Normal p.o.v.

The days passes and the things began being normal again. Zaira had returned Shark's soul at the hospital. Shark was back to his old self again. Or least he was out of the hospital bed. Since that day, Shark had behaved rather strangely and tried to avoid Zaira and Yuma for the time being. Bronk said it was because Shark's pride was hurt, since he kind of got saved by a girl. They all agreed to give Shark some time. However Zaira was still a little worried. Last day after the accident with Kite, all Zaira and Yuma's friends ended up arriving late for school and they all got detention. Which didn't make Kairi to happy. However the days went on and the time for the world wide duel carnival was about to begin.

Unknown's p.o.v.

In an unknown place and time. 5 people was was standing and looking at a screen.

"You are sure this is her?" said a voice "She just looks like a girl to me".

"Oh it is her alright" a second voice said "Zaira Wroom. The ex thief. Well you know the plan right?". The other 4 people nodded.

"I just don't get why she is sooo important" another voice joined "She is nothing special. Darn annoying, but nothing special. Why shall we..?".

"Are you refusing to follow my orders Grace" the second voice asked coldly "It is not up to you to decide if she is special and not. So are you refusing my orders?".

"No... of course not... sir. I um was just asking" Grace said quickly.

"I thought so. Then carry on the plan" the second voice said.

"Yes at once" the other 4 said and disappeared.

Zaira's p.o.v.

I woke up early in the morning, when Yuma rushes past me, all dressed in his normal outfit and was on the way out of the door. I looked sleepy at him.

"Yuma. What are you doing?" I asked "What is the clock?". Then I flew out of bed.

"Don't tell me I am late for class. If you already are dressed..." But Yuma only laughed at me. Astral was floating confused beside him.

"Morning Zai" He said and waved "We are not late. I am just a little early. Can't talk got to catch the mailman?".

Then he rushed out of the door. I looked confused at him. Then I looked at my alarm clock, which was a good thing because Yuma's never seem to work (hehe). I was staring at the clock.

"5'o in the morning. Yuma!" I yelled "You woke me two hours to early".

I sneered angry. When I first were awake, I just couldn't go back to sleep. I got up and got dressed. What could possibly be so important that he had to wake me up that early in the morning. Then I remembered. They were sending heart pieces out for the tournament by now. I got quickly dressed and rushed outside, where I could see Yuma. He was waiting for the mail man.

"What can be taking him so long?" said Yuma impatient. Astral looked at him.

"What could be taking who so long Yuma?" he asked. I smiled a little. Yuma sighed.

"The deliverer of hopes and dreams?" Yuma said in a happy tone.

"That does not make any sense" Astral said. I grinned a little and the boys both turned around when I walked over to them.

"Oh hi Zai good morning" Yuma said and waved "Slept well". I sneered.

"Well I could have slept a lot better, if it wasn't for some noisy kid who woke me up" I said and was staring at Yuma. He smiled awkwardly.

"Um yeah" Yuma said "Well wonder who that was. Isn't it a nice day Astral".

"Oh please don't mix me into this pointless fight" Astral said and flew over to me.

Yuma didn't say a thing now. He knew that I hated getting my beauty sleep ruined. I was about to say something, when a sound like "Ding" could be heard.

"He is here!" said Yuma and rushed a little down the street. A man on a moped was driving down the streets. Yuma was holding out his hand at the postman.

"Mail for the Tsukumo family thank you" Yuma said politely. The postman stopped up for a minute and looked at his list.

"Ah yes. It is also here Zaira wroom lives right?" the man asked. Yuma nodded.

"Um yeah that would be me" I said.

The postman handed me out a little package. I quickly opened the package and found a heart piece. I had applied for it.

"Wait!" yelled Yuma and rushed after the postman "Isn't there any mail for Yuma Tsukumo?".

The postman checked his list and seconds later "No". Then he continued driving down the road. Yuma felt devastated down to the ground. Astral looked at me.

"I didn't know you were gonna participate in the carnival" Astral said. I grinned.

"Well you want me to be a number hunter for you right?" I said and grinned "And it would totally be easier to gather numbers, by entering the tournament. Are you sure you don't want to keep NB 10?". Astral smiled and messed my hair a little.

"Yeah I am sure. You got this one from Kite, so you own it" Astral said "I already got the memories, but are you sure you don't need a number or two to your deck?".

"Astral. I don't need the numbers" I said "I only need them if I find a number host in the city. If they are not a number host and challenge me, then I will win with my own skills. Cy already told you I am not getting influenced by the number as long as he is here.". Astral nodded and sighed.

