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Yugioh GX Rewrite: Chapter 13 (The Clear Rider)

The Shadow Riders have arrived and the war has begun between them and the Key Keepers. But one of them is familiar to the Key Keepers, but who is he exactly?

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The life of Yusuke Fujiwara wasn’t the life that most kids wanted.

Despite being in a wealthy family, with loving parents and as many Duel Monster cards he could have, he always felt lonely. He didn’t have any friends, no relatives, no aunts or uncles, not even grandparents.

The only other person he had that loved him, was a Duel Spirit by the name of Honest, which was like his guardian angel whenever he was alone with him.

He felt lonely and sometimes even saddened that no one would hang out with him and he feared of being forgotten about in his school, with many of the students calling him creepy or weird.

The worst thing that has ever happened in the life of young Yusuke, was the death of his parents in a car accident. He felt horrible. He felt like he was forgotten by his parents to the point that they would rather die than be with him.

The day the accident happened was the worst day of his entire life. The only people that cared for him were dead, he had no one to go to for this. He only felt comfort from one spirit that no one else saw. He was depressed, not wanting to speak to anyone or leave his room.

Eventually, he was sent to a care home, where no one would be friends with him or much more care about due to his gloomy nature, he, like always, felt forgotten about.

A few years later, he went to a dueling pre-school, a school which most students go to before entering Duel Academy. It was better than in his care home, but not by much. The students were nice to him, but they didn’t care for him, not at all. The teachers weren’t much different.

One day, there was a group project, something about the history of the Pharaoh Atem and Abidos The Third, in which a group of three must make a project of the Pharaohs. No one wanted to be in a group with him, except for two students.

Atticus Rhodes and Zane Truesdale.

Those two made Yusuke’s life better. When they made the project, they quickly began liking each other, even Zane who had a tough way of showing it. They went to each other's house to hang out and either watch duels or shows, or play video games, they always did something together.

They went to Atticus’ house and befriended everyone there. His parents, his aunts and uncles, cousins and the grandparents, but the ones that Yusuke liked the most was his little sister, Alexis, to whom she had a crush on the green haired boy. Everyone liked the two kids, and vice versa.

Atticus and Yusuke also went to Zane’s house, and just with Atticus, they befriended his parents and his little brother, Syrus. Soon they realized that a few years ago, he went to a dojo to learn about the Cyber Style, which was his current deck. They also learned that his dojo had a rival dojo by the name of Jinzo Style.

The three were inseparable. Everything they did was a group thing. Including studying, group projects, hanging out, watching shows, learning new decks, getting new cards and more.

When they got to Duel Academy, things hadn't changed, for the better. They were placed in the best dorm, Obelisk Blue dorm, and met their headmaster, Doctor Vellian Crowler.

After a few weeks in, everyone, even the seniors, realized how undefeatable they were. Even Atticus, the weakest one, was much more tougher than that of anyone there that they were named The Emperor Trio.

The three of the strongest duelists that Duel Academy have and will ever have in their entire life. The Car was Atticus, The Kaiser was Zane and The Emperor was Yusuke, as he was the only person that could even match and surpass that of Zane and Atticus.

After a month, all of them gained…massive amount of fangirls, which made a lot of the students jealous of them, but only Atticus really enjoyed it.

In the short span, their bond became even stronger than before, even making some Obelisks their friends, like Torrey.

But all good things must come to an end, as around after the School Duel with North Academy, Yusuke became paranoid. Scared of one thing. Being forgotten about. Just like what his parents have done to him.

Everytime he hung out with his best friends, he felt scared that he would be forgotten about, but masked it very well. He began learning about rituals, dark spells that he was forgotten about, he wouldn’t feel the same pain when he would be forgotten about.

He got books from Professor Banner, and began researching about rituals. As soon as he began carving on the ground a pentagram, his blood was spilled, he then felt power and darkness overwhelm him that Honest was afraid of and worried for his master.

One day, when Yusuke was close to the ritual, he hung out with his friends for the last time, but this time it was clear that he was upset. Atticus went to him, being a way better emotional helper than Zane.

But what he saw shocked him. He saw Yusuke Fujiwara, his best friend, The Emperor of Duel Academy, in a room that not even he knew about, with a pentagram beneath him.

He locked eyes with Yusuke, who quickly did the ritual, but Atticus didn’t want his friend to be hurt, so he ran after him, but to his unfortunate, both he and Yusuke were trapped by the evil force known as Nightshroud.

He and Yusuke were gone, unable to see again, being trapped in a World Of Darkness. They were floating around, unable to do a single thing. They were trapped from the god known as Nightshroud, only able to be seen as vestiges to him.

When Zane heard about the news, all he felt was anger, sadness, denial, desperation, but he never felt acceptance. He knew that they were still alive.

Meanwhile at Banner’s class

Most of the students were currently in Professor Banner’s class, as some of them were confused on why he is late, as he is almost never late to class. Some were sleeping, Jaden, some were writing a new deck list, Celina and Bastion, talking to their friends, Alexis, waiting for him, Chazz and Syrus.

But then the door was opened as Banner entered in a hurry, “Sorry, I was late. I was talking to my friends. But anyway, where were we?” He looked around his chemicals and remembered what he was about to teach, “Oh, yes the importance of a good mixture.”

He took two chemicals and poured into one of them, “There is great importance on how you mix certain chemicals, and as such, depending on how you mix them, will create a reaction.” The colours changed, but then…

BOOM!

An explosion occurs once again, for the third time this week. The only thing different, it made Jaden wake up, “Is it lunch time already?” He yawned as he stretched his arms out as Celina jabbed him in the shoulders.

“It’s still class, don’t start eating or I swear on Ra that I will-”

“Oh, Jaden, I almost forgot to mention, Chancellor Sheppard needs a word with you.” Banner stood up, completely white, as all eyes were on the Slifer Red.

“Jaden.”

“Yeah?”

“What did you do this time?”

“What do you mean, Celina? I haven’t done anything.”

“Are you sure?”

“Yeah, I am sure.”

“Of course, the Slacker has to talk to the Chancellor, big surprise.” scoffed Chazz as then Banner looked at him.

“Now, who said that he wasn’t the only one that Sheppard wants to see? You are also included as three more. Bastion,” Banner started as Bastion, confused but still listened, stood up, “Alexis,” Alexis stood up, also confused, “and Celina,” Celina swallowed whatever was in her throat as she stood up.

“Now, please, walk towards Chancellor Sheppard’s office while I continue to teach, okay?” he asked as all of them nodded, “Thank you.” they all now exited the room as they began walking towards Sheppard’s office.

“This doesn’t sound good.” Celina said as Chazz turned to her.

“No shit, Sherlock,” he said.

“I wonder why he needs a word with us.” said Bastion as he was confused why he needed them of all people.

“Maybe, it's another school event?” said Alexis as they began walking quietly towards Sheppard’s office as they saw two figures also walking towards Sheppard’s office.

“Kaiser? Doctor Crowler? What are you guys doing here?” asked Jaden as they were all a couple of steps away from entering Sheppard’s office.

“I could ask you the same thing.” said Zane as all of them stopped at the same time as Crowler looked around with a smirk on his face and eyes closed.

“Well well. Look at this convocation of students,” he started, “some of the best students I see.” He then opened his eyes to look at Jaden right at the eyes, “Oh oh! Which one of these things is not like the other?” he began singing, making most of the students sweatdropped, “Clearly someone is lost.”

“No he isn’t,” Jaden turned towards Chazz, “Chazz was invited.”

The Chazz turned towards Jaden, “He means you! And you lost to me! So you’re invited!” he argued back.

“Sure, but didn’t you also lose to me in the promotional exams?” he asked with a grin of his own.

“That was different!”

“Really?” he looked at Chazz with a grin, to which he glared back.

Celina had a hilarious idea inside of her head as she got between them, “Guys, guys, guys. Stop fighting,” they looked at her, “Because if someone was invited,” she grinned, “It’s Crowler.”

Most of them chuckled, as Chazz and Jaden gave her a high five as Crowler got angry and went towards the three Slifer Reds, but then Sheppard's door was opened and he had a serious expression, which made everyone know that this isn't a laughing matter.

“I want all of you in, and just so all of you know, whatever is mentioned in my office, shall stay in the office. Am I understood?” All of them turned to each other and then back at Sheppard, and nodded. “Good. Now come inside.” He entered the room as the rest followed him, as the rest of their school years will change for the worst.

As soon as they entered, Sheppard closed the lids and closed the doors of his office, so no one could hear him or see him.

He took a deep breath and looked at all of the students and Crowler, feeling horrible that he would send students in a war like fashion, but this was the best thing he could do. If he called in for Pro Duelists, they wouldn’t arrive on time. Even on Seto’s private jet.

“Have any of you heard about the Egyptian Gods?” he asked, a weird question since even a person that hasn’t touched a deck will know about the strongest monsters in Duel Monsters.

“They are the monsters that are considered to be the strongest monsters in Duel Monster history, that only those who are worthy, like Yugi Muto, could use them.” Alexis answered as Sheppard nodded.

“And that their strength is unrivaled.” added on Zane as Sheppard nodded again.

“Not to mention that they arrive from real items in Egyptian mythology. Ra, the Sun God, Obelisk, the monument, and Slifer, the God of Life.” explained Bastion as Sheppard nodded once again.

