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[kaiowut99]

DDD:

Dang it, Cloudy! It’s probably because of the error I first got while uploading it; thought the second try worked perfectly until that.  Giving it another go now; third time’s the charm, hopefully.  Thanks for the heads-up!

[voicesofchaos]

zexal or treat!!

Author’s Note: So since I didn’t get a prompt and you have a Judai icon it seemed like a perfect time to write an idea for a cool fic I thought up a few weeks ago which sounded great in my head. But then the actual dueling writing became way more complicated and complex then I first imagined which involved me re-writing it several times. So I am honestly saying “Sorry” if this isn’t as good as it should be but hopefully you like the concept!

“I am the duel spirit Yubel and I need your help.”

Masumi was visibly frightened. She never believed duel spirits actually existed and this one was fearsome looking. She tried to regain her composure as she asked, “Me? Why?”

“Something has happened to my master. We accidentally fell into this dimension and for some reason he has returned to his old self, an old self I know he won’t like very much. Please help! I need a strong duelist to defeat his fusions.”

“Fusions!” now Masumi was interested. “I am LDS’s top Fusion student! Of course I can beat an alien that uses fusions. Let’s go fight him.”

Yubel lead Masumi to Judai, dressed in familiar armor. He proudly said, “You dare challenge the Supreme King! I shall show you the power that will crush your world!”

“I’ll take the first move and show you the pride of LDS’s fusions!” Masumi drew her five cards. She quickly activated Gem-Knight Fusion fusing Gem-Knight Toumaline and Gem-Knight Obsidian to summon Gem-Knight Zirconia with 2900 ATK. Also due to the effect of Gem-Knight Obsidian she special summoned Gem-Knight Toumaline back the field from the graveyard in face-up defense position with 1800 DEF. Then she set a monster face-down and a set a card in her spell/trap zone. Then she ended her turn.

The Supreme King said to himself, “These monsters remind me of someone. What was his name, Johan? Argh it doesn’t matter!” The Supreme King drew his card and special summoned Evil HERO Infernal Prodigy to his field since his opponent controlled a monster and he didn’t. He then tribute summoned Evil HERO Malicious Edge. He then attacked Masumi’s defense position Gem-Knight Tourmaline with his piercing battle damage Evil HERO Malicious Edge.

Masumi LP 4000 → 3200

The Supreme King gloated, “Now so you see my power you fool? There is no defense against me!”

Masumi didn’t like the piercing battle damage but she was still confident as she said, “I still have 2 monsters on my field and my Gem-Knight Zirconia is stronger then yours. You aren’t as supreme of a king as you think.”

“They won’t be there much longer. Behold true power! Still during my battle phase I discard a card to activate from my hand Super Polymerization!” The Supreme King fused his Evil HERO Malicious Edge with Masumi’s Gem-Knight Zirconia to summon Evil HERO Dark Gaia with 5500 ATK!

Masumi was breathless! “Super Polymerization! He used one of my monsters as a fusion material. What high ATK too.”

“It gets worse for you! When Evil HERO Dark Gaia attacks all monsters my opponent controls are switched to face-up attack position!”

Masumi’s set monster, Gem-Knight Sapphire was changed to ATK position with 0 ATK.

“Pathetic! Take 5500 damage to the face!” yelled the Supreme King!

In a panic Masumi activated her trap card, Defense Draw! It reduced the 5500 battle damage to zero and allowed her to draw a card but sadly her Gem-Knight Sapphire was still destroyed by the attack.

“You may take another turn now but you should know that is futile.” explained the Supreme King.

Masumi drew a card and immediately played Pot of Dichotomy allowing her to shuffle 3 monsters with different types into their respective decks to draw 2 cards. She choose the Rock type Gem-Knight Obsidian, the Thunder type Gem-Knight Tourmaline, and Aqua type Gem-Knight Sapphire. She then played One Day of Peace allowing both players to draw a card and take no damage until her next turn. She then ended her turn.

“Stall all you want but the result will be the same.” The Supreme King summoned Evil HERO Infernal Gainer and then banished it allowing Evil HERO Dark Gaia to attack twice a turn from now on. With that he ended his turn with a smirk.

