A,N: Here is the next chapter. Thanks for all you readers support. I really appreciate your Votes, follow and comments on this story. It makes me motivated to write more lol. 😊 As a little note for you Zexal experts. Yeah the time line plot might seem weird now, but I promise you I will explain it in due time. Now have fun reading.

Barian's p.o.v.

Inside the red, glowing, crystallized barian palace, was the yellow Barian named Mizar, on his way through the corridors towards the throne room. It was there their current leader Dumon were normally present during the day. Mizar needed to discuss something with him, however when he reached the throne room, Dumon was surprisingly not there. Mizar groaned in annoyance at that.

"Of all the times he could be missing" he sneered out and clenched his fist "Where could he..". Mizar stopped himself. Something dawned to him. He growled angrily.

"Of course! How foolish of me to have forgotten" Mizar then sneered out "Today is the day! That blasted hateful day! Which means Dumon is most likely at that place".

Then he ran with incredible speed down the hallways now, and minutes later left the palace.

Time skip.

Dumon was right now present at the baria sea. The red, acid sea, no one neared because of well the acid in it. However that didn't mean you couldn't sit at the coast, which was exactly what Dumon was doing. Using one of the crystals who was floating there as chair, Dumon was sitting there, tossing small crystal pieces in the lake. He was feeling rather depressed today. Dumon sighed a little. He couldn't help it. This was the day after all. That dreadful day of the year Dumon hated with all his might. He sighed once again and tossed another piece into the lake. Soon he would have to place another stroke inside his room somewhere to resemble another year. He really hated this time of the year more than anything else, and it didn't help that Girag and Alito had failed in collecting the numbers as well. It just made this stupid day more annoying and sad. He sighed again.

"I figured I would find you here Dumon" a voice then suddenly said.

"Hello Mizar" Dumon replied without even looking.

It was not really hard to guess who it was. Girag and Alito was in the human world, his servant would have dressed him with a title first, and if it really would had been Vector, an annoying laugh would follow, when he spoke to anyone. A hand touched his shoulder now.

"Dumon, how are you feeling?" Mizar asked him. Dumon looked at him and sighed.

"I am all right" he replied and turned his gaze at one of the floating crystals.

"No! No you are not!" Mizar sneered coldly and snort "I know what day it is today. This day you hate so much. No correction, the day we all hate so much. I know you have been counting, so how many years has it been now?".

"14 years, starting tomorrow" Dumon replied slowly and sighed. Mizar snort at that.

"Then I believe it is time for you to let it go Dumon.." the yellow barian said slowly. Dumon's eyes opened wide and was now glaring coldly at Mizar.

"No! Never!" Dumon sneered and jumped down from the crystal. He was having a firm cold look at him now. "I told you I will never give up. I will find her!".

"Dumon be reasonable, we haven't found Nash or Marin either" Mizar replied slowly. That however made the gray barian even more worked up.

"How can you even say that?!" Dumon now shouted and had a firm grip in Mizar's coat "Didn't she, they, mean anything to you?! She was your... your..". Dumon couldn't continue that sentence. It all just hurt too much. He let slowly go of Mizar.

"I hate this day!" He sneered out instead. "I just hate it!". Mizar sighed deeply to that.

"Of course they all meant something to me, but we have to stop living in the past" he then replied "We can't have a leader, who has a breakdown once every year". Dumon however didn't listen. Or refused to listen at this point.

"Mizar why did you come here?" he instead asked in a cold tone. Mizar sighed now. He knew he couldn't change the mind of the gray barian now. On this day he really didn't listen well to this topic at all.

"Girag and Alito has made no progress in collecting numbers" Mizar instead decided to say. He could at least talk to him about normal events.

"Then I will send you to see that we succeed" Dumon replied and was holding three small red spheres in his hand "These will help you achieve that"

"What are those?" Mizar questioned. Dumon looked at him.

"These are Baria sphere cubes" He replied "These will allow you to create a temporary sphere field. When we battle within those fields, we can duel with all our power. Even in the human world. We are now free to have to use incompetent human duelists to battle on our behalf. With these we can take on Yuma Tsukumo, and retrieve the numbers, using our own devastating might. I never imagined we had caused to use these, but Girag and Alito's failures forced my hand. One of the three is yours. Give the other two to Girag and Alito. I hope they don't disappoint me again. My faith in the two of them, has faulted. I am relying principally on you Mizar. Defeat Yuma Tsukumo and retrieve the numbers".

Mizar eyes were filled with determination now. He took the sphere cubes from Dumon's hand.

"I will not fail you, my friend" he then said and opened up a portal. He was about to go through it, when Dumon placed a hand on his shoulder.

"Mizar, when you are in the human world, will you look for.. her?" he then asked "I know I have to let go at some point, but I feel like I can't. I know she is alive somewhere. The same way I know Nash and Marin are". Mizar hummed at that.

"Are you letting it go then? The counting?" Mizar questioned.

"If you come back, and haven't found any of them.. then, then I will let go Mizar" Dumon replied slowly and sighed "You are right. It has been 14 years already. We can't have a leader who..".

