Arc-V! The start of Pendulum

This is a test chapter for a Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V Season 1 story that I'm thinking about doing, but the decision if I'm gonna continue is if the readers likes it.

Chapter 1- Pendulum summon

A boy with green and red hair whose name were Yuya Sakaki was sitting in the sitting room in the You Show Duel School, his best friend Noboru Gongenzaka who was a large boy for his age and his childhood friend Yuzu Hiragi who had purple hair stood next to him, Yuzu looked at him irritated, "Yuya! Why did you act like that earlier?"

What Yuzu was talking about was an incident earlier when a boy and his mother had come to You Show Duel to see if the boy Tatsuya wanted to join You Show Duel or if he wanted to join the famous duel school LDS (which was short for Leo Duel School), that not only taught people to become powerful pro duelists, but also how to use the different special summoning methods, fusion, synchro and xyz which was pretty hard to master and in fact in Maiami City you could only learn these different summoning methods at LDS.

In order to show what You Show Duel was about Yuya and Gongenzaka had dueled against each other, but Yuya had acted like a clown during that duel, which had caused Yuzu to lose her cool and slam her fists into the control for the school's ARC System which created solid holograms and destroyed it.

Yuya looked at Yuzu, "Correct me if I'm wrong Yuzu, but wasn't it you who destroyed our ARC System?" Yuzu glared at him a little while feeling troubled, she had grown up with Yuya and so she knew he was pretty good at dueling once he was serious, however he tended to act like a clown when new people came to see if they wanted to join You Show Duel.

On the other hand her dad, Shuzo Hiragi that was the school's principal, sat down with tears in his eyes, "This is bad, my Hot-Blooded teachings might stop here, without the Arc System possible students won't come, which means that You Show that might be doomed".

Yuya sighed as he pulled down his goggles over his eyes, "If Yuzu hadn't damaged the Arc System then I would have been able to make that boy smile and laugh more".

Yuzu narrowed her eyes at him, "Well I wouldn't have gotten so angry if you hadn't messed around like that, also..." She lifted her hand and prepared to hit him, "Look at me when you're talking to me Yuya!"

However Yuya jumped away with a smile before she could hit him, however since he didn't look where he was running and ran straight into Gongenzaka. He groaned in pain after having run into the large fourteen year old boy. Yuya looked at him, "Gongenzaka! Why would you stand in the way of someone who is trying to escape a serious beat up?"

Gongenzaka looked at Yuya with an irritated look on his face, "Yuya, that boy wasn't laughing at all". Yuya looked at him while he pulled up his goggles which had left marks around his eyes, "Huh? Oh come on Gongenzaka, he was almost falling over in laughter".

Gongenzaka got an angry look on his face, "Yuya! There is a huge difference between laughing because you make them happy and then laughing at you because you're making a fool of yourself".

Gongenzaka looked at pictures of a black haired man with a tall hat and red costume, "Your father, Yusho Sakaki managed to touch the hearts of the audience with his dueling and made them smile and laugh with happiness". Gongenzaka then looked at him, "Have you forgotten about his dueling that brought so much happiness to people?"

Yuya placed his arms behind his head with a smile, "Well everyone did end up laughing at him and making fun at him in the end didn't they?"

Yuzu and Gongenzaka looked at him shocked when he said that before they both yelled at him, "Yuya!" The thing was three years ago Yuya's dad had disappeared right that right before an important duel, which made people think that he had run away from it. Yuzu and Gongenzaka had always been by Yuya's side these three years to support him since people had been making fun of him because of it, calling him the son of a coward.

Yuzu got a troubled look on her face, she had always cared a great deal about Yuya, but as they grew older she had started to see him as a boy which she was interested in instead of just a childhood friend/brother like figure, which is why she wished he would take things more seriously.

Moments later the door to the sitting room opened up and a man with a yellow and black suit, with glasses and a small mustache entered the room, all of them looked at him shocked before Shuzo spoke up, "Uh, who are you?"

The man smiled at him, "My name is Nico Smiley, and I'm the manager-slash-promoter of the current champion of action duels Strong Ishijima".

Yuya's eyes widened in shock when he heard that, "You're the manager of Strong Ishijima?" Strong Ishijima was the person his father was supposed to duel against three years ago, and he currently was acting as the poster duelist for LDS, so all of them wondered why his manager had come to You Show Duel.

Nico looked at Shuzo, "As you know Strong is acting as the poster duelist for LDS, and for his Fan Appreciation Day that is getting close, we would love for young Yuya here to appear there with him".

Yuya's eyes widened when he heard that, since he knew where this conversation was going, "Wait, so you want me to…" Shuzo narrowed his eyes as he also realized where Nico was going with this.

Nico smiled and nodded, "That's right, I want you to duel against him, which will fulfill your wish three years ago". Yuya lowered his eyes with a pained look in them, three years ago when his dad had not shown up to the duel against Strong, Yuya who believed in his dad had said that his dad would show up and had said that he would take his dad place, which was one of the reasons why people had mocked him for the past three years.

Nico put an poster on the table, "Everything is prepared already, everything we now need is your approval". Yuya looked at the poster and saw how it said that Strong Ishijima would duel against the son of the famous entertainment duelist Yusho Sakaki and he swallowed as he got nervous at the thought of him dueling against Strong.

Shuzo narrowed his eyes, "Yuya is not gonna duel against Strong". Yuya looked at Shuzo shocked and Nico looked at him with a begging look on his face, "And why is that? People would love to see Yusho Sakaki's son facing Ishijima Strong".