“Why did you ask us that?” Jaden tilted his head in confusion, but not in a mocking way “It’s Dueling 101, even beginners know that.”

“Maybe he is going to tell us why,” whispered Celina as he got quieter as Sheppard looked at him.

“Because, what if I told all of you that there are three monsters that rival that of the Egyptian Gods?” Everyone widened at the sound of that. Was it possible for them to be even rivaled? How powerful could they be? “I am afraid that those cards exist, and they are known as The Sacred Beasts.”

The name alone shook many of the juniors to their core as Crowler gasped in the name while Zane tried not to show any emotions of it, but he could feel how terrified Honest is on that name.

“Sacred…” began Chazz.

“...Beasts,” finished Celina.

“Right on. They are known for their destructive power and the last time they were used,” it wasn’t a common thing to see a Chancellor shivering, but the image of one was enough to know what they were dealing with, “it caused massive destruction.”

“Destruction…” muttered Bastion.

“This school was built with the Sacred Beasts in chambers, never to see the light, by our founder Kagemaru, never to be used again, but, to our unfortune, is a force that wants to use that power, for their own gain,” He looked at them, with a serious gaze, “They are known as, The Shadow Riders.”

“Shadow…” Jaden widened.

“...Riders,” Zane narrowed his eyes.

“That’s right, 7 powerful duelists, with their own abilities, that could even take down the strongest duelists around, and I am afraid that one of them is already here.” Most of the students gulped.

Sheppard sighed, “I know, what I am doing is wrong, and I feel terrible, but you 7 are our strongest duelists here, and thus, the protectors of Duel Academy. You can object and deny this, and I will allow it, but I will warn all of you, that this won't be an easy task. What do you say?”

Many didn’t dare to make a sound, but the ice was broken by the Slifer Red, “Of course! I always wanted to be a Hero in a story! So count me in!”

As then, all of them voiced their opinions out loud. “You can count me in as well!” “I won’t go down without a fight!” “If the Slacker can do it, so can I!” “I will show them what my 9 years of teaching can do!” “Sure, I guess I can see how the Pro Leagues will compare to this.”

However, Bastion was confused on thing, “I would like to join as well, but how will they know how to duel us and not innocent students?”

Sheppard smiled at the determination of everyone, but he had to answer Bastion’s question, “Well, that is an easy question.” He took out a box, “They will know that you are the protectors because you are wearing one of the 7 Spirit Keys.” He opened the box and revealed keys with different sizes and shapes, almost looking like relics, “These keys are the only things that are protecting the Sacred Beasts from unleashing, if all the keys are taken, the gates will be unlocked.”

“So wait,” Sheppard looked at Alexis, “how will they take the keys then?”

Sheppard closed his eyes, “By a duel.” Everyone, even the Kaiser of Duel Academy, gasped, “That’s right. The only upside is that it can not be stolen, instead, by beating the Key Keepers. They must be beaten by a duel, and once they win, they steal your key.” He looked at everyone, “So take one, they will all fit you all nicely.”

Everyone turned to each other, but Jaden took one, as then Zane took one as well, and the rest followed suit.

Crowler looked at Sheppard as he took the Key and put it on his neck, “I will make sure that the rest of students don’t know about this so they can feel relaxed.”

Sheppard smiled, “Thank you Doctor Crowler.” he then looked at the students, “You still have school to do, so get to it. You don’t want to fall behind, don’t you?”

Jaden dropped his head as he was dragged by most of his friends out of the room, with Crowler walking out of the room and Zane exiting the room last.

The Chancellor dropped to his seat and had his hands on his face, “Am I doing the right thing?”

After School

As the Key Keepers, not Crowler, and Syrus and Chumley, exited Duel Academy, Jaden was still down about a certain thing, “Man, I thought we will be free from school work during all of this.” he said as Celina looked at him.

“You did all of this, just to escape from school work?” she asked as he nodded. She put her hand on her face, “Unbelievable.”

“Typical Slacker.” Chazz shook his head.

“Don’t worry, Jay. Maybe you can get it after all of this.” Syrus tried to cheer Jaden, but to no avail. They didn’t mention the Shadow Riders or the Sacred Beasts, they just mentioned protecting the Keys from 7 Pro Duelists.

Alexis chuckled, “He will rather protect the school, and maybe the world ending, but homework? No way.”

Bastion clapped his hands together, catching everyone’s attention, “Well, if they would strike us at any second, it would be optimal to work and fix our decks to the maximum usage.”

They looked around each other, but they nodded. “Awesome!” Jaden lifted his head with enthusiasm, “I can’t wait to see how I can upgrade my deck!”

“Yeah, that sounds amazing.” said Celina as the rest then began agreeing with that, but then they looked at Zane, who had one thing in his mind, “What about you, Zane?”

Zane glanced at her, “Sorry, but I need some time to think about all of this.” He said walking off to his room, as they understood what he was thinking about. How they have to protect the school from them.

As he walking down to his dorm room, while looking at the key, he was thinking about how powerful would they, what abilities to they all have, what are their deck and dueling styles, but the one thought that was the most important to him was, “Would this help me find Yusuke or Atticus?”

Honest was quiet around this time, maybe also thinking about their safety, but more importantly, the safety of Master Fujiwara.

It only took him a couple of minutes as he opened the door and laid on the bed, thinking about all of this.

What he was feeling was strange. He felt excitement, but at the same time, he was scared? He wants to see just how much he can improve his skills and see how the juniors could handle this, but he wants to protect them with Crowler.

He doesn’t want to lose them, especially Syrus, since they were his closest friends, and the last time he thought about them, he felt horrible. Like he couldn’t have saved them from whatever took them.

He remembers that day like it was yesterday.

Atticus and Zane were currently in a room watching the TV, when Yusuke entered, but they knew something was off. Very off. He was clearly upset, and when they tried to ask and comfort him, he would pass it off as that he was just tired, which wasn’t the case at all.

It was uncomfortable for all of them as then Yusuke stood up and exited the room, both Atticus and Zane looked at each other.

“Zane, I think Yusuke is upset with something.” said Atticus as he looked at his best friend as Zane looked at him also.

“I can tell, but I wonder why.” He then looked at the door, “If he was upset, he could tell us why, but he didn’t.”

“Maybe he is hiding something?” Atticus theorized.

“Possibly,” Zane looked at Atticus, “I just wonder what is hiding if he did.”

Atticus shrugged his shoulders and waved, “No matter, I will cheer him up, since you two couldn’t keep a conversation for more than 5 minutes without my help.” Atticus teased as Zane rolled his eyes, “Well see ya later, buddy. I will tell you what happened.” He said as he walked out of the room.

Several hours later, Zane was worried about his two friends. It couldn’t have taken that long, could it? He shook his head, maybe they were just talking about the next project they would have like last week so walked into the basement of the dorm they were currently.

After he entered the room, he was surprised that there was no one there. The room was empty, not a single living being, “Could they have…” Zane shook his head, he knew that was impossible. Maybe they were pulling a prank on him.

So he walked towards Atticus’ room and saw no one, strange, but they could have gone to Yusuke’s room, so he walked towards his room, but the place was horrible. Several carvings, blood, books everywhere and no sign of live at all.

He ran all over the dorms, every room, every part of the dorm, but nothing. Not a single soul, not a single living being. The place was empty, everything other than his room. This couldn’t have happened.

He ran everywhere, towards the Slifer Red dorm, the Ra Yellow dorm, the Obelisk Blue dorm and even Duel Academy and nothing. He couldn’t find them, he couldn’t do anything.

He dropped to his knees, with tears down to his face. “N-no.” he began, “I-it can’t b-be.” he gripped the grass that he was holding, as tears were flowing like a river. “Please, be a prank, please.”

He tried getting up, but fell down as he felt all the feeling of his body crumbling down, his arms feel down to the ground, “It should have been me.” he began, a weak voice from the Kaiser, “It should have been me, not them.”

“It should have been me. Why them?”

“It should have been me.”

“It should have been me!” he yelled as the teachers heard this and ran towards him. They began asking questions, but he tuned them out as all that he could have heard his thoughts, “Why? Why? Why!? WHY?!”

“Zane!” Zane stood up by the sound of his friend’s duel spirit as he looked at him, “Look over there! One of the Shadow Riders is here!”

“What?!” He turned around to see a green haired male with an eye mask of a style of a dragon outside of his room and the glass door. The person wore a dark trench coat, a black shirt with dark pants with strands of blue and yellow around the jacket and pants.

He had his arms closed with a piece of paper in one of his hands as he left in the shadows, but the paper fell down on the porch.

Zane opened the door and saw what was written. It was Yusuke’s handwriting as he read what was written, “Meet me at the Abandoned dorm.”

Honest looked at Zane, “Are you sure, it is him? Is the person, Master Fujiwara?” Zane didn’t answer him as he went down to his duel box and opened it, “Zane, do you hear me?”

“I do, but I am just worried that he isn’t Yusuke.” Honest looked at Zane, as he took out a card and shuffled it, “We have done everything that we could have done and not taking any chance to take him or Atticus back would be an insult to what we have done.”