"That was not what I meant my friend" Mizar interrupted "You shall not lose your faith in our comrades. They will all return. I want you to stop the counting. Stop thinking another year has passed, and instead think of finding her. It is more healthy".

Then Mizar walked through the portal and disappeared.

Time skip.

Mizar was walking through a misty crystalized area, who was almost deserted, but only almost. This area was claimed prohibited by Mizar himself. It was his land. Some part even his kingdom, if you could call it that, and he didn't want people to enter. It was more for their safety than anything else. There had only been one person beside himself that he ever let in here, and Mizar seriously doubted that person would ever return here ever again. The yellow barian stopped up and was now standing in front of a giant dragon. It let out a deafening roar.

"Who's there?!" it questioned and looked down at Mizar "Oh I am sorry Master. Thought it was weaklings in here I could eat". Mizar snort at the dragon.

"You always had a big appetite" Mizar then replied "I need your power. If you are that hungry, you can eat my victims". The dragon roared loudly again.

"Only if you can catch me master" It then replied "If you are weak, I will eat you".

"I wouldn't have it any different" Mizar replied in a cold tone, and was holding up a black blank card.

It began glowing, and was slowly absorbing the dragon into it. The dragon roared loudly though. It didn't want to be contained. It was now sending blasts and boulders of the terrain after him. All so Mizar didn't get to him as his power. However the barrier around the card was strong, and were blocking every damage coming Mizar's way. The dragon roared again and sent shockwaves of its power towards him now. Mizar was not moving an inch. He was standing firm, showing the dragon who was in charge in here. More energy got absorbed into the card, and after several attempts of fighting for its freedom, the dragon submitted to him. The restly energy of the dragon got absorbed into the card, and Mizar now contained its soul and immense power. Mizar even got pushed backwards when all the dragon's energy were flying into the now not so blank card anymore.

"I am yours Master" the dragon then said from it. Mizar looked at it and chuckled.

"Failure is not possible with you in my deck now, is it Tachyon?" he then questioned.

"Of course not Master. Who shall I devour for you?" The dragon asked.

"Yuma Tsukumo" Mizar said and chuckled. He opened up a new portal, and were soon now headed for earth.

Zaira's p.o.v.

I was running, and running and running. Yuma was right behind me, followed by Astral. We could hear a loud roar in the background. I was not sure what it was, but I was not stopping to find out. My eyes fixated on Yuma, who was right beside me now. He was also running as fast as he could. At some point I was wondering what he and Astral was doing here. Or better yet what was I doing here. I had no idea what we actually were running from. A loud roar could be heard behind us now.

"It is gaining on us!" Yuma yelled in a frightening tone and picked up the pace. What he didn't notice however was the small rock at the ground, who he of course tripped over.

"Yuma! You okay?" Astral asked worriedly and flew over to him.

I stopped up as well, to help him up. Yuma was having a very frightening look on his face. Then I heard it as well. The sound that frightened Yuma so much. The defeating roar behind us. I jumped backwards and landed surprisingly on my feet. I was amazed I even could do that in the first place. I also dodged this blast who was coming out of nowhere. However sadly Astral was not so lucky. He got hit pretty badly by this energy ball.

"Astral!" Yuma and I shouted in unison.

Yuma ran over to his friend and tried to help him up. He was injured pretty badly now. I on the other hand, had turned my attention to this.. this monster who was now facing us. This mighty dragon. Or so did it look from afar. It was hidden in the shadows and was hard to see, besides its red glowing eyes. Those I could see pretty well. The dragon roared again. It sounded hungry. It walked forward. Its destination was clearly Yuma and Astral who was rather defenseless. I ran over there shielding them from this mighty monster.

"Run!" I shouted, and Yuma didn't think twice about that and began running.

I was ready to defend my brother and friend here. Suddenly a scream could be heard in the background. I turned surprised my head to see the ground crumble around Yuma's feet, and he fell to who knows where. Astral of course followed. He tried protecting Yuma, which left me alone with this mighty dragon. I was really scared and didn't know what to do. Should I follow Yuma and Astral, and in some way escape the dragon, or should I stay and face it head on?

"When you are standing face to face with a dangerously situation, always fight! Even if you know you are going to die. I would rather die with my pride, knowing I did my best that run away with a shattered pride, or run away as the coward I am".

I was rubbing my head a little. Where did those thoughts come from? It came inside my head, but the voice saying it, had clearly not been my own. However I really didn't think twice over it. I decided to act on this advice and take the dragon head on! The dragon now attacked. I jumped up in the air and surprisingly punched the dragon in the face. It's forehead to be exact. Right between the eyes. The dragon uttered a surprised roar. It was clear it was taken aback by that. Then it roared angrily. Like it wanted an explanation for my actions. However it was not getting one. I never actually faced a dragon before, but I was not gonna back down now. I was in charge here, and I was gonna show it too. So in the end I said the only thing that came to my mind.

"Sit dragon! If you don't do as I say, I will pummel your face once more! Have I made myself clear?!" I now shouted at the monster.

