Ryuuga, Abbacchio and Joe stood in front of the Ryuzaki & Co. main building, looking up at it. The three of them were wearing their school uniforms, and out of the three of them, only Joe looked annoyed by being there. He had his hands in his pockets and was tapping his right foot, slightly leaning forward like a hunchback.

"Hey, Ryuuga, a little question." Joe said.

"Hm? What is it?" Ryuuga asked, looking over at Joe, who gave him a smile.

"I was wondering-" But what was before a smile changed into an angry expression. "-WHY THE HELL ARE WE HERE SO DAMN EARLY?! I DON'T LIKE SCHOOL BUT WHY ARE WE HERE AND NOT IN SCHOOL?! AND WHY ARE WE JUST STANDING HERE!?"

Abbacchio sighed. "We start monday with a math class, you should feel grateful for being here and not there, you unmasked idiot. What the hell happened to that stinky mask you carried around?"

"You italian jackass, you saw me throwing it to the trash after we ran for half a hour on friday!"

"Will you two give it a rest?" Ryuuga asked, scratching the back of his neck. "I got us a temporary time off with our Royalty privilege since this is Vanguard centered, or to be more exact, me getting a stadium centered." He sighed. "And we're here because we're waiting for Aijou and Fujiko. Unlike usual, Aijou chose to stop by Fujiko's instead of coming with us."

Abbacchio looked to side and nodded. "Speaking of the devil." He said.

"About time, I'm sick of standing up." Joe muttered.

Ryuuga looked at the direction Abbacchio was looking and started waving. "Hey! We're here!"

Fujiko and Aijou were walking towards the building, though they were considerably far from the boys. "Hold this." Aijou said, giving her school bag to Fujiko. Then, she started running towards the boys at full speed.

"Hey, we're heeeeeeeeeeee...." Ryuuga started sweating as he watched the angry Aijou, with both her arms crossed over her chest and her hands forming her typical karate chops. She didn't express her usual happiness, but instead, she seemed filled to the brim with anger. "A-aijou...?"

"IAI AIJOU CHOP, SECOND FORM! AIJOU CUTTER!" Aijou exclaimed loudly as she took a leap to gain the higher ground and swung her hands down at Ryuuga.

"E-eh....?"

(Opening)

With a loud bang, Ryuuga fell on the floor, holding his torso with his two arms. His whole body was trembling like a fish out of water. Ryuuga couldn't even mutter a word, his mouth trembled each time he tried to make a sound. His eyes were fully white, lifeless, and small drips of drool ran from his bottom lip to the ground.

Joe and Abbacchio looked down on Ryuuga with horror-filled eyes. The two place themselves between the hurt Ryuuga and the angered Aijou, couching down. "Ryuuga, are you alive?! Say something!!" Abbacchio exclaimed.

"Holy shit dude, she destroyed you! Please tell me you're still in there or else Yuri will say you're better than me since you're dead!" Joe said.

"Is she that much of a thot?"

"Yuri's brain works in ways science cannot explained, but hey, she gave me her panties once so I'm-"

"Step aside..." Aijou growled, looking down on the two boys with the eyes and angry snarl of an ogre.

"Hai..." Abbacchio got up and moved away from her path.

Joe just nodded and threw himself away, curling into a ball. 'Holy shit, Ryuuga is dead man, I've only known him for some years back when we were kids and now for over a month, this is too soon for him to go! He's still so young!'

Aijou walked over to the bottom fo Ryuuga's legs, grabbing his right ankle with her right hand, and then started to drag him away like a corpse.

"A-aijou... W-wha-" Ryuuga weakly muttered.

Aijou looked down at him and screamed. "SHUT UP, YOU LOWLIFE!"

"H-hai..."

Aijou dragged Ryuuga all the way to an alley between the Ryuzaki & Co. building and another one. "Get up." She ordered, tossing away his leg and crossing her arms.

"A-aijou... What's the-"

"I SAID GET UP, YOU LOWLIFE!"

Ryuuga weakly got on his feet, holding a torso with his right hand. "You-"

"Shut up!" Aijou exclaimed, slamming her fist against Ryuuga's face. The strength on that small fist was equal to her anger; so mighty that it sent Ryuuga spinning like a tornado until he hit the wall behind him with his face. "You have alot to explain!"

"No, you have alot to explain!" Ryuuga exclaimed back, looking at Aijou after letting go of the wall. "You better have a good explanation to why-"

"YOU FORGOT ABOUT IT THREE TIMES IN A ROW, DIPSHIT! I TOLD YOU YOU'D GET YOUR ASS KICKED ON THE THIRD!"