"I am just worried that is all" He said in a worried tone "You are my friend after all".

"Astral stop worrying. All I need in the carnival, is my deck, my disk, my knowledge and skills, and then this heart piece".

I had just said the word "Heart piece" when Yuma flew up from the ground and rushed over to me.

"Heart piece!" He yelled "Oh you got a heart piece. Bebebebe sis please give me that heart piece!". He was looking at me puppy eyes. I sneered.

"Forget it Yuma. It is mine. Go get your own" I said and began walking inside.

"But the tournament starts tomorrow" Yuma said and had grabbed my leg "Please give me your heart piece. I will do anything. Your chores for a year. My allowance. I will be your slave for a month. Anything. Please just give me your heart piece!".

"Yuma. Let go of my leg!" I said angry "You are not getting my heart piece".

"But, but but..." Yuma said and was clinging to my leg when I tried to walk inside "I need one. Please sis... for me".

He had puppy eyes. I slammed him with my other leg and he let go. Astral sighed beside me.

"No is a No Yuma" I said and walked inside. Yuma followed me. This was gonna be a long, long, long morning.

Time skip.

"Can someone please take care of this monster for me?" I said and sneered.

Tori, Flip, Caswell, Bronk and Cat looked up at me, when I walked inside their classroom and left a whining Yuma, at the floor near Tori's table. His friends looked surprised.

"Oh Yuma what is wrong?" Tori asked when Yuma let out a scream and a flood of tears fell of his eyes. He slammed the floor a couple of times.

"This stupid mail man didn't have a heart piece for me this morning" he said "So now the only thing I am feeling is the flood of tears". Then he let out a cry. I sighed.

"Yuma this is embarrassing" Astral said "And I am invisible". Yuma didn't care.

"Yeah embarrassing alright" I said "Picture this, Yuma clinging to my leg all the way to school, begging for my heart piece. I wished I could be invisible". Yuma sneered.

"But that's what I am? Invisible to the world. Why couldn't I get a heart piece?".

Then he began crying again. I sighed deeply and facepalmed again. Then Caswell asked if he had applied for a heart piece on heartland's website, and then we found out why Yuma didn't have one. He hadn't applied of course. I sighed deeply.

"Well at least you are not embarrassing yourself anymore" Astral said and I high fived him.

However we couldn't be more wrong. Yuma, with the help of Caswell, got himself registered for the carnival, however...

"Thank you for registration" said a virtual Mr. Heartland at the mini pc "However registration is closed for now. You can always try again next year".

Then before we could do or say anything, Yuma rushed out of the school, running faster than a car.

We all followed outside and saw Yuma running down the road. There were no way no way that we could catch up to him.

"Yuma!" yelled Tori really loud "Where are you going?". And Yuma actually replied.

"I am running away from my problems!" he yelled.

I sneered. So I couldn't run away from my problems, but he could. That was not fair. I looked around and saw that I guy who just arrived in here on his motorcycle and rushed over to that person.

"Sorry dude, but I need to borrow this bike NOW" I said and grabbed the riders helmet from his head. I froze up. It was Shark. He actually looked shocked at me.

"Zaira what..." he began, but I woke up and was about to grab his motorcycle.

Luckily he was not on it right now or I would have pushed him off. However before I could start the motorcycle, Shark had grabbed my hand.

"Zaira. You can't even drive. Is this payback for me not talking to you these couple of days? Because I am gonna be really angry for the rest of your life if you smash my bike you know" Shark said angry. I sneered.

"No it is not" I said "I am only trying to catch up to Yuma.. but now that we are at it, why haven't you been talking to... Ah it is not the time! I need to find a ride".

I got of the motorcycle, when Shark tossed me his extra helmet.

"Hop on" He said "I give you a ride, but never ever steal my motorcycle again". I smiled a little and jumped on.

"Thanks Shark. How can I repay you?" I asked. Shark actually smiled a little.

"Stay on the motorcycle after we dealt with Yuma" He said.

I lifted the eyebrows. Then we rushed towards Yuma. He had actually reached a good part of the city. We could see him run like hell, and Astral flying in a good speed right behind him. Shark speeded his motorcycle up and went passed Yuma. Then he stopped in front of him, so Yuma had to stop up or he would have smashed into Shark's bike.

"Yuma what in the world are you doing?" asked Shark and looked at him.

"What does it look like I am doing? I am totally freaking out" Yuma said. I sighed.

"Oh let me guess, that duel carnival thing?" Shark questioned. Yuma nodded.

"Well you wouldn't have one extra of these heart pieces now would yer Shark?" Yuma said in a begging tone. I sighed deeply. Shark shook his head.

