"Anyways, skill. Omega Lock your locked rear-guards!" Kyle declared menacingly.
"Shit." Yza said as he felt the same pain again. "What the hell is a Omega Lock anyways?!"
"Its a type of lock that lasts an extra turn." Kyle explained.
"So my units are locked for two turns?!" Yza exclaimed. Kyle nodded yes, and smirked.
"Your done for." He smiled demonically.

(Insert theme song here)

"Damn." Yza grunted.
"Then I call Lanthanum. With a boost from Lanthanum, Radon attacks! (9000 > 16000) His skill adds 3000 power! (16000 > 19000)" Kyle declared.
"This is bullshit... No guard. (Stardust Medic) Heal trigger! Power to vanguard and heal! (11000 > 16000)" Yza bravely.
"I hope you like the upcoming pain. My vanguard attacks!! (26000 > 32000) Skill of Chaos Beat, 5000 power! (32000 > 37000)" Kyle declared.
Yza looked at his hand, then his damage and swallowed hard as he felt a sudden surge of pain uphold his concentration.
"GAAAAH!!" He finally screamed out, eyes lifeless, dropping his four cards to the floor, him stumbling, barely holding on.

Black Hole Dragon had a swirling beam of deathly energy on his halberd, pitch black and had sparks of black surronding it.
"Death to those who challenge me." He boomed, raising his scythe up, more energy being charged.

Ayaza looked worriedly at Yza. Its like he went to hell and back, died three times and felt an electric chair.
"Dude, stop cardfighting!" Ayaza warned him, going up to the kneeling boy. Yza put up his arm and signalled him to go away.
"I'll continue to fight... No matter what..." He said, swallowing hard and being beat up. He picked up his four cards and stood upright.
"Brave words from a near death boy." Kyle said. "So whats it gonna be?"
"Stop!!" Ayaza commanded. "You have nothing to prove in this fight!!"
"I can take the pain... I'll win in this fight... Seeing what situation I am now, no guard..." Yza said as he covered his mouth suddenly, blood running down it.
"Triple drive." Kyle said, as he was about to pick up the card, Ayaza grabbed his wrist tightly, annoyed.
"What the hell are you doing?!" He snapped suddenly.
"Doing my triple drive." Kyle snapped back.
"Goddamn it, a fourteen year old is gonna die!!" Ayaza said enraged. "How blind are you?!" Kyle looked at the blood spilling Yza, some dropped on the fight table, and his locked cards.
"I'm ok, honestly..." He breathed out, looking pale and weak.
"No, your not! He has three more of those cards, and if you can't take one, then imagine the damage done after three!!" Ayaza snapped angrily at him. "Your more of an idiot than I thought!!"
"I'm not an idiot." Yza raised his head. "Imma prove-"
"What is there to prove?" Ayaza asked at him in anger. "Your gonna die just to "prove" something! Don't act like a goddamn hero! Why don't you just do the right thing for once and quit it!"
"Quiet!" Kyle boomed as he got his arm out of Ayaza's grip. "If he wants to continue, its his choice. Don't stop him. Now, triple dri-" Yza made an intense coughing noise, more blood spewing from his mouth as he became extremely pale and shook intensly. "Someone get him to a hospital."
"Finally, someone who has some sanity!" Ayaza exclaimed in joy and sarcasm. "Your smarter then you look." As he slung Yza's arm over his shoulder, Kyle standing there as Ayaza led the bleeding Yza out of the court to the nearest hospital.

As they walked away, Kyle picked up Shooting Star Tamer and looked at it.
"Stardust Knight." He muttered as he placed it back down and looked at the bloodstains. "This kid survived through losing that much blood huh? He has guts... Maybe there was a reason why the original Black Hole Dragon chose him... And not me."