Ryuuga tilted his head. "Forgot? Forgot what? Huh, I must have forgotten what I forgot."

"I'll give you a clue, it was on saturday... Or, if you want, the 2nd of June..."

"2nd of June, 2nd of June... And That is the third time I for- Eh?" Ryuuga blinked and looked at Aijou. "Saturday, it was the anni-"

"Yes."

"And I forgot by the third-"

"Yes."

"And I haven't talked to Fujiko since fri-"

"Exactly."

"Oh... I guess I'll just apolo-"

"DAMN RIGHT YOU WILL!" Aijou shouted. She grabbed a handful of Ryuuga's hair and started pulling him towards where Joe, Abbacchio, and now Fujiko, were. She pushed with such strength that Ryuuga's hair knot was obliterated.

"P-please Aijou... Have mercy-" Ryuuga weeped as she tossed him into the ground right in front of Fujiko's feet.

Joe, now standing up, placing his fist on his palm. "Oh yeah, it was their anniversary on saturday. Huh, guess he must have forgotten it because of our broniver-"

Abbacchio slammed his hand against Joe's mouth to quickly shut him up before the glaring Aijou could take any action. "He's joking, I swear he's joking!"

Aijou shrugged at the two and placed her right foot on Ryuuga's back. "Come on, go on and apologize."

"You're starting to abuse your luck." Ryuuga warned Aijou, getting off from the floor in a quick movement, leading AIjou to stumble back and to be caught by Abbacchio. He looked back at her. "Next time you want something, don't pretend you're in the MMA. Ask nicely like a human being instead of trying to beat the shit out of someone like a goddamn animal. I was going to apologize either way." Ryuuga straightened his jacket and looked at Fujiko. "I'm... Sorry. For forgetting our anniversary again."

"Our what?" Fujiko asked.

Ryuuga, Joe and Abbacchio looked at her, dumbfolded, and making a loud humming sound. "O-our anniverary... It was on saturday, right?" Ryuuga asked.

"Oh yeah... Excuse me, just for one second." Fujiko took a few step backs and looked at the sky with a smile. "Well then... SHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT IT DIDN'T CROSS MY MIND EVEN ONCE!"

And once again, Ryuuga, Joe and Abbacchio looked at her, the three of them dumbfolded as they produced a loud humming sound.

Fujiko rubbed the back of her head. "I spent the day out with my mother and Fumiko and never gave it any thought. Hehe..." She chuckled.

"I can understand you... I spent saturday working with a new guy here and then did hard testing labor the whole afternoon. I got home so tired that I fell right alseep if not for Joe and Izuru waking me up. But nonetheless, I'm truly sorry. This was the-"

Fujiko striked Ryuuga's torso with her two index and middle fingers, smirking. "Stop feeling bad about yourself, I forgot too!"

"No, but I wanna feel bad about myself, I deserve it!" Ryuuga said, flinching at the strikes.

"I'll forgive you if you stop feeling bad then!"

"Okay, deal!"

"Are you done?" The entrances doors of the building opened, revealing Gin Fuchigami awaiting the Heiwa students. The red gaze of eyes pierced Abbacchio, Joe, Aijou and even Fujiko, making them feeling uncertain.

Ryuuga looked at the expressions of his friends and then over at Gin. "Hey, Gin."

"What?" Gin asked.

"Look at this." Ryuuga held up five cards from his deck, two being a Grade 1, another two being a Grade 2 and the last one being a Grade 3. "I don't have to G Assist. Bitch."

"I also have a surprise for you." Gin held up six cards, one being his Weasel Red, two being Weasel Blue and three being Weasel White. "Try to guard your 8k ass now. Bitch."

Ryuuga and Gin glared at each before smirking. In seconds, they put their card away and their jackets were slowly falling on the ground. As for the two of them, they were holding their right fists near each other's faces.

"Round three is another draw, you dank oaf." Ryuuga said.

"Bold to assume you'll be standing up during round four." Gin replied.

The two ended up laughing at each other and shaking hands. Then, Ryuuga looked at the rest of his friends. "This dank oaf over here is Gin Fuchigami, Ryuzaki's new engineer on the RIVS. He plays Weasels, he G Assists, he boxes and he has the face of someone who'd punch a male adult lion for fun, but don't let PETA know. Basically, he's a good guy."

Joe and Abbacchio looked at Ryuuga and Gin. 'Such bro power...'

"I see you took my advice and came to get yourself a stadium."

"It's either this or economics early in the morning. I can always learn economics by being around Ryuzaki." Ryuuga shrugged.

"Can you though?" Joe and Aijou asked.

"Yeah, why not."

"I went ahead and told Ryuzaki to expect you, but not this early." Gin informed.

