Heartland duel academy was quiet until the sound of a dragon appeared onto the field. Flip is shown on the field with one of his ghoststrick XYZ monsters but on the other side was Y/n as he summoned a fusion dragon onto his field. It towered behind him like a predator looking for its prey.

"Now I activate the spell card Thunder Dragon Fusion!" Y/n yelled as he smirked. "I fuse the three thunder dragon monsters in my banished zone, by placing them back into my deck, to fusion summon my next dragon. Appear Thunder dragon, Titan!" He announced as a three-headed green dragon appeared on the field. "Now I activate the monster effect of Thunderhawk! I can discard it to summon a thunder monster from my graveyard. But it won't be on my field for long. Appear! Thunder dragon Colossus. That's not all I activate one of my titans effect. When a thunder monster effect is activated I can destroy one card on the field I choose your xyz monster! Now go Titan and Colossus attack flip directly!" He demanded as his dragons obliterated flips life points making him fall to the ground with scratches and cuts.

"Ow. I think I scraped my arm pretty bad." Flip mentioned as Tori walked up to him seeing a very bad cut as blood ran down his elbow.

"Y/n. Flip is badly hurt can I take him to the nurses?" She asked making the T.A nod.

As Tori helped an injured Flip to the nurse's office Yuma looked at him with worry.

"Y/n is getting more aggressive ever since his duel with that crime boss." Appearing next to him Astral looked at the older male as he shuffled another deck ready to duel whoever was after flip for the grand finals of his duel tournament.

"I have noticed that too. Perhaps it was the mention of Barian world." Astral chimed making Yuma look up at him.

"Do you think it is? I mean he did act differently during that duel and he even had that weird black aura around him."

"All I can say is that we need to keep a closer eye on your brother." Astral quipped as Yuma nod his head in agreement.

Just then the lunch bell went off allowing everyone to head to the cafeteria as everyone left the duel area. Staying behind Y/n placed one of his tournament decks back into its respectful box before grabbing his deck. Moving the cards to the side he searched for a specific spell card. Stopping in the middle of his deck he found it.

"Rank up magic Barian force." He muttered as the card glowed ominously. "You have a power that feels nostalgic to me. But why? Was I whatever these Barian people are? Am I one of their students? Or was I a barian emperor like my memories suggested?"

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Y/n is seen walking around the courtyard of the school searching for a specific card. Looking around he found the singular card and touched it. The sudden touch of the two caused a course of electricity to flow through the duelist making him grunt in pain. The tattoo on his arm began to pulse before all three of them shined a blinding pink.

Quick flashes of memories slammed into the boy's head showing different centuries of the world, Astral world, and finally the red planet he saw earlier. But one image stayed in front of him making him slowly move up to touch it. It was him in his Barian form. Touching the memory he gasped before quickly pulling his hand back.

Appearing back into the real world he pant before throwing up the same black liquid. 

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"Y/n you okay?" He heard as a hand touched his shoulder making him quickly hide the card inside his deck. Looking over his shoulder he saw Yuma.

"Yeah. Just go eat. I'll be making more decks." Shoving his deck into his pocket he left his brother behind and made his way to their classroom. 

Y/n pov.

Making my way to the classroom I heard a sudden scream from multiple girls. Looking to my right I see a group of girls surrounding a single male. This made my eyes roll.  But his name...Devon Knox. A pro duelist huh? You can be the first person that duels against my new and improved Dark World deck.

Yuma and his friends looked down at the girls as they cheered. After finding out it was Devon and that he has a dueling class going where you can duel him.

"Dueling a pro. That's something I can think of doing. But." Yuma pondered making his friends look at him.

"But?" Bronk said making Yuma smile at him.

"I have a pro duelist I like learning from already." He smiled before looking down and seeing his brother looking towards Devon making everyone look down at the T.A as well.

"Yuma Y/n isn't a pro duelist though." Chazwick said making Yuma turn to him.

"He is to me!" He said making Tori and Bronk smile sweetly. "My goal is to beat Y/n in a duel. To show him just how far I've become as a duelist." He said as the key glowed before Astral appeared.

"And that's a goal to which you should strive for."

Everyone was currently in the gym watching Bronk and a few other students duel Devon making the girls cheer as he won against the five students at once with his monster Ben Kay that had seventy eight hundred attack points.

"Now anyone else want to duel?" He said with a friendly adittude.

"Sure. I'll take you up on that offer." A voice called out making everyone see the red capped T.A emerge from the crowd making the students talk among themselves.

"Y/n vs Devon? A pro duelist vs the runner up in the duel carnival." A boy said to a female student.

"I heard he's been getting more aggressive in his duels. People are suggesting that he's a sore loser. " a girl gossiped making another girl groan in disgust.