Zane then took out another card, the card that Atticus used against him to counter his Cyber Dragons and put it in his deck and shuffled it, like it was uniting the Emperors of Duel Academy in one deck. “I understand Zane and I fully agree with what you have said. I, no, we need to save him if he is Master Fujiwara or Atticus.”

A rare smile appeared on the Kaiser’s face, “Good to know we share the same opinion.” He was done with the shuffling and placed it on his desk, he then took out his duel disk and put it on his arm as he took his deck into the duel disk, “Are you ready? For what we have been preparing for months?”

“Of course, Zane.” said Honest as Zane raised his arm in the air, feeling the combination of his Cyber Style deck and the two cards from his friends.

“Good cause I am ready.” he said as he exited the room, making most students back off of the determined look of the Kaiser.

After a few minutes of walking he walked right towards the Ra Yellow dorm, to which the rest of the Key Keepers were studying their decks and changing their cards for better ones, but one saw a figure, “Hey, Zane! Are you here to change some cards in your deck?” asked Chumley as the Obelisk senior looked at him.

“No, I am here for a little walk,” lied Zane as he continued towards the abandoned dorm, but Chumley noted the duel disk in his arms.

He walked for a few minutes later as he then saw the entrance of the dorm, noting the dark essence of it, like a demon is there, but that won’t stop the Kaiser. He walked in, without saying a word and went towards the basement of the dorm and saw the figure.

“Looks like you showed up, huh, Key Keeper?” the figure laughed as both Zane and Honest realized the figure, and it all matched, the voice, the body, the hair and everything else.

“Yusuke! What are you doing with the Shadow Riders!?” yelled Zane as ‘Yusuke’ glared at him.

“Yusuke? Ha! I am not that weakling anymore! I am the darkness itself, Nightshroud!” Nightshroud exclaimed as Honest appeared beside Zane.

“Master! Zane and I have missed you! Come back to us!” pleaded Honest as Nightshroud glared at the duel spirit.

“Begone spirit! I am not that weakling known as Yusuke Fujiwara, I am Nightshroud and you will be my first opponent!” he said as he raised his duel disk and readied it at The Kaiser.

Honest looked at Zane, “Zane, I think it will be wise to duel him. There is a chance that if we beat him, he will return to normal.”

Zane narrowed his eyes, “I know that, and that’s what I'm going to do!” He raised his duel disk as he readied it and both of them yelled out, not knowing that his Key is glowing.

“DUEL!”

Nightshroud: 4000 lp

Zane: 4000 lp

Turn 1.

“I’ll go.” Nightshroud drew his card as he looked at his hand. He grinned, the perfect hand to defeat him, but first he needed to summon a monster for defense, “I summon Clear Phantom in defense mode!”

From the grounds of the ruins appeared a clear crystal with a beast with a visible rib cage with an eye in the middle, as in its shoulders were holes and an ear for a head.

(Clear Phantom: Level 3 - Dark Fiend - Attack: 1200. Defense: 800.)

“What the hell is that?” Zane asked as Nightshroud answered him.

“A monster that has no attribute.” Zane narrowed his eyes at the weird effect, something must be up with effect, but Nightshroud took one card, “I end my turn by setting a card face down. Your move, Zane.” A card was set vertically behind the Clear monster.

Turn 2. Zane - 4000 lp - 5 cards

Zane knew that he needed to be careful of the monster, the effect wasn’t normal. No attribute? It means that his opponent has cards that affect cards with attributes, but he couldn’t do anything against them.

He drew a card from his deck and placed it on his hand, as he reached for another in his hands, “When you control a monster and I don’t, I get to special summon Cyber Dragon in attack mode!” On Zane’s field appeared his trusty metal dragon, making his Key start to shake strongly.

(Cyber Dragon: Level 5 - Light Machine - Attack: 2100. Defense: 1600.)

Meanwhile with the other Key Keepers

As the rest of the Key Keepers were talking about strategies on how they can improve their deck, Jaden stretched his back, “Man, these deck building things are really getting tough! I swear, we have been going at it for like a couple of hours.”

“Yeah, maybe because yours takes us the longest,” said Celina as she looked at him.

“What? What do you mean by that?” asked Jaden as he grabbed a drink that Syrus was offering him and opened it.

“Well for starters, you have way too many Trap cards for a Hero deck. I understand they can be helpful, but cards like Insurance, Super Junior Confrontation, Clay Charge, Cross Heart and much more don’t really fit your playstyle.” said Alexis as she took out some of these cards, to which Celina took one of them.

“Not to mention, most of them are very situational like Bubble Illusion, Feather Shot, Burst Return and such.” said Bastion as he took out a card from his deck box, “I would consider adding more search cards as such.” He put Reinforcements of the Army on his deck.

“I guess what you are talking about, gu- Hmm, what is it Celina?” he asked as she held a Cross Heart on her fingers.

“Do you mind if we switch this card for…” she looked around for a card in her deck and gave it to him, “...this card?” Jaden took the card and looked at it.

It was Dandelion, a card that summoned two Fluff Tokens when sent to the graveyard. He thought about it and asked the others if it would fit his deck, as all of them, even Chazz, nodded to it since it would give him a good advantage in a duel and he can use it for Gaia.

“Sure! I would love to switch!” they shook hands as they placed it in their respective decks.

However, one Key Keeper was getting really annoyed with something, “Will you stop dancing?” Chazz hissed as Ojama Yellow began dancing while his Key was shaking.

“Sorry Boss! I am just trying to get the rhythm down to your Spirit Key!” Ojama Yellow was shaking like crazy as Chazz realized something.

“Will this Key stop shaking?” asked Chazz as then everyone else, sans Syrus and Chumley, realized that their Spirit Key was shaking like crazy, which means…

“Someone is dueling a Shadow Rider!” yelled Jaden as he stood up and ran out of the room as the rest followed suit.

Back at the Duel

Zane announced his move, “And I will use Cyber Dragon to attack your Clear Phantom with Strident Blaze!” Cyber Dragon then shot a green beam at the monster with no attribute, but Nightshroud was prepared.

“So close, but so far, I activate my Trap,” Nightshroud yelled as a card was revealed, “Clear Barrier! This protects my monster if it doesn’t have an attribute from any attack or an effect.”

A crystal appeared, in front of the Clear Phantom, from the ground and stopped the attack from the Light Machine monster with ease, but it quickly disappeared.

Zane narrowed his eyes, the card must be important enough to protect it, so he took one card from his hand, “I end my turn after I set a card face down.” a card was set vertically behind the Cyber Dragon.

Turn 3. Nightshroud - 4000 lp - 4 cards

The Shadow Rider drew his card, and as soon as he saw it, even without the mask, Zane knew that he had something good as he then began laughing, “This is fantastic! I will show you the true power of my deck and The Shadow Riders!”

He reached for the Field Spell zone and then activated it, “I will activate the Field Spell of your doom, the clear reason why the Shadow Riders will win and get the Sacred Beasts, Clear World!”

The background changed to a look that Zane. It was cloudy, but they were no clouds, it was like they were battling in a different dimension. Despite not even seeing them, he could feel crystals above the dorm.

At The Other Key Keepers

As soon as they exited the Ra Yellow dorm, they then heard four ginormous crystals hovering over the abandoned dorm, the same place Jaden fought Titan, they couldn’t just stand there, so they ran directly towards the crystals.

At Crowler’s Office

“Hmm, I wonder why my Key is shaking?” Crowler asked himself as he continued writing a poem with a feather, but then he heard the holograms appear, “What was that?” He walked over to his porch and his eyes widened as he saw 4 crystals hovering over the abandoned dorm, “WHAT IS THAT?!” he yelled as kicked the door open and ran to the exit of the Obelisk Blue dorm and directly towards the dorm.

At Sheppard’s Office

Sheppard was still contemplating that what he is doing is the correct thing to do. “What am I doing? I am sending kids to war! I am giving them trauma that will never recover! As the Chancellor, I should have thought about my student’s safety first!”

Before he could continue thinking about what he is doing to his students, he heard a summoning, “A duel? This late? I wonder what’s goin-” his eyes widened at what he was seeing, 4 crystals at the abandoned dorm. He ran over to the door and opened it. He is not going to see his students lose their soul!

Back To The Duel

“You want to know why my monster has the effect of not having any attributes?” Zane snapped his view back to the Shadow Rider, “Well here is the reason! If you have a monster on the field with an attribute; depending on the attribute itself, you get negative side effects!” Zane’s eyes didn’t change as he was wondering about something.

“What negative side effects do I have?” The Kaiser asked the Clear Rider as he laughed.

“You have to show me your entire hand and even the cards you draw!” he exclaimed as Zane’s eyes widened, “Well? Show them to me!”

Zane gripped his hand, but nevertheless, he showed him his hand: 2 copies of Cyber Dragons, Second Chance and Power Wall. Nightshroud’s eyebrows were raised, as he realized what the Kaiser had in plan.

“So he thinks he can just Fusion himself out of this mess? Not a chance!” The Clear Rider took a card from his hand as he then exclaimed his next move, “Clear Wall, activate!” A wall made out of crystals was then summoned, protecting the monster behind it, “I will soon explain the effect, right after I summon Clear Rage Golem!”

As soon as the Shadow Rider put the card down, a golem made out of floating rocks with a core in the middle, covered by a crystal, was summoned onto the field.

