(NYC) Field: Times Square

[NeoBuster]

Neo watched as Cero left and then picked up his deck and put it in the deckbox. Then while fighting tears, Neo talked to himself:

"First my parents, and now Vermillion is gone.. WHy is this happening.." Neo said outload without realizing.

[Jello]

Haruka saw the loudmouth appear, and then leave after a quick question.

He was at first astounded and then simply did not care at all. Haruka was somewhat shelling up at his arrival, but with Seifer in his peripherals, he felt much better. He didn't know Seifer well, not really anyways. But he felt comfortable around the guy, facing similar fates as himself.

"Over here." Haruka waved to Seifer, gesturing him to come sit with everybody else. Haruka was a bit happier to have friends around. They weren't people he knew particularly well outside of a few words exchanged, but his coping methods seemed to work.

Sera had no words at the present time. Perhaps he trusted them to help him as well?

Neo seemed to breaking down a bit. Haruka at first didn't have much to say, but instead put a hand on his shoulder. He attempted at comforting the poor guy, but he wasn't sure if he'd be able too... then somebody else stepped in.

"Wipe your tears, Neo. You are extremely strong-willed, allowing yourself to fall further into a pit of despair will only make you weaker in the end. You must grab the edges and climb back out. Become stronger."

Sera had a noticeably smoother voice than Haruka, not particularly deeper, but if there was one man who had the moves to get a girl, the voice Sera was basking had the chops. Haruka was a bit jealous people might like Sera better than Haruka in that case.

A text from Yukino finally arrived. Sera flipped open Haruka's phone immediately, sped through the text and responded. He was a bit more thorough with his response this time, something even Haruka would be satisfied with.

"will do sweetheart. later." He forgot Haruka's tagline.

....

"-haru" Was sent about 2 minutes after he realized it.

[OverDrive]

The appearance of Cero certainly grabbed the attention of the individuals at the coffee shop, shifting the focus of the conversation at hand. Luckily Seifer appeared to lighten the mood for most of the people here his appearance seemed to ease Haruka's state of mind, however it did not last when Cero posed the question about losing Vermillion. At that moment Neo broke down in tears as it was relevant to his feelings towards losing those he cared about, nevertheless Haruka stepped in to help but this time, he seemed different...

"...Interesting I wonder what came over him..." he thought, as he rose from his chair to comfort his friend.

"..You need to understand something...Ezel is no longer in my deck...because of his duties towards cray...just like Haruka says, you will be able to gain strength if you push yourself...besides unlike last time with your parents you're not alone this time around..." he said, patting Neo on the back.

"..Sorry you're entrance was not under better circumstances Seifer..." he said, facing Seifer, by that time Cero had already left the area..

[NeoBuster]

Neo wiped his tears off listening to the words of his friends

"Thank you guys" Neo said trying to smile.

[Jello]

Sera smiled as well. He was proud of himself for successfully comforting somebody. Sera wasn't accustomed to dealing with many human emotions so he simply told Neo what he told himself whenever he found himself down for whatever reason. Sera sat back down, sipping the coffee to let Haruka take the wheel again. Haruka felt better about what Sera had done for him in this case. Haruka would have butchered that a bit, but the words of the Seraphim seemed to get through to his friend.

Haruka turns in his chair to his deck, looking at his cards still. He was unsure how to proceed with this deck. He'd only seen a few of these units before, but a majority of them were all new faces to him now. He scrunched his eyebrows, then looked up to Tsubasa and Neo. Seifer was also present, but he was just arriving and didn't want to impose anything just yet.

"Hey, err, you two, would either of you want to Cardfight? I mean, I haven't fought with this deck before... I want to see what it's like." Haruka eyed from Tsubasa to Neo and back, awaiting a response. Haruka felt tense, but just at first, but he just had to get back in the groove of fighting. Simple enough.

[Cipher Izanagi]

Seifer merely waved his hand in response to Tsubasa, saying it was alright. "So... Units from the last set are... Vanishing?" he asked looking at Neo about Vermillion. At the imposition of a fight though, and noticing Haruka had a Kagero deck back, he tilted his head. He wasn't one of the ones that were asked to fight so he didn't touch on it, though... "Haruka... You got Kagero back as well right?... How much has your deck changed from what it used to be?"

[OverDrive]

"...Let me take you on...-neo needs a rest-...I also want to see what kind of Vanguard you have..." he said, while at the same time feeling excite about using his new golden warriors.

[Jello]

The fight went in a strange exchange of triggers.

The fight started with the standing of two Vanguard, a golden trumpeter and a dragon knight. One of which was bound tightly to it's owner, the golden warrior. The dragon knight simply stood under the control of the dragon fighter.

The connection to each clan was entirely different. One was linked by friendship and experience, the other by the mutual need for each other's existence. Without Dauntless Drive and his companions, Haruka stood little to no chance coming out victorious in this fight... So he allowed Sera to come into place.

Sera got to use his powerful Dauntless Drive Dragon, his avatar's, skill. This allowed his beneficiary, Cruel Dragon, to restand after a discard of three cards. Sera felt like this was a bad idea from the start, but he needed to try. He had to force something to happen. With that, Haruka had healed three times, bringing him from 4 damage, back to 1. Quite a feat, honestly. This however, didn't matter to the immense hand-advantage the golden warrior, Tsubasa had built up.