"I don't even have one for me" Shark said and smirked "But I also don't want to participate, you see I am only dueling for myself now".

I looked at Shark. That actually sounded cool. Yuma looked a little sad again and I sighed.

"Yuma if you want a heart piece then try talking to the ones who is giving them away" I said analytically "Mr. Heartland is holding the tournament right?". Yuma looked at me for a moment. Then his face went up in a wide grin.

"Of course. I will make them see my awesome dueling skills, and when they do, they will have to recognize me and give me a heart piece" He said determined.

I sweatdropped a little. As long as I was there to hear him beg, I was totally fine when he showed Mr. Heartland his awesome begging skills. Shark turned on the engine.

"Yuma I am borrowing Zaira. See yer" He said quickly and before anyone, like me or Yuma, could say a thing, Shark drove away with me.

I could hear Yuma said "Say what" before we were out of reach. I looked confused at Shark.

"Where are we going?" I asked. Shark hummed a little.

"Actually nowhere, I just felt like ditching class" He said "And I wanted some company". I frowned a little at him. Shark was weird today.

"Listen Zaira I am sorry" Shark suddenly said "You risked your life to get my soul back and the only thing I have said was, thanks. I felt kind of terrible. I have been trying to find you a proper gift for you, that could show my gratitude". I grinned.

"Oh so that's why you have been avoiding me for days" I said "Yuma and the others said it was properly because I had hurt your pride. Being saved by a girl and all that".

Shark mumbled something I couldn't hear. Then he sighed a little.

"Well I decided your gift would be.. . that I would drive you everywhere you want for today" He said "So pick a spot and we will go there, but please don't torture me with hours of shopping".

I grinned a little. So he was like Yuma on that point eh.

"So hate shopping?" I asked. Shark sighed a little.

"No I hate hours of shopping" He said and sneered "My sister Rio always insisted and kind of dragged me through hours of shopping. I can live with a hour or two, but not 5. especially when it is a store with only clothes, before...".

Shark sighed. I knew what he was thinking off. Rio in coma at the hospital. I decided to change the subject.

"I know where I want to go then Shark" I said and smiled "I want to go to the beach". Shark actually moved his head a little and looked at me for a second, before returning his gaze at the road. He looked puzzled.

"The beach? Why? Um a special beach?" He asked puzzled. I smiled.

"Because I want to find clues Shark" I said "Drive me towards the closest beach there is. Maybe we can clear my amnesia". Shark nodded a little.

"If that is what you wish Zaira" He said and speeded up the engine "Let's keep going then". I nodded.

Yuma's friends p.o.v.

Yuma and his friends were at the Heartland tower trying to get a heart piece for Yuma. However it didn't go so well. Yuma was begging a lady on the screen and it wasn't going well at all.

"Please. You have to let me in the tournament" Yuma said.

"I am sorry young man, but there is nothing I can do. Have a nice day" the woman said and bowed. Yuma flipped out.

"But you don't understand, it is life and... I need that heart piece or my health could be at risk" Yuma said and grabbed his own wrist "Yep the symptoms are starting".

Then he fell to the ground and pretended to be unconscious. Tori and the other facepalmed.

"Well you got to give him points for perseverance" said Caswell when Yuma's attempt of being ill to get his heart piece went wrong.

The woman on the screen, just wished him a good day and disappeared. Yuma got up on his feets and began slamming the door to the door. The others sweatdropped a little.

"How can I have a nice day when I am not in the carnival?" Yuma screamed and slammed the door a milion times. The others sighed. This was going to be a long day.

Kite's p.o.v.

Kite walked through the hallways inside the tower. He was on his way to see Mr. Heartland, since the man had called for him. Beside him was his servant and robot Orbital, who would follow Kite everywhere. It was his job after all. Kite sneered. He was quite angry. Not that Orbital followed him, that was not it. He was angry because Mr. Heartland had called on him, in the middle of him taking care of his brother.

"Orbital when we arrive, you keep your mouth shut got it" Kite said coldly.

"You got it Ma...master Kite" the robot replied.

They entered the elevator to where Mr. Heartland was. He was in the control system of the city. It was here all electrical things worked. Kite knew he was making preparations for the duel carnival, who was held tomorrow. He also knew that his two superviser, Nistro and Dextra was there as well. In some way they were Kite's friends, if he considered them that, which he didn't. He didn't need friends. He arrived in the room and found the ones he had been expected. Nistro, who was in a fighting spirit and stupid and fierce as ever. Dextra, who was calm and collected, checking the systems and Mr. Heartland who was sitting on some kind of throne, watching all events happen.