(Clear Rage Golem: Level 4 - Dark Fiend - Attack: 1600. Defense: 1800.)

“All of my Clear monsters share the effect that they don’t have an attribute. But how about we go on the offensive, shall we?” Nightshroud yelled out as he pointed out with his smaller monster, “Clear Phantom attacks your Cyber Dragon!”

“What?” Zane couldn’t do anything as Cyber Dragon shot a green beam at the Clear monster, “That’s a suicide move!”

“On the contrary! Clear Wall negates any and all damage below 1000 life points, but my monster still gets destroyed.” Before the Clear monster could do anything, it was destroyed by Cyber Dragon’s beam attack, Nightshroud grinned, “And when he is destroyed by battle, one monster on your side of the field gets destroyed also!”

Shreds of the destroyed Clear Phantom appeared and targeted the Light Machine monster, destroying it, “When that happens, you have to send the top 3 cards from your deck to your graveyard.” Zane did so as he saw the top 3 cards he sent.

“Polymerization, Power Bond and Overload Fusion.” he thought, three cards that could have helped him to summon his strongest monster, as he then saw Clear Rage Golem appear in front of him, almost like he teleported, “Clear Rage Golem now attacks you directly!”

“It’s now or never!” Zane then reached out for the set card, “Not so fast, I activate Offensive Guard! Half of the attack points of the attacking monster is taken away for the rest of the turn!” he then braced himself as the Golem slammed him, (ATK: 1600 - 800.) but way weaker than the amount he would have taken.

Nightshroud: 4000 lp

Zane: 4000 - 3200 life points

And just like that, Zane took the first hit and his entire body was shaken, even when he didn’t show it clearly, but that didn’t stop him as he pointed out, “Thanks to the second effect of Offensive Guard, I can now draw a card.”

However, much to the Key Keeper’s dismay, that didn’t stop Nightshroud, “Nice job, not taking the full hit, but tell me? Will it stop Rage Golem’s effect of dealing you 300 points of damage for every card in your hand?”

Tiny shreds of rock appeared from the golem as it sent towards Zane.

Nightshroud: 4000 lp

Zane: 3200 - 1700 life points

Zane’s breath became hagged as he lost more than half of his life points in one turn, almost like his heart was about to stop, but he shook it off as he glared at the Shadow Rider, “I won’t lose you, Yusuke.”

Nightshroud then took a card from his graveyard, “I am done tormenting you, for now, as I end my turn with 1 face down.” a card was set vertically behind the Rage Golem.

Turn 4. Zane - 1700 lp - 5 cards

“Alright then, I draw!” He drew his card, as he took out two cards, due to not revealing his entire hand, “I will start by setting 2 cards face down,” two cards were set vertically in front of the Kaiser.

As he was taking out a card from his hand, “Due to me not having a monster on my field-”

“You can special summon a Cyber Dragon, right?” Nightshroud said as not in a confused expression, but a knowing one.

Sadly, he was correct with his current hand, but that doesn’t mean he will stop, “That’s right, so come out Cyber Dragon! Have a second chance!” A second copy of Zane’s Cyber Dragon was then summoned onto the field, roaring.

(Cyber Dragon: Level 5 - Light Machine - Attack: 2100. Defense: 1600.)

Before he could reveal his hand for now, Zane continued on with his turn, “When I summon a Cyber Dragon on my side of the field, I can then summon Cyber Dragon Vier from my hand in defense mode!”

A more advanced version of his trusty Cyber Dragon appeared onto the field, with little pods for every part of the body, like the more iconic monster, it roared when summoned onto the field.

(Cyber Dragon Vier: Level 4 - Light Machine - Attack: 1100. Defense: 1600.)

Zane then pointed out, “Vier’s second effect activates, all Cyber Dragons on the field gain 500 attack and defense points!” Both of his metal dragons roared in power as both of their stats jumped up.

Cyber Dragon: 2100 - 2600 attack points/ 1600 - 2100 defense points

Cyber Dragon Vier: 1100 - 1600 attack points/ 1600 - 2100 defense points

Nightshroud knew that his Clear Wall would be destroyed if he attacks with Cyber Dragon, but he wasn’t worried, instead he looked at Zane, “You know the negative effect of Clear World when you control a Light monster, don’t you?”

Zane sighed as he revealed the two cards in his hand: Cyber Dragon and Second Chance. “So he set Power Wall, interesting.”

“And now, I will destroy your Clear Rage Golem with Strident Blast attack!” Cyber Dragon roared as it shot a green beam at the Clear monster, but for some reason, it glew yellow, just like his attributes.

“Zane, look!” He heard Honest’s voice as he turned around and saw that Cyber Dragon attacking Vier, shocking him.

“What did you do?” Zane asked in a calm manner, but he could tell he wasn’t calm.

“What? Did you not see me activate my Trap card?” Zane looked at his field and his eyes narrowed at the now revealed Trap card, “Attribute Gravity, all of your attack position monsters must attack monsters with the same attribute.”

Zane remained silent as he took out a card from his hand, “Thanks for the info, for now I know what I must avoid doing, but right now, I activate the Quick-Play Spell card, Second Chance! If the monster I targeted wasn’t destroyed by battle, my monster gets to attack your monster once again! Go, Strident Blast!”

Cyber Dragon roared, as its eyes shined its emerald eyes, as it shot a green beam at the Clear Rage Golem, but Nightshroud yelled out, “Don’t forget Clear Wall’s effect! It negates all battle damage if it is lower than a 1000!”

“I didn’t forget it, but still, your monster is destroyed!” The fiend roared in agony as it exploded by Cyber Dragon’s attack.

“Excellent maneuver Zane. Able to use the advantage of losing one attack and then destroying a monster in the process, not to mention taking out a card so your opponent won’t be able to predict your next move.” complimented Honest.

“Thank you for the kind words, but I get the feeling that this duel is only beginning.” A sweat went down on Zane’s face as he could feel the pressure of the next turn of his opponent, “I end my turn.”

Turn 5. Nightshroud - 4000 lp - 1 card

As then, not only he, but also the Shadow Rider, heard not only the rest of the Key Keepers, but also Syrus, Chumley and Sheppard running in the basement of the abandoned dorm, “What are you guys doing here?” Zane asked as he looked around them.

“Why else? To support you against the Shadow Rider!” yelled Jaden, a few minutes ago all of them explained the real reason why they wore the keys, and the two Slifer Reds were scared, but they understood this was serious.

“No, get out. It’s for your own safety.” pleaded Zane as the rest of them shook their heads.

“Are you kidding, no way we are leaving you here!” yelled out Celina.

“That’s right, with our help, we can beat that Shadow Rider!” agreed Alexis.

“And you are the best one here, so leaving you would be a horrible decision!” yelled Crowler.

Zane then gave out a rare grin on his face, but he almost fell, but he took a step back to readjust himself, making others worried, “Zane!”

“Are you alright, Zane-big bro!?” yelled out both Sheppard and Syrus, almost terrified to see their student/brother like this, but Zane waved it off, “Don’t worry, I am just a little tired and I won’t lose this duel.” He assured all of them.

Nightshroud remained silent the entire time, eyeing the person that defeated him in this same place, but he shook his head as he laughed, “Are you kidding, Key Keeper? You think you are gonna win? You should have kept a better promise, I draw!” yelled Nightshroud as he drew his card and then automatically activated it, “Go, Pot Of Greed, I get to draw 2 cards from my deck!”

He did so as then all of them could feel a presence, a dark presence. “This will be your demise,” he took out a card from his hand, “I activate the Spell card, Clear Sacrifice! When I have to summon a Level 5 or higher Clear monster from my hand, I have to banish Clear monsters equal to the amount of monsters I need to tribute for its summon! I banish Clear Phantom and Clear Rage Golem so I can normal summon a dragon that makes your look like a toy, Clear Vice Dragon!”

Both Clear Phantom and Clear Rage Golem appeared from the graveyard as then both of them were sent into the sky for a tribute. From the sky appeared a gray coloured dragon with spikes in its hands encased in a big crystal appeared on the field.

(Clear Vice Dragon: Level 8 - Dark Dragon - Attack: 0. Defense: 0.)

Many took a step back, but most of them noted the 0 attack points of the dragon, “Wait 0 attack points?” Chumley tilted his head.

“It must have a devastating effect.” noted Bastion as Nightshroud smirked.

“The brainiac is correct as I will attack your Cyber Dragon with Clean Malicious Stream!” yelled Nightshroud as the dragon’s head escaped the crystal to shoot a dark blast made out of matter, to which the Cyber Dragon countered, “When my monster attacks, its attack points are double that of the monster it is attacking!”

Clear Vice Dragon: 0 - 4200 attack points

“If this connects-” Chazz started.

“Zane will lose!” finished Sheppard.

“That won’t happen,” Zane pointed at his two set cards, “Go, Cybernetic Firewall! My monster can not be destroyed by battle or by effects for the rest of the turn!” Cyber Dragon was covered by electricity, “And that’s not all, I activate Power Wall! I will negate 100 points of damage for every top card I send to the graveyard, and I will send 21 cards!”

Zane took the top 21 cards from his deck to the graveyard, and he noted that most of them were Light Machines or his Fusion Spell cards, he gritted his teeth as he knew that they didn’t have any graveyard effects.