Yza was laying on a hospital bed, gritting his teeth, tears in his eyes.
"What are you getting upset about?" Ayaza asked him.
"I feel like a piece of shit." Yza replied sadly.
"Of course you did, do you know how much blood you lost?! And you have anaemia you son of a bitch, you knew it dangerous!" Ayaza exclaimed.
"No... Its not that..." Yza raised his arm up and stared at it. "You said to stop trying to act like a hero."
"Yeah?" Ayaza asked him. "So what?"
"Heroes never give up, right?" Yza asked.
"Of course." Ayaza replied as he sat on the bed.
"Then... What kind of hero would I be if I gave up?" Yza asked.
"A good one. Your life is more important than a card game." Ayaza said.
"But..." Yza said as he sighed.
"But what?" Ayaza asked.
"I never asked to be a hero..." Yza said as he put his arm down. "I never asked to have this happen to me... Hell, am I even a hero?"
"Thats for you to decide." Ayaza replied calmly. "If the Stardust Knight chose you, then you must ha-"
"But I wasn't "chosen"!" Yza spat. "The Stardust Knights just chose whoever found them first... And it was me..."
"Don't beat yourself up because of that..." Ayaza said.
"But imagine who could've used them! Someone better then me, someone who knew how to do things! Not a teen who likes fighting and boobs..." Yza sighed. "I wanted to forget about cardfighting anyways..."
"But look where it landed you." Ayaza said coldly. Yza raised a brow.
"You reconnected with old friends and family, met new people and made new friends. Imagine if Stardust Knight never came down, or hell, even appeared. What kind of life would you be living then?"
"A dead one..." Yza replied. Ayaza stood up.
"I may not be someone special, or someone whose a hero, but sometimes you just gotta do whats right." Ayaza said. "If the world gives you lemons, you make lemonade."
"And if life gives you fate," Yza said. "You fight Kyle." He laughed.
"And bleed alot." Ayaza added. Yza laughed further.
"Yeah."
"You look a lot better now," Ayaza said as he saw his friend.
"Yeah... I'm gonna kick his ass!" Yza cheered.
"Make sure you don't kill yourself while doing so!" Ayaza warned him. "When I tell you to stop, stop, ok?"
"Understood!" Yza smirked.
"Good." Ayaza sighed, placing his hands on his waist. "Now lets finish the match." He fistbumped.

Kyle waited for Yza as he stood, the wind blowing moderately. A warm breeze surronded the boy and the sun beated down on him.
Yza ran up to him. "KYLE!!" He screamed. Kyle looked up from his phone.
"Hey!" He exclaimed as Yza panted. Ayaza followed him and slapped Yza's back.
"Get up and start fighting." He encouraged his friend. Yza nodded as Kyle flipped three cards.
"Triple drive!! (Star-vader, Chaos Breaker Dragon, Star-vader, Volt Line, Demon Claw Star-vader, Lanthanum) Darn, no triggers." Kyle said dissapointed.
"Damage check! (Dustbau) No trigger." Yza said dissapointed.
"Since Chaos Scythe's attack will never go through, I end." Kyle said.

Kyle:
Hand: 4
Damage: 4
XXX
XXX

Yza:
Hand: 3
Damage: 5
--XO
--OO

"Stand and draw!" Yza exclaimed as he smirked. "Liberating the Generation Zone!! Black wings of demise, show death upon those that stand in our way! Generation... Transcend!!" He exclaimed further, slamming a card on the vanguard circle, it expanding light blue.

Shooting Star Tamer cracked his whip on the ground and Shooting Star Dragon roared intensly, light blue surronding them as the sky became a pitch black, only lights that could be seen were the beautiful golden stars in the sky. Appearing from the blinding blue light was Vortex Breath Dragon, he was high in the sky and wind surronded him, as it sucked in things.
"Death to those that disobey the vortex."

"Black Hole Dragon, Vortex Breath Dragon Stride!!" Yza screamed as Kyle was hit with a sharp pain, he clutched his heart and blood ran down his jaw, but he was unfazed by this. "Stride skill, counterblast and discard a card, you can counterblast two until end of turn if you want," Yza smirked.
"Meh." Kyle replied as he flipped two cards and wiped the blood off his jaw.
"Then skill of Vortex Breath!! Counterblast, soulblast, G Persona Blast!!" Yza exclaimed. "Two new skills added, one where he gets 3000 power and an added crit for every two face down damage in the damage zones! There are seven cards face down! You can do the maths, as I fail at it!" Yza smirked.
"An added 9000 power and three criticals..." Kyle said dryly as he tried to withstand the pain he felt. (26000 > 35000/1★ > 4★) It suddenly increased as the dragons' power rised further, blood spitting onto his cards now as Kyle shook and covered his mouth. "It... It actually hurts..." He thought in shock.
"Next up, I call Eclipse! Now, I watch you in pain as my vanguard attacks!! Skill activated! I discard a card, I flip two of your damage face down! (35000 > 37000/4★ > 5★) Then, for every two face down cards in the damage zones, I retire a rear-guard! Say goodbye to both your left and right rows! And better yet, Eclipse binds them!!" Yza cackled as Kyle binded four of his rear-guards and the pain only got worse.
"I... I can't take this..." He thought, more blood came out of his mouth as he became more pale.