"Ah Kite, I have been waiting for you" Heartland said. Kite was glaring at him.

"Why did you call me here Heartland? I have things to do" He said in a cold tone.

"Yes! I know you are busy, but not so busy to see that all these duelists have come from all over the world to participate in the WDC" He said and smirked "Just look at them all. So innocent, so clueless that the only reason we assembled this carnival is so that we can snatch all the numbers. When I mean we, I meant of course you Kite".

Mr. Heartland placed a hand on Kite's shoulder. Kite didn't say a word. He was only glaring at Mr. Heartland. Oh how much Kite hated this man. Heartland smirked.

"After all, you are the one Dr. Faker is counting on most you know" He said "Don't let him down now Kite. After all there is many powerful duelist competing". Kite didn't say a thing to that.

"You know what I say. Bring em on" Nistro said in a loud outburst "Whatever Number Kite here can't snatch, I will be happy to do for him". Kite sneered.

"I appreciate the offer, but I got this" Kite said. Nistro smiled and turned to Dextra.

"See. He is is full of confidence, just like me" He said.

"Well that's because Kite has earned it. Unlike you" Dextra said and made Nistro angry.

They were properly about to fight, when a screen popped up and one of Heartland's men appeared on the screen. Apparently they had a problem with a boy who had been late for the tournament. Kite frowned inside, when a picture of Yuma, was shown. He was clinging to one of the staffs, begging for a heart piece. Heartland was about to send in more security, but Kite stopped him.

"Hold it, let the little rat participate" he said. Mr. Heartland looked at him.

"You know him?".

"No, but you never know, who has a number these days" He replied.

"Oh really? You are not hiding something are you. You see some days ago there was an explosion at a heartland facility. You don't know anything about that" Heartland asked. Kite shook his head and began leaving for the elevator.

"No. I you excuse me, I will take my leave. I need to be prepared for tomorrow" Kite said and Heartland gave him the green light.

In the hallways Kite was on his way to his room, when Orbital opened his mouth.

"Master, why didn't you report that Yuma was in this accident" The bot asked.

"Pipe down or I will shut you down permanently" Kite said coldly.

He began thinking. He wanted a rematch with Astral. He was not happy with a draw. But as for Yuma, he was harmless... except to himself.

Yuma's friends p.o.v.

Back with Yuma. Tori and the group of friends watched as Yuma still was trying to get his heart piece. Right now he had climbed unto one of the staff members chest, who was about to remove him from the building. Yuma was shaken the poor man while screaming up that he was not leaving before he got a heart piece. The other staff members was trying to get Yuma off the man, but Yuma was having a tight grip.

"Wauh Several hours and Yuma is still standing strong" Tori said.

The others agreed. Then suddenly out of the blue, a loud sound was heard and Yuma fell of the staff member. The door to the tower opened and a herd of bots, followed by a parade wagon, appeared out of the door. The others looked surprised. Was that Mr. Heartland? The others couldn't believe it. Then Yuma destroyed it.

"Hey dude" He said, which left a angry look at Mr. Heartland's face. The staff didn't look so happy either.

"Not a good start" Tori said. The staff members tried to make Yuma say Mr. heartland instead, and after some stupid mistakes, like calling Heartland mrs. because of his suit looked like a girl, he finally said Mr. Heartland, he begged Heartland for a heart piece. The others sweatdropped a little.

"Yuma should really chose his words carefully" Caswell said.

"I agree" said Bronk "It is just that Yuma doesn't have that many to chose from".

However in the end Heartland gave Yuma a heart piece. Yuma smiled happily. His friends were congratulating him. Finally Yuma could compete as well.

Zaira's p.o.v.

It had been a awesome day. Shark kept his word and drove me everywhere I wanted to go, but I didn't want to take advantage of him like that. So I decided he was only gonna drove me to the beach and home again. The only beach in heartland was outside of town, but it was still a tourist spot. Maybe because of the WDC, but Shark and I found a spot without to many people and tried looking for clues. It was not like there were just lying some of the ground, but I had hoped if I ever saw the ocean, some memories would return, but they didn't. However we still had a awesome day. At some point I tripped on some rocks and fell into the water, grabbing Shark along and we actually ended having a water fight. We were also eating at one of the beach stalls, paying out for myself of course. Shark said he would drive, not pay. So after a bowl of Teriyaki and shared ice, I decided it was time to get home. It was in the middle of the afternoon after all. However we walked passed a shop who was selling souvenirs and beach stuff, and decided to take a look inside.

