed to be the Destruction of Destiny trap card and Aegis says, “This trap card forces me to discard the top three cards in my deck and for every spell and trap card that I discard, I lose one thousand points, but I’m sure that destiny is on my side!” The top three cards come out of Aegis’ deck and they are revealed to be Destiny Hero-Malicious (800/800), Destiny Hero-Disk Commander (300/300), and Destiny Hero-Double Dude (1000/1000) monster cards in which Aegis says, with a sly smirk, “No monsters here!”

 

As the three cards vanish, Dai thinks in his mind, “Something tells me that those monsters might be helpful to his plans, but he is about to get a bad surprise!” Dai says, touching a card causing it to ‘vanish’, “I start with my Fusion Birth spell card! I discard the top five cards from my deck and summon a Fusion Monster that could be summoned through the monsters sent to the graveyard!” Five cards come out of his deck and they are revealed to be Elemental Hero Neos (2500/2000), Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin (600/800), Neo-Spacian Dark Panther (1000/500), Neo-Spacian Flare Scarab (500/500), and Elemental Hero Blazeman (1200/1800) in which they vanish causing Dai to say, as a Fusion Monster card appears on his disk, “Thanks to these monsters, I play Elemental Hero Brave Neos in attack mode!” Out of a fusion vortex, Elemental Hero Brave Neos (2500/2000), a ‘pumped up’ version of Neos with violet markings and shoulder guards, appears on the field in attack mode. Dai says, “Brave Neos gains one hundred attack points for each Hero and Neo-Spacian in the graveyard!” Brave Neos then goes from 2500/2000 to 3000/2000 due to his ability.

 

Aegis says, confidently, “Impressive!” Aegis thinks in his mind, slyly, “The instant that you attack, however, it won’t be impressive enough.”

 

Dai says, touching a card in his ‘hand’ causing it to ‘vanish’, “You are going to be more ‘impressed’ when I play! The spell card, Miracle Contact! Now, I can return Neos and Neo-Spacians from my hand, field, or graveyard back to my deck to summon a Neos Fusion Monster! I choose Neos along with Aqua Dolphin, Dark Panther, and Flare Scarab!”

 

Aegis asks, surprised, “What?!” Just then four cards come out of the graveyard slot of Dai’s duel disk, they return to his deck, and four said monsters appear on the field.

 

Dai yells out, “Show him guys! Go, Quadruple Contact Fusion!” All four monsters leap into a ‘galaxy’ that appears in the sky and a bright light covers the field as a Fusion Monster card appears on Dai’s disk duel in which he says, “Meet the one and only…Elemental Hero Cosmo Neos!” Out of the light, Elemental Hero Cosmos Neos (3500/3000), a Neos style humanoid monster with an alternate version of Chaos Neos’ head, silver-blue version of Storm Neos’ chest, one of Storm Neos’ wings with Magma Neos’ wings, Magma Neos’ left hand, Chaos Neos’ right hand, Chaos Neos’ armored lower legs, and light-blue and silver versions of Chaos Neos’ feet, appears on the field in attack mode in which Brave Neos goes from 3000/2000 to 2600/2000 due to loss of four certain monsters from Dai’s graveyard.

 

Aegis says, a bit nervous through not showing it as best as he can, “You may have gained a new monster, but your other monster lost power!”

 

Dai says, with a grin, “Maybe, but it is worth it! Cosmo Neos is awesome…In the fact that when he comes a calling, you can’t activate any effects for this turn and you can’t activate any cards and effects in reply to the activation of this sweet ability!”

 

Aegis yells out, stunned, “No! But that means…!!!”

 

Dai says, pointing to Aegis’ monster, “Dangerous isn’t so dangerous anymore!” Destiny Hero-Dangerous groans out as his abilities are negated and Dai yells out, “Cosmo Neos, attack his Destiny Hero!” Dai touches a card in his ‘hand’ causing it to vanish and Dai says, “And now, I activate Elemental Hero Honest Neos’ ability! By sending him from my hand to the grave, one Hero gains twenty-five hundred attack points this turn!” An image of Elemental Hero Honest Neos (2500/2000) appears, goes into Cosmo Neos, and Cosmo Neos goes from 3500/3000 to 6000/2000 while Brave Neos goes from 2600/2000 to 2700/2000 since there is another Hero monster in the grave.

 

Aegis says, flabbergasted, “But how can this be?! I don’t understand!”