"I think it was about time I used my Royalty privileges to do something Vanguard related instead of going to a class."

"Then why not using them to not have so much work?" Joe asked.

"Bold to assume my privileges cover my work ethic." Ryuuga sighed, followed by a chuckle of despair.

"Well, well, well, well, well, well, well..." Ryuzaki said as he rubbed his hands with a greedy grin. "Well."

Ryuuga, standing in front of his desk, looked down on him. "Are you-"

"Well."

"Are you-"

"Well."

"Are you-"

"Well."

"Yes, I am."

"We- Son of a bitch, he broke the loop." Ryuzaki huffed. "So, what brings my favourite student and his pals to my company that isn't a monopoly for the sake of plot?"

"Didn't he stop being your student afer he kicked your ass in a card game?" Inu, sitted on the couch with Maverick, asked.

"Shut up, Iku." Ryuzaki replied.

"I think you know. A G Assist dank oaf said he talked to you." Ryuuga answered, looking back at Gin, who gave him a double middle finger.

"Yeah, he- Hold up." Ryuzaki looked at Gin. "You G Assisted? I don't even know if that happened in Cray's Collapse or Z World."

"What?"

"What? Anyway, you want a stadium for the Tokyo's Finest event, don't you?"

"Yeah, but we aren't calling it that. We haven't named it as a whole"

"Yeah but you see, the news called me to find out what was the event, and after I saw the news where Fubuki's louder son said you'd get a stadium from me, I told the news it was called the Tokyo's Finest event." Ryuzaki explained.

"But we're only four Royalties, that's not even close to Tokyo as a whole!"

"So? Listen man, it's all about the strats. Fukushima is lead by the Queen and not the King, Yamazaki is mostly known by only having a King in it's Royalty, Hagiwara is Hagiwara, which means they don't like their King and the Royalty is filled with better suited people for the title, and then we have Heiwa Academy, who's King is a national champion. What other Royalties do you think could have clout enough to enter this? You want Setsuna's Royalty of cheesy one liners? You want that one Royalty in northest Tokyo who no one knows about? You want-"

"Does this ends with a call out on me having my hands full because of this and how only having us four is the best case scenario?" Ryuuga asked.

"We were thirteen paragraphs away from getting there but yes."

Ryuuga sighed, dragging his hand down his face. "Sure, whatever you want. Would you get us a stadium or not? Something small, no need to get this out of hand."

"If you want that then why are you here?" Maverick, alongside Inu, Abbacchio, Gin and Joe, asked.

"If they know, they know. But alright, I'll get you a small something, no need to worry about it. Afterall, I'm your mentor."

"Didn't he-"

"Shut up, Ifu." Ryuzaki raised his voice. "However, there's a tiny-weeny catch to my generous ass. And it includes you, Joe and Abbacchio. Dudes, step forward."

Abbacchio and Joe walked up to the desk, standing by Ryuuga's side. However, Maverick and Inu also got off the couch and joined Ryuzaki on his side of the desk.

"The three of you against the three of us. A badass two parter show down. Look, I need this, I'm filled with dumb paperwork and I have two seconds until Payic-"

Payic bursted through the door, holding up two bags worth of paper sheets. Mina, holding her leg, had been dragged from the bottom floor all the way to the office. "I-i tried, boss!" Mina cried.

"RYUZAKI, DON'T LEAVE YOUR DAMN PAPERWORK AT HOME!" Payic ordered.

"That's my point exactly. But back to what matters. Ever since Gin hopped in the RIVS, we were able to develop two extra fighting sets ahead of time. Call it a legendary work ethic. So, whaddya say?" Ryuzaki asked.

"We don't really have a choice, do we?" Joe asked. "I haven't been around for as long as Ryuuga or Wario but reading the mind of a businessman isn't hard. Either way, I'm up."

"You gained brains when losing the mask." Abbacchio said. "I'm on board."

"Like Joe said, we don't have a choice. We'll do it!" Ryuuga declared.

"Wait a minute!" Aijou interjected, hopping off her couch. "I wanna fight too! I'll fight Payic!"

"Can the world sustain a fight of those chest sizes?" Joe asked himself.

"Joe?" Ryuzaki asked.

"Yeah?"

"Joemama."

"Fuck, I wasn't expecting that."

"S-son of a bitch..." Aijou, posing as her avatar card Gunningcoleo, looked up at the giant entity that covered her side of the field in it's shadow.

"Valkerion, attack!" Payic exclaimed, standing as Gleaming Lord, Uranus, raising her sword up.

"UROHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Valkerion, the star-made entity that stood behind Payic, swung it's hand towards Aijou, swatting her away into outer space like a fly.