Shuzo narrowed his eyes in anger, "I won't let you use Yuya as a tool to show off Strong like that!" Yuya looked at the principal of his school. Shuzo closed his eyes, "Have you ever wondered how Yuya have felt during over these three years? If you have said what you wanted then please leave right now". Yuzu smiled grateful at her dad for thinking about Yuya's feelings.

Nico smiled at him, "Well that's too bad, we were considering of rewarding you for your cooperation by giving You Show Duel the latest ARC System that has been produced by Leo Corporation, of course for free".

Shuzo got an excited look on his face, "For real?" The ARC System that had gotten destroyed was an older version, and each new version is better than the earlier, so it could attract more people if they had the latest version.

However he soon got smacked at the backside of his head by his daughter's paper fan, she had gotten angry with him, she looked at him disappointed, Didn't you just say that you wasn't going to let them use Yuya to show off Strong?"

Shuzo looked at her troubled, "Well that's true, but…" If they had the latest Arc System it could help You Show get more students, after all other than Yuya and Yuzu, there were only two other younger students.

Yuzu glared at him, she knew how her dad was thinking but she still didn't agree with it, "I know that the school that you and uncle Yusho made together is important, but still…"

Gongenzaka nodded, "What's most important is what Yuya is feeling about all of this". However at that moment they noticed that Yuya wasn't there anymore, Yuzu looked worried, "Yuya..."

LATER WITH YUYA,

Yuya was sitting on the railing on a bridge that he could see the city's Duel Stadium from, he held up his pendulum that he always had around his neck swinging in front of him, he were thinking about his dad, "Dad…"

FLASHBACK,

Yuya was sitting next to a river with his goggles over his eyes to hide his tears, his shoulder trembled as he silently cried. However he soon felt someone pull up his goggles and the tears that had gathered in them fell out.

He quickly dried his tears and looked next to him and saw his father there next to him. Yusho smiled at Yuya, "Yuya, when you feel like crying, laugh, let out the biggest laugh you can muster, because if you laugh then you'll start having fun again soon, and then that will become the energy that will make you keep going".

Yusho then took off Yuya's pendulum from his neck and held it in front of Yuya while he made it swing back and forth, "Just like this pendulum, the more you push it the more it will come back, and it's the same with dueling".

Yuya looked at him confused, "The same with dueling?" Yusho nodded and smiled at his son, "You can't do anything if you're frozen in fear, you need to have courage and to step forward if you want to win, push forward with courage and happiness will come to you in return".

Yuya and Yusho looked at the pendulum, "The pendulum can also be a tool of discovery, it will help you to find your way again if you've gotten lost on your path in life".

END OF FLASHBACK,

Yuya sat on the railing and looked at the pendulum which was still swinging in front of him, Swing pendulum, more and more… he thought to himself as he made his decision.

LATER THAT EVENING,

Yuya was sitting in his room, looking through his deck as he tried to prepare for his upcoming duel with Strong Ishijima. He looked at a few cards that might help him, while he also wondered how he could make the duel as exciting as possible.

He then looked at a card that was lying on the floor in front of him, it was his ace monster and trusted partner, Odd-Eyes Dragon, he had won a lot of the duels he had played thanks to Odd-Eyes, so it would only be fitting to win the duel against Strong together with his trusted partner.

He picked up Odd-Eyes's card and looked at it, "I'm counting on you Odd-Eyes, let's win this for dad". He then placed Odd-Eyes on the floor again as he continued working on his deck.

THE FAN APPRECIATION DAY,

Yuzu, Gongenzaka and Shuzo ran into the duel stadium and saw that it was filled with fans and cheerleaders, all of them was really excited for the main event that was soon going to begin.

Nico who held a mike looked at them all with a smile, "And now for the moment you all have been waiting for, it's time for the main event, and the person our champion is gonna face is none other than Yuya Sakaki, the son of the famous entertainment duelist Yusho Sakaki".

Yuzu looked worried, "Yuya…" She hoped that this would end well, Yuya had always had low self confidence and she hoped that this wouldn't make it even worse, she knew that if Yuya played serious so was he pretty good, but even so the odds of him beating Strong Ishijima was not very big since he was a powerful duelist.

Gongenzaka also looked a little troubled, "So he's really going through with this?" He had protected Yuya from bullies these past three years ever since his father disappeared and sometimes he had even used his body as a shield when bullies tried to beat Yuya up while they mocked him.

Shuzo on the other hand got an excited look on his face, "Alright I can almost feel the smell of the new…" However he wasn't able to finish his sentence as Yuzu smacked him in t he head with her paper fan in anger since he seemed to care more about the new ARC system than how this might emotionally affect Yuya.

Nico smiled, "And of course this special duel with be played as an action duel with the official rules". A card then appeared in his hand and he held it up, "Now I activate the action field spell, Frontier Fang Castle!"

Then a machine underneath the stadium activated and purple beams of light came out of it. The stadium then began to glow as a castle, a lake and a forest began to form in the stadium.

Nico smiled as he pointed towards the castle, "Look at this, it could really be taken for a real castle in a forest somewhere, and it's all thanks to Leo Corporation's real solid system, the ARC system".

Nico then pointed at the castle when they heard someone land on it, "And looked up at the castle, there is the person who has been ruling the action duels for three years while remaining undefeated, the action duel champion, Strong Ishijima!" Strong Ishijima was a muscular man with purple spiky hair and was painted red around his eyes with lines going up on to his forehead. He lifted his arms and let out a battle roar which made the audience even more excited.

Nico then held up his hand, "And now for the challenger, ladies and gentlemen I give you… Yuya Sakaki".

Shuzo looked really excited, "Here we go!" However to everyone's shock, Yuya did not appear, Nico looked confused, "Uh… Yuya Sakaki?"