 

Dai says, seriously, “Well, you might understand this! When people and things that are precious to me are on the line, I don’t pull my punches, I throw down like no tomorrow! Game over, dude! Cosmo Neos, end this duel! Finish his Dangerous and his life-points with Big Bang Crush!” Cosmo Neos’ right hand glows rainbow colors, he snaps his fingers, and Dangerous is engulfed in a ‘Big Bang style’ explosion of rainbow energy causing him to roar as he is destroyed in which the shockwave sends Aegis flying backwards in which he yells out as he loses 4000 life-points as well as the duel!

 

Final Score:

Davis: 4000

Aegis: 0

 

With the end of the duel, the final monsters on the field ‘vanish’ and the barrier surrounding the portal and ‘golden gateway’ vanish like glass shattering.

 

Yuna says, amazed, “Amazing. He won in one turn!”

 

Akari says, with a warm loving smile, “That’s my Dai-kun! He always comes through in a pinch!”

 

Dai says, with a grin, “You know it, Kari-chan!” Just then the portal ‘flickers’ and Dai says, “Uh oh! Time to make like a tree leaf and blow!” Immediately, Dai, Akari, and Yuna rush into the ‘golden light beam’, passing by a stunned Aegis, and all of them yell as they are lifted into the air, towards the portal, and when they get close to the portal, all of them as they are engulfed by light and it goes ‘black’ for all of them.

 

November 2025, ALO, Svart Alfheim, Flosshilde

 

Now, we back in ALO, specifically Flosshilde, where we find Dai and Akari, both of whom are back in their ‘ALO forms’, in which they are lying unconscious in the snow.

 

A familiar male voice shouts out, “Kari! Kari!” Akari groans out as she slowly starts to wake up as she gets to a sitting position, shakes her head, and she looks to see our heroes and heroines, in their ALO avatars, looking at her and Dai, as he regains consciousness and comes into a sitting position.

 

Taichi knees down in front of Akari and he asks, concerned, “Kari, are you okay?”

 

Akari asks, regaining her senses, “Big brother?”

 

Sam asks Dai, “Are you okay?”

 

Dai responds, “Ask the splitting headache that I have.”

 

Takeru says, with a smile, “He’s okay.”

 

Kirito comes over and he asks Dai and Akari, “What happened to the two of you?”

 

Asuna says, “Yui-chan found that your signals in ALO have vanished and it seemed like you were logged out from what we saw on our message boards, but Taichi found that Akari was still wearing her Amusphere.”

 

Kirito says, “And from the way that Yui-chan said that you ‘vanished’, it didn’t seem like you logged out of ALO.”

 

Dai asks, surprised, “Were we gone long?”

 

Miyako yells out, “You were missing for hours! We were searching high and low in Flosshilde for you!”

 

Leafa asks, “What happened to the two of you?”

 

Akari was about to answer and she asks, noticing someone missing, “Wait! Yuna-san?! Where’s Yuna-san?!”

 

Hana asks, curiously, “Yuna-san? Was someone with you?”

 

Dai says, “Yeah. She was with us, in Flosshilde, when we got sucked into another virtual world.”

 

There are looks of surprise from the others and Silica asks, “Into another virtual world?”

Akari says, with a nod, “Yeah, it is a bit hard to believe, but it happened.”

 

Kirito says, “I think that it is best that we get back to Agil’s shop in Ryne and discuss it there.”

 

Sinon says, with a nod, “Agreed. This isn’t the best place to be having a discussion.” Dai and Akari nod their heads in agreement as they get to their feet and head for the teleportation gate to return to Ryne.

 

November 2025, ALO, Svart Alfheim, Ryne

 

In the main player city in Svart Alfheim, Ryne, we are in Agil’s shop/café where Dai and Akari explained what happened to them.

 

When they are done, Agil whistles and he says, “Wow. It looks like you have been through such an adventure.”

 

Makoto says, with a nod, “I’ll say.”

 

Takeru asks, “Not to insult you or anything, but you can be sure that it wasn’t a dream?”

 

Dai says, “The sores that I can feel through my avatar say that it was damn real, TC.”

 

Philia asks, “If that was real, where did they go?”

 

Strea says, excitedly, “Maybe it was like that Rainbow Gardens that they were trapped in before they came to SAO!”

 

Yui, in her ‘pixie form’, flies over and she says, “It is quite possible. With the knowledge that these type of ‘digital realms’ exist, it is possible that there is one based a lot of Duel Monsters since the game has been around for much time especially with its close relation to digital technology in the form of the Solid Vision system.”

 

Hana says, amazed, “Wow! That’s amazing.”

 

Klein says, “Yeah, but onto this cute girl, Yuna-san…!!”

 

Lisbeth says, with a sigh, “Should have known that you would go back to that, Klein.”