My face turned a little red at that though. Where in the world did those words come from? However what really surprised me was when the dragon actually did as I said. It placed its rear end in the ground with a big BUMP. Then it moved its head a little close to me, and sniffed at me. Seconds later its eyes widened and like Cy did when he tried to nuzzle me, the dragon placed its head at my chest and pushed me a little. It was like it wanted me to pet it. I of course did as it asked. I could feel it's scales as it petted it. Suddenly this dragon wasn't so scary any more.

"You are not so scary are you?" I asked the dragon and smiled. However before the dragon could say or do anything, a voice now rang through the air in here. It sounded evil.

"Stay away from my dragon!" it shouted and a blast flew towards me and hit..

I let out a painful scream and my eyes flew open. I found myself in my bed inside Yuma's room actually, and I had a feeling I never left. I took a deep breath and calmed myself down. This had all just been a dream. A creepy nightmare of some kind. I rubbed my head a little. The big scary dragon however was still in my memories however. The dragon and the blast..

"Zaira!" I could hear someone yell and soon saw Yuma rush down from the attic.

He were quick at my side, but for some reason I also noticed sweat running down Yuma's forehead. My eyes widened a little. Now that I thought about it, Yuma and Astral had been in my dream as well. Did Yuma and I just have the same dream?

"Are you okay sis?" Yuma asked worriedly "You look like you had a bad dream". I nodded slightly at that.

"Yeah, but it was nothing special right?!" I said and actually hoped Yuma wouldn't ask more into it.

I just wanted to forget this embarrassing moment. Yuma however looked at me with big eyes now. Something clearly told me, Yuma wasn't agreeing with me here. Then he shrugged rather casually. Or tried.

"Yeah nothing special" he replied quickly "Nothing special at all". Then he rushed up the attic before I could ask more into this.

Barian's p.o.v.

Alito and Girag was outside in the mountains training. They had both decided that they needed it, since their last failures again Yuma and his friends. Alito, more on beating Zaira and Yuma though, than Girag who was focused on just winning. They were training in the wildness, training draws, attacks, balance and speed. Well Everything actually who could make them have an inch over their opponents. They had just finished training for today, when they both noticed something strange.

"Alito, look up there" Girag said and pointed in the sky. Cloud was acting really weird all of the sudden "Could it be..".

"I see it" Alito replied.

His eyes narrowed a little. The clouds were turning into a whirlpool "It looks like someone came from Barian world". Girag nodded at that. Lightning were shown in the sky, and it blasted down to the earth, creating a giant crater in its wake. Luckily Girag and Alito was a little far away, so they didn't get hit by this explosion. They both however arrived at the crater as soon as things had calmed down a little.

"They made quite the entrance" Girag then said slowly "Who do you think it could be?". Alito gulped a little.

"I have an idea, but I hope I am wrong" he replied and looked down in the crater.

The smoke began disappearing, and they found a boy with long yellow hair, who had a feather accessory in the left side of it. He was dressed in white pants and shirt, who was covered by a gray vest. Gray shoulder pads were added to the set along with gray gloves. He was having blue cold eyes, and red markings at his cheeks in his face. The boy turned his cold eyes at Girag and Alito, which made them both shiver.

"And I was totally right" Alito mumbled out and gulped "This could get ugly.. for us". Girag didn't look so good as well. He tried smiling though.

"Um hi Mizar" he said in a scared tone "How's it going?".

Alito and Girag was staring at Mizar as he gave them the sphere cubes. Then Alito couldn't contain himself and were smiling like hell.

"You are saying we can create a sphere field and then have a duel inside of it?" Girag questioned slowly. Mizar nodded at that.

"And best of all, we can use all our barian powers" Alito added happily "Awesome!".

"With these there is no way we could lose" Girag said. He was smiling as well.

"Well I think that remains to be seen" Mizar replied in a cold tone "Dumon sent me here, because of your failures. Try not to mess up this time". Then he teleported away to who knows where. Girag and Alito sneered angrily at that.

"We Do go what it takes!" Alito now shouted "Just you wait Mizar. We will prove how strong we are".

Zaira's p.o.v.

We were all walking home from school. It had been like all the other days, which was pretty boring, except for Yuma who hadn't been his cheerful self. Tori and I was looking pretty worried at him, as we walked home together.

"Hey Zaira chan!" a voice now shouted near me, and an arm was placed around my shoulder in casually matter. Which wasn't that casually actually. I sighed inside.

"Hi Ray" I replied and snort "Aren't you over this yet? When will you realize that I don't want all those hugs, and that I am not hugging you back?! Even if you beg".

Since the event in the factory, Ray and I had been getting along much better. I could tolerant him more so to speak. The others really hadn't asked into it either, which I was grateful for. I was not ready to explain to them what happened in that duel. Even though it had been foggy, I had gotten two new cards to my deck. A new form to Cy and a Rank up magic card. I was worried on how Astral would see this, since it did resemble the Rank up magic card the barians were using.

"Ah Zaira chan, you are so cute when you are stubborn" Ray says and grins "I know you want them. You are just not honest with yourself. Like etc. not pushing my arm away at all". I sneered and did just that, but Ray were still grinning. I snort back.