"Hmph! That was unfair!" Aijou pouted with her arms crossed. She sat in Fujiko and Payic in the RIVS control room, where Gin and Mina sat in front of a large pannel of controls.

"I'm sorry that we don't have enough gear to you three to watch but we busted almost every headset we had while testing three or more people fighting at the same time and we won't get new ones until thursday." Gin explained, keeping his eyes on the keyboard.

"I don't care about the headsets, I care about how I was bullied by a giant star man!" Aijou exclaimed.

"It's fair game." Payic smiled.

"There, there." Fujiko pat Aijou's head. "It's fine, Aijou."

"I blame my lack of fanboys present! Only Joe's support won't win me games!"

Ryuuga, Joe and Abbacchio stood in front of Ryuzaki, Maverick and Inu, in the RIVS testing room where Ryuuga and Hikaru had fought not even a week before that moment. Each one of them held a virtual reality headset, and after placing their decks in the metalic pillars that rose in front of them, Ryuzaki spoke up.

"Alright! We will fight at the same time, so none of us will know the result of the other fights until they finish their own fights. The grown ups will choose their opponent, so if you gentlemn don't mind, I'm just gonna casually pick Ryuu-"

"Hold it." Inu stepped in, placing his arm in front of Ryuzaki so that he wouldn't walk forward. "Ryuuga already defeated you before, didn't he? That marked the end point for your teachings. He isn't your student anymore, is he?" He then stepped forward. "Ryuuga, you're fighting me." Inu declared.

Ryuuga nodded. 'I haven't fought him and rarily saw him play at all. All I know is that he plays Kagero. This is where the amount of fights against dad and Emon come into play.'

Ryuzaki looked at Inu and smiled. "Guess it can't be argued against. Alright, Inu will take on Ryuuga. So since my first choice is out, Abba-"

"Abbacchio!" Maverick exclaimed, pointing at him. "You break the doors of the mansion without the use of any tools! Your side chest must be impressive, but I won't allow it to surpass mine! You're fighting me!"

Abbacchio nodded. "I accept it."

"So first I get my relevancy cucked by Shida and Fox, then Fox decides to rest which leads to less screentime for me and now I can't even fight the two guys I wanted to fight..." Ryuzaki cursed under his breath. "Alright fine, Joe, you're up against me."

Joe grinned. "I actually wanted you to be my opponent, so call being chosen last a good thing in this case. There's a little deal I want to make with you."

"Too bad for you but my businessman skills are too strong for the known universe. I know how many yen A had when A, B and C had a total of 2150 yen and before C gave two fifths of his money to B, A had 120 more yen when compared to B."

"The answer is 710 yen." Ryuuga, Joe and Abbacchio replied.

Ryuzaki squinted at the three. "Just get your headsets on... But before that, let's name our trio. We will be Company. Bad Company. Music references are cool."

Ryuuga, Joe and Abbacchio shared a look and nodded. "Battle Tendency." Ryuuga said.

"Huh, that was fast. Get your headsets on!"

Lines appeared on the floor, separating it into three fields. Ryuuga and Inu stayed in the center one whole Abbacchio and Maverick went on to the one in the right and Joe and Ryuzaki went in to the one in the left. After the six players placed on their headsets, Ryuzaki gave Gin and Mina the sign to starts the system.

"The RIVS will start after the count reaches zero, make sure you close your eyes because of the brightness during activation, you can open them after I tell you to." Gin explained to the players. 

Mina looked back at Fujiko, Payic and Aijou. "You three can watch the fights with us! We have three screens on the wall to your right and each one will display one of the fights."

"Three, two, one... Zero! The RIVS is live!" Gin exclaimed.

Joe opened his eyes. His body, turned into an astral form, stood on top of a space station, with two radio towers behind him. From there, he could see Earth, the Moon and even Cray. "W-wow... This shit is even wackier when you aren't watching from the sidelines." He muttered, looking around.

"So, you like it?" Ryuzaki asked, standing across him on the other side of the space station. "You play a Star Gate clan, so I thought a space-based field would be nice. And since this is between Earth and Cray, Harmonics Messiah being here will make sense since lore."

"So sweet, you didn't had to." Joe replied, sarcastically. "But like I said, I wanna do a deal with you. If I win, I want you to start paying Ryuuga monthly instead of only in the months when he tests something, and I also want you to pay him per thing he tested."

"Okay." Ryuzaki shrugged.

Joe squinted at the answer. "Are you for real?"

"Sure. However, if I win, you gotta became my mascot in Sex Ed and come with me to GEN once a week. Basically, I'll make a fool of you in front of the whole school until the day you die."