Yuzu looked worried, could something have happened to Yuya? She then heard how one of the audience spoke, "Looks like he ran away just like his dad did, well it doesn't really surprise me".

Yuzu's anger immediately flared up, "Wait just a minute…" However Gongenzaka placed his arm out in front of her, "Calm down Yuzu".

Yuzu looked at him, "But Gongenzaka…" Gongenzaka looked at her, "We both know that if Yuya said that he would be here then he will be, we just have to hope he'll show up before he's disqualified". Yuzu looked worried at the entrance, wondering where Yuya could be.

Nico looked worried while Strong gritted his teeth, "Looks like the son is a big coward just as the father was".

However moments later they heard a loud yell, "Hold on a minute". All of them looked up at the top of the castle and got shocked when they saw Yuya appear as he jumped down from it.

Yuzu looked worried, "Yuya!" However moments after Yuya began to fall two magicians appeared on each of his sides and grabbed his arms to slow down his descent. The one to the right was dressed in black with a yellow metal band around his waist, and over his shoulders, a black hat and brown spiky hair and a red mask that covered the lower part of his face. The other one was dressed in white with a white hat and white mask that covered the lower part of his face and blonde hair, he had a staff in his other hand and a purple cape.

Yuzu looked shocked when he saw them, "Timegazer Magician and Stargazer Magician? When did he summon those two?"

Stargazer Magician and Timegazer Magician then landed with Yuya on the castle and let him go. Yuya turned around and smiled at them, "Thank you Timegazer, Stargazer". The two magicians nodded before they shattered into particles and Yuya placed their cards back into his deck as his Duel Disk got deactivated.

Strong looked at Yuya with narrowed eyes, "So you're the son of Yusho Sakaki huh? You got some nerve to make us wait like that, for a moment we thought you wouldn't show up".

Yuya smiled as he bowed, "I apologize for my late arrival, but since I ran into some trouble on the way here and I would get late, I figured why not make up for it with a spectacular entrance?"

Yuya then looked at Strong with a smile that grew bigger, "And now, please show me the strength of the champion while we're having a really fun and exciting duel".

Yuya then reactivated his Duel Disk and the energy blade appeared, Strong narrowed his eyes even more since he felt like Yuya was looking down on him, "Please show you my strength? Know your place you little brat! I'm gonna show you the strength of a pro and also teach you some well needed discipline".

Nico smiled as he spoke into the mike again, "Well that sure was an unexpected but exciting entrance my Yuya Sakaki and it sounds like both the duelists are ready to begin, so please draw your first five cards now". Yuya and Strong drew their first five cards and looked at them.

Nico then spoke with excitement, "And now the duelists on this battlefield, shall kick their way across the earth and fly through the air together with their monsters, now fix your eyes on this, the greatest evolution of dueling, action…"

Yuya and Strong then shouted together, "Duel!" Nico then snapped with his fingers and a sphere above them burst open and cards rained down on the field, "And now the action cards has been spread across the field, so let the battle begin".

Yuya smiled, he loved action duels, especially since action cards was cards that was spread across the field as soon as it started, and so you could pick them up when you found one, of course you could only have one in your hand at once, also you never knew if it would be able to help you or not, which Yuya thought only made it more exciting.

Strong pointed at Yuya, "I'm gonna let you go first, also I'm sure you're aware of this, but you can't draw a card if you take the first turn". He said with a smirk.

Yuya smiled as he turned towards the audience, "Ladies and gentlemen, allow me to show you a classic action duel".

Yuya then jumped up on the edge of the castle and placed his foot inside on a hook attached to a rope and used it to slide down from the castle, causing Strong to look after him shocked, "What?"

While riding down Yuya grabbed a card in his hand, "And now for my first performance, I summon my Performapal Hip Hippo in attack mode". A pink Hippo with a pink shirt and hat appeared on the field, Atk: 800.

Yuya then landed on Hippo's back and looked back at Strong with a smile while he grabbed a card in his hand, "Now let's see if you can catch me, I now end my turn by placing one card face down". Hippo then started to run into the forest.

One of the people looked shocked when he saw this, "Running away already?" Another person looked at Yuya with a mocking look on his face, "Well I can't say I'm surprised, after all he's the son of the coward Yusho Sakaki after all".

Yuzu looked at Yuya a little frustrated, "What is Yuya doing?" Gongenzaka also looked at Yuya wondering the same thing, "He should face him with proudly, not running around like that".

Strong looked followed Yuya with his eyes as Yuya was riding on Hippo, "It won't take me long to catch up with you, now I draw". He then drew his sixth card and his eyes widened since he had just drawn his ace monster.

Strong then grabbed a spell card in his hand, "I activate the spell card Feast of the Wild LV5, by simply negating the special abilities of two level 5 warrior monsters in my hand, I can special summon them to the field, so come forth Swamp Battleguard as well as Lava Battleguard in attack mode".

A green ogre like monster with a wooden club in his hand and two bent horns on his head appeared, Atk: 1800. Then a nearly identical red ogre like creature with a wooden club in its hand as well appeared on the field, Atk: 1550.

Strong then grabbed a card in his hand, "Next I sacrifice both of them to summon the monster that will crush you". Strong then began his summoning chant, "Come forth from the depths of the hidden wood, crushing the giant trees in your way, king of savages. ruler of the wild. Appear Battleguard King".

A large red ogre like creature with two large horns, armor and a large club appeared on the field as he broke down the trees in his way, Atk: 3000.

Nico smiled as he spoke into the mike once again, "And here it is, the champion's ace monster, Battleguard King!" The audience cheered when they saw this.

Hippo stopped since Battleguard King had appeared right in front of him, Strong looked at Yuya who looked back at him, "Your father might have escaped facing me, but I won't let you get away from me as well, now Battleguard King, attack Performapal Hip Hippo now". Battleguard King lifted his club and moved towards Hippo.