"Need I remind you that I am together with Shark alias Reginald" I said in a cold tone "He will not be happy about this".

That was taking it lightly. One time when Ray had hugged me out of the blue, and Reginald was there as well. Well Ray just got beat up pretty badly, which I didn't have a problem with really. He was way to close.

"I am not afraid of your boyfriend Zaira chan" Ray replied and smiled a happy smile "Actually he can keep all the kisses and all the other stuff you do as a couple. I don't want that. I only want to see you smile. The only way to do that is give you a hug".

Then without warning he placed his arm around my neck and was looking at my face now. apparently waiting for that smile he mentioned. A little smile did get formed on my lips now, and Ray lit up like Christmas. That until I slammed his cheek and pushed him away from me. Ray really should find another way to make me smile. There were other ways to do that than hugging me all the time, but Ray weren't really listening when I tried explaining. That or he ignored it. I shrugged. Serves him well for getting beat up all the time then.

"Av!" Ray said and got up from the ground. He was still grinning though. "That's how it goes if you use the Ray way". He was rubbing his cheek, and had stopped hugging me for now at least.

"Yeah Mr. sunshine" I sneered "Go shine on someone else. Like Yuma over there". Ray looked at me, then over at Yuma, then back to me and Tori.

"Oh geez Yuma kun doesn't look like himself today does he?" he then asked.

"It is because of that dragon" I said in a low voice. Ray and Tori looked at me.

"What did you say?" Ray questioned. I looked away in embarrassment.

"Nothing! Let's keep going" I said and grabbed Yuma's hand and rushed home.

Time skip. The next day.

"Yuma come on! Pick up the pace would yer" yelled Tori. I smiled at her.

"Yeah Yuma" I then added "You are way behind". At that I could hear Yuma sneer.

"Try saying that, while you carry a bag filled with food on your back!" Yuma then replied in an annoyed tone.

He took some couple of more steps up at the long staircase who lead up to Master Roku's sanctuary. I rolled my eyes at that. I was Actually carrying a bag filled with food, but I didn't say anything. Last night Yuma was acting really weird at the dinner table. He was not hungry! It was even his favorite food! Therefore Grandma Haru had sent us both up with two bags, one to see Master Roku, and the other to Haku. I smiled a little. I was actually looking forward to see that hyper active girl Haku again. She reminded me a slight bit of Ray, but was way more hyper, and restless that him. That and she was a girl.

"Oh come on Yuma" Tori yelled. She was some stair steps apart from me. Yuma was dead last of course. "We are almost halfway there".

That made Yuma let out an even bigger sigh. It made me chuckle though.

We arrived at the sanctuary some time later on. Yuma and I was rather beat. These bags were damn heavy, but at least they were good for training.

"Even under the toughest conditions, you have to keep up your training, and never slack behind. If not, you will be the weak one!".

I was rubbing my head. Again. Since that dream, and the events in the factory, these stupid lines, or rules, or advice or whatever they were, had been sufficing inside my head. I didn't know what they were. I really hoped it was memories or something like that, because it was someone else's voice, but like everything else, I couldn't remember who's. It made me a little frustrated! I wanted to know who that was! However in the meantime, Tori had knocked on the door to the sanctuary, and we were greeted by Haku and Kaze.

"Oh It has been so long time Tori! How has it been Yuma!" Haku said and shook their hands like crazy. Then she surprisingly hugged me. "Zaira, how have you been? You must tell me how the ended. Is you and that boy Reginald together? He confessed on live television and, How's Cy..?".

Haku kept on talking like hell, as she let go of me. I sweat dropped a little at that. She just couldn't seem to relax at all. 5 seconds later a sword handle got slammed in the head of Haku. I figured it was not as hard as it looked though, even though Haku did rub her head.

"Haku!" Kaze said and sighed deeply "Calm down. I know you are eager to see them, but at least let them get inside first. Make some tea, okay?!". The girl saluted and rushed inside to do just that. Kaze sighed again. Then sent us a smile.

"Is Haku too hard to handle?" I then asked the ninja. Kaze shook his head.

"No, not at all. She has been calmer, since before I left" He then said "I think she is relaxing a little more too. It is only when guests arrive. Or so do I believe. She just want to talk to well everyone about everything, before they leave. That can't go fast enough".

I hummed at that. I had a feeling the reason Haku was more relaxed was because her beloved Kaze was here. I wondered though, if that still was a crush or had turned into something deeper.

However we were of course invited inside. There we found out that Master Roku actually wasn't here. He had gone on a vacation somewhere, and left the temple in Kaze's and Haku's care. That made me a little uncomfortable. Leaving the sanctuary to a hyper active girl, and a boy with anger issues, was not my first choice. But then again, that must mean Master Roku trusted them, and I was happy for them because of that. Yuma was rather grumpy now though.

"Just great. I carried a back filled with food up a giant staircase for nothing" he said in a sulking tone. I smiled a little. Haku was actually eating a little from my bag, so I wasn't worried really.

"Well we will let you rest for a while Yuma" Kaze then said with a smile "You can stay as long as you like". At those words Haku flew up and smiled like hell.

