"So this is the Vanguardine Club, huh?" Ira asked.
"It's a smaller them what I had in mind." Chouji rpelied as he looked at the red door in front of them.
"Guys, guys, the surprise is inside." Raijin smiled widely and opened the red door.

(Opening)

"Holy crap! This place has fancy all writem over it!!" Kira said in an amazing excitement.
"This is not half bad. Seems the place rich people would hang out." Ira replied.
"Oh man, look at all these rich punks, I wanna beat 'em up so hard..!" Fubuki spoke to himself as his eyes expected the fighters with a fiery passion.
"We can hear you, you know?"
"Shut it, Ira!" The grey haired replied as he dashed down the stairway if the uppeer bar and restaurant to the part of the club filled with fighting tables and fighters of all ages.
"He still is dumb..." Kira said with a sighed as she turned to Kira. "Hey Ira?"
"What up?"
"Where did Raijin go?"
"He went outside to give Chouji a phone call. Something about the club and some big event. Meh, I got no clue."
"I see. Well then, shall we join Fubuki?"
"Hell yeah. Leggo kick some ass!"

After around twenty minutes of fighting, Raijin returned to the abr and walked down the stairs, only to meet an argument going in between Fubuki and a black haired boy.
"WHAT DID YA JUST SAID?! I AIN'T GOT NO TIME FOR YA BULLSHIT!"
"What I said was absolute. Why, you may ask? Because I'm the godly R-A-I-K-A! RAIKA!"
"YOU SON OF A-"
"Raika?" Raijin said as he approached the going in conflit.
"Well, well, if if isn't Mr. Kicked Out. I bet life has been hard when you are banned from the greatest clan of-"
"Shut your mouth before I punch your teeth in. You still don't have the balls to face me without the need of your gang." Raijin replied as started pushing Fubukiaway from the boy Raika and his group.
"LEMME GO AT HIM!!"
"Not worth the time. Just remember him as another of Ira's irrelevant jokes."
Raika's looked turned dark. "Did you called me irrelevant? HAVE YOU LOOKED AT YOURSELF?!".
"Every morning and I don't got any coplaining to do."
Raika's angry grit turned into a grim smirk. 'If I beat this worthless renegade, I will prove to uncle Madara that I'm in fact the perfect member to become the head of the Akaze clan.'"Oh Raijin, my dear cousin, what do you say about a little cardfight? Just like in old times?"
Raijin stopped and turned back at Raika and his group. "You mean back when Gold Paladin was trash and Inwas forced to play OTT?"
Fubuki also stopped and turned away with a giant laugh. "You played Golds? PRICELESS!"
"No, I played OTT. Raika boy over there was the ine who played Gold Paladin."
The grey haired hold his laugh for a moment before bursting into a laugh stronger than any Dimensional Police unit. "MAN WHAT A LOSER! HAHAHAHAHA!!!"
"Quit, dumb punk! My deck is awesome and perfect!" Raika said with a very anime-ish pout.
"Yeah sure~~~ Don't tell me that you main Bluei- Wait, COUSIN?!"
"I'll get through the basics of my backstory later."
"Ya better do. Does anyone of our club knows about it?"
"Hell no. I wanna avoid stuff related to-"
"Owww, so you are appart of a club, little cousin? Then why don't you let me show your club buddy over there how an Akaze fights by defeating the own son of the clan's head?!" Raika laighed loudy, taking a golden deck box out of his pocket and pointing it at Raijin.
"CLAN'S WHAT?!"
"I bet you play a somewhat reasonable with that dirty Narukami deck. After all, if uncle Madara is known for it's strenght, even with dirty non-United Sanctuary decks, I bet his son can play a bit too!"
"Do not call me his son! I am in nowhere related to that man!" Raijin replied, poiting his crimsom deckbox at his cousin.
A grim grin appeared in Raika's place face. 'I got you exactly where I wanted, Raijin. The strongest in you against the strongest in me. This'll show uncle Madara who the greatest is!'
"You got so much to explain Raijin..." Fubuki suddenlys said as he sat down on the nearest chair. All of this sudden information about the unknown past of his rival had made him forget how to use is legs. All he could do was holding his head and trying to construct this giant puzzle that was Raijin's past piece by piece.

