Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal:- Astral is what?

Chapter 2

"Now I use one of Hope's overlay units and negate your attack!" Yuma commanded.

Hope absorbed one of his overlay units into his chest. His wing transformed into a shield blocking the attack from his opponent.

"Ah, nice try. But you need to do better than that to defeat the future Duel Champion." Yuma grinned.

The other duelist growled under his breath. "Grrrr, this duel isn't over yet. Your number is going to be mine." The duelist snapped.

"You wish." Yuma said. His friends cried out in agreement.

Meanwhile Astral was floating next to Yuma. Usually he observes the duel and guided Yuma during his duel. But today his mind wasn't on the duel. He signed. For 2 weeks his body was feeling difference and it annoyed him. He tried to discover what was wrong but he couldn't figure it out.

Luckily Yuma was able to handle things by himself this time. "All right hope! Attack his number 58 Abyss and wipe the rest of his life points!" Yuma said.

Hope draws out his swords and jumped up into the sky.

"Rising Sun Slash!"

With a swift slash Hope slashed then number in pieces. The monster dissolved in a blast, dropping his life points of the number duelist down to 0.

"Noooooo!" The duelist cried before he was knocked down by the blast.

A window of Yuma with the word 'Winner' appeared.

"All right! I won!" Yuma shouted, jumping in victory. His friends also shouted in excitement and ran up to him.

"Nicely done, Yuma." Bronk said.

"You did great Yuma." Cat said.

"In the end: you were awesome." Caswell dictated.

Astral, who finally paid attention, reached his hand out and called for the number. The card flew to his hand, absorbing the memory within. Part of visions flashed before his eyes. His eyes widened when the memory was over.

Unfortunately Yuma was to direct that he didn't notice the state of his lover.

"All right one number down.....88 more to go." Yuma signed

"Don't worry Yuma you're getting there, slowly." Tori said, trying to cheer him up.

"Thanks Tori." Yuma said sarcastic. Laughingly they left the place, still Yuma didn't notice Astral's shocked state.

/How am I going to explain Yuma this?/

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After dinner Yuma went to the attic to watch some TV. Astral nervously sat behind Yuma. All this time he tried to find the best way to explain Yuma his discovery.

After a short amount of time he stood up and slowly floated to Yuma.

"Yuma?"

"Yes, Astral." Yuma said without looking away from the screen.

"I need to talk to you." Astral said.

"Can this wait until this show is over?" Yuma asked.

"No, Yuma. We need to talk now." Astral said sternly.

"But, Astral I...! Yuma whined.

"NOW YUMA!" Astral yelled.

Yuma jumped. He was shocked from Astral's reaction. Astral had never ever yelled at him.