"Shark I will take a look in there, before we leave" I said and Shark shrugged and followed.

The shop was old, but awesome as well. They had a lot of stuff. Like things for the beach, like surfboards. There were all sort of mini sculptures and necklace as well. It was made out of things from the beach. Like seashells made out of glass. I had my eyes set on a necklace with magenta glass stone, who had a shape as a star.

"How much for this one?" I asked the owner. He looked at me.

"Hmm you have a fine taste young lady" He said and smiled "This is a stone we actually found on this beach years ago. People think it is actually ugly and have never bothered even holding it. 50 dp".

I looked in my jacket. It was actually a fine prize. Not too cheap, but not to expensive either. The problem was I didn't have any money left. I sighed deeply and placed the necklace on the desk.

"I don't have enough money" I said "I am waiting at the bike Shark".

Shark looked at me and nodded. He had a bottle of water he needed to pay for. I left towards the bike.

I was waiting, and waiting, and waiting. Shark to darn long time about this. When he finally arrived, he was carrying a little box. He actually didn't look me in the eyes.

"Um what's this?" I said and pointed at the box. "Is that a gift for Rio?".

"No" Shark said and sighed. "It's for you".

He tossed the box at me without looking me in the eyes. He had walked over to his bike and started the engine. I slowly had opened the box and saw the stone I wanted to buy a minute ago.

"You looked like you really want to have this" Shark said "So I bought it for you. However this is the only thing I will be giving you, so don't expect me to... ".

The rest Shark would have said, got killed when I rushed over to him and gave him the biggest hug, I ever have given in my entire life, and I am not a hugging person.

"Wah" Shark said in a surprised outburst and looked at me "Zaira. Since when have you become a hugging person". I smiled at him.

"Since you brought me this one" I said "Oh thanks you. Thank you, thanks you".

"You are welcome. Now let go" Shark said and was looking away from me "Didn't you want to get home?".

I smiled and let go. We both got on the motorcycle and drove away. I was smiling a lot and was having my hands at the stone, who now was all around my neck, all the time. This was the most awesomest day of my life.

Time skip.

We were back in Heartland city. I wondered if Yuma ever had gotten the heart piece he wanted. Either way I couldn't wait to tell Yuma and his family about this day. Then suddenly out of the blue, a card got tossed towards us. Shark catches it instantly and stopped up the bike. I could see it was the trap card "Mirror force".

"No it couldn't be HIM!" Shark said and looked in the angle of where the duel card was tossed.

I followed Shark's gaze and saw a construction site. It had a place where you could see all of Heartland city. I figured it was there the card got tossed.

"I am sorry Zaira, but I need to find out something, before you get home" Shark said and drove his bike over to the construction building. Then he jumped off the bike.

"Wait here" he instructed "You are not leaving this spot okay?".

I didn't say anything. If I promised him, then I had to stay here. However Shark was to busy running inside of that building. I wondered what had made him so uptight and angry. I counted to 10 and decided to follow him, when a voice was talking behind me.

"You must be Zaira wroom?" I turned around and was standing face to face with a boy or was it a man? Anyway he was having long sliver hair, down to almost the ground, and was dressed in some white/blue long kind of coat and white pants. In my eyes he looked like one from the middle age or something. I couldn't stop staring.

"Yeah I am" I said slowly "Who are you blueberry? Why are you dressed like a guy from the middle age?".

The boy stopped up for a moment. He was having a emotionless expression on his face, but I think my "Blueberry" comment hurt a little. I really didn't care. He was disturbing me from going after Shark and well look at him. He was dressed in blue, that made him, blueberry. He lifted an eyebrow.

"I was warned that you could be quite annoying" the man said "But didn't think it would be that fast".

I sneered a little and leaned against Shark's bike.

"Listen blueberry. I really don't have the time right now. So if you would hurry it up" I said coldly. The boy sighed deeply.

"My name is Quinton actually" He said. I just snort at him.

"I really don't care" I said "And Quinton really? It doesn't make your name better you know. That means 5 in Italian. Who calls himself a number?".

I frowned a little. Where in the world did I know that from? The boy sighed again.

"I am here to challenge you to a duel Zaira" Quinton said "For your heart piece of course".

I looked at him. He couldn't be serious. I was stopped because of a duel.

"No thanks" I said and began leaving towards the tower.

"You have to accept. That's the rules of the carnival" Quinton said slowly.

"Yeah but the carnival is not starting until tomorrow" I said "Go home blueberry".

"Oh I see. You are afraid to face me" Quinton said "Well I understand. I just thought that the rumors were true about you. I heard you should be a fierce opponent, that's why I picked you. However you are only a little scared dog". I stopped up.