"Deal."

'Eh, Abbacchio was right. This idiot is really trying to lessen Ryuuga's work. In today's lesson, I'll make you learn how fighting for yourself once in a while isn't bad.' Ryuzaki thought with a smirk. "I know gases aren't around in space, but I'm Ryuzaki so fuck physics. Stand up, the vanguard!" A dark grey vanguard circle appeared under Ryuzaki, chaining a smoke explosion to go off around him. When the smoke decipated, Ryuzaki, now standing as a small white haired cat with red eyes dressed as a ninja and with a red scarf around his neck. "Stealth Beast, Cat Devil! (6000) I'm going to use my chains and those two radio towards to make a spider web out of chains and cut you down with an axe. As simple as that."

Joe smirked back at him. "Stand up, my avatar!" A white vanguard circle appeared hunder him, surrounding him in a blinding light. "The white star shining through the cosmos! Neon Messiah! (6000)" He reappeared as the small white alien, dwelling in it's cocoon.

Abbacchio and Maverick appeared on top a tall wall each, with a large grassfield between the two. Maverick looked down from the wall. "Oh man, the height in this is wackadoodledo! Oi Abbacchio, I goofed messing with the field making device and now we ended up in a weird place!"

"I'm aware." Abbacchio replied, looking down on the terrain between the two walls. "This will have to do. Stand up, vanguard!" An orange vanguard circle appeared under Abbacchio as his astral became black, resembling a shadow. Green, blue and yellow feathers started to grow off the shadowy figure as it shrunk down to a bird's size. "Blackboard Parrot! (6000)" Abbacchio declared, expanding his tri-coloured wings.

"Ay that's what I'm talking about! Stand up, my vanguard!" Under Maverick, a dark purple vanguard circle appeared, releasing a dark purple mist that covered Maverick's entire body. Maverick stepped forward and off the mist, standing as his true self wearing a clown's clothes. "Entertain Messenger! (6000)" Maverick tipped his hat. "How's that manga coming along? I mean, you aren't gonna get a publisher unless you finish it, right? And aren't you waiting to get a publisher to actually finish it? I mean, I'm not smart like Ryuzaki says but I think your methods are counterproductive." Maverick rubbed the back of his head. "I hope I said that how Ryuzaki said."

Abbacchio grit his beak. 'So this is what this was really about.'

Ryuuga and Inu appeared in the middle of a large forest. For the entire time, Inu had kept his hands inside his pocket. He and Ryuuga looked around until he decided to speak up. "You kids have it easy. I'm leaving it at that. Stand up, the vanguard!" Under him, a dark red vanguard circle appeared, blasting out a tower of flames that covered his body, only showing his shadow. His shadow started shrinking, his head gained a snout and his arms started turning into wings. When the transformation was done, the tower of flames blasted into the skies, revealing Inu to have become a small orange-scaled wyvern with a red crystal in his chest. "Wyvernkid Ragla! (6000)"

"I'm not gonna lie, out of the three of you, you're the one I know less about. I can't even come up with a battle plan except avoiding your retiring skills." Ryuuga said, crossing his arms over his face as a red vanguard circle appeared under him. His body became covered in a small gust, reappearing as a much smaller light purple-scaled dragon in a ninja's clothes. "Stand up the vanguard! Stealth Dragon, Magatsu Wind! (6000)"

"Ride! Sabel Dragonewt! (8000)" From under his feet, a spiral of flames enshrouded Inu, changing the body of the tiny wyvern into that of a humanoid dragon with yellow and orange scales with it's shoulders, elbows, legs, knees and the joints in his wings covered in a red armor with spikes. It also held a blade that it used to slash away the flaming spiral. 

"Ride! Stealth Dragon, Dreadmaster! (8000)" Ryuuga's purple scales started to turn into a combination of very dark blue and green scales, what used to be a round snout started to get sharper, sharp fangs growing out of his mouth. His eyes got smaller, but he grew a new pair alongside, aswell as gaining a pair of wings with the same colour as the scales. Ryuuga held up two scrolls that rolled down and turned into cards. "Magatsu Wing's skill, I draw. And Dreadmaster's skill, I discard and draw. Attack!"

"Ride! Hammsuke's Classmate, Pastel Marker Hammna! (8000)" Abbacchio's body returned to it's shadowy state, though not regrowing back to it's human shape. Instead, it started changing again as a very light brownish fur started growing off it. Holding up the pencil of the unit, Abbacchio drew a card in front of him that turned into a real card. "I draw with Parrot's skill, and then with Hammna's skill, I soulblast and put a card from hand into the soul to draw again!"