Yuya however noticed a card with a large A on its back stuck in a tree at that moment, he grabbed it and looked at it and a smile appeared on his face, "I'm quite lucky, I found an action card, now I activate the action spell Evasion, and it allows me to negate one of your attacks". Yuya placed the card into his Duel Disk and the image of a card of a person avoiding a blast appeared on the display.

The moment before Battleguard King's club could hit him so jumped Hippo up in the air and spun around before he landed on the ground again as he avoided the attack.

Gongenzaka looked at Yuya frustrated, "He can't win by just avoiding the attacks, he has to fight back if he wants to…"

However he got quiet when a voice spoke up behind him, "He is fighting Gongenzaka". All three of them turned around and saw a young looking woman walking towards them, she had a green shirt and dark blue jean, she had blond hair and her hair was also tied in a ponytail that had spiky edges to it.

Shuzo looked at her, "Yoko". The woman's name was Yoko Sakaki and she was Yuya's mother. She looked down on her son and smiled, "Yuya is reinventing himself while he's dueling out there". The other three looked at her confused as they didn't understand what she meant by that.

Yuya at the same time continued to ride on Hippo while he was running from Battleguard King who was chasing after them while Yuya looked at Battleguard King troubled.

Strong looked at Yuya, "Properly and skillfully using action cards, I expected nothing less from the son of Yusho Sakaki, however professionals are able to go beyond that, I now activate Battleguard King's special ability, if I summoned him by using at least one monster with Battleguard in its name, Battleguard King can make two attacks on monsters per battle phase".

Yuya looked shocked and worried when he heard that, "What? You mean that he can attack Hippo again?" He then saw how Battleguard King lifted his club again. He looked around but couldn't see any action cards around him. He gritted his teeth and pressed the face down card on the display on his Duel Disk, the moment after Battleguard King's club slammed down on Hip Hippo.

Nico looked excited, "Amazing, Battleguard King obliterated Hip Hippo with an attack strength of 3000, which means that Yuya Sakaki just received 2200 points of damage".

However they soon saw large bubbles come out of the dust and soon Hippo and Yuya came out of the dust while being inside of a large bubble, Yuya LP: 4000-2900. Strong looked shocked, "Say what? How did your Hippo survive that attack and why did you take half of the damage you should have?"

Yuya pointed at his trap card next to him, "I just activated my trap card, Half Unbreak, I can target one monster on my field after I activate this card, until the end of this turn that monster can't be destroyed in battle, also any battle damage I would take is cut in half".

The one person in the audience who had made his comment earlier that he was not shocked over that Yuya was running looked amazed, "A-Amazing!" The one next to him also looked amazed and excited, "He's going toe to toe with the champion".

Strong gritted his teeth since he wanted to do more damage to Yuya, he then grabbed a card in his hand, "Fine then, I now end my turn with one card face down". A card then appeared in front of him before it vanished.

At the same time Yuzu looked at Yoko, "Auntie Yoko, what do you mean by that Yuya is reinventing himself?"

Yoko looked at Yuya with a smile, "For the last three years, Yuya has lived behind the mask of a clown, he made sure to make fun of himself before anyone else could make fun of him for his father running away. We who knew him the best knows that he wouldn't have disappeared unless he had a good reason for that, but no one else does which is why they made fun of Yuya".

Yoko's smile got bigger, "But even though Yuya acts like he does most of the time, he really wants to be a duelist like his father, the legendary entertainment duelist that he has admired since he was just a little boy".

Yuya at the same time looked at Strong, He's a powerful duelist alright, I wanted to save Half Unbreak for later, but he forced me to use it now, however I won't let that bother me, He thought to himself.

Yuya looked at his deck with a smile, "It's my turn now". Yuya drew his next card and looked at it, "Now I play Pot of Greed which lets me draw two more cards".

Yuya then drew two more cards and looked at them, he got a huge smile on his face, "Alright, he's here, I have everything I need now to win".

Hip Hippo then jumped up on a stone circle and Yuya held up his arms, "Now everyone, we're getting close to the climax of today's show". Yuya held up one of the cards he had just drawn, "Performapal Hip Hippo can be counted as two sacrifices when I summon a high level monster, so now I sacrifice Hip Hippo…"

Hippo jumped off the stone circle before he vanished, "And now I summon the main star of today's show! Now appear the rare dragon with dual colored eyes, the level 7 Odd-Eyes Dragon!"

Odd-Eyes Dragon then appeared on the field, he had red scales, the clawed fingers on his hands was placed in a circle, he had two large white spikes on his back and one red and one green eye, Atk: 2500.

Odd-Eyes landed on the ground and Yuya then landed on his back and held onto the spikes on each side of his back, Yuya had a confident smile on his face, "The fun has just begun".

A small boy in the audience sitting next to his mother smiled happily as he watched Yuya duel, it was the same boy Tatsuya who had come to see if he was gonna join You Show Duel not long ago.

Shuzo got an excited look on his face, "There it is, Yusho's famous line! My blood is boiling hot right now with excitement". Yoko looked at her son with a soft smile, He's been waiting for this moment to use it, she thought to herself.

Strong looked at Yuya, "Using the same line as your coward for a father huh?" An video image of Yuya appeared from his Duel Disk and Yuya glared at him, "My father is not a coward!" Strong looked at him shocked, "What did you say?"

Yuya clenched his fist before he pointed at Strong, "I'm gonna use the dueling my father taught me in order to beat you to prove that my father is stronger than anyone, especially you".

Strong narrowed his eyes as he glared at Yuya, "Hmph! And how are you gonna do that exactly? That dragon of yours only have 2500 attack points, it can't beat my Battleguard King".