The group that followed Raika, alongside a somewhat big crowd of players reunited around the fighting where Raijin and Raika were about to face off.
"Now Stand Up! My-"
"Both of you, stop it." A strong male voice spoke. The crowd formaned a path to the table for the voice to walk past them. It was an adult man wearing the clothes of a bar waiter with it's sleeves rolled up. It had a stromg dark grey moustache and a dark grey hair. The man walked to the table. "I will be the jury for the match."
"Pffft, as you say, Takemura." Raika rolled his eyes. "Let's just go. Stand up, Vanguard! Knight of Early Dawn, Coel! (5000)" The boy's vanguard circle expand orange at the flip of the card.
"The vanguard! Hardrod Dracokid! (5000)"
"Raijin will take the first turn." The adult Takemura spoke.
"Very well. I'll start this off by drawing a card and riding Mighty Bolt Dragoon! (7000) Hardrod moves back. That's it for me." 'I remember his deck perfectly. Bluish Flames Liberators, dangerous if a Bruno gets behind the vanguard. Gotta admit, using Coel as the starter is really smart of him. Liberators are in the bin when it comes to-' Raijin's thought was suddenly stopped by the name of the unit Raika decided to ride.
"I ride Gorbudoc! (7000) Hoel moves back. Attack!"
'He might just wanna use that as a stride fodder.. Unless he really changed his deck to something else.' "No guard."
"What's the matter Raijin?" Raika asked as he flipped over a unit with Gurguit in it's name. "A bit outdated when fighting Gold Paladin, are we?"
"That deck change out make you win. Damage check. (Dragonic Vanquisher "SPARKING")"

"Prominance Glare, attack! Explosive Azure!" A younger Raika spoke. In front of him, there was a red haired child.
"Generation Guard! Impede Dragon! Skill, retire and bind Bruno!"
"Raijin!! Don't end my combos like that!!" Raika spoke as he bound the last of his rear-guards.
"Hehe, sorry..!"
The childish Raika pouted as he went from a vanguard attack wigh over 85000 attack to a simple 20000.
"Then I guard with Reseph! That's a no pass for you!" The childish Raijin cheered.

"Stand and draw. God thunder, break heaven and earth, RIDE! Dragonic Vanquisher "SPARKING"! (11000) I call Reseph and Chatura. Chatura! (11000>>15000)"
"Flame of Victory. (19000)"
"The vanguard attacks! (11000>>16000) Reseph to the soul and draw. (16000>>21000)"
"No guard." Raika replied.
"Drive check! (Chatura. Plasmatron Dragon)"
"My damage check. (Gorboduc) No trigger."
"Turn end."

Raijin
Hand: 6
Damage: 2
XXO
OXO

Raika
Hand: 7
Damage: 2
Bind: 0
OXO
OXO

"Stand and draw. My perfect goldne blade slays all the enemies of our sanctuary! I ride the Vanguard! Golden Holy Sword, Gurguit! (11000)" Raika's vanguard circle expanded into a light yellow. "Now Generation Stride! Master Swordsman of First Light, Gurguit Helios! (26000) Stride skill. Counterblast, soulblast, check the top four and superior call Perimore from the deck (9000). Then, I shuffle it. I called a unit with Unite, so now I get to call the top card of my deck in a rest state. Superior call Flame of Victory (4000). Unite! Perimore's Unite! Add 2000 power. (11000) On top of that, his skill! Counterblast, check top three and superior call Jeffrey. Gurguit Helios' Unite. Personna blast, add a drive. Coel's Unite! To the soul, check top three, call Carinus! (7000) Add 2000. (9000) The rest goes to bottom. Now I call Gerrie (4000) and he swaps places with Flame. Unite of Gerrie! Add a skill and 3000! (7000) Carinus' Unite! Rest and add 4000 fo Gerrie. (11000) Then by botdecking Flame, I draw and unflip a damage. Gerrie! (11000)"
"Chatura! (16000)"
"Skill. Into the soul, unflip one. Gurguit Helios! (26000)"
"No guard!"
"Quadruple Drive. (Scarface Lion- crit) Critical to Gurguit, power to Perimore! (11000>>16000) (Salonius. Gerrie- stand) To Perimore. (16000>>21000) (Liberator, Improve Falcon) No trigger."
"Damage check! (Anastasia. Djinn of Paranoia- draw) Draw trigger! Power to the vanguard!"
"Perimore! (21000>>28000)"
"Generation Guard! Bulwark Dragon! (31000)"
"Jeffrey's Unite. To the soul, I draw. Turn end."