"Nice filtering! But I also have that! I ride Brassie Bunny! (8000)" Maverick snapped his fingers, creating a burst of the same dark purplish smoke from before around him. However, instead of walking off the cloud of smoke as the new unit like before, he jumped out of it, heading right towards Abbacchio. The unit he posed as now was a a rabbit with light blue fur and black feet, carrying a tophat of his own on his head. Maverick tipped his hat to Abbacchio as he pulled back his right foot. "Attack!"

"No gua-" Before Abbacchio finished, Maverick kicked him all the way to his wall's edge, almost falling off if not by the aid of the pencil. Abbacchio growled at Maverick as his body returned to it's shadow form and grew much bigger and wide. "Ride! Binoculous Tiger! (9000)" Orange fur started growing off Abbacchio's shadow as his hands turned into paws with sharp claws sticking out. Slamming down his front paws, a giantpair of binoculus appeared attached to his back. "And call!"

A zebra with barcodes for stripes and a new Hammna appeared by Abbacchio's left, nodding at him. Hammna, like Abbacchio had did before, drew a card that turned into a real card.

"Barcode Zebra, Hammna! (9000) (8000) I attack! Binoculus' skill, Lottery Draw!" Over Abbacchio's side of the field, a giant roulette appeared, divided into twenty sections. Ten of them were silver, representing normal units, while the rest of them were gold and represented the trigger units. The roulette started spinning, stopping with an arrow pointing at a grey part. "I draw a card! Take this!" Abbacchio roared, blasting Maverick off his wall with a grey-coloured blasted originated from his binoculus.

Joe, clad on a white armor with golden linings and red details spread throughout it, fell on the ground, his chest amor slashed open by Ryuzaki's blade. He got up, stumbling back. Wipping off the small drops of blood rolling off his mouth, Joe grinned. "Hehe, you're not bad."

"Oh please, are you really about to try and give me the 'You're not bad' crap?" Ryuzaki asked. He stood as a tall humanoid wolf-like beast covered in grey fur, spinning on his right hand a chain with a blade attached to it's end. "I'll make this clear for you, little Joemama. I'm not your classmate, I'm not Abbacchio, I'm not Ryuuga, the generic talk won't work on me because I know I'm not bad, I know I'm a good player and I know I will kick your punny ass. I heard all the talk over the years, I went through two formats in my lifetime, I fought people who used better Messiahs and better Link Joker decks as a whole, your punny self doesn't scare me. But if you want to talk the talk, then I'll make you walk the walk."

"I'm already walking the walk, you fool. Ride!" Joe jumped up, entering an orb of black matter. "The Claw of Occlusion, Ghastly Nail! (13000)" Joe bursted out of the black orb like a bird hatching from it's egg, spreading it's thin metalic white wings. Black rings appeared around his shoulders, two around each forearm and two on his back, one bigger than the other. "Imaginary Gift, Force I! I'm going to give it to myself! Lady Battler, attack with Duskblade's boost! (10000>>18000) With her skill, I call a card as a locked card!"

"No guard." Ryuzaki replied. Instead of setting his eyes on the dark and red ball of energy that striked his chest, he kept his eyes set on Joe. "Will you attack me?"

"You're only at two damage, I won't win by stalling! I attack! And with Ghastly Nail's skill, I call as locked and power up attack! (23000>>33000)" Joe exclaimed, charging at Ryuzaki with a blade created out of the black rings around him.

Ryuzaki smirked. "You idiot, you fell for it."

"W-what?!" Joe asked as his blade went through Ryuzaki's chest.

"Three damage... That's all I needed!" Ryuzaki exclaimed, golden cracks started appearing across his body as a dark golden aura started to cover him.

"Turn end!" Abbacchio declared, gritting his teeth. He now posed as his avatar, Leo-pald, still with Barcode Zebra and Hammna by his side, but now with Geograph Giant and Binoculus Tiger too.

"You did a good job so far, but it's my turn now!" Maverick's astral soul jumped off Trihex Chimera and started free falling from the top of his wall. "With great power comes greater muscles! I may have not found my deck yet, but that doesn't mean I won't be able to flex my side chest! RIDE!" He shouted. The clouds over the grassfield started to gather, quickly turning dark grey and black. And then, a thunderbolt came blasting down, striking Maverick head-on. Out of the surge of light it created, a loud roar made itself be heard. 

"Come on out..." Abbacchio growled, focusing his eyes on the gigantic wave of black smoke in the grassfields. Before he could do anything, a giant and very muscular red arm blasted out of the smoke, snatching Abbacchio away from his wall and, with holding him in it's hand with a strong grip, punched a hole through the wall.

