Friday had arrived sooner than anyone had expected, and Ice woke up in quite the blissful state. "Mornin' everyone.", Ice mumbled with a smile on his face as he ate breakfast.
"Someone's sure in a good mood.", Ice said with a smile. "I take it things went well with Zap?"
"More than you could imagine. I've got a date with her today after school. And I'm gonna make it great."
"Glad to see the advice the two of us and Burst gave you seems to have boosted your confidence.", Shadow said. "So do you have a good idea of where you're gonna take Zap?"
"I picked out the mall. We can grab a bite to eat, maybe even check out the new movie theater there."
"Good luck Ice.", Ace said as Ice got ready to leave. Ice arrived at Crystal Prep and went about his day. And before he knew it the day was over.
'That was quick. Well I guess that means I get to go on my date sooner.' Zap met up with him at the front of the school
"So Ice. Were you planning on walking over to the mall?"
"Actually, I had something a bit more awesome in mind.", Ice said with a smile. "Come on out Red Dragon Archfiend!" In a swirl of flame, Red Dragon Archfiend was summoned to the human world.
"So you're the girl who's melting Ice's heart!", Red Dragon joked.
"You were waiting to make hat joke weren't you?", Ice asked.
"Been waiting all week! Hop on you two! And hold on tight!" Both Ice and Zap did so because Red Dragon took off like a rocket! Soon they arrived at the mall. "Hope that wasn't too rough a ride."
"You kidding? That was AWESOME!", Zap nearly screamed.
"Ah! Someone who appreciates risky flying!", Red Dragon said with a grin.
"Okay that's enough Red. Back to your world now." Red Dragon gave a mock-salute as he returned to the monster world.
"So what's first on the list?", Zap asked.
"I don't know about you, but Red's fancy flying built up my appetite. How about we grab something from the food court? Maybe after that we can hit the movie theater here."
"Sounds fine by me." Ice and Zap picked up some ice cream and checked to see if there was any good movies playing.
"Hm. The new Neos movie looks good. What are you interested in Zap?"
"I'm holding out for the next kaiju movie! So in the meantime Neos should fill the void until then." They bought their tickets and a good time was had. "Man. I wish Neos didn't have to return to Neos Space after each fusion. He looks so cool in his fused forms."
"Well, I've seen an episode or two of the tv show. Neos has to return because earth's energy can't maintain his fused forms as well as Neos Space's energy can."
"How did you wind up knowing so much?"
"My brothers and their friends introduced me to the show. Maybe I'll lend you the first season sometime.", Ice said with a smile. "Hey it looks like they've got a duel box. Wanna have a go at it?"
"You know it! Good thing we won't need our duel disks for this thing." Zap and Ice shuffled their decks and the duel was on!
Ice: 8000
Indigo Zap: 8000
"I'm up first!", Zap said. "I play Advanced Ritual Art to send Summoned Skull from the graveyard to ritual summon Dokurorider! Then I'll summon Diskblade Rider! Then I'll set two cards and end my turn. Your move Ice!"
"I draw! Perfect! I play Double Summon to bring out Delta Flyer and Lancer Dragonute! Now I'll use Delta's effect to raise Lancer's level by one! Now I tune them to synchro summon Red Dragon Archfiend! I'll also play Scarlet Security to destroy all spell and trap cards you control! Attack Dokurorider! Absolute Power Force!" In a flash of flame, Dokurorider was destroyed! "I'll then set a card and end my turn."
Ice: 8000
Indigo Zap: 6900
"Well my monster can't help me much now so I'll put him in defense mode and summon another in defense mode to end my turn."
"My turn. I discard a card to activate Lightning Vortex! This destroys all monsters on your field! Now I'll play Wave-Motion Cannon! And since it's my main phase, I can send it to the graveyard! I'll attack you directly and end my turn!"
"Time to light it up!", Red Dragon said as he wrapped his fist in flames and struck Zap directly!
Ice: 8000
Indigo Zap: 3900
"My turn! I summon a monster in defense mode and set a card. I end my turn."
"I draw! Since it's my standby phase, Wave-Motion Cannon's effect activates! I can inflict 1000 points of damage each standby phase that passes since its activation! Now I play Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your face-down card and Dark World Lightning to destroy your set monster! The downside of the last one is that I need to discard a card. I'll attack you directly for game!" Red Dragon Archfiend unleashed a powerful blast of flame that wiped out the last of Zap's life points.
"Man! Now I know why you made it so far in the tournament!", Zap said with a smile. "Pretty fun duel though!"
"Yeah. It was.", Ice said. "I should probably get you home now. The two of them went outside where Ice called up his Mom to pick him and Zap up. She arrived and dropped off Zap at her house while Ice escorted her to the door. "Hope we can do this again soon Zap."
"Me too Ice. And one more thing." Zap pulled Ice in for a quick kiss before she pulled out of it. "Feel free to call me Indigo.", she said with a wink as she went inside. Ice's mom had watched the whole interaction.
"You certainly had a good time.", she said with a smile.
"Yeah...", Ice said as he thought fondly of Indigo on the way home.