Raijin
Hand: 6
Damage: 4
OXO
OXO

Raika
Hand: 11
Damage: 2
Bind: 0
XXO
OXO

"My turn! Time to bind wreck that field! Generation zone, open! Generation Stride! Dragonic Vanquisher "Vbuster"! (26000) Stride skill! Retiew and bind Perimore! In addition, bind a drop zone card!"
"Fine. I'll bind Gorbuduc."
"I call Smash Boxer (7000) and Chatura! (8000>>11000) Now Vbuster's skill! Soulblast, G blast, bind a rear and a drop zone card!"
"Too bad for you, Carinus has Resist, thus I will only bind a drop zome card, that being Gorbuduc."
"Add 3000 to Chatura (14000), Smash (10000) and the vanguard! (29000) Hardrod's skill! Rest and bind Flame of Victory!"
"Fine by me." Raika replied as he bound a fourth card.
"The vanguard attacks! (29000)"
"Hm... I'll no guard that. Feeling lucky today."
Raijin's teeth gritted. "Triple drive! (Anastasia. Helena. Smash Boxer Dragon) No triggers here."
"Damage check. (Liberator, Improve Falcon) Meh, minor."
"Boosted by Smash, Chatura! (14000>>24000)"
"How about a Generation Guard? True Liberation of Healing, Ellise! Generation Guard! (26000) Generation Break 1. Counterblast, flip Sleimy Flare face up and check the top two. Salonius joins Ellise in the Guardian Circle, the other cards goes to the bottom of the deck. (31000) Since your attack didn't hit, Salonius is called to the rear-guard. (9000)"
"Turn end. Show me what you got with that Generation Break 4 you got going on."
"Oh trust me, dear cousin. I will." Raika smirked.

Raijin
Hand: 7
Damage: 4
XXO
XXO

Raika
Hand: 10
Damage: 3
Bind: 4
XXO
OXO

"That handicap is still impressive, even for Gurguit status." Fubuki said as he analyzed the field.

"Stand and draw. Sparkling golden souk, be welcome to your future selft once again! Generation Stride! Gurguit Helios! (26000) Stride skill. I will superior call Kinarius. (9000) Then, I superior call Gurguit as rest. (11000) Kinarius skill. Discard a card and superior call Jeffrey. (7000) Unite! Add 4000 to Kinarius! (13000) Carinus' Unite! Botdeck Gurguit, add 4000 to Salonius (13000), draw a card and unfip. I call Coel (5000) and use his Unite. Superior call Gerie with a 2000 boost! (6000) Then his Unite! (9000) Salonius' Unite! Add 2000 to all my units! (15000) (28000) (15000) (9000) (9000) (11000) Gurguit Helios' Unite. Add a drive check. Gurguit, attack the vanguard! Generation Break 3! Add 25000 power! (28000>>43000) And on top of that, no Grade 1 amd above units can guard the attack." Raika had a malicius grin on his face. "What now, cousin?"
'I don't have a heal in hand, and Anastasia is useless in this attack. Plan B.' "I don't guard!"

"Raijin, don't! The chance is too risky!" Fubuki warned.

"You should listen to your friend. Quadruple drive. (Improve Falcon. Gurguit. Salonius. Liberator, Shaggy Rabbit- heal) Heal trigger. Power to Kinarius, I sadly can't heal."
"Damage check! (Dragonic Vanquisher "SPARKING")"
"Gerie boosts, Salonius attacks the vanguard! (15000>>25000)"
"Anastasia, complete guard! With her Thunderstrike 4, I draw a card!"
"Fine by me. Gerie goes to the soul, I countercharge. Jeffrey boosts, Kinarius finishes your pathetic life! (20000>>29000)"
"Chatura, Smash Boxer and Shiva will guard!! (31000)"
"Not bad. Good to see you didn't get rusty over the years. Jeffrey moves to the soul, I draw a card. Turn end."

Raijin
Hand: 3
Damage: 5
XXO
XXO

Raika
Hand: 14
Damage: 3
Bind: 4
XXX
OXO

"If there's a thing that I know is that this fight won't end this turn. Golden boy had two Sentinels and a damn heal in hand. Not only that, Salonius is a defensive bastard!"