Yuya got a smile on his face, "We'll see about that, now I activate the continuous spell card Wonder Balloons". A box that had a question mark on all of its sides appeared in front of Battleguard King.

Odd-Eyes then began to run around while Yuya began to pick up action cards and send them to his graveyard, "Just look at Yuya, gathering all those action cards and sending them to his graveyard". Yuya sent three action cards to his graveyard before he kept the fourth in his hand. Yuya then held up his hand, "Now fly, Wonder Balloons!"

The box then opened up and three balloons came out of it and flew towards Battleguard King, "Wonder Balloons releases one balloon for every card that I send to my graveyard".

Odd-Eyes then stopped running and turned towards Battleguard King while Yuya whose smile grew held up his hand and Wonder Balloons card appeared above it, "Next by sending Wonder Balloons to the graveyard, the balloons burst and one monster on your side of the field loses 1000 attack points for each balloon until the end of this turn".

Yuya snapped with his fingers and the balloons blew up and smoke appeared, "Three balloons popped, so that means that your Battleguard King loses 3000 attack points until the end of this turn, which means that his attack points is now zero". Once the smoke cleared they could see that Battleguard King's body was trapped inside of balloons while he struggled to get out, Atk: 3000-0.

Yuya then held up the fourth action card he had picked up, "Next I activate the action spell card Extreme Sword, so now Odd-Eyes gains 1000 attack points until the end of the battle phase". Odd-Eyes roared as his power increased, Atk: 2500-3500.

Nico looked shocked, "W-what a twist, who could have thought that action cards could be used like that?"

Strong looked at Yuya while he narrowed his eyes, "You can only hold one action card in your hand at any given time, you weren't just running around earlier but you were searching for the action cards location in order to use this strategy".

Yuya held up his pendulum and looked at it, "I have been good at finding things ever since I was little and that came in handy for this strategy".

The two who had made comments about Yuya looked really amazed over seeing that Yuya now had the advantage, "A-amazing, he has the champion cornered". All of the audience began to cheer and applaud for Yuya.

Yuya looked around with a smile when he heard the cheers and applauds, This is what my father felt every time he was in the stadium when he heard the audience applaud and cheer for him, he thought as he closed his eyes and let it all sink in.

Yuya then opened his eyes and had a confident smile on his face, "Let's go Odd-Eyes, let's give the audience something that will make them even more excited". Odd-Eyes roared as he prepared to attack.

Yuya looked at Strong, "You're thinking that you're safe because you're gonna have life points left even after Odd-Eyes attacks right? Well if that's the case then allow me to tell you something, Odd-Eyes Dragon's special ability is that when he destroys a level 5 or above monster, the opponent takes half that monsters original attack points as damage".

Strong's eyes widened when he heard that, "Half of Battleguard King's original 3000 attack points is 1500, if you add that together with the 3500 points of damage I'm gonna take when Odd-Eyes attack Battleguard King… I'm gonna take 5000 points of damage?" He got a little nervous since he had believed that Yuya was underestimating him but it was he who had been underestimating him, also the face down he had on the field would not be able to stop his dragon from attacking which meant this could end bad for him.

Yuya narrowed his eyes, "My one turn kill combo is now complete, now go Odd-Eyes, attack Battleguard King and end this right now, Spiral Flame". Odd-Eyes gathered fire in his mouth before he unleashed a power stream of flames towards Battleguard King who was helpless and a massive explosion happened the moment the attack made contact with him.

The audience cheered when they saw this as they believed that the duel was over. Shuzo got really excited, "I'm burning inside, he won". Yuzu and Gongenzaka both got excited as well as both of them yelled, "Yuya did it!"

Yuya had a smile on his face since he believed that the duel was now over, however his eyes widened when he saw that Battleguard King that was trapped inside of the balloons was still on the field and roared, "N-no way".

Shuzo had tears of shock and disbelief in his eyes, Yuzu and Gongenzaka also looked shocked and confused and Yuzu asked, "W-why is Battleguard King still…?"

Yuya looked towards Strong and saw that he had activated an action card. Strong who was sweating had a relieved look on his face, "I activated an action card as well, Miracle". Yuya's eyes widened when he heard the card's name since he knew it very well.

Strong looked at Yuya and he now had a smirk on his face once again, "This card negates my monster's destruction one time and it also cuts the battle damage in half". Strong LP: 4000-2250.

Strong then jumped down from where he was standing to a lower spot, "That's as far as you can get with Yusho Sakaki's dueling style, since I took battle damage I can activate my continuous trap card Battleguard Rage, now since I took battle damage I can increase the attack points of one Battleguard monster on my field by 2000". Battleguard King roared, Atk: 0-2000.

Yuya gritted his teeth troubled since not only had his plan failed, Battleguard King had gained attack points, "Since the battle phase is over Extreme Sword's effect ends". Odd-Eyes lowered his head a little, Atk: 3500-2500.

Yuya looked at the three cards in his hand, he had one more trap in his hand that he had drawn thanks to Pot of Greed, he hoped that he would not have to use it. Yuya grab the card, "Now I end my turn with one card face down". A card appeared in front of him as his turn ended.

Nico then spoke, "And now that Yuya's turn is over, the effect of Wonder Balloons ends and Battleguard King regain the attack points he lost". The moment after he said that so managed Battleguard King to break free from the balloons and he roared, Atk: 2000-5000.

Yuzu looked worried, "Not only did Battleguard King regain all of his attack points, he's even stronger now than before thanks to Battleguard Rage". Gongenzaka looked at Yuya worried, his strategy had been perfect, he had only had bad luck that Strong had gotten his hands on an action card that could save his monster and halve the damage.