"What did you say?" I said coldly and turned around "You dare repeat that".

"Sure I do" Quinton said "You are a cowardly dog who doesn't have the guts to face me".

I sneered angry and walked back and grabbed his jacket and looked up at him, since he was a lot taller than me.

"Okay listen Quinton! I am not scared. Let's settle this. One duel. If I win you are gonna give me that heart piece, if I lose... well that is not gonna happen" I said.

Quinton only smirked a little and nodded. I let go of his jacket and walked some meters away, activating our duel disk.

"Let's duel".

Shark's p.o.v.

In the mean time, Shark was on the way to top of the building. He arrived at the top some minutes later, and was looking around. He walked out of edge of the building, looking for the one who tossed him the card. He could hear footsteps behind him.

"Long time no see Reginald. Oh I'm sorry, everyone calls you Shark now don't they?" a voice said and Shark turned around and was face to face with red short haired boy, who had yellow brags hanging down his face.

He was dressed in the similar clothes as Quinton, however his colors were a mix of White and yellow. He was smirking.

"That's right. What is the duel card suppose to mean?" Shark asked the boy.

"I simply thought it would come in handy in the duel carnival, that's all" the boy replied. Shark sneered a little.

"I am not entering!" Shark said coldly. The boy grinned a little.

"Oh I see, you are still holding on to that old burden right" the boy asked.

"What burden?" Shark asked. The boy grinned a little.

"Maybe a story would jog your memory. It happened at the nationals. At that tournament where you got disqualified for looking at your opponent's deck right?" The boy said and smirked "You do remember your opponent don't you? It was me".

"So? What does that have to do with anything?" Shark asked confused.

"So there was more to you spying than to win correct?" the boy asked "What was her name again? Your sister... oh yeah Rio. You wanted to win so badly for her. I can't blame you for looking at my convenient placed duel deck. It was almost like it was left there on purpose".

Shark's eyes widened. The boy grinned evilly.

"You mean... " Shark's face expressed true horror and dropped the card to the floor. "You set me up! Why you!".

He looked really pissed at the boy. He was grinning.

"What done is done" the boy said and grinned "And that includes your dueling carrier. Because ever since that day you have been a no name nobody, while I have been winning trophy after trophy on the duel circuit. Well that must make yourself a loser".

Shark sneered angry. He was set up! He could have won. Like Rio wanted him too.

"No I am not!" yelled Shark at him "I am not a loser!".

The boy grinned and tossed him a heart piece. Shark catches it easily.

"Then prove it Reginald. Face me in the WDC" He said and smirked.

Shark looked at the heart piece. His old self would had accepted without hesitation, but his new self... He had decided to change. That revenge and hurting other people, would no longer be a part of him any longer. He wanted to protect people, like his sister and Zaira. He was rubbing his cheek a little. It didn't hurt, but the slap he had gotten from Zaira that day, the day when they first meet was stinging mentally on the cheek, as a reminder. He knew Zaira hated bullies. He knew she wouldn't be too pleased that he was driving on a revenge. He knew she wouldn't hate him for it, but he didn't want to see her disappointed face. He didn't want her to be sad. Shark sneered and tossed the heart back at the boy. He was looking surprised at him.

"Go to hell!" Shark yelled "I have no intention of dueling you! I don't care how much pain you had made me go through. I have a new life and I am not gonna change that, just to get my revenge. She would never like it".

The yellow/red haired boy looked surprised at him. Then his smile went up in a big wide evil grin. He walked over and took the heart piece from the floor, then he walked over to Shark.

"Oh Reginald. You have changed haven't you?" the boy said "So not gonna get revenge on me. Wonder if that has something to do with the girl down there?".

The boy walked over to the edge of the building and was leaning on the railing. He was looking down at the ground now. Shark followed him curiously. He could see a open field and saw Zaira down there. She was dueling some weird dressed boy with silver hair. Shark looked from the silver haired boy to the yellow/red haired boy standing next to him. They were dressed in the similar antire. Shark sneered.

"Who's he? Why are they dueling?" Shark said angry. The boy smirked.

"Well that is my big brother Quinton" the boy said "And from the looks of it, he is dueling that girl down there. What was her name again? Zaira. That's right. And I have no idea why they are dueling". The boy grinned a little.

"You are quite fond of her aren't you?" the boy asked "Wonder how you would react if something bad happened to her".

Shark's eyes widened, then he looked pissed.

"If you lay a finger on her, I swear I will kill you!" Shark said. The boy chuckled.