Clear Vice Dragon’s attack overpowered that of Cyber Dragon’s, but thanks to the electricity, it was protected from the attack and wasn’t destroyed.

Clear Vice Dragon: 4200 - 0 attack points

“After the Battle Phase, Clear Vice Dragon changes into the defense mode.” His Clear monster was changed into an X position as he took the last card in his hand, “WIth that, you can go after I set a card face down.” a card was set vertically behind then Clear monster.

Turn 6. Zane - 1700 lp - 1 card

The Kaiser drew his card, but the Clear Rider said out loud, “Don’t forget Clear World’s effect! You have to show me your entire hand if you control a Light monster!” Many widened at the sound of the card, that means that he can’t outsmart his opponent.

Zane gritted his teeth as he showed his entire hand: Cyber Dragon and Half Shut. “I can’t summon a monster with this hand, but I can still…” , “Time for a counter attack! Cyber Dragon attacks your Clear Vice Dragon with Strident Blast!”

From the mouth of Zane’s trusty monster came out a mighty green beam and shot it at the defense position Clear monster, but that didn’t stop Nightshroud from activating his set card, “Not so fast, Key Keeper! I activate the Trap, Negate Attack, it negates your attack and ends the Battle Phase!”

A barrier appeared in front of the Clear Vice Dragon and protected it from the Cyber Dragon.

“Ahh man, he was so close!” Syrus hated seeing his older brother in a position where he couldn’t do anything.

Zane knew that if he didn’t do anything, he would lose his Cyber Dragon and the rest of his life points so he opted for a different strategy, a one he never used before, “I sacrifice my Cyber Dragon to summon a third copy of itself in defense position!”

His trusty Light Machine monster disappeared from the field as then a third and final copy of his monster appeared in a lower position than before.

(Cyber Dragon: Level 5 - Light Machine - Attack: 2100. Defense: 1600.)

“A brilliant move. Due to his monster attacking already, it couldn’t have switched positions so a move like that protected his life points.” complimented Bastion.

Due to Zane already revealing his hand before, he didn’t need to reveal his hand as he took a card from his hand, “I end my turn with a facedown.” a card was set vertically behind the Cyber Dragon.

Turn 7. Nightshroud - 4000 lp - 0 cards

“My turn. I draw.” Nightshroud said as he drew his card and he looked at it…right before he began laughing out loud, “Ahahaha! This is great! I will defeat you right here and right now with my Spell, Stop Defense!”

Everyone’s eyes widened as Zane’s final copy of his trusty Cyber Dragon turned upwards, eyes glowing as soon as it did. “And how about I return the action? I switch Clear Vice Dragon into attack position.” His dragon made the X position disappear as soon as it rose up, roaring and shaking the entire Field.

“This is the end! Clear Vice Dragon attack the Key Keeper’s Cyber Dragon and finish this duel with Clean Malicious Stream!” yelled Nightshroud.

The head of the dragon exited the crystal only for it to shoot a dark beam at the Light Machine monster, but Zane activated his set card, “Not so fast, Yusuke, I activate my set card, Half Shut!”

“This card halves any monster’s attack points until the End Phase and it can not be destroyed this turn,” normally he would use the card to cut down the attack of his opponent’s monster so his Cyber End Dragon has a better chance of defeating their monster and the opponent in one attack, but right now he activates it for a different reason, “And I choose my Cyber Dragon!”

Cyber Dragon: 2100 - 1050 attack points

Clear Vice Dragon: 4200 - 2100 attack points

“Good.” Alexis started, “He cut his own monster’s attack so he would take less damage.”

“Yeah, it's a good thing too, since Clear Vice Dragon’s attack points are exactly doubled of the attacking monster, so using it on your own monster would make it better than if you targeted the Vice Dragon.” noted Bastion.

Nightshroud grinned, “Even if my monster loses attack points, you still take the damage!” Clear Vice Dragon’s attack went through, even a little weaker than before, as it made Zane fall down on his knees.

Nightshroud: 4000 lp

Zane: 1700 - 650 life points

The Clear Rider began laughing as his monster changed position, “Give it up, Key Keeper! You know that I know all of your strategies before you even make them thanks to Clear World, you can’t deal me less than a 1000 life points and even if you did more than that I can tribute it so I don’t take the damage, and don’t even think about summoning a monster, you know that thanks to Attribute Gravity that your monster has to attack it instead! I end my turn!”

Turn 8. Zane - 650 lp - 0 cards

Everyone then turned to Zane and they realized just how much he is being cornered. All of his strategies were being countered, all the damage he could deal for a one turn kill would be meaningless and even if he did summon a monster, he couldn’t do anything about it as they would be destroyed instead.

It was hard to see Zane Truesdale, The Kaiser of Duel Academy, Syrus’ big brother, one of the only people to defeat Jaden, the heir of the Cyber Style, down on his knees and being tormented for the rest of the duel and then they felt shivers down their spines when they saw him passing out.

“Zane! Are you okay, man?” Zane looked around to see two people, one dueling him and one on his back on a tree watching the duel. He recognized both of them, the one that he is dueling is Yusuke while the other one is Atticus. “You look like you saw a ghost.”

He looked at his field and saw his field having 1 Cyber End Dragon while Yusuke had no monsters on his field, despite him ending his turn. A smile formed on his face, “It’s alright, I was just dozing off.”

“Really? That’s not like you, Zane.” said Yusuke as Zane brushed it off, it was nice seeing them once again.

“Don’t worry about it, Yusuke, I am just having fun with this duel.” Both Atticus and Yusuke smiled at their friend’s words, it was rare to see him smile, like seeing a rainbow after a rainstorm.

“That’s great to hear since I think it's my turn!” Yusuke yelled as he drew his card and smiled. He pointed at his graveyard, “When I have 4 or more Lightsworms with different names in my graveyard, I get to summon Judgment Dragon!”

A dragon that akin to an angel appeared on The Emperor’s field.

(Judgment Dragon: Level 8 - Light Dragon - Attack: 3000. Defense: 2600.)

The smile on Zane’s face remained unchanged as he remembered the duel as it was one of the last times either him, Atticus or Yusuke dueled each other.

“As much as I would love to use the effect of my monster, I have less than a thousand life points, I think I will engage in battle!” Both he and Atticus knew what was going to happen next as his true ace was going to be activated.

“I activate Honest in my hand! When a Light monster I control attacks a monster, my monster gains attack points equal to the targeted monster!” An angel was discarded as his dragon roared in power.

Judgment Dragon: 3000 - 7000 attack points

As soon as it gained all of those attack points, it went through the Cyber End Dragon, making an explosion and Zane fell down on his knees, not like he hated it in any way.

Yusuke: 250 lp

Zane: 2500 - 0 life points

YUSUKE FUJIWARA: WINNER!

As soon as it was finished, Atticus walked towards the two duelists and started clapping, “Amazing! Spectacular showing of pure emotions! Great job, both of you!” He cheered for the amazing duel.

“Come on, Atticus, I know you want to cheer Zane for losing.” said Yusuke as Zane looked at him.

“Hey, I am not a sore loser…unlike Atticus.” joked Zane as Atticus made an overexaggerated gasp and clenched his heart.

“Ahh! I can’t believe one of my best friends will backstab me! How could you, Zane!?” overreacted Atticus as both of them deadpanned, which made Atticus pout, “Dang it, you always reacted differently.”

“Yeah maybe if you don’t make that joke every other week.” said Yusuke as he turned towards Zane, “But for real, great duel Zane!”

Zane’s eyes opened a little as he saw everyone trying to wake him up, “Come on Zane, wake up!”

“This isn’t humourous!”

“Don’t lose, Zane!”

“You got this, Kaiser!”

“We believe in you Zane, but please don’t lose!”

“This is so anti-lischus!”

“Zane, don’t! You’re the only person able to help Master Fujiwara!”

As all of the pleading fell dead on Zane’s ear and his eyes almost closed, even the Shadow Riders laughed, but one voice stuck out harder than all of them combined, “Zane-big brother, please! I don’t want to lose you!”

Zane’s eyes widened in intensity as heard his younger brother’s plead, not wanting to lose him like he did with Atticus and Yusuke, he stood up and glared at the Shadow Rider, “Don’t worry, Syrus. Your big brother won’t lose this.” It wasn’t a prediction, it was a fact with his tone of voice.

Nightshroud scoffed, “Let’s see if you can hold on that promise.”

He gripped his hand and drew the card with more intensity of any of his dragons. He closed his eyes as he brought the card on his face and opened his eyes. His eyes narrowed as he looked over the card. It was Atticus’ card as he used it as a last resort against Zane’s Cyber Dragons.

“Yusuke, I hope you could remember Atticus’ card,” Alexis’ ears perked up at the mention of her brother, “Because I am going to play it! I activate Ultimate Retrieval!”

“What!?”

“Ultimate Retrieval!?”

“Why does he have that card in his deck?! It ruins his strategy!”

“This card skips my Battle Phase, I lose the ability to activate any other cards after I played this Spell this turn and summoning any monsters, with the added price of half of my life points,” (LP: 650 - 325), “I get to shuffle EVERY card in both of our fields to our decks!”

“WHAT!?” yelled Nightshroud.