"Yes! Zaira and Cy can share my room. We can have a long girl talk and stuff" she shouted eagerly and before I could say or do anything, she had grabbed my hand and rushed away with me.

Time skip.

And we had a long girl talk, and pillow fight and a duel. Well Haku just couldn't stay still for long of course. However, after our talk, I did find out Haku really still had a crush on Kaze, and I encouraged her to tell him this one of these days. When I told Haku about Shark and I, she was thrilled and wanted to hear all the details, while she was polishing all the statues outside. I smiled a little at that. Haku was one of a kind. At some point we heard laughing, and found Yuma and Tori having a water fight at the river. We of course joined in. It was easy to see Tori tried to cheer Yuma up, and a water fight was a really good thing to do to get rid of our worries. It did however get a little overboard when Haku literally jumped in, creating a little wave, making us all wet. But still it was really fun. Later on I found out Yuma have had a good chat with Kaze, and given Yuma two cards from Master Roku. That of course made Haku smile awkwardly. She was holding up the trap "Trusted bond" and told me the Master had also told her to give me this card, if my life ever were troubling or confusing. Her Miko powers had apparently picked up on my distress lately, and dream as well. It was true that I was a little worried. I mean the advices and memories of my past and everything, were really confusing, and I think the card should remind me, that I wasn't alone. In the end we all decided to go back to the temple, and have a big lunch before we left for home again. After all Grandma Haru's food, shouldn't go to waist.

Shark's p.o.v.

Shark sighed annoyed. He was leaning up his motorcycle and were just waiting. Everything he had planned today, had well just changed. He had plans about taking Zaira out for a date this weekend, but Zaira had surprisingly declined. Something about that she didn't really feel like it, and needed to help Yuma get over some kind of nightmare. Shark sighed again. He was of course not happy about that, but he had accepted his girlfriend's decision. Zaira hadn't looked very happy when she postponed the date. He had noticed her sad eyes and wrinkles at her forehead. Something was clearly bothering her too, but if Zaira needed space, he was not gonna deny her that. He just hoped she would come to him with her worry, whenever she needed to talk. However sadly it was for one of those reasons, he was now hanging out with Rio, who was out shopping. He was no fan of it. Especially since Rio could use hours on it. One of the reasons he was waiting at the motorcycle for her.

"I am all done Reginald" Rio said as she walked out of the shops. She was carrying a lot of stuff as usual. Shark just rolled his eyes at that.

"You are late" he sneered angrily.

He really wondered how girls could use so much time shopping. The only one he could stand doing stuff like that with was Zaira.

"Ah just calm down Reginald" Rio replied and chuckled.

She loved getting on his nerves after all. Then suddenly she suddenly froze up. She had a distant look in her eyes. She had even dropped all her bags. Shark looked worriedly at her.

"Rio are you okay?" he questioned.

"It is coming" she said in that distant voice "It is flying straight for us, and nothing is going to be spared. Totally destruction in its wake". Shark's eyes widened.

"What is flying towards us? What destruction? Where?" he asked quickly.

He knew her sister had some kind of vision, and he needed to know more before she lost that precious gift of hers. Rio didn't say anything at first. She was just standing there. Shark sighed. Guess she couldn't come up with more. He figured he needed to bring her home to rest. He sat her carefully on the bike, when Rio suddenly said another low sentence which made Shark's blood freeze.

"Zaira. Zaira and Yuma are in danger" she said. Shark's eyes widened in horror.

"Show me where that danger is Rio" he then said and jumped up on the motorcycle. He started the engine, and drove away pretty fast.

Zaira's p.o.v.

We were walking home from the sanctuary. Tori, Yuma and I. After a good meal we all decided it was time to leave, but even though we had a long way to go, Yuma still took the longest way home. I figured Yuma still had a lot to think about because of the dream. I myself had that as well, considered the recent events. Fresh air would do us both some good. However Tori of course thought it was because of something different. Like etc. Yuma asking her out.

"Any reason we are taking the long way home?" she questioned and smiled "Is there something you wanna ask me Mr. Tsukumo?".

I couldn't keep myself from chuckling when I saw Yuma's flustered face. Tori really thought Yuma would confess to her or something like that. She should know Yuma was clueless about love.

"Me? Ask you? No, why? I know everything. It's cool" Yuma babbled out.

"Speaking of cool" I said and interrupted their soon to be squabble "It is getting chilly now. Maybe we should go down in the city again. You know, because of the warm".

The others nodded and we began leaving. Sadly we didn't come far. I sensed something coming, and by reflects alone, I jumped out of the way. That was a good thing because seconds later a blast flew passed my previous location, and would have hit me, if I hadn't moved. Sadly that was not the only energy blast. Tori got hit with another blast from somewhere, and hit the ground soon after. She was hurt pretty badly, and looked like she was half unconscious.

"Tori!" Yuma yelled and I was sure he was about to run over to her, when we heard another voice speaking above our heads.

"Oh I wouldn't be concerned with her. You are better off worrying about yourself Yuma".

The voice came from above us. In a tree was a boy standing. He had golden hair and were dressed in white and gray clothes. My eyes narrowed at that. Who was he? And what did he want? Those thoughts ran through my head now.