Strong looked at Yuya with a smirk, "This is as far as you go Sakaki, it's my turn now". He drew his next card and looked at it.

Yuya gritted his teeth as he got Odd-Eyes to turn around and he saw an action card, he made Odd-Eyes run towards the action card, Strong narrowed his eyes. "I won't let you escape, Battleguard King, attack Odd-Eyes Dragon now".

Yuya looked behind him when he heard Battleguard King roar and saw him getting closer to him and Odd-Eyes. Yuya looked towards the action card and reached out towards it as Odd-Eyes got closer to it.

However the moment before he could grab the card so slammed Battleguard King's club into Odd-Eyes Dragon and he got destroyed, sending Yuya flying on to the ground, Yuya LP: 2900-400. Yuya opened his eyes in shock, Odd-Eyes were… Odd-Eyes were… he thought to himself in despair.

Strong looked at Yuya, "If the monster that's affected by Battleguard Rage destroys a monster in battle, that monster is not sent to the graveyard, but instead added to your hand".

Yuya grabbed Odd-Eyes's card and added it to his hand, before he pressed button on his Duel Disk, "Now I activate my trap Shock Draw, so now for every 1000 points of damage I take this turn, I get to draw a card and I lost 2500 points just a moment ago". Yuya then drew two cards from his deck and added them to his hand.

Strong then grabbed one of the two cards in his hand, "Next I activate the spell card Battleguard Magic, so now since your Odd-Eyes Dragon was returned to your hand, my life points increases by half the amount of his attack points". Strong LP: 2250-3500.

Yuzu couldn't believe her eyes, "He not only has a monster with 5000 attack points, he has almost regained all of his life points as well".

Strong looked at Yuya who had a look of despair on his face, "You're lucky that Battleguard King can only attack monsters twice per turn, which means that you still have one more turn".

He closed his eyes, "Of course since you most likely have realized that it's pointless to continue why don't you just surrender, I have to admit that you did better than I thought you would, but you never had a chance to begin with". He refused to admit that he would have lost earlier if he hadn't found Miracle.

Strong then threw a card into his Duel Disk, "Now I activate a card you should recognize, Pot of Greed, so now I get to draw two cards from my deck". He drew two more cards and looked at them, "Next I place both of them face down and then I end my turn".

Strong looked at Yuya with a smirk, "Come on it's your turn, so draw your next card, or have you decided to actually surrender, to turn tail and run away just like your dad did?"

Yuya looked at him, "No way, I will never…" However he stopped there and looked down, However, I have nothing in my hand that can help me now since I only have monsters in my hand, Yuya thought to himself.

He then got even more depressed, I guess it really was hopeless, I mean how could I possibly take my dad's place, I'm no way near his league, he thought to himself.

Yuzu looked at Yuya worried together with the others, "Yuya, don't fall into despair please". Yoko didn't say anything and just looked at her son, she knew that since he was his father's and her son, he would find a way to regain the will to fight to the end no matter what happens next.

Yuya looked down, but suddenly he felt a powerful presence in front of him. He looked up and saw Odd-Eyes Dragon in front of him. His eyes widened and looked down at Odd-Eyes's card and then back to the dragon in front of him and then noticed that Odd-Eyes was transparent, as if he was a spirit.

Odd-Eyes then roared and even though he had no physical form here Yuya could feel the force behind the roar, and he could also understand what Odd-Eyes was telling him. Odd-Eyes would not allow him to just give up like that.

Yuya's eyes looked down on his Odd-Eyes Dragon card, he had had him for as long as he could remember, he had had Odd-Eyes in his deck since he first made a deck, and his dad had helped him to master the dragon's power and how to use him to his full potential.

Yuya then remembered something, how his dad told him that when he wanted to cry he should laugh instead, he also remembered about how his dad told him the more he pushed the pendulum the more it would come back, also that if he was frozen in fear he would not be able to do anything, and that he should move forward with courage if he wants to win.

Yuya stood up on his feet again and then looked at Strong with determined eyes once again, "I will never give up Strong".

He then looked at his pendulum that began to swing, "Swing pendulum, swing more and more!" Yuya then took and drew his next card with determination.

The moment after his pendulum began to glow, and so did the five monsters in his hand, and then suddenly Odd-Eyes's, Stargazer's and Timegazer's cards changed in front of his eyes and so did the other two monsters he had had in his hand before he drew his new card as well.

Yuya felt some weird feeling that made him feel more confident but it also made him feel like everything became more and more distant.

Yuya then grabbed Stargazer Magician's card along with Timegazer Magician's card and held them up while revealing them, "Now I use the scale 1 Stargazer Magician and the scale 8 Timegazer Magician to set the pendulum scale".

Yuya then placed Stargazer Magician at the far right side of his Duel Disk while he placed Timegazer Magician at the far left side of his Duel Disk and then the word pendulum formed between the two cards.

Two pillars of blue light then appeared behind Yuya, one on each side of him, then Stargazer appeared in one of them while Timegazer appeared in the other one, then the number 1 appeared under Stargazer Magician while the number 8 appeared under Timegazer Magician.

Yuya looked up at them with a determined look on his face while his pendulum continued to glow, "Now I can summon monsters between level 2 and 7 at the same time". Strong looked shocked at this scene, "What's going on here?"

Yuya looked up at his two magicians while a large pendulum formed between them and swung back and forth, "Swing, Pendulum of the soul, draw an arc of light across the ether, Pendulum Summon! Now come, my monsters".

He then held up his hand as a portal opened up between the two magicians and three beams of light came out of them, "First is the level 4 Performapal Mimic Dragon". A small blue dragon with small wings on its back appeared on the field with a tiny roar, Atk: 0.