"This my super avatar!" Maverick's loud voice echoed through the field, forcing the smoke away. In the middle of the field stood a red-scaled dragon, with a long neck wrapped around a cannon attached to the armor in it's chest. The dragon was over fifteen meters tall, even though it wasn't standing up. It's legs were too small to lift the massive weight of it's upper body, and it's wings also couldn't lift it up. "GUN SALUTE DRAGON, END OF STAGE! (12000)" Maverick roared. "ABBACCHIO! NOTHING WILL COME UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION! THAT'S WHY I'M GOING TO TAKE ACTION AND DRAG YOU FROM TWO TO SIX ALL IN THIS SINGLE TURN!" He warned as units started to appear around him.

Abbacchio, still a prisioner to the grip of the dragon's hand, weakly grit his teeth. 'Nothing will come... Unless I take action...'

"Thank you, Joemama, for getting me to three damage! That's all I needed to show you what I promised!" Ryuzaki said, spreading his crack-covered arms, the dark golden aura around him growing stronger.

"You bastard..." Joe grit his teeth. "I-" Before he could mutter one more word, the pressure of Ryuzaki's aura blasted him away.

"The world has rules! It is everyone's fate to be a slave to them! However, I will forge the rules of the world and not stand as a slave to them! Everything in the world will be a slave to these golden chains!" The dark golden aura wrapped aroung Ryuzaki's entire body, except for his. As it did so, pieces of a very dark blue armor appeared around it, trapping the aura inside with Ryuzaki's body. "Ride!" He exclaimed as the aura reached his head, and like the rest of his body, it was trapped in a piece of armor. One red eye glimmered from behind the slits on the helmet as Ryuzaki spinned around a golden chain attached to a katana. "Dueling Dragon, ZANBAKU! (12000)"

"What is-"

Ryuzaki appeared in front of Joe, looking down on him alongside two wolf-like beasts; Left Arrester and Right Arrester. "I told you I'd chain you to those towers and slash you down, didn't I?" He asked, striking Joe with enough strength to send him flying across the radio towers in the space station. However, in the exact moment he was between them, golden and silver chains wrapped around the tower and then around his wrists, ankles and neck, restrainining him like an animal. "Listen up, Mr. Nice Guy. There's nothing wrong about fighting for others, but at some point, the true problem becomes you. There's no problem about fighting for yourself. Now, you've been going on about lock this and lock that, haven't you? Then let me show you... A true lock!"

Ryuuga, as Magatsu Gale, leaning against a tree. He held his left shoulder as he panted harshly. His right eye was also closed. 'So this is what he plays... Just a Waterfall deck.' He thought as he weakly looked up to Inu, who stood as Dragonic Waterfall.

"I end my turn." Inu spoke, stabbing the ground with sword.

"It's my turn..." Ryuuga said, weakly walking away from the tree. Despite his weak look, he raised his left hand, blasting a tornado off it. "The whirlwind of wisdom gathers around my hand! The vigorous storm of power scatters throughout the world! Raze, and descend, my avatar! I ride!" Ryuuga was engulfed by the tornado, only allowing Inu to see his shilouette. The shilouette started heading upwards, to the center point of the tornado, but also started changing, becoming thinner and growing wings. "Shura Stealth Dragon, Jamyocongo! (12000)" Ryuuga exclaimed, flying off the tornado as his purple-scaled avatar, Jamyocongo. He drew the two katanas in his back, crossing them in front of him. "Imaginary Gift, Protect I! Now call! Tsunamasa! (8000) His skill powers me up and soulcharges one! And I also call, Tamahagane! (9000) I soulblast one and force Mukhtar back to your hand!"

Tamahagane swang around his chains, restraining the white haired dragon knight on the opposite side. He started squeezing the grip of the chains until the knight disappeared.

"Now you discard one!"

Inu kept his glare up and didn't moved a single muscle. His voice also didn't showed any reaction. "I discard Mukhtar."

"I attack! (15000) Ninja Art, Perpetual Gale!" Ryuuga exclaimed, holding his blades behind his back and swang them down in a X-shape, generating two hurricanes that striked Inu's chest in the same X-shape.

"No guard." Inu said as his chest was striked b the crossed hurricanes, but kept himself unmovable.

"Tsunamasa, Tamahagane! Attack!"

Tsunamasa and Tamahagane started charging forward at the tear dragon, though just like before, Inu didn't move. It was not until they came close that, in a quick slash, Inu striked the two units away. 

"Is this the best you have?!" Inu asked. "I set my expectations of you too high! Ryuzaki's student my ass!"

Ryuuga grit his teeth and returned his katanas to their holders in his back. "Turn end."