"Who are you?" Yuma questioned in an angry tone "And why did you blast my friend?". The boy looked confidentially at Yuma and I. He snort coldly.

"Looks like I missed one" he then said and glared at me "Well that won't happen again". I snort coldly back at that.

"Try as you might" I responded "You can't hit me, I will just dodge it again. I can sense your blasts. You are a barian, am I right?".

"Yes, I am, and I am here to get Yuma Tsukumo's numbers" the boy sneered "But you on the other hand are an unnecessary distraction, I will have to get rid of".

An energy blast was shown in his hands now, and I knew it was those he had used beforehand at me and Tori. I sneered inside. Bring it! The boy and I were glaring at each other, before he tossed it at me with fast speed. The energy blast was faster and even stronger composed than before, which surprised me big time. However my eyes were still locked on it. The words from the dream was running through my head now. I remembered my pride. This time I was not gonna back down! I intercepted the blast head on, because I wasn't a coward. Then the blast hit me.

I was not totally sure how I actually did this. The only thing I remembered, was that magenta energy beam who had been surrounding me. I remembered that color though. It was the same color energy I had used doing the events in Heartland tower, around the duel with Dr. Faker and the weird barian. Ray had also told me I had been surrounded in that color, when I faced Veronica and 87. Some seconds later the blast got redirected into the sky and exploded into small fragments of light. As the dusty light disappeared, Yuma, the boy and Tori, who was trying to get up on the ground, looked surprised at me. The boy were the first to compose himself though. He sent me a cold glare, where after he jumped down from the tree.

"You didn't run away this time?" He questioned "Why? Why did you take the blast head on?!". I rolled my eyes at his confusion.

"Because it is only cowards who run, and I am no coward" I said firmly "I have my pride".

Yuma's eyes widened at that. I must admit that maybe hadn't been the best way to describe me, considered I have been a runaway for the past two years, before I met Yuma and the others, but guess I really had changed. Or so I hoped. Those words from my dream, just filled me with courage, but then again I did tame a dragon so yeah. Compared to the dragon, this boy didn't seem that dangerous.

"You blocked my blast.." The boy muttered slowly. He was glaring coldly at me once again "And the energy you used to do so.. NO, it can't be! Of all the days, and then.. I just can't be true. But the pride..".

I looked rather confused at the boy, and wondered what was wrong. He had been all determined to beat Yuma and I a minute ago, and now he was so surprised that he was talking to himself? Some barian. Then without warning he suddenly teleported and was now standing in front of me. So close in fact that he was invading my personal space.

"Ahr stay away from me you annoying feather blondie Monster!" I yelled and tried to hit him.

I just wanted to push him away, but he caught my fist. He even locked it with his own hand, squeezing it a little. His eyes even narrowed a lot over my little feather blondie monster reply. I really should stop insulting and give people nicknames. Even though he was my enemy. The boy was staring at me with such intense blue eyes that I was too surprised to do anything as of yet. Then as quick as this weird moment had begun, it also ended rather fast. The boy let go of me completely and took some steps backwards, while snorting in the process.

"You have orange hair and those purple eyes" He then mused out in a cold tone "Your pride and attitude resembles.. Is fate playing a cruel trick on me? Or is there a reason, this.. On the most dreadful day 14 years ago, that a suitable lookalike shows? This is too good to be true. There is no way you are Her". I sneered angrily.

"Hey, I thought you were coming for the numbers. So get to it, instead of getting distracted" I then yelled "I don't know what you are talking about, and who this person is, but let's duel".

I really wanted to kick his butt after what he did to Tori. That I was pretty determined on.

Mizar's p.o.v.

A lot of thoughts were running through Mizar's mind right now. Too many to even comprehend. Most of them revolving around this weird girl. The others being around Dumon, and the promise he had given him. That he was gonna go look for Her, but he didn't think that meant right now. He had thought about doing that after the numbers were secured from Yuma Tsukumo. After all the safety of their world came first. However then this girl had been with his target. This girl who could dodge and block his energy blasts. This girl with orange hair and strange purple eyes. This girl who were annoyingly prideful and had an attitude he hadn't seen for decades. This fierce nature. Not many people, let alone barians had such a fierce nature. Mizar could see it in her eyes. Not even Alito, and he were fighting with bare fists sometimes. Mizar turned to glare at the girl once again. He had always been a straightforward person, who didn't get swayed by his mission no matter what. He never got distracted, and if this orange girl was not here right now, he would surely have been dueling Yuma Tsukumo right now inside the sphere field. However this girl caught his attention. There were not many who had the guts to face him head on. Even Alito and Girag were in some way scared of him. As they should, since Mizar was stronger than they were. However this girl wasn't. Secondly she also looked an awful lot like Her in human form. For a second, he even thought this girl might be her, but then everything had changed when he had looked eyes with her. He had seen the painfully truth there. There were no recognition there. A lot of confusion and anger, who clearly was directed towards him, but no recognition whatsoever.

"Hey, I thought you were coming for the numbers. So get to it, instead of getting distracted" he could then hear her yell. She was hissing angrily "I don't know what you are talking about, and who this person is, but let's duel".

