Tezaki, Kou [ 手巧 ] [ てざき, こう ] (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
fearthearrow) wrote2017-06-03 12:13 pm
fearthearrow) wrote2017-06-03 12:13 pm
[Short Story]
"So, two of them have escaped."
Kou paced back and forth in the apartment he had set himself up in-- it was small and kinda cramped, but he was essentially alone. It wasn't like he needed the room.
He glanced down at the phone he had in his hand, the post of the Ancient Fairy Dragon rambling about the freed prisoners from the Nazca Lines. Of course, the useless dragon wouldn't tell anyone really what exactly escaped, but most things from the Nazca Lines, according to the Black-Winged Dragon, are generally "big and nasty, and incredibly obvious".
"The question is, how do we track them? Even if something's big, it might still hide itself well. There haven't been any sightings noted yet, so they're probably not anywhere near Japan yet..."
He continued to talk to himself, thinking. Oh, sure, he knew his dragon was technically listening from inside of his card. It's where he loved to hang out. But the stony silence meant that he was likely tuning him out. No matter. Saying this stuff out loud helped. They both knew that.
He scrolled down, noting that the Signer of the Black Rose Dragon had also noticed this-- in addition, seemed to be trying to mobilize the other two most active Signers. Who knows what the Power Tool Signer was doing about this, but he expected about all of them would be as effective as a pepple against a wall. Cause, really, who do the Signers have?
A drunken dragon who can't seem to really connect with her Signer, whoever it is. A thrill-seeker who hasn't really cared about anything other than tournaments that let her knee people in the face, at the moment. A coward who left over excessive violence and last looked like they'd rather tell off the Black Rose Dragon than cooperate. And some big guy who seems to have become a non-person so far as he could tell. And then the mysterious shop owner Signer...
Kou sighed. What a group. How did they manage to get anything done back when the WRGP and all that happened, anyway? Something must've changed since then... but what?
It especially sorta annoyed him. Marias acted like the leader. But what has she done to really deserve that? Admittedly, he doesn't know her-- but if first impressions mean much, then the first impression is pretty bad. Arrogant, pushy, self-centered... Geh, she'll get hers in due time.
He scrolled back up to Shian's account. This was the user of the Red Daemon's Dragon. Noted to be "pain adverse", he'd refused to even do an Action Duels in the most stubborn manner. It amazed him that he'd even be the Signer to someone Black-Winged Dragon described as "fiercely intense". But...
... Maybe he could use him, at least. If they were gonna be meeting up, maybe he could cut him off. Send a message to the others. Show that he alone was enough to handle the two escapees.
"You think they'd take it, though? The Red Daemon's Dragon Signer does strike me as the weakest. Why can't they use a regular deck, anyway?" Kou brought up the registered deck list from when Shian was registered-- "Black Gems". Kou'd never heard of the cards, and he suspected they were 100% magic. What type of magic though, he had no idea, but they were definitely not official cards. In fact, they were pretty comparative to some regular cards...
"If he has to rely on magic cards, I gotta wonder what his actual skill level is. He did manage to hover at the top of the mid-ranks, though, before he dropped it." Not that it got him a lot of attention-- since all of the streams prioritized the Action Duels, especially Ryozanpaku's style of Action Duels, the amount of views the Red Daemon's Dragon Signer brought in were... pretty minimal, even in the archives, even if the win count end up being a pretty good ratio.
"Talk about being an underdog in that kinda case."
Well, no matter. Kou knew what kind of deck he was going against, and one of his aces actually benefited him. He should be fine taking him out and at least passing along his intentions.
And once that was clear, he could focus on trying to find the escapees before any of them could even begin to wonder where to look.
Kou paced back and forth in the apartment he had set himself up in-- it was small and kinda cramped, but he was essentially alone. It wasn't like he needed the room.
He glanced down at the phone he had in his hand, the post of the Ancient Fairy Dragon rambling about the freed prisoners from the Nazca Lines. Of course, the useless dragon wouldn't tell anyone really what exactly escaped, but most things from the Nazca Lines, according to the Black-Winged Dragon, are generally "big and nasty, and incredibly obvious".
"The question is, how do we track them? Even if something's big, it might still hide itself well. There haven't been any sightings noted yet, so they're probably not anywhere near Japan yet..."
He continued to talk to himself, thinking. Oh, sure, he knew his dragon was technically listening from inside of his card. It's where he loved to hang out. But the stony silence meant that he was likely tuning him out. No matter. Saying this stuff out loud helped. They both knew that.
He scrolled down, noting that the Signer of the Black Rose Dragon had also noticed this-- in addition, seemed to be trying to mobilize the other two most active Signers. Who knows what the Power Tool Signer was doing about this, but he expected about all of them would be as effective as a pepple against a wall. Cause, really, who do the Signers have?
A drunken dragon who can't seem to really connect with her Signer, whoever it is. A thrill-seeker who hasn't really cared about anything other than tournaments that let her knee people in the face, at the moment. A coward who left over excessive violence and last looked like they'd rather tell off the Black Rose Dragon than cooperate. And some big guy who seems to have become a non-person so far as he could tell. And then the mysterious shop owner Signer...
Kou sighed. What a group. How did they manage to get anything done back when the WRGP and all that happened, anyway? Something must've changed since then... but what?
It especially sorta annoyed him. Marias acted like the leader. But what has she done to really deserve that? Admittedly, he doesn't know her-- but if first impressions mean much, then the first impression is pretty bad. Arrogant, pushy, self-centered... Geh, she'll get hers in due time.
He scrolled back up to Shian's account. This was the user of the Red Daemon's Dragon. Noted to be "pain adverse", he'd refused to even do an Action Duels in the most stubborn manner. It amazed him that he'd even be the Signer to someone Black-Winged Dragon described as "fiercely intense". But...
... Maybe he could use him, at least. If they were gonna be meeting up, maybe he could cut him off. Send a message to the others. Show that he alone was enough to handle the two escapees.
"You think they'd take it, though? The Red Daemon's Dragon Signer does strike me as the weakest. Why can't they use a regular deck, anyway?" Kou brought up the registered deck list from when Shian was registered-- "Black Gems". Kou'd never heard of the cards, and he suspected they were 100% magic. What type of magic though, he had no idea, but they were definitely not official cards. In fact, they were pretty comparative to some regular cards...
"If he has to rely on magic cards, I gotta wonder what his actual skill level is. He did manage to hover at the top of the mid-ranks, though, before he dropped it." Not that it got him a lot of attention-- since all of the streams prioritized the Action Duels, especially Ryozanpaku's style of Action Duels, the amount of views the Red Daemon's Dragon Signer brought in were... pretty minimal, even in the archives, even if the win count end up being a pretty good ratio.
"Talk about being an underdog in that kinda case."
Well, no matter. Kou knew what kind of deck he was going against, and one of his aces actually benefited him. He should be fine taking him out and at least passing along his intentions.
And once that was clear, he could focus on trying to find the escapees before any of them could even begin to wonder where to look.