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

Chapter 7

Inside the key, just after Astral retrieved himself inside the key

Astral was standing before the wall of numbers. He examined the numbers very close, looking for a clue. he knew that he was looking in the right place.

The image of the lantern almost crushing Yuma kept haunting his mind. He shudders when he realized that he had almost lost Yuma. If it wasn't for Shark Yuma would have been....

Astral shook his head and tried to focus back on the numbers. The reason he was looking here was because of what he had seen on the lantern.

At first he had noticed that there was no rust on the lantern that could cause it to break. In fact the lantern looked brand new. It was the base of the lantern that puzzled him. He had to blink his eyes several times to make sure he didn't mistaken himself.

The base was completely twisted and crushed, like someone had strangled the lantern. Strangely there were no marks showing it was done by a machine.

Astral had enough knowledge of the human to know that no single human could possible have don't this. This means whatever did it was something unearthly. And since the numbers are the only beings close to Yuma that was supernatural he was certain that they had something to do with it. That's why he went inside the key looking for the answer.

His eyes were glued to the wall of numbers. Unfortunately he was so focused he didn't notice a dark sludge crawling slowly to him from the shadows.

It crawled until he was a couple inched away from Astral. Then the sludge rose up silently. Slowly it took form of a slim body with green marks and blue gems. The black figure grinned evilly at Astral. A clawed hand surrounded with a black aura aiming towards Astral, sending black tentacles to the blue spirit.

Astral was still unaware of what was happening behind his back, until he felt a creepy feeling. He was about to turn around when the tentacles wrapped quickly around him leaving only his abdomen uncovered.

Astral squirmed, trying to get out of the firm grip. A creepy chuckled interrupted his struggle.

"I cannot believe you let your guard down so easy."

Astral looked up with surprise. He saw a black version of himself, arms crossed and looking amused at him.

"Black Mist." Astral said surprisingly. Then he shot an angry glare to the number. "It was you, wasn't it?"

"Whatever do you mean?" Black Mist said, faking an innocent voice.

"You know exactly what I mean. Those accidents they were cause by you." Astral snapped.

"Oh, those." Black Mist grinned. "Alright Sherlock Holmes you got me."

"You almost killed Yuma with those accidents." Astral growled.

"No really?" Black Mist said sarcastically then he chuckled. "Foolish spirit, if that brat didn't have so much luck he would be dead right now."

Black Mist slowly approached Astral. "Yes, I controlled that robot to make him trip off the stair. It was me who made the dogs vicious. I made Yuma believe that it was green so that he would be hit by the car. And it was me who crushed the base of the lantern to make it fall.

Then Black Mist's face changed from a smile to an angry look. "But every time my plan failed." Black Mist growled.

"But why? Why do you try to kill Yuma? Tell me." Astral demanded.

Black Mist floated behind Astral, wrapped his black arms around his neck and pulled Astral close to his body. Astral felt the hot breath of Black Mist tickling in his ear.