"My turn!" Raijina spoke. "Stand and draw! Thunderstrike 4! I soulcharge! Then, you bind a card in the drop zone!"
"Gerie can be bound."
"Now once again, GENERATION STRIDE! Dragonic Vanquisher "Vbuster"! Stride skill! Say bye to a rear-guard and a drop zone card!"
"Kinarius, Saggy Rabbit."
"Call Mighty Bolt and Helena! (7000) (9000) Thunderstrike 3 of Helena! Counterblast, I draw, she gets 2000! (11000) Vbuster's skill! Bind a rear a drop zone card!"
"I can't bind a drop zone card sadly so only Salonius is bound."
"Add 3000 to the front row! (14000) (29000) (14000) Then, Generation Break 3! Thunderstrike 7! Add 5000 to the front row! (19000) (34000) (19000) Vbuster gets a drive and a crit too! Hardrod's skill! Since you can't bind a card, I unflip a damage and give Helena 3000! (22000) Vbuster, ATTACK! VORTEX DRIVE! (34000/2Crits)"
"Improve Falcon, complete guard!"
"My quad drive! (Eradicator, Dragonic Descendant "Sigma". Plasmatron Dragon. Deity of Love, Kama- heal. Deity of Love, Kama- heal) A double heal! Spliting the power between Helena and Chatura! (24000) (27000) Then, I heal two damage."
Raiki grit his teeth with an annoyed expression. "Lucky.."
"Supported by Mighty Bolt, Helena! (27000>>34000)"
"No guard. Damage check. (Gurguit)"
"Chatura! (24000>>33000)"
"Improve Falcon, complete guard! Again!"
"Smash to the soul, I draw and unflip. Turn end."

Raijin
Hand: 7
Damage: 3
XXX
OXX

Raika
Hand: 10
Damage: 4
Bind: 8
OXO
OXO

"I believe this is the time to end this. Final Turn! Generation Stride! The brightest light shines again! Sunrise Ray Radiant Sword, Gurguit! (26000) Stride skill! Superior call Salonius amd Flame of Victory as rest. Flame's skill. To the soul, add 3000 to Carinus. (10000) Call Flame amd use the skill on Salonius this time. (11000) Call Gerie (4000), Perimore (9000) and Gorboduc (7000). Unite of Salonius! Add 2000 to all units! (13000) (28000) (11000) (6000) (12000) (9000) Unite of Gerie and Perimore! (9000) (13000) Gurguit's Unite! By a simple counterblast and double soulblast, he gets 25000 attack while the rears get 5000. And I'm using that skill..." Raika's expression changed back to the malicious grin. "A grand total of three times!"
"Three?!" Raijin and Fubuki replied with a somewhat terrified look on their faces.
"Yes... This means that my holy power! (18000) (53000) (18000) (14000) (18000) (14000) Will keep growing and growing! (23000) (78000) (23000) (19000) (23000) (19000) Until Raijin Akaze is drowned in the past that is the gaint lie he calls life! (28000) (103000) (28000) (24000) (28000) (24000) Gerie boosts, Perimore attacks! (28000>>520000)"
"It's now or never! I intercept with both Helena and Chatura! (21000) Then, Generation Guard! Sky Supreme Defense Dragon, Impede Dragon! (36000) Skill! G blasting Bulwark, retire and bind a rear-guard!"
"Tch... Gerie can leave. (52000>>28000)"
"And then, since the number of rear-guards you have is at least two more than mine, retire an extra unite!"
Raika slammed Perimore into the drop zone. 'This damn bastard...' "My vanguard attacks!! End this, Gurguit!!! (103000>>126000)"
"Anastasia, complete guard!"
"Damn you... TRIPLE DRIVE!! (Carinus. Gurguit. Scarface Lion- crit) All to Salonius! (33000) Attack! (33000>>57000/2crits)"
"Generation Guard! Bulwark Dragon! (26000) Thunderstrike! (36000) I still take the damage. (Anastasia. Mighty Bolt) But with it's skill, Salonius is retired."
Raika placed Salonius into his drop zone. "Lucky bastard... Turn end."