Yuma felt offended by this as she doesn't know him on a personal level.

"He's not a sore loser. He's  just going through a hard time right now!" He said before turning to his brother. "Show him what you can do Y/n!"

"Oh you're Y/n Tsukumo. I watched your duels during the carnival. I want to see just how strong you really are now." Devon smiled making Y/n nod.

"Then by all means. Show me what you can do." He said as his eyes changed color and his duel disk materialized.

"Sure thing. But challengers go first."

Devon 4000

Y/n 4000

"I draw!" Drawing his card Y/n looked down at his hand with some thought. "I activate the spell card Dragged down by the grave. This card allowed us to look at each other's hand and discard a card."

Both players looked at each other's cards y/n saw panther warrior, two copies of training grounds, coach bear man and coach soilder wolf bar. While Devon saw grapha, two copies of snow, silva and a new card Genta gateman of the dark world. Devon looked at them with major thought.

"These cards...grapha isn't helpful in the hand, snow can just help him search for a card, silva can be summoned and Genta can help him with getting gates but nothing else unless it's banished. That's the correct move." He thought before picking Genta while Y/n chose his copy of training grounds.

"Now we both draw a card. Next I reveal Danger! Thunderbird. By shuffling my hand you have to choose a certain card to discard. You have a slim chance of picking thunderbird. If you do it's effect doesn't do anything but if you don't. I can summon a Danger! Card then draw. So choose wisely." He said before showing all his cards.

"I choose the middle card."  The selected card highlighted causing Y/n to smirk.

"Close but it only counts with horse shoes. You chose Grapha! Now come Thunderbird!" He said after discarding grapha and summoning his bird followed by drawing a card. "Now since grapha was discarded his effect kicks in but it doesn't do anything since your fields empty. Now then. What do you say we try it again. But this time you're dealing with big foot."

"Alright. I choose the far left."

"Not bad. You picked correctly. But no matter. I summon snow in attack position. Next I return it to my hands to summon Grapha from my graveyard. I end my turn."

"Y/n added some new cards into his deck." Astral noted making Yuma nodded.

"Yeah. He must've done it yesterday when he left to go see Droite." Yuma answered making Tori smile.

"Seems like you're gonna need to get creative now Yuma."

Devons turn

"I draw. I activate the field spell training grounds. By discarding two beast monsters I can summon coach bear man from my hand. Next I activate the spell Bears boot camp to special summon wolf bar from my hand. Now wolf bar allows me to special summon a wolf bar from my graveyard. Next bear man's special ability kicks in making my wolf's level go from four to eight."

"He's gonna XYZ summon." Astral and Y/n thought at the same time.

"I activate the overlay network with my three level eights. XYZ summon. Coach King giant trainer! Next I'll activate its effect. We shuffle our decks and draw a card. Depending on the level, whoever has the lowest will take eight hundred points of damage."

"Draw!" Both duelist yelled as Devon drew a level four while Y/n drew a trap card.

"So since you drew a trap card no damage comes our way. But now I attack thunder bird with Giant Trainer."

Y/n 3900

"I end my turn."

Y/ns turn

"I draw! I activate the spell dark world dealings. We both draw a card and discard one. I discard one of my Snowws and next due to her effect I can add a dark world card from my deck to my hand. Next I activate the spell DARK WORLD ACCESSION!" Y/n called out before slamming the card into the slot as it appeared and activated.

"Dark World accession?" Devon said in confusion as Y/n smirked.

"You should've destroyed Grapha. But even then it wouldn't work. I Banish Grapha and discard Silva!" Appearing in the air both Grapha and Silva glowed orange and blue before swirling together. "Overlord of the dark world fuse with Silva and charge into battle with your dark presence. FUSION SUMMON! Appear GRAPHA, DRAGON OVERLORD OF THE DARK WORLD!" Y/n yelled as his newest monster appeared behind him as it roared causing the entire stadium to shake.

"Woah. Y/n has fusions in his deck now?" Bronk said as everyone's duel gazer scanned the card.

"Grapha, dragon Overlord of the dark world is a level ten fusion effect monster with thirty two hundred attack points and twenty three hundred defense points."

"Now since Silva was discarded due to my spell card it appears onto my field. Next I summon Snoww Go Grapha destroy giant trainer!"

Reeling it's head back the monster began to inhale dark smoke before firing purple flames from its mouth burning and destroying Gaint Trainer.

Devon: 3600

Devon gripped his arm in pain shocked to feel real damage. Looking at Y/n Astral noticed a dark shadow standing next to the duelist whispering to the male.

"Next is silva and Snoww."

Devon: 0000lp

"No way. Y/n beat Devon." A male student said as Y/n walked away from Devon.

