Yugioh: The Hope of Six

Chapter 34: Kaiser Arc - Part 6

Judai knew they only had a precious few seconds before they'd possibly meat their maker. He had to act now. Quickly, he slipped on and activated his Duel Disk. "Guys, protect everyone!" Judai, whose eyes had now changed to dark gold, commanded as he Summoned several Monsters to aid his friends. They barely managed to reach everyone before all went white...

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Ryo sighed as he leaned back in his chair, rubbing his eyes. Being the Obelisk Blue assistant was busy enough, but filling in for his supervisor was another thing. Since this morning he had to do the work Chronos was supposed to do. His unexpected disappearance increased his workload a great deal.

He wondered where the hell he was and why he never mentioned anything. It was not just him, either. Asuka earlier informed him that Emi had also vanished without any prior warning. Neither of them had been seen since yesterday evening. Ryo started to get a bad feeling about this. He wished he could go look for them, but Principal Samejima made it clear he had work to do and shouldn't abandon his duties. The same was said for Asuka, who also had to fill in for Emi's non gym teacher duties.

On the other hand, this extra work gave him a good excuse not to see Sho, who would have arrived on the island by now with Judai and the Ignis, Flame. The death of his counterpart would no doubt have left the younger Marufuji in a very vulnerable emotional state. He could not risk complicating things with his presence. Ryo felt the best thing for him, and for Sho, was to stay away as long as possible. At least, long enough for Sho to fully process his grief and heal.

Still, he wished he could help Sho with missing his older brother. But he could not figure out how, seeing how he himself was a total reminder of the brother he just lost.

It was at that moment, during his contemplation, that Ryo fell out of his chair from the loud bang he heard and violent shaking he felt. "What the hell?!" He shouted in shock. The rumbling caused books and other office stuff to fall of their shelves and covered the floor. This lasted for several seconds, during which he hid under his desk for cover. Once everything had quieted down, Ryo slowly got on his feet and looked around. The office was a total mess, books and papers everywhere. 'What was that?! It feel like an earthquake! But I also heard some loud noise... like a bomb had just gone off. What could possibly have caused...?'

Then he remembered Dr. Zweinstein's experimental dimensional gateway being setup in the main dueling arena. Could the cause of this incident had been there? And was anyone in the building harmed because of it? His eyes then widened in fear, also remembering something else. Judai and his friends were to be invited to witness the experiment! Could they have been nearby when that quake happened?! Could Sho be among them?! Could they all be...?! Without another second to waste, Ryo dashed out of the office and ran to the arena... praying his counterpart's brother didn't lose his life too.

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Deep underground, as he was resting by the alter, Devil Kaiser felt the earth around him shake. He also felt a powerful pulse from his Deck. The unholy being smiled from this. He knew that their spy, Ryan Stevens, had just completed his task. He took out his Deck and examined the source of the energy pulse. The dark white glowing card in his hand gave him a clear message. "It has begun." He muttered with a wicked chuckle.

At the same time, Amon and his group were just outside Duel Academy. They were walking toward the building when they witnessed the school shudder violently and spat out a huge column of thick smoke. 'Seems like Ryan had just accomplished phase one of the plan.' Amon thought.

Just after that, most of them felt a strong pulse from their pockets, halting their progress. Echo, Commander Mackenzie, Lieutenant Rabb, and Chosaku each pulled out two cards, while Makoto and Emi both held one. All were glowing the same darkened white color.