She was ready to face him in a weird human fighting stand, that couldn't stop Mizar from smirking. Like that fighting stand could protect her against him. Something he was gonna prove right now. He snort a little.

"That fighting stand will not help you" Mizar now proclaimed and charged at her. Even in human form, he was fast "Your parades are sloppy and I can instantly break them. Like this!".

He got underneath her parades easily and pushed her in the chest. The girl fell backwards and hit the ground a meter or so from him. Her deck case at her belt, flew off and landed on the ground in front of them. Cards were flying everywhere. A particular spell card on the ground peeked his interest, and he picked it up. Mizar's eyes widened once again. This was a Rank up magic card, even though it was very different than any other rank up magic card he had ever seen.

"Zaira!" Yuma now yelled worriedly.

That made Mizar freeze at least for a second as well. Her name was Zaira? Mizar could see Yuma Tsukumo look from this girl Zaira, and the other girl he had blasted. Apparently he had a hard time deciding on who he should protect. In the end he decided on.. Zaira. Maybe because he had charged at her, but who really knew or cared. Mizar really didn't. Yuma Tsukumo was rushing over picking up the cards on the ground, and quickly gave them to Zaira. Then he was staring angrily at him, and the spell in his hand.

"Who are you, and why are you attacking my friends? Why are you hurting my sister? Give Zaira her card back!" He then sneered out. Mizar's eyes narrowed in even more confusion now.

"Sister?" he questioned and looked at the orange top "You two doesn't even look alike". At that Yuma snort angrily again.

"She is my adopted sister" He sneered back "But who really cares. Leave now or this is really gonna get ugly".

Mizar rolled his eyes at Yuma's empty threat. It was not like he could carry it out anyway. His eyes wandered to this girl.. Zaira. Was it really her? The one they had been looking for in all those years. If it was, then why was she.. Mizar shook his head. It couldn't be her! However he had to test her. Just in case. He had promised Dumon after all. His gaze got turned to Yuma now.

"I can't do that. You see Yuma, I am here to get your numbers. My name is Mizar and I am one of the barian emperors" He said and turned his gaze to Zaira. If it really was her, she should remember his name at least. The girl just glared at him though.

"Mizar? What stupid name is that?" she responded, but then were having a pained look on her face. She had grabbed around her head.

"Zaira?!" Yuma yelled worried and tried comforting her "Zaira what is wrong? Is this another memory?!". Mizar's eyes narrowed at that. Another memory?!

"A dragon! I am seeing a dragon" Zaira then shouted out and shook her head again.

Mizar looked at her. A dragon? As In Tachyon Dragon?! Mizar's eyes narrowed even more. What in the world had happened to her? If this really was her, then she must have lost her memories. He looked from Zaira to Yuma now. He needed to be absolutely sure here. With quick movements, he tossed the card back to the girl. She caught it surprisingly, but now she was staring suspiciously at him.

"I am activating a barian sphere field!" Mizar then yelled and tossed the sphere he had gotten from Dumon up in the air.

It was surrounding Yuma, Zaira and himself. They were all three inside this red cube, who looked like the sphere field, Dr. Faker actually had used. Mizar hissed a little. If this girl really was the one they had been looking for, then he wasn't happy about dragging her in here. But he needed crystal clear proof, and for that he needed his deck.

"Tachyon! You are gonna find out if this girl is my.. Is the last one of us" He then said inside his own mind. A little light came from his deck case.

"As you wish Master. I will do as you wish" The dragon then replied. Mizar nodded to himself. Now he actually really hoped he was wrong.

Zaira's p.o.v.

I looked shocked when this sphere field got assembled around us. We were encased so to speak, and whatever we did we could not leave it. That must have been how Astral had been feeling when he was trapped in the sphere field at Heartland Tower. I really just hoped that this time, the sphere didn't become asset for another sphere field cannon. Although this barian feathered Blondie, didn't seem capable of that at least, considered he entered the field along with us two seconds later. He was glaring coldly at us. I glared of course coldly back, and got my cards back in my deck case.

"No one can leave before there had been in a duel in here" Mizar told us and smirked.

"Well bring it on" I said angry "I will take you down". But for some reason he was looking at me with this weird expression. It was like he was guilty or something, before he once again was glaring at me with those cold blue eyes.

"No I don't want you, I want Yuma. I am here to collect all the Numbers" He replied.

"Oh yeah, but I also got a number" I replied just as coldly and was holding out Cy's card "So bring it on!". Mizar surprisingly chuckled at that. I really couldn't see what was so funny here though.

"No my mission was to get the numbers from Yuma, but I am sure I can squeeze you into my schedule girl, after I beat him" He said and pointed at me with a firm finger "For you and your puny number".

I sneered pretty angry at that. Cy growled as well and we were surely about to reply, when Yuma was holding arm out.

"No he is mine!" He said "He hurt Tori and apparently he want me. So he is gonna get what he wants. The hard way".

"That is right boy. Be Tough, but I know that beneath that tough exterior hides a terrified boy" Mizar said and smirked. He looked at me. "Unlike your little partner over there". My eyes narrowed. Why did he have to mention me here?!

