Yugioh ZEXAL: A New Utopia (Plot up!)

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[quote="wolfrunner"]The young Tsukumo remained on the floor shaken still but not as bad thanks to being knocked from the duel. The monsters were gone after all even though their normal motionless statue forms still encircled the room. She looked up at Kaze from her place on the floor as he spoke. Talk about her troubles to someone that understood them? To him? Was the solution really that simple? It couldn't be. Yet Regina found herself looking up at Kaze and giving him a small nod,"Yeah, okay. It can't make things worse right? I'll try it."

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Regina sighed getting up off of the ground. She dusted her clothes off and checked to make sure that everything was in order from her surreal trip to being a temporary duel monster. She rested a hand subconsciously on her deck, gently running her hand over the box at her hip as she usually did for comfort.

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Anybody wanna reply?

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((I apologize for not posting in so long, but here's my two characters and Kaze to try to make up for it. The looming beginning of Fate's duel against Lux will also spell the beginning of Kio's duel with himself. Also, I need someone to serve as his opponent.))

Fate Tredwell

As Lux no doubt expected, she had no need to knock on the doors of the Tredwell manor. Fate had expected her arrival, though he had honestly hoped to have an extra day to research the name Silvers and why it struck a chord in his memory. Normally, he would have had one of the maid's answer the door, but today he felt inclined to be on the receiving end of all that came his way. It was he that opened the door to the professional duelist, a disturbingly calm smile on his face that didn't quite reach his eyes. "Ah, I was wondering when you would arrive. Do come in, if you will. It's rude to linger at doorways when an invitation has been so kindly extended to one who has dark intent towards a member of the family that dwells within." Oh, yes, he knew quite well what she was here for. Another duel, this one expecting to be quite different due to the power she thought she could control. How long would it be before the chaos hibernating within the card awoke and overwhelmed her mind? Ah, but Fate did not linger on that as he began to walk towards the nearby doors that opened into the sitting room, turning his head back. "Would you care for some tea while I prepare myself for this confrontation? I can have Miss Fortune make a new pot."

Kio Silvers

Over and over Kio replayed the only memory he had of his parent's faces.....at least, the only memory he thought he had. The picture became clearer each time, eventually revealing a woman with hair not unlike his in color, though he most certainly now knew that it was from the man beside her that his hair seemed to grow itself. Oh, he had tried many times to tame it, but to no avail. So.....these were his parents. These were the people who had left him as a child.

"Not very good parents, were they," a questioning voice sounded from behind him. Turning around, Kio found himself face to face with a black shadow that, in some strange sense, looked as if it were his reflection. The face that soon appeared dispelled any doubt that this was all his imagination. It was his own, warped and twisted into a cruel visage. "You know, we are so glad we could finally meet one another. Now we can take pleasure in destroying what fragments of light dwell within this useless vessel," the Shadow stated with a malicious joy dripping from every word. Of course, Kio didn't need to ask what it meant, having by now guessed from the duel disk that seemed to be as one with the being's arm. What he didn't expect was for a duel disk to appear on his own arm, their surroundings changing from the void he had come to know into a rooftop that was all too familiar. This was where he had dueled Regi and Kim, two people he had thought possible to befriend before those Numbers had taken over his mind. In unison, both voices shouted the same thing.

"Let's Duel!"

Kaze

"So, what is troubling your mind so, Regina? If it were just a fear of never measuring up, I doubt you would have come here. Many people have that fear, but they can overcome it on their own easily enough. No, it has to be something more." By now, it would come as no surprise to the young woman that Kaze was far more astute than he let on, his own experiences granting him that wisdom. "As I said, I'm here to listen. You just have to make the choice to do the talking."

((One more thing. Did you get the joke with the name of one of the Tredwells' maids?))