“You heard me! And this card doesn’t target and it can not be negated in any way! So begone, all of our cards!” yelled out Zane, as then, every single card in their field were gone.

Both Cyber Dragon and Clear Vice Dragon roared in agony as both of them disappeared as the Clear World disappeared with it, making the terrain back to its original form, with the rest of Nightshroud’s Spells and Traps going with it.

Both of them glared at each other as they shuffled their decks and put the deck back into their duel disks. Both of them have no cards in their hand, as then it was anyone's game at this point.

“I end my turn.” said Zane as everyone looked at Nightshroud, as his hands were at the top of his deck.

Turn 9. Nightshroud - 4000 lp - 0 cards

Nightshroud drew his card, and he has a monster with 400 or more attack points, it’s over for Zane, but judging by the look of his face, that isn’t a case at all.

“I summon Clear Cube in defense mode.” a small red machine in a crystal was summoned onto the field in an X position.

(Clear Cube: Level 1 - Dark Machine - Attack: 0. Defense: 0.)

“Like the others, my monster has no attribute.” The rest of the duelists now understood why Clear Vice Dragon wasn’t affected by Clear World, “I end my turn here.”

Turn 10. Zane - 325 lp - 0 cards

At last, it was a stalemate between the fight between the Key Keeper and Shadow Rider, and one step closer for Yusuke so he drew his card and nodded. He took the card and placed it on his duel disk, “Appear, Cyber Valley.”

A more technology advanced version of the Cyber Dragon appeared on the field, but its head was a different shape, it had two red orbs around its neck and it was much smaller than his known monster.

(Cyber Valley: Level 1 - Light Machine - Attack: 0. Defense: 0.)

“Both monsters have 0 attack and defense points.” noted out loud Crowler.

“Both of them must have strong effects then.” concluded Celina.

“If so, I know Kaiser will win.” Jaden smiled at the one of the two people that defeated him.

Zane breathed in and out as he looked at the Nightshroud, and an image of Yusuke appeared next to him, “I end my turn.”

Turn 11. Nightshroud - 4000 lp - 0 cards

“Come on, give me something.” Nightshroud drew his card and activated the card, “When I control a monster with no attribute, I get to activate Clear Draw! Making me draw 2 cards!”

The Shadow Rider did so as then he grinned as he pointed at Cyber Valley, “If my opponent controls one monster, instead of two tributes, I get to tribute 1 monster instead,” his Clear Cube vanished as he smacked the card on his duel disk, “Come out, my strongest monster, Clear Vicious Knight!”

From the depths of the floor of the ground came out the biggest crystal yet, making the others look like rocks in comparison and inside of the crystal was a knight in dark green armour, with dark yellow shoulder pads, a sapphire on the helmet, bones around his rib cage and a sword above his hand.

(Clear Vicious Knight: Level 7 - Dark Warrior - Attack: 2300. Defense: 1100.)

Many took a step back at the sheer image and the attack points of the monster, but Zane stared it down, “Right there is,” he grinned, “The last monster I will defeat to beat him.”

“It was fun tormenting you, but all good things must come to an end! Clear Vicious Knight attack Cyber Valley with End Of The Clear!” Knight escaped the crystal only to slash, creating an energy beam from it directly towards Zane’s final monster.

“If this connects, Zane will lose!” yelled Alexis, but he wasn’t done.

“When Cyber Valley is attacked, I can banish it, negate the entire Battle Phase,” His Cyber Valley disappeared from the field as the attacked missed him, but then he reached for his duel disk, “after all of that, I get to draw a card from my deck.”

He did so as then his eyes narrowed at the card, it was him. It was his card. Honest. He looked over as an image that only people that see duel spirits can see, making Chazz and Jaden widen at seeing him having duel spirits.

“Zane,” the blue haired teenager turned to his left as he saw the monster that was on the same team for months for a specific mission, “We are almost there. We are close to saving Master Fujiwara.”

“I know, I can hardly believe that we are this close,” Zane breathed out, almost falling, but his determination said otherwise, “I can not take this opportunity to save him. We need to win.”

“We will.” It wasn’t a promise, it was a fact that they will win this next turn.

“Talking to yourself, man you really are desperate. What are you hoping that you will survive this duel?” Nightshroud smirked as he took out the other card in his hand, “Well I don’t think so. I end my turn with a face down.” a card was set vertically behind the Vicious Knight.

Turn 12. Zane - 325 lp - 1 card

It was quiet as Zane looked at his deck, “Are you ready, Honest?” he asked the duel spirit.

Honest looked at the Obelisk Blue student and gave a smile, “Yes. Zane, let’s win!”

Zane smiled as he then drew his card and then looked at it. He looked at Nightshroud, “This is over.” he muttered as he raised his duel disk, “From my graveyard, I banish 8 Light Machine monsters,” many were shocked that Zane would use so many cards in his graveyard for almost no reason.

Key word: almost.

8 Light Machines appeared onto Zane’s field as he took them from his graveyard: 2 copies of Cyber Dragon, Cyber Dragon Vier, Proto Cyber Dragon, Cyber Photon Dragon, Cyber Barrier Dragon, Cyber Kirin and Cyber Larva. They were all then sucked into a vortex in the sky.

Zane took a card in his hand, “So I can summon my strongest monster yet; Cyber Eltanin!” The entire dorm began shaking as from the floor appeared a dragon that was the same size as the Slifer Red Dorm, with 8 heads that were the same as that of the Cyber Dragon. Its head was the same as the original Cyber Dragon, but the body was different. Its stomach was that of a dragon’s face, with teeth sharper than any katana, breath so hot it could forge a katana, its yellow eyes were the deepest shade of yellow as it glowed when it roared in power, almost deafening the Key Keepers and the others.

The monster looked like a Kaiju in a movie.

(Cyber Eltanin: Level 10 - Light Machine - Attack: ?. Defense: ?.)

As the rest stared in awe at the monster, Sheppard smiled at his student showing the true power of Cyber Style as he summoned a monster that could even rival that of Cyber End Dragon, but…ultimately fail against the other monsters of the same archetype.

“When my monster is summoned, his effect allows me to send the rest of the monsters on the field to the graveyard and that includes your monster.” said Zane as Cyber Eltanin shot a beam at his opponent, however, Nightshroud smirked.

“So what? That’s useless against the second copy of Clear Barrier!” Crystals appeared from the ground protecting the Clear monster from any harm, making Zane gripping his hand.

“That’s fine as Eltanin gains 500 attack and defense points for every banished monster used for his summoning!” he yelled as his monster roared in power.

Cyber Eltanin: ? - 4000 attack points/ ? - 4000 defense points

That didn’t scare Nightshroud, in fact, that made him cockier, “And? When Clear Vicious Knight is the only card on my side of the field and on my hand, he gains attack points equal to the monster with the highest attack points! Admit it, it’s over!”

Clear Vicious Knight: 2300 - 6300 attack points

Zane was quiet as he closed his eyes and gritted his teeth, “Not yet.”

“Not yet?” The Clear Rider scoffed, “What? You think you are gonna win?”

“Not think,” he opened his eyes and his eyes rivaled that of actual flames, “I KNOW IT! Cyber Eltanin attack Clear Vicious Knight with Draconis Ascension!”

“What!?”

“Zane, are you insane?! You are gonna lose!” yelled out Syrus, but the Shadow Rider laughed along.

“Let him! Let’s end this duel with my victory!” yelled Nightshroud.

Zane looked at his hand, “Honest, lend me your power.” He then revealed the card to everyone, “I activate Honest’s effect! When a Light monster attacks a monster, my monster gains attack points equal to the targeted monster’s attack points!”

“What?!” yelled Nightshroud as he realized something.

“With this-” started off Jaden as the rest finished with him.

“- ZANE WON!” they cheered.

An angel appeared on the field and looked at Nightshroud with sadness in his eyes as he flew straight towards the Light Machine monster, making it the strongest monster on the field.

Cyber Eltanin: 4000 - 10300 attack points

“Yusuke, I couldn’t have saved you before, but now, I am saving you from the darkness itself.” Zane closed his eyes, before opening them again as he pointed at the monster he was destroying, “Cyber Eltanin! Finish Clear Vicious Knight and save Yusuke! Draconis Ascension!”

All of the heads and the stomach charged beams with different colours and shot it at the monster ignoring Nightshroud’s pleading, “No! No! Don’t! Don’t do it! NOOOOOO!” he yelled as the Light Machine monster vaporized the monster, but not before a dark entity, now invisible to even the ones that could see duel spirits, removed the mask from Yusuke’s face.

The entity looked at the Obelisk Blue with interest in its mind, “I will look over you, Zane Truesdale.” Nightshroud said as he disappeared into the darkness.

Yusuke: 4000 - 0 life points

Zane: 325 lp

ZANE TRUESDALE: WINNER!

“We did it…” said Zane as he fell to his knees, as he won against a Shadow Rider, keeping his Key.

“We saved Master Fujiwara.” Honest looked at Zane with tears of happiness, “Zane, I thank you with all of my heart.” Zane smiled as he fell down. Not from any injuries, but from exhaustion.

The rest of the group ran towards him, congratulating him as Chumley picked him up and carried him on his back, but Zane needed to know one thing, “Please…I need to see… the face of the person I defeated.”