"Does it look like I am touching her Reginald" the boy said "I am after all right here beside you. But you see, IF she loses we might have to take care of her. Like taking care of her for good".

Shark looked in horror and clenched his fists. He didn't want to be here a second later anyway. He rushed away from the boy and tried to reach the stairs, when the boy yelled.

"Grace take care of him" Shark heard a sound and seconds later, he could feel that his body suddenly had stopped moving.

Shark tried to move, but he was standing still completely frozen. Then he could hear footsteps.

"Grace take care of him. Bla, bla, bla. Do I look like a servant to you Quattro!" a voice said and girl walked out in the shadows.

It was a girl with red short hair with dark red brags down her face. She was dressed in a white shirt who was going all the way down to her hips, and with a dark blue west covering part of the shirt. She was having maroon leggings and black shoes. Shark's eyes widened. It was a girl he had seen going at their school. The girl Grace walked over to the boy Quattro and slammed his head pretty hard. Quattro didn't look so pleased at all.

"You have no right to order me around" Grace said and snort "Now you can move Shark all the way back here all by yourself. I am not helping".

Quattro sneered and was mumbling angry words no one understood at all. He walked over to Shark and pushed him back. Shark felt like he was a statue of some sort. He was at the railing again, looking at Zaira's duel with Quinton. He tried to move but he couldn't.

"What the hell did you do to me?" Shark said angry "Let me go this instance".

"Nope I don't think so. You see my partner here has the power to freeze people so to speak. You are now frozen in time, or your head are not but the rest of you are" Quattro said "Now relax and enjoy the show. I promise you, if she wins, we will not kill her".

Shark sneered, but there were nothing he could do. However he believed that Zaira would win. She just had too.

Zaira's p.o.v.

I was staring at Quinton all through our duel. He was skilled I get him that. He was using some weird space deck, which I didn't think must off at first. He started off the duel with a facedown monster and card. I was cautious and destroyed his facedown with was a trap. Quinton knew I would destroy it and since his facedown was destroyed, he could summon another monster to the field. Before I knew it he was actually having a number on his field. Number 9 Dyson sphere on the field. I was actually surprised. He was a number hunter? He didn't look like he was under the influence of the number at all. However I didn't actually care. That he had a number made me more determined to snatch it from him. Sadly I didn't have Astral with me. It was not like I couldn't snatch numbers by myself, Cy had an ability that if won in the duel, he could made the number submit to it, after the battle. Like it would remove its influence on its holder and become a member of our team. I was not sure it was working with Quinton this time though. Since he was not controlled, but the one who was controlled. Quinton looked at me.

"So are you giving up Zaira?" He asked and tilted his head "There is no way you can win over my Number".

I sneered. I was not about to give up. Right now I had nb 10 illumiknight on the field. Dyson sphere hadn't killed it because of my last trap, but I was in a big trouble. I needed to get Cy out there. I drew and smiled a little.

"I activate XYZ treasure from my hand" I said "There are two xyz monster on my field so I can draw two cards".

I drew and hoped I got at least one of these card I needed. I smiled when the heart of my friend didn't let me down.

"I activate Nb 10's special ability, by removing a Ou, I can discard a card from my hand to the grave, I can draw a card". I discarded the monster "Flash wolf". If it ever was send to the grave by a eff, I could summon it to my field. (Lv4 1800 att).

Then I drew and got the card I really needed. A monster card. I summoned "Wolf" to the field. Then I overlayed them to summon Cy.

"Grr mistress" said Cy in a angry tone "May I take him down! Grr, he annoys me".

"He is all yours Cy" I said and smiled. Cy sounded really happy.

"You are going down hunter" Cy said in a cold tone "No one annoys my Mistress and calls her names. Not on my watch Grr!".

I facepalmed a little. So that was why Cy was so angry. Figured it was as protective as always. Quinton looked at me.

"Nice bond you have with it. Your number card I mean" He said and looked at Cy?

"Wait you can see him? As in spirit form?" I asked.

I was stunned. Only Hart had been able to. Kite couldn't and he was a hunter. Quinton smirked.

"Yeah. He is quite fierce. But he is still weaker than my dyson sphere" He said.

"Grr I shall give you weak" Cy growled and looked at me "Mistress?".

"Yeah I am on it. I activate Cy's eff. Since it is my turn and I remove a Ou, I can destroy your facedown card and your monster. Go wolf hauling" I said and Cy ate a Ou. Quinton looked shocked.

"No. Wait you can't!" Quinton said in disbelief, when Cy destroyed his monster and his only defense.

