//------------------------------// // Duel 7: Planning // Story: Yu-Gi-Oh! Friendship is Dueling 7: The Malefic Menace // by Bahamut0 //------------------------------// The next day... Starlight's room... Starlight was looking over the new cards she had purchased. 'It looks like these cards should help me cripple my prospective opponents', she thought. Starlight then turned her thoughts to the other legendary dragons she'd sensed. 'Another one of the legendary dragon users is close to Shadow. He has a card similar to the two dragons I first captured. He'll be my next target. I can sense that the dragon he holds resonates with those two dragons in specific. Then there's that other duelist who holds a powerful dragon. He seems close to Ace and Shadow. Something tells me they won't be easy to defeat. However, there was three other powerful dragon presences. They were young, but them and their duelists should prove to be easier targets.' Starlight then smiled as she thought of her future victory. 'Maybe after all this, I'll have Shadow join me. That dragon he's partnered to seems to carry great influence over other dragons.' Starlight then took a moment to remember the time she'd spent with Shadow. 'And I wouldn't mind having some company. Especially someone who's been such a good friend to me....' Starlight put her cards away and drifted off to sleep. Pegasus's House.... "Okay. So we know why we've been targeted.", Burst began. "And we know the type of deck this duelist uses." "And that they're incredibly determined.", Inferno added. "That girl was stopping at nothing to try and get at Red-Eyes!" "And if they targeted you two, that means whoever this rogue duelist is goes to our school.", Gold noted. "Geez! This chick must be crazy if she's going to these lengths to go after your dragons.", Steel said. "Let's not forget. Pegasus said he sensed the cries of legendary dragons. Right Gold?", Ace asked. Gold nodded. "He said that he saw the dragons caught in chains of sickly green energy. And that this energy seemed to cause pain to the dragons. Whoever this is, they've got the ability to enslave and corrupt their spirits. That explains that weird armor you've seen on them when they're summoned." "So this punk's dragon hunting. That puts me in their cross-hairs too.", Ice said. "Let me at that witch!", Rainbow Dash boasted. "I'll show her what a real Rainbow Dragon deck can do!" "Easy there Rainbow. We don't really know what else this duelist's deck is capable of.", Sunset cautioned. "Poor dragons....", Fluttershy said with a slight sniffle. "How could anyone be that cruel?" "Maybe they're not aware how much the dragons are hurting.", Burst said. "What makes you say that Burst?", Rarity asked. "If they're putting their cards through such pain, why would you say that?" "Because I have a good guess as to who's using this malefic deck." Burst sighed. "But I'm really hoping that I'm wrong. We'll know for sure once we're at school tomorrow. And Ace? You'd better warn Shadow about this rogue duelist too." "Will do." "Be careful everyone. We don't know how far this duelist is willing to go.", Nightmare added. "See you all on Monday." The group of friends left. Trying to figure out the motives, and the threat level of the rogue duelist.