Masumi started her turn and drew a card. She banished Gem-Knight Zirconia from her grave to return Gem-Knight Fusion to her hand. She then summoned Rescue Rabbit and banished it to special summon 2 Gem-Knight Garnet from her deck. She then activated Gem-Knight Fusion to fuse a Gem-Knight Garnet with a Gem-Knight Lazuli in hand into Gem-Knight Ruby. With the effect of Gem-Knight Lazuli she returned Gem-Knight Garnet to her hand. She then banished Gem-Knight Lazuli to return Gem-Knight Fuision to her hand which she used to fuse Gem-Knight Obsidian and Gem-Knight Garnet both from her hand to special summon another Gem-Knight Zirconia. With the effect of Gem-Knight Obsidian she returned Gem-Knight Garnet to the field. Now her field consisted of Gem-Knight Zirconia, Gem-Knight Ruby, and two Gem-Knight Garnet.

Masumi then banished Gem-Knight Obsidian from her graveyard to return Gem-Knight Fusion to her hand. She used it to fuse Gem-Knight Ruby and both Gem-Knight Garnet to special summon Gem-Knight Master Diamond with 3200 ATK. She used to Master Diamond’s effect to banish Gem-Knight Ruby and gain its effect. But then she activated Gem-Knigh Ruby’s effect copied through Gem-Knight Master Diamond to tribute Gem-Knight Zirconia to gain its 2900 ATK for a turn.

Gem-Knight Master Diamond’s ATK became 6100 and attacked the 5500 ATK Evil HERO Dark Gaia!

Masumi explained, “This is the true power of my fusion! You can never defeat all my friends working together with me!”

Judai started returning to his sense, “Friends working together… the true power of fusion. Just like me… and my friends. Oh no what I been doing! I surrender this duel! Thank you for freeing me.”

Yubel smiled and told Masumi, “I knew I could count on you. You really are the queen of fusion in this dimension. We will return to our own home now but we shall never forget you.”

[darkzearus]

zexal or treat!!

Except that then Kaito had kind of looked at Chris when he'd gotten his attention, and the next thing Chris had known he'd been asking if Kaito needed help with any of his work, and Thomas had been laughing off to one side and Chris is an idiot who will probably never get a date in his life.

Particularly not with Kaito Tenjo, he thinks privately to himself, because this is the fifth time in a row that trying to ask Kaito out has ended in a study session, and probably the only thing even keeping Chris from dying of embarrassment is that Thomas only knows about this once.

[ghostrickhorde]

zexal or treat!!

chugga chugga choo choo have a conductor!!

[thayoramoved]

10, 14, and 15?

10. What do you like most about your art?

Going to go with like what most people say when it comes to my stuff and say colouring. COLOURS ARE JUST!!! REALLY IMPORTANT TO ME!!! 

14. What do you like drawing the most?

I’m going to go with another easy way out and just say Judai overall. Like besides the whole favouritism, it’s more in the fact that he just has a really simple and effective design. (Yuma and Yusei are always those characters that I have to check their ref sheet at least once to get it right) I think Yuya is climbing up there too, since his design is also really easy to remember.

15. What do you like drawing the least?

Another thing - animals…? More on the fact that just sketching them at first frustrates me but when it comes to painting it just gets easier and easier almost relaxing the more I paint.

[kaiowut99]

So here's a quick peek at the textless clip in Kaisei with Manjoume's zoom-out as it was in the raw version (as opposed to the textless version's slow zoom-out).  Many thanks to thepalebrideof-frankenstein and aahes for taking the time to edit out the text on the frames where wind is blowing on him! :) I did some further edits in Vegas; I masked in his arm from the textless version (since making it longer was a corrective edit) and did some tweaking with masking the clouds here and there so it looked consistent.  The clouds by Manjoume's side do move juuust a little due to thepalebride's editing, but it's barely noticeable in action, and it especially won't when I add the translated text later on.

Now, I just have to work it into the full video and do some edits on Borderline Battle (made it so the panels with everyone's faces transition out instead of pile onto each other as it was in the JP-raw version, but the footage jumps a little bit because of some masks on the cards that I'll have to fix), add subs, and we'll be good to go start revisiting Season 1!

I would've liked to go and give Asuka her original background too since I think it looks a bit nicer, but it would've probably taken a long while and a lot of frame-work.  I'll settle for managing this lol.

[kaiowut99]

I tried!? LINK

I’m so sorry they’re all jpegs. For some reason my version of gimp is being buggy and it won’t let me save as a png this weekend? Anyway… If nothing else, feel free to use these as a template for better edits? Good luck!

AWESOME.  Thank you so much for finishing the job there! Them being jpegs didn't really affect things; what worried me was that a few of the frames you sent me had a "selection" line on top, but masking in a few pixels from thepalebride's edited frames did the trick.  I just spent maybe 30-40 mins adjusting everything, and it looks great! I'm about to post a preview video. :)