They were confused, as Sheppard and most of the Key Keepers walked over to the defeated Shadow Rider, as only Sheppard and Bastion gasped at him, knowing of his popularity and status.

All of them rushed towards the body as then Alexis, Syrus and Crowler covered their mouths in shock as Zane looked at him, a tear of joy running down on his cheek as he went to sleep.

“No way.”

“It’s him.”

“How can I forget?” said Syrus, Crowler and Alexis one after the other as the rest looked confused.

“Uhh, who is he exactly?” Jaden rubbed his cheek with his finger, confused.

“It’s one of the missing students, Jaden.” said Bastion as Sheppard finished what he would have said.

“One of our best students we ever had, Yusuke Fujiwara.”

Somewhere in a unknown location

The Shadow Riders watched the duel and the defeat of one of their own members. Three of them shook their heads as he lost towards Zane, except three of them. The red haired Shadow Rider and the amazon like Shadow Rider.

“Come on, everyone. You all can’t be this gloomy.” said the amazon like Shadow Rider.

“I agree. At least agree that it was an entertaining duel.” agreed the red haired duelist.

“We are disappointed that he didn’t retrieve a single Key,” said the cloaked Shadow Rider.

“Of course he did, it would have been better if I made the first move,” hissed the vampire like Shadow Rider.

Two of them stayed silent. One didn’t care for the Rider as he only cared about his brother while the other watched the winner with great interest. “It would be fantastic if I get to duel him.”

“Well then, you had the intention of going first before Nightshroud was defeated, right Camula?” asked the cloaked Rider as the vampire Shadow Rider, now known as Camula, nodded, “Good to know since you can go first.”

Camula grinned as she stood up and began walking out, while holding her choker, but a voice stopped, “Hey, wait a minute!” She turned to the other Shadow Rider, the red haired one, “Can you defeat the one with a trenchcoat? I heard that he has some ancient cards that I really need for my deck.” he asked as Camula sighed.

“If you allow me to go first and don’t bother me after I give you the cards, then yes.” she said as she opened the door.

“Many thanks!” yelled out the red haired duelist as the cloaked Shadow Rider looked at Camula exiting the room, “Good luck out there, Camula.” he thought.

Authors note:

It’s the Shadow Riders arc, everyone! One of my favourite arcs in Yugioh and I have some ideas for the arc. The story will be the same as in the canon, but with a few twists in the canon as you can see.

The Shadow Riders in canon were cool, but some of them were….lame. Like seriously we have a group of idiots, a Pharaoh that can’t duel for shit that even Syrus admitted to be lame and a woman that wants a husband. What is this? I wanted to make the Shadow Riders to be tough and scary to fight, not jokes like Abidos The Third. If you can see one of the Shadow Riders is dueling, while another one wants to upgrade their deck so I can make a reference to their deck in canon.

Also yeah, I changed Yusuke’s backstory a little.

Yusuke Fujiwara as a whole is an interesting character in my opinion. You can see the reasoning on why he would turn to the darkness and I like that he, like Nightshroud, isn’t completely evil. They just think that their points of view are the right ones and aren’t cocky or condescending like for example Kagemaru. Nightshroud is a character that I enjoy watching and seeing how other writers write him. He is most likely my second favourite final Villain, first being Z-one.

Zane winning here is, in my honest opinion, 100% reasonable and justified. This man is the best duelist in Duel Academy and was able to defeat Jaden in a duel that not even Bastion, a guy that researched his entire deck, and Chazz, that got the strongest deck from North Academy, could do and him losing to Camula all because she threatened to use Syrus’ soul as a sacrifice if she lost was complete and utter bullshit. I know it has to show that even with all of that tough skin, that he still is a caring brother that loves his younger brother, but don’t show it like that.

Alright, next up is Camula, one of them that I decided not to remove, and just like with Yusuke, all the Shadow Riders, sans for 1, will get a backstory on why they became Shadow Riders.

Also I started watching VRAINS (dub obviously) and I am loving it, currently 15 episodes in. Maybe if I finish it, I could write LINK VRAINS being apart of the story, but only in Japan, created by Pegasus with Seto’s help.

That’s all. See ya!

Made Up and Altered Cards:

Cyber Eltanin: Basically I made it like a Chimeratech Overdragon, but as a Main monster that the user chooses to banish any number of Light Machines that they want and the remove all monsters is an effect that could be negated.

Clear Barrier: A trap that protects Clear monsters, nothing big.

Second Chance: A Double Or Nothing, but without the attack doubling.

Ultimate Retrieval: A card with BIG restrictions, but with an amazing effect.

Clear Draw: An archetypal Pot Of Greed.

#yugioh gx #gx rewrite #yugioh arc v #zane truesdale #yusuke fujiwara #darkness yugioh #nightshroud #jaden yuki #celina yugioh #syrus truesdale #vellian crowler #chazz princeton #alexis rhodes #bastion misawa #sheppard yugioh #lymann banner #camula yugioh

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YuGiOh Voice Actors

I was losing my mind, watching YuGiOh 5D’s, looking up voice actors like every five minutes so I compiled a semi-thorough list to find them easily. (Just for Duel Monsters, GX, and 5D’s.) Putting most of this under the cut.

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Protagonists:

(Duel Monsters) Yugi Muto/ Yami Yugi/ Pharaoh Atem - Dan Green (Jay Snyder) - His other roles include Timaeus and Trudge in Duel Monsters, Beauregard and Guardian of the Labyrinth (along with the Yugi Muto cameo) in GX, and Tetsu Trudge and Guard Robot in 5D’s. He reprises his role as Yugi Muto in all films.

(GX) Jaden Yuki - Matthew Charles - His other roles include Bob Banter, in GX. He reprises his role as Jaden Yuki in Bonds Beyond Time.

(5D’s) Yusei Fudo - Gregory Abbey (Frank Frankson or John Campbell) - His other roles include Tristan Taylor (after episode 11) and Jean-Claude Magnum in Duel Monsters, Damon in GX, and Hermann in 5D’s. He reprises his role as Yusei Fudo in Bonds Beyond Time and Tristan Taylor in Pyramid of Light (Yugioh The Movie) and The Dark Side of Dimensions.

Main Characters - Duel Monsters:

Joey Wheeler - Wayne Grayson (Vincent Penna Jr) - His other roles include Dartz, Shadi, Hermos, and Roland (for episodes 128 to 148), in Duel Monsters. In GX, he voices Syrus Truesdale, Lyman Banner, Elemental Hero Sparkman, Skull Knight, Pharaoh, Crystal Beast Emerald Tortoise, Alien of Light, and Roland (in episode 76). In 5D’s, he voiced Bolt Tanner, Jesse Wheeler, Grady, Dr. Fudo, Bashford, Dr. LeBlanc, Malcolm, and Robert Pearson. He reprised his role as Lyman Banner and voiced Solomon Muto in Bonds Beyond Time and The Dark Side of Dimensions. He reprised his role as Joey Wheeler in Pyramid of Light (Yugioh The Movie) and The Dark Side of Dimensions. He reprised his role as Shadi in The Dark Side of Dimensions

Tea Gardner - Amy Birnbaum - Her other roles include Bonz and Sam, in Duel Monsters. She reprised her role as Tea Gardner in Pyramid of Light (Yugioh The Movie) and The Dark Side of Dimensions.

Tristan Taylor - (episodes 1-10) Sam Riegel - He also voiced Para, Rex Raptor (until episode 145), and Arkana in Duel Monsters. He voices Radley in 5D’s. (episode 11-224) see Yusei Fudo

Seto Kaiba - Eric Stuart - His other roles include Priest Seto, Kemo, Sid, and Critias, in Duel Monsters. In GX, he voices Bastion Misawa, Titan, Para, Dox, Elemental Hero Avian, Ojama Black, and Kaibaman (along with some Seto Kaiba cameos). In 5D’s, his voices Sir Gil de Randsborg, Lug, Mr. Pitts, Sid Barlow, Sergio, Boss, and Ellsworth. He reprised his role as Seto Kaiba in Pyramid of Light (Yugioh The Movie) and The Dark Side of Dimensions.

Main Characters - GX:

Syrus Truesdale - see Joey Wheeler

Alexis Rhodes - (episodes 1-26) Priscilla Everett - Her other roles include Echo, in GX. (episodes 27-155) Anna Marrow (Emlyn Elizabeth Morinelli) - no notable other roles.

Chazz Princeton - (episodes 1-89) Anthony Salerno - His other roles include Rex Raptor (episode 188 to end) in Duel Monsters, Lorenzo in GX, and Lenny, Aero, and Haley in 5D’s. (episodes 90 to end) Marc Thompson - His other roles include Duke Devlin, Valen, Rafael, Gansley, Zigfried von Schroeder father, and Aknamkanon, in Duel Monsters. In GX, he voiced Sartyr, Burgundy, Dimitri, Prince Ojin, Franz, Orlando, Frost, young Kagemaru, Mr. Huffington, Skilled White magician, Mr. Stein, human Yubel, and The D. In 5D’s, he voices Z-one, Hunter Pace, Tenzen Yanagi, Sayer, Hideo, Roman Goodwin, Dr. Schmidt, Officer Kaz, Nicolas, Hanson, Don Piero, and Broder. He reprised his role as Duke Devlin in The Dark Side of Dimensions.