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Lux

Lux raised an eyebrow at the name "Miss Fortune," but her mask betrayed nothing.
That couldn't have been the servant's real name. Or maybe the Tredwell family had sought her out because of it. Either way, it was a bit garish. "I'm fine," she said, stepping inside the rather opulent manor. "The future has been kind to your family,
I see," she observed, looking around at the entrance hall, "How fortunate for you." The bitterness in her tone was unmistakable.

"I assume you know why I'm here, then," she said, flexing the fingers of her duel disk arm. "I should warn you, I'll be using my true deck this time. I hope you've prepared accordingly. I have a goal in mind here, I'd hate for you to lose before I can see it through."

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- what kind of deck are we talking? Ghostrick like Kio's?

The female duelist hesitated but bit it back as it was replaced with an expression of determination. "Its....a long story Master.", she warned Kaze before taking a breath and starting in. He was right after all....meassuring up was only a fraction of her fears and stress. Regina explained this before deciding to start in chronological order with her day at school where she had dueled Kio, both times she had dueled him rich with details on his Numbers and her feelings of him. The green haired girl wasn't sure for how long but knew at one point she paced the length of the hall ranting to the wooden carvings of her pure anger, confusion and odd sense of betrayle about the blue haired boy and why she had no knowledge of him prior to their meeting at school. Regina knew who he was and that their history should have started at birth, not just a few days ago. Still for her ranting the young Tsukumo seemed semi-contained, carefull, about information on this particular subject she offered up. Anybody with two sense could see the teen was defensive, protective, about the boy she spoke of after only a short amount of time and littler personal knowledge outside his family members.

Regina did consider Fate, for he was a whole new annomoly, but cleared her head of that subject. There were more pressing things on her mind that had been eating at her.

After explaining Kio, Regina moved on to her discussion with her father.....at Fate's behest because he had to pop into her head again somehow....and what she had learned from him. She explained about how somebody was attempting to gather Chaos and the adults splitting up into groups to deal with the situation. This new information the teen didn't know how to handle either, the measuring up coming once again into play. Surely this was the reason Yuma had distributed three of the Numbers just in case he and the others somehow failed. It was daunting to say the least. Besides, if her family couldn't handle this looking threat then what could she and a new group hope to accomplish combating it wise? It didn't make sense.

Finally there was only one subject left to talk about, but it was one unlike the others she had confided to Kaze about. In fact this topic was actually a confession....not one that particularly pleased Regina to admit to and one she held to herself. Not even the very subject in question knew what really happened. "I stole a Number from dad and Astral! Then I gave it to Lux Lumen, well that is I left it where I knew she would find it on purpose!", the green haired Academy Student finally blurted out.

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((A Ghostrick deck exactly like Kio's))

For a moment, a frown passed over Fate's features. "Fortunate in your eyes, perhaps." Then, just as quickly as the frown had come, it was replaced by his calm smile. Opening the doors into the sitting room, Fate beckoned his "guest" in. Not that he could really consider someone who was here with dark intent a guest, though he supposed she was as he had invited her into the manor. "I do wish you would reconsider your decision. You have no clue what kind of power you are messing with by taking the card you did. If you have come to believe yourself able to control it, you are already lost. That's why I would like to enjoy a nice cup of tea before correcting your mistake."



To claim that he knew nothing about the "Chaos" that Yuma Tsukumo was investigating would mean that Kaze was lying to himself. The man whose once vibrant violent locks were now graying knew all too well what the situation with that was. He himself had, in some ways, become someone take those with great potential under his wing. He also felt a sense of empathy towards the boy named Kio, understanding quite well how it felt to be overtaken by the darkness within one's heart and used as a tool. His rage had powered a Number monster one, had given it the fuel necessary to manifest itself. So it was that, with Regina's last statement, Kaze rushed over to the girl and grabbed her by the shoulders, a frantic look in his eyes. "Tell me, can that woman be trusted with such a card? Can she? If not, we must track her down swiftly. It would only be a matter of time before the Number takes her over."