In the end, it was 5 to 5, until Tsubasa's almighty Alfred, revamped in Liberator gear, came to strike Sera's Vanguard down. Haruka took control again at the end of the fight. He was asked questions that he himself didn't answer. Sera made it out to be that Haruka didn't use Kagero... That they were servants to him. This wasn't exactly true. They were comrades... but Haruka didn't feel a connection to these units. They were simply the ones who came to aid him when he needed it.

"It was a good fight Tsubasa. We should fight again sometime... We send our regards."

Haruka and Sera spoke in unison, standing with their deck and leaving the coffee shop, leaving his number scribbled on a napkin for Tsubasa should they need to get in contact. Haruka had set out back to the hotel for rest. His body was shaken up in all the wrong ways... He also had to call Yukino later.


(For the past few days)

Tsubasa AP +3

Neo AP +2

Seifer AP+3

Alexander AP+3

[OverDrive]

It was clear to Tsubasa that Haruka was connected to Kagero but the connection was incomplete for some strange reason, which is why Tsubasa hopes to be able to help Haruka if the chance comes to pass, luckily Haruka left him his contact info so Tsubasa can be in touch.

"..I hope you find what you're missing Haruka...it was an enjoyable fight." he said, as Haruka made his way out of the shop.

"..Neo I suggest, you get some rest, don't worry we'll figure something out regarding vermillion tomorrow but for now, I need to go pay a visit to the hospital, i'm sure Neu is feeling better by now." he said, as he began to make his way out of the shop as well.

[Cipher Izanagi]

"Hey hold on, I'll come with. I've been meaning to visit her anyway." Seifer called after Tsubasa, running to catch up with him. It was probably now or never that he'd have to break some news. And while he was going to wait till it was time to break the news to everyone at once, he supposed Tsubasa should know ahead of time.

[NeoBuster]

"No.." Neo said

"Im coming with you guys" Neo said as he walked with Tsubasa and Seifer to go see Neu

[Spectre Diamond]

Having reached to the front of the counter he began to order.

"Hello, what can I do for you?"

"I'll...take...the.." Using his best broken english he could muster as he scanned the menu. He then remembered one of the oracle think tank units.

"The...Skinny..Mocha" He then brought the card that he was given by the organizers of the tournament. He then wrote his name on the paper as he could barely say his name in english. Hikaru gave the card and his name to the girl at the front as he waited to get back his card.

The girl then gave back the card and the paper that he gave to her with an added message under his name."Your order should be ready in a few minutes, take a seat." Then it ended with a heart sign. Hikaru looked up with a small blush as the girl winked at him. He then walked to the nearest empty table that he could find and began to skim through his decks as he sat down. His Nova grapplers and his Dimension police deck.
 
 

[Cherry]

Maybe... they should've met up at the park.

Yukino returned to New York fairly quickly with things packed back at home already, and Father Espoir was still looking into a way to re-open a rift as a gateway. There was no doubt he could do this, but he mentioned it'd take a little while. This was fine, the queen still had work to do before departing. Said work proved to be offending her health, as the very smell of America did sit well with her stomach. The over-saturated smell of grease or the assorted mess of sloppy food insulted her highness' palette, and once again did chefs offer samples or discounts for meals.

Maybe she should ask Father to help her try this stuff... by help, she meant remake it so it doesn't have her throw up.

"Morning, are you up yet?" She texted to Hana.

"Hey, are you okay? You didn't call..." For Haruka.

[Hope]

"Yeah, see, I'm not so sure about this." Pacifica commented.
"Uhuh... I think I should eat here just to make you guys feel uncomfortable." Hana laughed.
"Absolutely not! No!"
"Pacifica-senpai, what's the problem?" Coral, one of the newer idols asked.
"N-nothing, go back to practicing." Pacifica said as if she was turning away, embarrassed.
"Haaai." Coral went off to return to work.
"You know I hate these right..." Pacifica's attention was now back at Hana.
"Yeah I think I'm going to go eat some fish here." Hana began to walk towards the door. She could hear a loud screaming from her deck case.
"NONONONONONONO. YOU. DO. NOT. EAT. FISH."

Suddenly her phone vibrated. It seems like it was a text from Yukino. Hana texted back,
"I woke up early for morning practice, I'm in Time's Square, in front of the Seafood Restaurant near the hotel. ` <3 BELLA "

She continued walking just to keep teasing the half-fish girl who was under the sea.

[Cherry]

Yukino sweat nervously, realizing she'd have to get even closer to this country's excuse for seafood to meet with Hana. What happened to the days where the princess would be hanging at an amusement park?! Yunos promptly told her to suck it up, but the queen wasn't having any of his tough guy attitude guilt-tripping her into eating. Once again, for the first time in a long time, she was yelling at no one visible to anyone around. Remembering that she agreed with Ezel that she was insane, any attempts to convince the masses of otherwise were discarded in vain.

Quickly dashing to the rendezvous spot, there was hopes of taking this away from the restaurant.

"Hana!" The woman called out.