"And next is level 5, Performapal Drumming Kong". A gorilla with whose chest were drums and his hands drum sticks appeared on the field, Atk: 1600. Yuya then held up his hand, "And finally, the level 7 Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon".

Finally Odd-Eyes reappeared on the field, however he looked different now, the spikes on his back on his back was larger now, also the left one had a large red orb on it while the right one had two green orb, one big and one smaller, which made that spike longer than the left one. He also had more body armor that covered his neck and tail, also he had a large horn on each side of his head, he then unleashed a ferocious roar, Atk: 2500.

Yuzu looked shocked, "What… just happened, did he say Pendulum Summon? Also doesn't Odd-Eyes look different than he did before, also did he call him Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon?"

Gongenzaka looked at her, "I have no idea either, I have never seen Yuya do this before, no one else either in fact". All four of them looked at Yuya confused, wondering what had just happened right in front of them.

AT THE SAME TIME AT LEO CORPORATION,

Men and women sitting at large computer screens suddenly saw a massive amount of summoning energy, "We have a high level of summon activity from the seafront of the city".

A man above them looked down on them, "Hurry up and analyze it now". The men and women nodded and began to analyze the information. A woman then spoke up, "We have the result! The summoning method is… Pendulum!"

The man above them looked shocked when he heard that, "Pendulum Summon?" He had never heard about that summoning method before, he then decided to report this to his boss.

BACK TO THE DUEL STADIUM,

Strong looked shocked when he looked at the three monsters that had appeared on Yuya's field at the same time, "He summoned three monsters at once? Also not only is that dragon a level 7 monster but that Drumming Kong is also a level 5 monster, he shouldn't be able to summon either of those two without sacrificing something first".

An image of Nico appeared from his Duel Disk and he looked just as confused as Strong was, "But the system is not signaling an error, so that would mean…" Strong looked forward while he gritted his teeth, "It means that his summon… is legal?"

Yuya then held out his hand towards Mimic Dragon, "Whenever Performapal Mimic Dragon is special summoned, its name, attack and defense points and level becomes the same as another monster on my field, and I choose Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon".

A bright light came out of Mimic Dragon as he roared, then it could be seen through the light that his shape began to change as he grew larger. Moments later a second Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon was standing where Performapal Mimic Dragon had been, Atk & Def: 0-2500/0-2000. LV: 4-7.

Strong narrowed his eyes, "It doesn't matter if you have two of your Odd-Eyes on your field, they're too weak to take down my Battleguard King".

Yuya looked at Strong with a smirk, "If I were you I would look at my field more carefully, if you do then you would see that I now have two level 7 monsters on my field".

Strong's eyes widened when he heard that, "Hold on, you can't be planning to…"

Yuya's smirk grew bigger, "Looks like you have figured it out". Yuya then held out his hand, "Now I overlay my two level 7 Odd-Eyes in order to build the overlay network". The original Odd-Eyes turned into a purple energy while the copied Odd-Eyes turned into a yellow energy and then began to circle around each other as beams of energy.

Then what looked a star system appeared in front of Yuya's feet and the two beams of light flew down into it before a bright pillar of light appeared from it, "Now dragon of blazing flames with dual colored eyes, appear before us and unleash your fierce flames to lead us to victory, I Xyz summon, come forth Rank 7, Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon".

The slot for the extra deck then opened up and a bright light came out of it before it died out and a card appeared from it and Yuya grabbed it.

Out of the vortex on the ground came a leaner looking version of Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon while having two red orbs of light moving around him in orbits. The new dragon had hands like a human only it had five razor sharp claws and it feet also had five sharp claws as well, the horns on his head also was smaller and went straight up while the spikes on his back was similar to Odd-Eyes Dragon's spikes, Atk: 3000.

Yuzu now looked completely shocked, "Okay Odd-Eyes's transformation was weird enough, but now Yuya has a Xyz monster too? What's going on here?" No one of the others knew what to say since they had no idea what was going on either.

Yuya then held up his hand, "Now I activate Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon's special ability, so now once per turn by using one overlay unit all of your monsters attack points are cut in half until the end of the turn, also Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon also gain 200 attack points multiplied by the total Rank on the field until the end of the turn".

One of the orbs of light moving around Odd-Eyes Blazing shattered and then Battleguard King got surrounded by a ring of fire and he looked around at it, Battleguard King, Atk: 5000-2500.

Then the fire surrounding him flew up in the air and took the shape of a dragon, it then roared as it dove down straight into Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon. He then got surrounded by four pillars of fire that was moving around him in a circle, Atk: 3000-4400. The audience was amazed by this amazing display.

Yuya then jumped up on Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon's neck and grabbed a hold of his horns, "Now Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon, attack his Battleguard King right now". Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon roared as he ran towards Battleguard King with amazing speed and mobility.

Yuya then held out his hand, "Next I activate Drumming Kong's special ability, so now during the battle phase Drumming Kong can increase one monster's attack points by 600 until the end of the battle phase if it battles another monster". Drumming Kong began to hit the drums on his chest and sent sound waves towards Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon, Atk: 4400-5000.

Strong gritted his teeth since the situation was now reversed and Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon was now the strongest monster on the field. He pressed the display on his Duel Disk, "Guess again, I now activate the trap card Battleguard Howling, since a Battleguard monster I have on my field is the target for an attack I can return your attacking monster to your hand and then you take damage equal to your monster's attack points, of course since your dragon is an Xyz monster it will be returned to your extra deck instead".

