Time Passes 8

He...he really did care for her, huh?

"That's not fair, you know?" she pointed out, yet despite her words she couldn't stop her lips from curving up, "Saying things like that, going to those kind of lengths for me, at this rate..."

At this rate, what? She'd end up falling for him? Maybe. Or maybe she was already falling. Her stomach fluttered as he merely smirked wider at her words.

It was almost amusing now that she thought about it. All those rich guys promising her anything she wanted, the honeyed words and compliments and more. None of it had ever made her the slightest bit interested.

Yet here she was, completely in over her head with a guy who blatantly leered at her, made no attempts to hide he wanted to bed her, was crude, violent and arrogant.

He was practically full of characters flaws.

Yet, at the same time he could be sweet and helpful. He was reliable, protective and strong. And he went out of his way for her to great extremes, just as he was saying now. He was the complete opposite of the typical guys who came on to her.

And it was totally working. She honestly couldn't blame Jasmine for how muddled he left her. He left Alexis just the same after all.

How such a blatant asshole could be so endearing totally escaped Alexis. But she couldn't help but fall under that same sway.

But, sweet as his words were, "I can't let you do that," she shook her head and refuting them, "You're gonna put your soul on the line if you do it."

Despite how much she longed to find and save her brother. A large part of her didn't want to lose Yarden in the process. It was odd she realised, how much he actually meant to her.

They'd only known each other a month.

"They'll come regardless," Yarden pointed out before shrugging, "Besides, I've already signed up for the position."

Her eyes widened, "You did!?" she gasped, then her eyes narrowed, "Why did you go ahead and do it without telling me all this first!?" she demanded, worry and fear seizing her heart.

"Because they're hardly the worst thing out there, and I struck a deal with Chancellor Sheppard to prepare in advance for them," Yarden answered easily, apparently unbothered by tone. He reached over to the coffee table in front of the couch, which she just now realised had multiple deck holsters sitting on it and slid open one of them and pulling out a single card, "C'mon Alexis, you know me. I'm not going for just your brother, I'm going for the whole shebang. I'll grab everything these Shadow Riders or whatever have for my own benefit when I crush them, save your brother and come out stronger than ever."

To punctuate his words, he held the card up for her to see and her eyes widened. She'd never even heard of anything like this card before.

Cyberdark Dragon - Level 8 - Dark/Machine/Fusion/Effect - 1000/1000

This monster cannot be Special Summoned except by Fusion Summon. When this monster is Special Summoned, select 1 Dragon-Type monster in your Graveyard and equip it to this card. This card gains ATK equal to the equipped card's ATK. This card gains 100 ATK for each Monster Card in your Graveyard. If this card would be destroyed by battle, the equipped monster is destroyed instead.

...What was that? It was a terrifying looking monster. But that name, Cyberdark Dragon. It obviously had something to do with the Cyber Dragons that Zane had.

'He said he struck a deal with Chancellor Sheppard!' her eyes shot even wider open with realisation. Chancellor Sheppard, who was the head of the Cyber Style Dojo and the one to pass on the Cyber Dragons to Zane!

It reminded her eerily of Cyber End Dragon. And it even had three component monsters to make it up. Cyberdark Keel, Cyberdark Edge and Cyberdark Horn.

It seemed to be a machine monster just like the normal Cyber Dragon's, but its effect targeted dragons in the graveyard. On first glance, she'd say Cyber End Dragon was much more powerful, but...in the hands of Yarden. Well, he had a way with cards that just surprised her. And he loved playing both dragons and messing with the graveyard.

'He has a card that lets him send a fusion monster from the extra deck to the graveyard if I remember right.' the busty blonde thought to herself. Extra Foolish Burial she thought. With that, he could send one of his Five Headed Dragons to the graveyard could he not? And immediately use this cards effect to attach Five Headed Dragon to it for a monster with six thousand attack points at the very least. But considering it needed to be fusion summoned, through that method it would be beast of at the very least six thousand three hundred attack points.

That seemed like a play Yarden would like to pull. But, she knew it wouldn't be just that simple. He wouldn't be showing it off to her so blatantly if it was something that 'simple'.

"It fits well with your deck and is a powerful card, but...I don't see why you show it off to me as if it's some big achievement." she pointed out, looking into his eyes.

After all, as great as it was. She'd seen Yarden summon two Five Headed Dragons in a single turn and then use Gift Of The Martyr to give the attack points of one to the other for a massive ten thousand attack point monster that put even Cyber End Dragon summoned through Power Bond to shame.

It just didn't quite measure up to that.

"Well, lemme put it like this sweet cheeks," Yarden grinned, "Cyberdark Dragon has a spirit. A very young spirit, but despite how young it is, it's nearly as powerful as my strongest spirit, Serpent Night Dragon."

She knew it!

Alexis knew there had to be a reason he was so gosh damn protective of the reputation of Serpent Night Dragon. Why he was so angry at Rex Raptor. Because Serpent Night Dragon was no mere card and not just the headliner of his deck.

But a spirit he seemed to be very proud of.

"I don't know how to quantify that," she replied, "Like, how strong is Serpent Night Dragon as a spirit?"

"Hmm, I got ya'," Yarden tapped his chin and hummed, "Alright, lemme put it like this. If Serpent Night Dragon wanted, my good pal could absolutely demolish this entire dorm in a few minutes."

Ah, that powerful. That really was quite daunting.

...After all, the Obelisk Blue male dorm was actually the size of a large castle. So just one single spirit of his had greater fire power than a tank or military fighter jet.

"How many spirits do you have?" Alexis couldn't help but ask, "And how many are near that strong?"

She somehow was dreading the answer she was going to receive.