"Terrified?! No way!" Yuma shouted back, but in my ears it didn't sound convincing at all.

If he couldn't convince me, there was no way he could convince this Barian named Mizar. I was still a little shaken up by that name though. Why was it when he mentioned his name, this dragon entered my skull? It hurt in painful matter right now. The worst headache ever I tell you.

"Oh well you two don't know what you are up against" Mizar replied with that smirk. I really wanted to kick his butt. The barian continued "Let me be clear Yuma Tsukumo. You will lose. Unlike your little friend over there. I even think she will be more of a challenge than you".

Once again I looked confused over at that feathered Blondie. He was staring back at me of course, but I really wondered what was going on here. What was his game plan here? Why was he adding me into the conversations all the time? 'Was he trying to make Yuma and I turn against each other or what? The barians should know by now that, that would never happen. However before I knew it, Yuma and Mizar began dueling, and I had to be in here on the side lines and watch. That annoyed me a great deal.

Yuma: 4000 LP's.

Mizar: 4000 LP's.

Yuma started off his move by drawing, and as he did, Astral came out of the key. I figured he properly could feel that a duel was underway, and wanted to see what was going on. Astral had always been able to do that.

"Yuma, Zaira what is going on?" He asked and looked at us. Then he noticed Mizar on the other side of the field.

"Ah so glad you could join us, welcome" Mizar then greeted. If I had been unsure that he was a barian before, I wasn't any longer. Only few people could see Astral, and that included the Barians.

"You can see me. Who are you?" Astral then questioned.

"I can explain" I said and sneered "He is from Barian world".

"Indeed" Astral said in a cold tone.

"But when I am through, he will not remember where he is from" Yume threatened.

I just rolled my eyes. I didn't think it was going to be that easy. Especially since Mizar here apparently was a barian emperor, and not some brainwashed person, Barian world controlled with Barian's force. They had seemingly decided to settle their matter themselves, and that worried me. Yuma made the first move and summoned "Goblindbergh", and because of it's eff, he could also special summon "Ganbara knight" from his hand. He used those two monsters to Xyz summon "Nb 39 Utopia" to the field in att mode. Surprisingly Yuma also played the spell "Overlay chain" onto Utopia, which confused me a lot, but then I figured Kaze must have given him those cards, like Haku gave me a card as well. With this spell Utopia's Ou's couldn't get stolen. I narrowed my eyes. That was not a typical Yuma move.

"I see. Now if Mizar plays 'rank up magic barian's force' and summons a chaos XYZ monster, then it cannot steal any Ou's" Astral commented "I am quite surprised. Your move is certainly not typical of your usual strategies. Overlay chain focusses on defense. I would have anticipated you would have played 'overlay barrage'. It sends all your monster xyz Ou to the grave, and gives your opponent 500 points of damage for each one. It would appear that you actually applied carefully thought this move".

"Well I gotta be extra careful" Yuma mused slowly.

"Yuma.." I replied in a low voice. Maybe that nightmare still scared him a lot. However with that, Yuma ended his turn. Mizar was up.

"I should thank you for summoning Utopia. It was just what I needed Yuma" Mizar then suddenly said and smirked again.

That creepy smirk. I didn't like this at all. However, Mizar started off his move. Since Yuma controlled and Xyz monster, Mizar could summon "Radius the half moon dragon" who was a lv 4 monster, but because it was special summoned, it's level doubled. So it was lv 8. Then he summoned "Parsec, the interstellar dragon" to the field. It was lv 8. Once again, he could special summon it with an effect from his hand. I knew what was coming now, and I didn't like it one bit. Mizar was gonna use them to Xyz summon.

"Hey girl!" he suddenly shouted and I turned surprised towards Mizar. The feather blonde Barian was staring at me once again. "Or Zaira, or whatever you are called. Look closely and tell me if this is the dragon you saw a minute ago".

I looked puzzled at him, but the barian didn't explain himself. Instead he overlaid his two monsters to summon..

"I XYZ summon a monster who's stronger than a cosmic storm. A behemoth with the ability to bend time to do its will. A interstellar terror leaving destruction in its wake. Arise my beast for we shall claim victory for Barian world. Come fought number 107 Galaxy Eyes Tachyon Dragon!".

A fierce black dragon appeared in front of us. Astral, Yuma and I looked rather shocked at the creature in front of us. It roared loudly, and I felt like my head would split in two. I was not sure what was going on here, but I was sure I had seen this monster before. As in before the nightmare this morning.

"A number who is over 100?!" Astral uttered shocked. I couldn't agree more. Astral only said there was 100 number cards, so how could a 107 monster even exist?!

"That monster!" Yuma uttered now in a scared tone. He looked very frightened "It is straight out of my nightmare".

A,N: Well that was that chapter. I know. It is a cruel cliffhanger, but sadly not done with the second part just yet. In the next chapter, the duel continues of course, but changes to some dragon rivalry. I'll tell you that lol. However I can assure you it is gonna be intense. Hope you liked the chapter though. Please comment on what you think.