Yuya held up his hand towards Timegazer Magician above him, "Magician that rules over time-space itself, protect us with your power, I activate Timegazer Magician's pendulum ability, once per turn I can negate the activation of a trap card that activates by targeting a pendulum monster and place It face down again, Inverse Gearwhist"

A yellow metal band came out of Timegazer Magicians hand and formed almost a complete circle around him and then it looked like a clock appeared before it moved backwards, Strong's Battleguard Howling trap card then got negated and got returned to its face down position.

Strong looked at him, "Yeah but like you yourself said, you can only do that once per turn, which is why I now activate Sakuretsu Armor, which destroys an attacking monster".

Yuya held out his hand, "Not happening I'm activating Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon's second special ability, by using one overlay unit, Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon can negate an effect that would make him leave the field and then destroys the card, and it doesn't matter if it's an effect that would either return him to my hand or deck, an effect that would remove him from play or an effect that would destroy him".

Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon's second overlay unit shattered and he formed a fireball in his mouth and then fired it towards Sakuretsu Armor and destroyed the trap card.

Strong who now was starting to become desperate looked around and then noticed an action card that was stuck in a tree. He jumped towards it and grabbed it before he slammed it into his Duel Disk, "I now activate the action card Evasion, so now I can negate your Blazing Dragon's attack".

Yuya held up his hand towards Stargazer Magician, "Magician that rules over space-time itself, please use your power to protect us right now, I activate Stargazer Magician's pendulum ability, now once per turn during the battle phase, I can negate the activation of a spell card that targets an attacking pendulum monster and place it face down, Horoscope Divination!"

Stargazer Magician spun around with his staff a little before he held it in front of himself and light came out of it, the action spell card then got negated and got placed face down, Strong just couldn't believe that this was happening, "He even negated my action card?" He then looked around and ran to see if he could find another action card but he knew that it was already too late.

Yuya then pointed at Battleguard King, "Now Odd-Eyes, use your intense flames to end all of this, attack with Explosion Force". The spikes on Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon's back began to glow and got covered in fire while fire was gathering in his mouth, he then unleash an intense burst of flames from his mouth while two more blasts of fire was unleashed from the spikes on his back and each one of them hit Battleguard King and caused an massive explosion.

Strong covered his face while he looked at Yuya, "This is bad, once your dragon is done with my Battleguard King I'm only gonna have 1000 points left. And then your Drumming Kong can attack me directly to end the duel".

Yuya looked at him, "Actually this duel ends now, you see if I used Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon as Xyz material to summon Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon then until the end of the turn he was summoned he gains Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon's special ability, which means that when he battles a level 5 or higher monster the battle damage is doubled, Reaction Force!"

Strong looked really shocked and worried when he heard that, "D-Doubled? But that means that instead of taking 2500 points of damage… I'm gonna take 5000 points of damage".

The moment he said that the force behind the explosion got twice as intense which sent Strong's flying onto his back, Strong LP: 3500-0.

Yuya who sat on Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon's neck was smiling, "And that's the end".

Nico stood there silent as the action field disappeared, he then snapped out of it and lifted his mike, "T-the winner is… Yuya Sakaki!"

The audience then snapped out of their shock and began to cheer as Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon disappeared and Yuya landed on the stadium floor.

So Yuya got a chance to defend his father's honor by facing Strong Ishijima, the opponent he would have faced in the champion title match three years ago when he suddenly disappeared right before the duel would start. Yuya had come up with a great strategy to end the duel with a one turn kill, however Strong managed to survive it and then turned things around and pushed Yuya into a corner. However Yuya managed to turn things around and win when the five monsters in Yuya's hand turned into pendulum monsters. What's gonna happen next? Continue reading to find out and please review.

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Also here's the information about Performapal Mimic Dragon and Odd-Eyes Blazing Dragon:

Odd Eyes Blazing Dragon

2 Level 7 monsters

Rank 7 Scale 9.

ATK: 3000 DEF: 2500. Attribute: Fire.

Pendulum ability, 1, Once per turn when a card effect is activated you can send 1 pendulum monster from your extra deck back to your deck and negate it. Once negated destroy said card.

Pendulum ability 2, XYZ summon this card from the pendulum zone if its summoning condition can be met.

Monster effect:

1) Once per turn you can detach 1 overlay unit and cut the attack points of the monsters on the opponent's side of the field in half until the end of the turn, and then until the end of this turn Odd Eyes Blazing Dragon gains 200 Atk multiplied by the total rank on the field.

2) Once per turn if a card effect that would make this card leave the field is activated (spell/trap or monster), you can detach 1 overlay unit to negate the effect and destroy it.

(Extra ability if summoned by using Odd eyes pendulum dragon) If this card is summoned by using Odd Eyes Pendulum as Xyz material then it gains Odd-Eyes's special ability until the end of the turn it's summoned).

If this card is destroyed and leaves the field, you can place this card in one the pendulum zones (destroy one card in one of the pendulum zones and replace it with this one if needed).

Performapal Mimic Dragon

LV 4 scale 1

Atk: 0 Def: 0. Attribute: Light.

Pendulum Ability

If Performapal Mimic Dragon is in a pendulum zone it can increase the pendulum scale of the monster in the other pendulum zone, though it changes based on what scale it already has:

If the scale of the other monster is 4 or below it's increased by 4, if it's 5 or 6 it's increased by 3 and if it's 7 or higher it's increased by 2.

Monster effects:

1 If this card is special summoned, it copies the name, Atk & Def and level of another monster on the player's field.

2 If this card would be in the graveyard during the player's standby phase, the player can send two Performapal monsters from his/her hand to the graveyard in order to return two monsters (Mimic Dragon can also be returned to the deck by its own ability) from the graveyard to the deck and then shuffle it, then the player can draw two new cards. The monsters returned to the deck from the graveyard through this ability can't be normal or special summoned nor placed in the pendulum zones until the turn after the player drew them.