Yugioh: The Hope of Six

Chapter 36: Kaiser Arc - Part 8

The moment Emi was struck by Gloria's Monster, she felt a brief moment of shock and disbelief before hitting the floor. After that... total confusion. She blinked a few times before sitting up and looked around. None of her surroundings looked familiar at all. "Where... am I?"

"Emi?" The nurse turned to see Gloria approaching her. Emi gasped.

"Gloria? What's going on? Where are we?"

"You don't remember?" Gloria asked, showing her own confusion.

"Remember what?" Emi asked, clearly not remembering a thing. "I don't understand. The last thing I recall was losing to Chronos in a Duel. What's happened since?"

'Chronos?!' Gloria thought as she quickly looked back at the other teacher, who frowned from Emi's defeat. 'He was already possessed when Emi was taken? Then... who turned him?' She wondered.

"What is up with Miss Ayukawa?" Masumi questioned.

"The Light's influence on Emi has been broken. She is back to her true self." Misawa explained.

"She's back to normal? How? I thought only you could do that?" Serena asked Judai, who chuckled a little.

"Well... I may have given Gloria a bit of help in that department." He said vaguely. Yuri understood.

'Judai gave a bit of his power to Gloria. That's what that tiny glow was.' Although he was impressed by this, he still felt scared of the nature of that power...

Before anyone could say anything else, a burst of energy erupted from Emi's Deck. It immediately took on the form of The Suppression Pluto, which then grabbed her by the neck with both clawed hands. "Emi!" Samejima cried out!

"What is that thing doing to her?!" Grace yelled, sounding frantic.

"It is forcing her to pay the price for losing in the Domain of Destruction." Amon calmly informed her, to the shock of everyone.

"No! Emi!" Asuka screamed in horror.

Gloria tried to help Emi, but the dark white energy surrounding the Monster forced her back.

Emi was struggling to free herself, to no avail. She felt weaker by the second, literally feeling the life being drained out of her. All the while, she still had no clue what was going on, and why this was happening to her. And then, she too started to glow, eventually too bright to be seen in a bright flash. Once everyone was able to see again, they saw that both Emi Ayukawa and the Legendary Planet she used... were both gone.

"Whelp, there goes one of ours." David Rabb remarked without a trace of sadness or concern. Reggie said nothing, but definitely felt great sympathy toward everyone on the other side. She wished things had not come to this, that there had to be another way. But, there was none and all she could do was wait until it was her time to step into the arena.

"Emi..." Gloria said in a very shaky voice. For a moment, she just stood there, unable to believe her mentor and friend was gone forever. As she walked back to rejoin her group, feeling nothing but loss from her victory.

Judai and Yusuke looked at one another before facing the dimension command console. Zweinstein and Misawa followed their gaze to looking down at the controls... and noticed a strange sight on one of the screens. It was a red and black eyeball of some sort, and it winked up at them before giving a message on the screen below: "She is fine. Plan in effect. Pretend otherwise."

Even though neither scientist knew what the hell was going on, they had to assume Emi was somehow alive and well. Without missing a beat, Misawa gave what he hoped was a convincing performance. "No... Miss Emi. How could this... possibly be?"