"Next time place a trap card down or use your monsters effect more." Exiting the building Y/n heard Yuma call out to him. "Catch up little bro. I'm trying to get food right now."

Hearing Yuma catch up Y/n turn to his brother.

"When did you get new cards for your deck?" He asked making Y/n chuckle.

"When I went to see Droite. Heartland said he had some rare cards for me. So I took them. Anyways I'm heading to work." He said before pulling out a pair of keys making Yuma stare at them before the boy noticed a bike.

"When did you get a bike?" Yuma questioned as Y/n got onto it and grabbed his helmet. 

"Remember when I went to work for Heartland that one day and chased those guys in a car?" He asked getting a confirmation from the young duelist. "Well with Kari helping me getting my permit the dealership I got this bike from said I could have it considering I scratched it's entire left side." He sweat dropped as Yuma noticed the scratched up paint on the bike. "So I have this now. Anyways I'm off to go get food. See ya Yuma." He smiled as he placed his helmet on and rode off. 

Meanwhile at Barian world

"Are you sure it was him?"  A grey coiled male asked as Gerag stood in front of him.

"I'm sure. He took the Barian card and now he's gained new cards for his deck." Gerag spoke making the male cackle.

"Perfect. This works in our favor. Once he learns who he truly is he'll destroy everything for our world. " The grey coiled male spoke making Gerag confused. 

"We want him to join us?"  

"Yes. He is the other reason why we're here. if he gets on our side. Barian world is sure to return." 

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it's after school as Y/n made his way towards Heartland's office. Upon entering the elevator the duelist ran into Gauche. 

"Yo Y/n. How have you been?" he asked as the red capped duelist nodded.

"Been better." He answered before the duelist smiled and wrapped an arm around him. 

"Listen I've been thinking why not go on a boys night out?" He asked making Y/n chuckle. 

"I'll go after I check up on Droite. has her condition gotten any better?" He asked remembering that Tron took her memories.

"I checked up on her earlier. She's starting to remember how to duel. I guess those private lessons from us are helping." He said before moving in front of the duelist. 

"That's great. Listen can you tell her that I'll check up on her after this meeting?" 

"Sure thing." 

Making his way up the elevator Y/n leaned back before his head started to pound. Changing his entire extra deck and even his main deck caused his evil self to get angry. He always said that getting rid of the deck that he had was a insult to the original version of them. But he wanted to be someone else. Upon entering the room Heartland smiled and got up from his seat. 

"Y/n! how's my favorite duelist?" He smiled before sitting down. "What can I do for you?" 

"I want to come back to the card hunt." He said with determination. 

"Oh. Do you think you're ready?" He questioned making the duelist nod. "Okay you'll start tomorrow morning. Be here at ten am. I'll write to the school about your absence." 

Nodding Y/n walked out of the room and made his way towards Droite room.  Noticing a nurse bot carrying some food Y/n offered to take it to her to which the bot thanked him. Knocking on the door Y/n heard a "Come in.'". Opening the door Y/n noticed Droite sitting down at a table and studying her deck. Placing the food on the table Droite looked up and smiled at him. 

"How have you been Y/n?" She questioned as he took a seat across from her. 

"I've been good. Brought you your food." He smiled as she thanked him. "How's your duel studies going? Have you started to remember everything again?" He asked as she started to cut her food after moving her deck out of the way.

"Slowly thanks to Gauche and you. Are you hungry?" She asked making him shake his head.

"No i had an Onigiri before coming here. Eat up." He smiled before noticing a card she didn't put away. "Hey you forgot to put that card away too. Here let me."

"That's not my card. I got it for you." She said making him shocked. "A little thank you present. I gave Gauche his already earlier. " 

Looking down he grabbed the card and read its effect. "You can discard this card and turn your opponents monster into defense position." He read as the card was a mechanical ball with blue eyes and green stubby arms. "Sphere Kuriboh. Thanks Droite." He smiled making her nod. 

"Do you got plans tomorrow?" She asked making him nod.

"I'm working again so I'll be going on my next assignment tomorrow. Why?" 

"I wanted to see if you wanted to go and have lunch." 

"Sure. We can do that. I don't see why not." He smiled making her smile back.

"Good. Be careful tomorrow Y/n." She smiled making him nod.

"Of course. Now how about you show me what you got?" He smiled making her nod. 

"Of course. I wanted to test my deck against you today anyways."

The two smiled as they started to play a friendly duel with each other as Y/n helped her with some dueling tips and Droite being shocked at his new deck.

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I'm super sorry for the long wait. I think it's been a year? I haven't had the drive to write for this story but now i'm slowly getting back into it. I'll be putting a deck profile in the next chapter since i've updated my IRL Dark world deck. It'll be based around it with some upgrades later on in the story. Anyways thanks for reading!