What was going to happen if I still had the will to finish of a Beginning and End x-X
If you're wondering why Ive given up on this story, its because I pretty much lost faith in my writing.
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Chazz was on the brink of losing during his duel in the last chapter. However, Aries decides to 'spare' him after realizing his deck is vulnerable to Chazz's data guardian.
Leaving Chazz and Syrus stranded, Aries goes back to Alexis's prison and frees her. He guides her to the rest of the group before challenging her. Zane takes the challenge instead saying that Alexis is in no shape to duel. Zane wins the duel and Aries disappears but leaves no medallion behind (like all the rest of their enemies). Zane's gaurdian's name was Wiegenlied and it had the shape of a giant serpentine dragon seraph, not unlike Zane's Cyber End.
Somehow, Aries survives his encounter with Zane and challenges Chazz again, saying he needs a data guardian in order to defeat everyone else and claim their cards. Chazz tells Syrus to look for the rest so he can get help just in case something happens. This time, Chazz tries to use his guardian's effect to his winning advantage but Aries threatens to kill Alexis if his own lifepoints reach zero. The threat was a bluff but Chazz falls for it, allowing Aries to win and claim his data guardian and key.
Aries then appears before the main group, much to their surprise and horror. Syrus had rejoined them. Jaden, angry about Atticus, engages in a duel with him but loses when he's taken by storm from Chazz's data guardian. Aster, unable to stand around and see that Chazz and Jaden have fallen separates from Zane and Alexis. His search leads him to a gaping abyss where he find the other Zane. Confused, his Data guardian explains to him that the other versions of himself exist throughout countless realities. Aster, wanting to end everything and hopefully bring back his friends, challenges this Zane to a duel.
Meanwhile, by this point Alexis is absolutely furious at Aries and demands a final duel with him, but Aries avoids accepting her challenge when he tells her where the other Zane is and how she can bring her friends back. Zane is suspicious and obviously uncomfortable about meeting a counterpart of himself. The both of them don't have much a choice and Aries leads them to the abyss where Aster and (the other) Zane are dueling. Using Gisei (Atticus's former data guardian) to match against Aster's monsters, Zane wins and claims his data guardian. To everyone else's surprise, Zane disposes of Aries for freeing Alexis and acquires Chazz and Jaden's guardians.
That Zane seizes Alexis and threatens to snap her neck if the other Zane doesn't surrender his guardian and key. Not wanting to lose her, he complies much to Alexis's horror. Before he disappears though, he tells Alexis that she can still fight and reverse everything. Syrus however grabs onto Zane to try and pull him back but fails and the both disappear.
Alexis then duels with the remaining Zane for the final time. During the duel, Alexis is beaten down by the five Data Guardians. Since her own guardian hasn't revealed her name yet, Alexis can't use her. While they exchange attacks with Alexis clinging to survival, Zane reveals his dark obsession with her, driven by his longing after everyone he loved died in the previous "war". He also tells her that her card is the heart of all six guardians and that she holds the fate of realities in her hands.
As Alexis's lifepoints lower, the world around her slowly breaks away into white. Alexis begs her Data guardian to trust her so she can bring back her friends and save her world. Touched by her intense and sincere will, the guardian complies and tells her her name, Veritas. She summons Veritas and uses her to take out Zane's remaining Guardian, Wiegenlied. Alexis wins the duel but her surroundings continue to chip away. She runs to Zane and demands why things haven't stopped. He tells her that there was no way to save this world and that her friends are still dead. Alexis is horrified and close to breaking, but Zane apologizes for everything and losing to her has cleared his heart, allowing him to accept his fate. Wanting to make up for everything, he takes the five data guardians (excluding Alexis's) and sacrifices himself along with his own world. Veritas tells Alexis that her guardian has to be destroyed as she is still part of the key to other realities. Zane and the six guardians disappear completely as Alexis blacks out.
Alexis wakes up in a hospital room to find Jaden snoozing in an armchair and Zane at her beside, clutching her IV'd hand. She turns to the door and sees Atticus come in with a bouquet of flowers. Seeing she's awake, Atticus nudges Zane (who had been in a semi-conscious daze) and everyone else rushes in.
The story ends as everyone shares their experience and thanks. Alexis remembers her last duel and is glad that she was finally able to put him to rest. For them, everything was back to normal. The gates between worlds were finally rendered useless, no reality was in the danger of getting consumed ever again.
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The story was originally going to end with Zane being the one to duel his counterpart and sacrifice himself for the others and his counterpart dying himself so Zane's life wasn't completely snuffed out. Alexis and everyone else was going to wake up, Alexis being in Zane's arms and everything. She was supposed to find out that Zane was in a coma setting up the plot for the next sequel. However, seeing as Im probably not going to write for this fandom for a while, I scrapped the idea and came up with the current synopsis.