Vortex Breath Dragon roared as his black hole swirled further, air increasing rapidly, sucking in his four rear-guards into his stomach, sending them to a starry dimension, as the dragons and cyberoids were standing there, scared. Then suddenly, the fabric of time and space was cut in half by a blue flamed large sword used by a robotic samarui with one yellow eye. "Send them to another dimension!!" He exclaimed, sucking them in somewhere else.

"Then, since four or more rear-guards were retired, I have to kill one of mine, so Eclipse has to die... My vanguard attacks!! (37000, 5★)" Yza declared, light blue vanguard circle expanding above it, spinning quickly as Kyle tried his hardest to concentrate through the pain.
"I need to stop his attack... But... How? I only have a 15k shield in hand..." Kyle said as more blood ran down his jaw as he swallowed hard. "I have no choice but to risk it..." "No guard." Kyle said bravely.
"Now watch him pull triple crit!" Ayaza grinned. Yza smirked and flipped three cards.
"TRIPLE DRIVE!!" He cheered. "First! (Stardust Angel) Second! (Stardust Angel) Third! (Ceregal) Alright!!" Yza cheered.
"Wow, he has some luck today," Ayaza giggled. Kyle glared at Ayaza.
"All effects to vanguard!! (37000 > 52000/5★ > 8★)" Yza smirked.
"Eight critical... I thought I'd never see the day." Kyle laughed dryly as blood ran out of his mouth.

Vortex Breath swirled a black death beam in his mouth, and shot it foward to Chaos Breaker, who was hit by the black beam, burning him.

"Damage checks... (Barrier Star-vader, Promethium, Star-vader, Astro Reaper, Star-vader, Paradigm Shift Dragon, Star-vader, Chaos Scythe Dragon, Demon Claw Star-vader, Lanthanum, Star-vader, Chaos Caller Dragon, Star-vader, Jeiratail, Star-vader, Chaos Breaker Dragon) Only a lonely critical." Kyle laughed as he felt an even sharper pain hit him hard and blood came out of his mouth and smiled weakly. "Good game, Yza."
"Good game." Yza replied. He showed his hand to Kyle, and Kyle shook it, accepting the fate between the two dragons. "Say, why did we need to fight?"
"Our Black Hole Dragons are the same. Mine came from a timeline where the Stardust Knight tried to tame him, with Shooting Star Tamer on their side, but he killed them, resulting the death of Stardust Knight in that universe. The Link Joker then found the wild beast, and they accepted him into their ranks. However, in your Black Dragon's universe, Shooting Star Tamer was able tame it, and he became part of your ranks." Kyle explained.
"Thats some messed up lore." Yza said. "Who would even have the idea to kill Stardust Knights?!"
Ayaza coughed. "Kyle's deck." He coughed again.
"Well done for pointing the obvious Sherlock Homes." Yza rolled his eyes.
"Then why did you ask that?" Ayaza countered.
"Ah, cram it!" Yza exclaimed.
"If you need me, I'll be in Star Gate." Kyle said as he slipped on his trench coat. "Later." He walked away.
"Something tells me we'll be seeing more of him in the future." Yza commented. Ayaza nodded.
"Agreed."

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A/N
An epic opening to volume 8! Next up is some Shika time, so I hope you like mazes, silver hair, Spike Brothers, green, rugby and last but not least, SHIKA!! (AKIAAAAAA)
(Plays John Cena theme)

Shika: Wow, jeez, thanks...

No problem buddy! So be ready for that. Also, heres the cover for 8 since I forgot to show it ll^^

And a page of a possible manga adaptation?

I'm mainly showing this for everyone's opinion, because when I made it, I hated myself for doing so as everyone told me I shouldn't and it was bad, so I have some issues with this. Honest feedback would be nice!

Thats all for now, Fox out!