 

Klein gives an annoyed look, but then the bell that signifies someone is entering is heard and Agil says, looking at the entrance to his shop, “Hello! Ah, Rain!” Everyone then looks to see Rain, the red-headed sword wielding female Leprechaun and fellow SAO like Usagi, Kirito, Asuna, and other SAO survivors in our group of heroes and heroines, walking over.

 

Asuna says, with a smile, “Hello, Rain-chan!”

 

Rain responds, “Privyet (A/N: Russian for ‘hello’.), Asuna! Everyone!”

 

Kirito says, with a nod of acknowledgement, “Hello, Rain! Guess you are taking a break from your ‘idol training’.”

 

Rain asks, curiously, “Yep! So, what’s everyone doing today?”

 

Lisbeth says, with a grin, “We just found out that Dai and Akari went on a ‘wacky adventure’?”

 

Rain asks, curiously, “Wacky adventure?” Dai and Akari then start to explain what happened, but when they mentioned Yuna, she asks, “Wait! Yuna?”

 

Everyone looks at Rain, curiously, and Kirito asks, “Someone that you know?”

 

Rain says, shaking her head, “Not personally, but she is someone that’s making a splash as a ‘virtual idol’ much like Seven. She has been appearing in various VRMMO worlds that have been popping up ever since ‘The Seed’ allowed a lot of people to create their own VRMMO games.”

 

Dai gets an idea and he asks, “Do you have a picture of her?”

 

Rain says, with a nod, “Yes, I do.”

 

Lisbeth asks, slyly, “Keeping an eye on the ‘competition’, huh?”

 

Asuna says, with a sigh, “Liz…” Rain then brings out her player menu and when she makes it visible, it is displaying Yuna on it.

 

Akari yells out, “That’s Yuna-san!”

 

There are looks of surprise and Taichi asks Akari, “Are you sure?”

 

Dai says, with a nod, “Yep! That was her exactly!”

 

Miyako asks, curiously, “Wait! She looked EXACTLY like that? How come she didn’t look like a fairy here in ALO?”

 

Kirito says, with a curious look, “Good question.”

 

Asuna says, “You have that look, Kirito-kun.”

 

Kirito asks, curiously, “Look?”

 

Taichi says, with a smile, “Like there is some kind of mystery to be solved.”

 

Kirito asks Asuna, “Do I really have that kind of ‘look’?”

 

Asuna giggles and she responds, “You tend to have those kind of ‘looks’, Kirito-kun.”

 

Leafa says, with a smile, “Maybe you should be a detective like Sam is going to be.”

 

Kirito says, plainly, “No way, Sugu.”

 

Haruka says, “Well, the mystery isn’t what she was doing there. It is quite obvious on what she was doing there. She was in Flosshilde to get some practice. It might be a weird place to practice, but if you are smart to avoid areas with monsters, you could have a good decent place to practice your singing.”

 

Rain says, with a nod, “I agree, Haruka.”

 

Tomoe asks, curiously, “Then what is the mystery, Haruka-papa?”

 

Sam responds, “Why her avatar wasn’t any different than this picture?”

 

Akari says, thoughtfully, “She did tell us that: ‘She wasn’t an NPC, but she wasn’t a ‘typical player’ either’.”

 

Miyako asks, confused, “What’s that supposed to mean?”

 

Leafa asks Kirito, “Any ideas, big brother?”

 

Kirito says, “I’m not sure, Sugu.” Kirito thinks in his mind, “But I have a few ideas about that.”

 

Silica asks, curiously, “Why did her avatar remain the same?”

 

Mizuno says, “There could be an error.”

 

Mamoru says, “That’s the logical explanation.” Mamoru says, looking at the picture that Rain was displaying with her menu, “However, based on what you are saying, her avatar remains the same throughout different VRMMO worlds.” Rain’s eyes widen at what Mamoru is implying and he says, looking at everyone, “However, we won’t know the full story until we confront Yuna-san ourselves.”

 

Kirito says, with a nod, “Agreed. For now, we can only wonder.” At the main entrance into Ryne, none other than Yuna is looking in the direction of Agil’s shop/café and smiling as she vanishes through what looks like an ALO teleportation effect.

 

The End…of the story

 

And here we go! What do you think of this story? You see, a lot of the stories orbit around Kazuto/Kirito, Serena/Usagi, and Suguha/Leafa, I thought that I give other characters their place in the spotlight since certain members of our heroes and heroines have their own importance including our Digidestined of Miracles and our Digidestined of Light. And yes, there will be plenty of stories for the other characters, I have ideas for them, but they will take time to develop. Please read and revive to tell me what you think, but no flames, please! Later and best wishes, Crossover Fans!