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"You said earlier that you didn't knew anything about how I played except that you should avoid my retire skills, didn't you? If that's the case, then let me tell you something myself." Inu said as he raised his blade. "I've been there ever since you started playing Vanguard. I was there doing your biggest moments, like the fight against Despair in the first regionals, the fight against Masato in the nationals and the even during the fight against Ryuzaki. I've seen you grow since the start, but you were trained by Ryuzaki. And what does that change? NOTHING AT ALL! I've been by Ryuzaki's side for over twenty years, I know the way he thinks, the way he teaches! You thought your ultimate opponent would be Ryuzkai, but your true ultimate opponent has always been standing behind him! Your ultimate opponent is me, INU BLAZE!" He roared as dark red flames filled with black smoke covered his sword. He swung it down, setting the entire forest on fire. What was before a blue sky became covered by the black smoke created by the flames that covered the entire battlefield.

Ryuuga looked around his side of the field. All of his units were gone, reduced to ashes by Inu's flames. "This is your true ace..."

"ETERNAL RED FLAMES SLICE THE HEAVENS TO SHREDS! THIS IS THE AVATAR OF THE CORRUPTING BLAZE THAT REDUCES EVERYTHING TO ASHES, AND THEN THOSE ASHES INTO NOTHING! REMEMBER- NO, BURN THIS NAME INTO YOUR HEAD! I RIDE MY AVATAR!" Dragonic Waterfall became surrounded by the same dark flames that covered his sword. His scales quickly burned down to washes. His entire body became the husk for Inu's true unit. An orange and red-scaled dragon covered in a golden armor, proudly holding a blade embedded in flames. "DRAGONIC BLADEMASTER! (13000)"

Inu stabbed the ground with his flame-clad sword and looked down on Ryuuga with his two green eyes that shined through the clouds of smoke that blocked Ryuuga from seeing the rest of his body. "Take a look into Joe and Abbacchio's fight! You'll realize how big of a mistake it was to accept our challenge!"

Two clear orbs appeared around Ryuuga. Looking to one of his left, he saw the state of Joe's fight. He was restrained by silver and golden chains just like an animal. And when looking to the one in his right, he saw how Abbacchio's was going. Abbacchio was nothing more than a small prey trapped in the giant cage that was Maverick's hand. "Joe, Abbacchio..." Ryuuga muttered.

"One never takes action towards his goal, one fights for everything but himself, and then we have you, who only fights to end things by using the excuse of being too busy! You three were in no shape to stand before us! If you want things to be better, then stop being a pity bastard and make things better! Now drown!" Inu exclaimed. He twisted the flame, blasting a sea of flames towards Ryuuga.

All Ryuuga could do was stare at the incoming wave of fames.

'He is right.'

And then, he was swallowed by the sea of flames.

(Ending)

Next Week-

#13: Battle Tendency

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MINI SOUL: "Sakate's Second try"

Sakate: I'll make Spiral Secret work somehow! Now it's time for a Spiral Secret!

Kaido: *glares*

Sakate: *gets near the camera* Kaido's name comes from Ryuzaki's home region of Japan, which was Hokkaido!

Kaido: *nods* Good job.

Sakate: Also Kaido has the weird fear of being behind bars, he gets super scared by being close to a cell!

Kaido: SAKATEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!

Sakate: That's all for now, folks! *hides in prison*

Kaido: *stops* Huh... I can do this any other time. *runs away from prison*

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Hikaru: :pog: Is that Abbacchio character development? I thought we'd never have that!

Abbacchio: We calm and collected characters have a hard time getting developed.

Emon: Agreed.

Abbacchio: However, I-

Maverick: SAIDO CHESTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Ryuzaki: ROKU ROKU ROKU ROKU ROKU!

Inu: BUREIZO BUREIZO BUREIZO BUREIZO BUREIZO!

Joe: And I'm getting development too! I thought that was bound to never happen after #4!

Ryuuga: And I'm getting development after getting my shit kicked by Aijou.

Aijou: My fans would feel blessed if I kicked their shit.

I have a meme that doesn't includes any of the main opponents for these chapters.

Ryuzaki: Son of a bitch, my employee is getting memed before me.

Gin: Now we get the proletarians together and take over the company!

Ryuuga: YEAH!

Maybe having a character who's face claim is Tsukusa make communism jokes isn't a good idea since Dr. Stones exist.

Ryuuga: It's an idea better than volume 2. I'll fight Fox to prove Gin making communism jokes > Volume 2.

Gin: I also have G Assist. *sniff*

My name is Shida, thanks for reading and I will see you later. Bye bye!

Inu: Hey Neko. I'm being relevant. I'm being important to the development of a protag and you aren't. Bitch.