Raijin
Hand: 4
Damage: 5
OXO
OXX

Raika
Hand: 9
Damage: 4
Bind: 9
OXO
XXO

"Stand and draw! Break the limits of reality itself! Stride forward into a new path! Generation Stride! Supreme Conquering Dragon, Closer Dragon!! (26000)"
"C-closer Dragon?!" 'All of the set up... It was for him... For that brokem GB8!'
"Generation Break 8! Retire all rear-guards of all fighters! And on top of that, bind all cards in your drop zone!"
Raika placed fifteen cards into the bind zone. "That makes it twenty four..."
"Thunderstrike 24 is online! Closer gets a powerful skill! Call two Plasmatrons to the field! (9000) (9000) Closer's new skill! Add 2000 toall my units for each card in all bind zones! There's a grand total of twenty, so add 48000 power! (57000) (74000) (57000) And then, Thunderstrike 4 of both Plasmatrons! Add another 40000! (97000) (97000) Closer Dragon, attack! (74000)"
"Improve Falcon! Nullify!"
"Drive check! (Shiva- crit. Draginic Descendant. Shiva- crit) Critical triggers! They're split by the two Plasmatrons! Right Plasma, attack! (103000/2crits)"

"IT'S OVER 100000!!!!"

"No guard... (Gorboduc. Gurguit)" Raika growled. "You damn bastard... Doesn't matter, I'm still superior than you in every way! This isn't the end, Raijin!" With that, Raika and his group left the shop.

"Nice going, Raijin!" Fubuki said as he raised his fist for a bro fist.
"Thanks man!" Raijina replied with his own bro fist.
"By the way, Mr. Takemura over there said Ira and Kira left ages ago. Shall we get going? You gotta lot to tell me."
"Yeah. Let's go."

After minutes of walking, Raijin started explaining.
"Do you know the Akaze Group?"
"Big medical company or something, yeah."
"Do you know it's current president?"
"Madara Akaze, right?"
"Yes. He's also the head of the Akaze clan, one of the richest families in Japan and in the world. There's a rule within members of said clan. Legends say that the clan was founded due to a unit of Cray giving the first Akaze member the power he needed to reconstruct the village slaughtered in a military attack. That unit belonged to the clan you play, to Shadow Paladin."
"Yeah, so?"
"The rule that the Akaze clan has is that it's members can only use clans belonging to the United Sanctuary since the unit that gave the power to creat the Akaze belonged to that nation. I know that it's stupis but-"
"It really is."
"I know. But there's more..."

"Madara, we need to talk." A man said as he looked at the business man in his office.
"What is it, older brother?"
"That pesky that used to be yours. That sinful trash. That red haired thing that went against all this clan stood before. He defeated my son. My Raika! Your successor to the head of clan! You must do something against him!"
"I'll think about it. Now leave my office."
"But brother-"
"Leave."
"Y-yes sir." The man left, anger in his eyes.
"Raijin... You've dared to show yourself in the path of this clan..." Madara got up and headed outside, walking out to the streeys and entering a car.
"Where to, boss?"
"I am going to see an old friend. Start driving."

"Anyone that goes against this rule is banned from the clan. Komamura is my mother's single name. Why do I use her name? Because we were both banned from the Akaze."
"Wait what?! How?!"
"I hated the deck I was forced to use. I hated every single part of the restrictions of the clan. Only Raika and my mom knew about me playing Narukami in secret. But there was this time Madara discovered it all."

Raijin's mother, who was in the kitchen preparing dinner, heard a knock in her door. "Hm? I wonder who it is." She walked to the door and opened it, her eyes widen at person she saw.

"Madara wanted me out of the clan but my mom tried to support me, thus making both of us being banned."
"Damn.. I can't believe they would make that to you and Miss Sakura!"
"Yeah.. Ever since that day, I hated Madara Akaze more than anything in this world. Ever since that day, I've had an enormous hate for the man I once called father."
"You're... Madara's son...?"
Raijin simply nodded.

"Hello Sakura." Madara spoke. "We have to talk."

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Raika: Don't worry about me. I'm still the best player in this whole story! It was just an unlucky day for me. Let's admit that this chapter was a mindblowing one, ok? *plays images of Blaster Blade Exceed and Blaster Dark "Diablo" as Raijin and Fubuki meet with a white haired girl* Next time on Thunderous Rebellion: "Revelation at it's Finnest"! There won't be any Genesis but goddamn, it will be even more mindblowing than this chapter! I'll see you all on the next chapter! And remember this! Raika is the very best of the very best best best!