Main Characters - 5D’s:

Jack Atlas - Ted Lewis - His other roles include Ryou Bakura, Yami Bakura, Thief King Bakura, Bandit Keith, Alister, Croquet, young Odion, Richard Goat, and Gozaburo Kaiba (season 5), in Duel Monsters. In GX, he voiced Chumley Huffington, Admiral, Howard X Miller, and Neo-Spacian Grand Mole. In 5D’s, he voices Mitch, young Rex Goodwin, and fake Jack Atlas. He reprised his role as Jack Atlas in Bonds Beyond Time and Ryou Bakura in The Dark Side of Dimensions.

Akiza Izinski - Bella Hudson (Erica Schroeder) - Her other roles include Mai Valentine (season 4), Mana, and Dark Magician Girl, in Duel Monsters. In GX, she voices Camula, Sarina, Fonda Fontaine (until episode 60), Tania (after episode 148), and Dark Magician Girl. In 5D’s, she voices Rally Dawson, John, and Zora. She reprised her role as Akiza Izinski and Dark Magician Girl in Bonds Beyond Time.

Crow Hogan - (episodes 30-93) Clay Adams (Christopher Adams) - His other roles include Reginald Van Howell III and Jesse Anderson, in GX. (episodes 94-136) Tom Wayland - His other roles include JIm Crocodile Cook in GX, and Breo, Lester, Syd, and young Aporia in 5D’s.

Leo & Luna - (episodes 9-64) Cassandra Morris - Her other roles include Alice and Yubel in GX. (episodes 65 to 136) Eileen Stevens - Her other roles include Sherry LeBlanc in 5D’s and Yubel in Bonds Beyond Time. She reprised her roles as Leo & Luna in Bonds Beyond Time.

Other Characters - Duel Monsters:

Solomon Muto - Maddie Blaustein (formerly [Dead Name]) - Her other roles include Shimon Muran and Zygor, in Duel Monsters. In GX, she voiced Sartorius, Taiyou Torimaki, and Kozaky. In 5D’s, she voiced Larry and Rex Goodwin. (in Bonds Beyond Time and The Dark Side of Dimensions) see Joey Wheeler

Mokuba Kaiba - (episodes 1-184) Tara Sands - She reprised the role as Mokuba Kaiba in The Dark Side of Dimensions. (episodes 185 - 224) Carrie Keranen - Her other roles include Kisara, in Duel Monsters, and Mina Simington and Misty Tredwell, in 5D’s.

Serenity Wheeler - Lisa Ortiz - Her other roles include Cinderella and Injection Fairy Lily, in Duel Monsters, and Toon Gemini Elf, in The Pyramid of Light (Yugioh The Movie). In GX, she voiced Mindy, Yasmin, Linda, Elemental Hero Burstinatrix, Claret, Ms. Dorothy, and Maiden in Love. In 5D’s, she voiced Barbara, Patty, and Claire.

Mai Valentine - (episodes 1-144) Megan Hollingshead - no notable other roles. (episodes 145-224) see Akiza Izinski

Ryou Bakura/Yami Bakura/Thief King Bakura - see Jack Atlas

Shadi - see Joey Wheeler

Rebecca Hawkins - Kerry Williams - Her other roles include Sadie, in GX.

Arthur Hawkins - Mike Pollock - His other roles include Jean Louis Bonaparte, in GX.

Duke Devlin - see Chazz Princeton

Ishizu Ishtar - Karen Neil - no notable other roles.

Marik Ishtar/Yami Marik - Jonathan Todd Ross - His other roles include Strings, in Duel Monsters, and Slade Princeton and Jagger Princeton, in GX.

Odion - Michael Alston Baley (J. David Brimmer) - His other roles include Shada, in Duel Monsters.

Maximillion Pegasus - Darren Dunstan - His other roles include Witty Phantom and Funny Bunny, in Duel Monsters. In GX, he voices Adrian Gecko, Abidos the Third, and Don Zaloog (along with the several Pegasus cameo appearances). In 5D’s, he voices Andre. He reprises his role as Maximillion Pegasus in Bonds Beyond Time.

Weevil Underwood - Jimmy Zoppi (James Carter Cathcart) - His other roles include Dr. Grossfield and Hobson, in Duel Monsters.

Rex Raptor - (episodes 1-144) see Tristan Taylor. (episodes 145-187) Sebastian Arcelus - His other roles include Espa Roba in Duel Monsters, and Marcel Bonaparte in GX. (episodes 188-224) see Chazz Princeton

Mako Tsunami - Andrew Rannells - His other roles include Noah Kaiba and Leon von Schroeder, in Duel Monsters. In GX, he voiced young Zane Truesdale, Wheeler, and Belowski. He voices Toby Tredwell, in 5D’s.

Bandit Keith - see Jack Atlas

Bonz - see Tea Gardner

Gozaburo Kaiba - David Wills - His other roles include Nesbitt, Seeker, Mr. Ishtar, and Roland (other than episodes 128-148), in Duel Monsters. In GX, he voiced Tyranno Hassleberry, Chancellor Sheppard, Kagemaru, and Lucien Grimley. In 5D’s, he voiced Tank, Mr. Armstrong, Lawton, and Dragan. (season 5) see Jack Atlas

Dartz - see Joey Wheeler

Rafael - see Chazz Princeton

Valon - see Chazz Princeton

Alister - see Jack Atlas

Zigfried von Schroeder - Oliver Wyman (Pete Zarustica) - His other roles include Dr. Alex Brisbane, Alexander the Great, Aknadin, and Akhenaden, Duel Monsters. In GX, he voiced Aster Phoenix, Brier, Neo-Spacian Aqua Dolphin, and Guardian of the Labyrinth's Shield. In 5D’s, he voiced Alex.

Mana/Dark Magician Girl - see Akiza Izinski

Mahad/Dark Magician - Michael Sinterniklaas - His other roles include Jakob and Torunka in 5D’s. He reprised his role as Dark Magician in Bonds Beyond Time.

Akhenaden - see Zigfried von Schroeder

Karim - Marc Diraison - His other roles include Sergei Ivanoff and young Solomon Muto in Duel Monsters, Chancellor Foster in GX, and Commander Koda and Kalin Kessler in 5D’s.

Kisara - see Mokuba Kaiba

Other Characters - GX:

Bastion Misawa - see Seto Kaiba

Zane Truesdale - Scottie Ray (Scott Rayow) - His other roles include Devack, in 5D’s.

Dr. Vellian Crowler - Sean Schemmel - His other roles include Bobasa in Duel Monsters. In GX, he voiced Ojama Yellow, Elemental Hero Neos, Neo-Spacian Dark Panther, Mr. Phoenix, Mathematica, Mad Dog, Doctor Collector, Thelonious Viper, Crystal Beast Cobalt Eagle, Trapper, Elroy Prescot, Sky Scout, Guardian Baou, and Chaos Sorcerer. In 5D’s, he voiced Geiger, the MC, ZigZix, Rudolph Heitmann, and Hans. He voiced Paradox in Bonds Beyond Time.

Blair Flannigan - Lisa Jacqueline - no other notable roles

Professor Lyman Banner - see Joey Wheeler

Chancellor Sheppard - see Gozaburo Kaiba

Chumley Huffington - (episodes 1-50) see Zigfried von Schroeder. (episode 85) see Crow Hogan

Ms. Dorothy - see Serenity Wheeler

Atticus Rhodes/Nightshroud - Jason Griffith (Adam Caroleson) - His other roles include Osamu and Harrington Rosewood, in GX. In 5D’s, he voiced Bruno/Vizor, Primo, Aporia, Taka, Shira, and Ghost.

Jean-Louis Bonaparte - see Arthur Hawkins

Aster Phoenix - see Zigfried von Schroeder

Tyranno Hassleberry - see Gozaburo Kaiba

Adrian Gecko - see Maximillion Pegasus

Echo - see Alexis Rhodes

Jesse Anderson - see Crow Hogan

Axel Brodie - Duane Cooper - no other notable roles

Jim Crocodile Cook - see Crow Hogan

Sartorius - see Solomon Muto

Sarina - see Akiza Izinski

Yubel - see Leo & Luna

Thelonious Viper - see Dr. Vellian Crowler

Other Characters - 5D’s:

Mina Simington - see Mokuba Kaiba

Tetsu Trudge - see Yugi Muto

Carly Carmine - Veronica Taylor - Her other voice roles include Kenta and Chris, in Duel Monsters. In GX, she voices Crystal Beast Amethyst Cat, Dark Scorpion - Meanae the Thorn, Princess Rose, and Fonda Fontaine (episodes 53-155). In 5D’s, she voices Ancient Fairy Dragon and Haluna.

Misty Tredwell - see Mokuba Kaiba

Rex Goodwin - see Solomon Muto

Lazar - Gary Mack - no other notable roles

Rally Dawson - see Akiza Izinski

Sayer - see Chazz Princeton

Greiger - see Dr. Vellian Crowler

Sherry LeBlanc - see Leo & Luna

Kalin Kessler - see Karim

Roman Goodwin - see Chazz Princeton

Devack - see Zane Truesdale

Dr. Fudo - see Joey Wheeler

Aporia - see Atticus Rhodes