I just smirked and attacked him directly with my two monsters making his life points hit zero. Quinton felt to the ground, but like I had anticipated I couldn't steal his number. Quinton got up on his feets. He didn't look happy.

"You won" He said and sighed "You are a good duelist, just as he said you would".

I really didn't listen that much to his speech. I just wanted that heart piece.

"A duel is a duel" I said coldly "So give me that heart piece so we both can continue our lives blueberry".

Quinton looked at me and sighed. He took out the shaped heart medaljon, who made you go to the final when you had all heart pieces in it. I noticed that Quinton already had two hearts in it. How was that possible? The WDC hasn't even begun? Unless he had beaten up one before dueling me. I sighed.

"Well you won this fair and square" He said slowly and took a piece out. It was jumping around in his hand, and was he smirking "Try see if you can catch it".

Then he tossed it upwards. I sneered and was looking up in the sky. The piece were slowly falling down, but I was not sure if it could survive getting smashed to the ground like that. I was really fixated on the piece, that I didn't notice what was happening around me. Like the fact that Quinton was glowing blue all of the sudden on his forehead. I slowly catched the heart piece and placed it in my heart medaljon. I sneered.

"What is your problem loser? Just because you lost doesn't mean..." I begun, but I never finished the sentence.

I was looking into Quinton's eyes and the blue glowing mark on his forehead. I felt really weird all of the sudden.

"Look at me Zaira" he said in a strange voice "Look into my eyes NOW!".

"What are you... doing to me?" I whispered and grabbed my head. It felt like it was gonna split and I screamed. "Cy. Make it stop". Quinton chuckled a little.

"Your number is not strong enough. The duel was not just for fun. It was there to make you and your number use up a lot of energy as well" He said coldly "Now look at me Zaira. Look closely and fall asleep".

I couldn't resist. Whatever he was doing, I couldn't resist his voice. I looked up at him and felt dizzy. I fell forward and could feel my body being so tired. Quinton had catched me before I fell to the ground. I was lying weakly in his arms, looking up at him.

"Wha... what where are.. you taking... me" I whispered weakly. Quinton looked at me.

"To Vetrix" was the only thing he said and then everything went black.

Shark's p.o.v.

"Zaira!" Shark screamed and tried to get free.

It was not possible. Shark was in panic inside. No. She was not taken again. Not before his eyes again. However that was exactly what happened. This brother of Quattro had done something to Zaira and Shark saw when she felt into his arms. He had placed her inside a wan of some sort, and was about to drive away. Shark was furious. They were kidnapping her and what was even more worse, in front of him and he couldn't do a thing. Behind him he could hear Quattro chuckle. Grace was not saying a word.

"Well that went better than I expected" Quattro said and grinned "Even if it took a while". Shark moved his head and sending a cold glare at him.

"What do you mean? Was this all a trap?" Shark said. He was boiling inside now.

"Well of course Shark" Quattro said "She had been the target all along. She was hard to get alone though, since you kept her company all the time. So we created the whole setup here. So separate you from her". Shark sneered angry.

"Oh you mean Quinton did set this up Quattro" Grace said coldly "You couldn't make a plan like this, even if your life depended on it". Quattro snort.

"Oh yeah try me!" He said. Grace was rolling with her eyes.

"Just open the portal Baka" She said "I am at my limit soon".

Quattro sneered, but a minute after a yellow mark was glowing on his hand. A portal appeared.

"Hold it!" sneered Shark "Tell me where you are talking Zaira!". Quattro smirked.

"If you really want to know Shark, then participate in the carnival. You will find out there. " Quattro said and grinned.

He tossed the heart piece on the floor beside Shark now. Shark sneered angry.

"I will never forgive you for this Quattro!" Shark yelled "Nor any of you. I will find her and I will get my revenge! Mark my words!". Quattro smirked.

"You can try. You can try" He said and walked through the portal.

Grace followed him seconds later and as the portal closed, so did the spell placed on Shark. He quickly grabbed the heart piece and rushed down the building. He grabbed his motorcycle and rushed out of there, hoping that he could catch up on Quinton.

"Zaira!" He yelled out loud "I will never give up! Don't worry! I will find you!".

A,n: A really sad ending. Or so do I think. Hope you liked it at least. If you haven't figured it out, Grace is the girl Zaira bumped into on her first school day and later heard crying at the school spirit day. Her crest color is purple by the way. However for the next chapter. Shark is still looking for Zaira. The Vectrix family has their play in it as well. Even through I think Zaira is out of it for most of the next chapter. Yuma on the other hand is having a sucker dueling match, since the WDC has begun. Hope you all find this interesting.