Chapter 1: Entering a new world

I smile slyly at my two friends as we play Yu-Gi-Oh. Both of them sit across from me with their cards on the table in front of them, and their calculators next to their decks.

"I sacrifice all three of my monsters to summon Slifer the Sky Dragon. And since I have four cards in my hand, Slifer has 4000 attack." Eli grins at me. "I attack your ABC-Dragon Buster."

I chuckle. "I activate my trap card, Negate Attack. Your attack has been stopped."

"Damn. Alright. I place two cards facedown and end my turn." Eli sets two of his cards facedown on the table. His lightly tanned skin stands out against his plain white t-shirt and jeans.

I draw one card. "You two want to surrender now? You both only have 1000 life points left."

"But you only have 200 life points yourself." Deshawn points out. He's wearing a blue and white dress shirt, black dress pants, and a pair of black running shoes.

"We'll see who wins." I smirk. "I activate my facedown card, Polymerization, to fuse my three Blue Eyes White Dragons together to summon my Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon. I then banish my ABC-Dragon Buster and my XYZ Dragon Cannon to special summon my A-to-Z Dragon Buster Cannon in attack mode."

Deshawn's eyes widen. "Shit." He glances down at his Dark Magician on the field and no facedown cards.

"I then activate Heavy Storm. All of your facedown cards are off the field." I show them the card as Eli picks up both his facedown cards. "I activate two spell cards. Limiter Removal and Megamorph. Since my life points are lower than both of yours, I can double the attack of one monster. Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon's attack is now 9000. Limiter Removal doubles the attack of all my machine monsters. So my A-to-Z Dragon Buster Cannon's attack is now 8000." I chuckle at their faces. "I destroy your Slifer the Sky Dragon with my A-to-Z Dragon Buster Cannon, Eli. And my Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon destroys your Dark Magician, Deshawn. I win." I start picking up my cards.

Eli sighs. "Yeah. Once again, you win, Dakota. Nice duel though."

"Yeah. You're really good at strategy." Deshawn grins. "If we were in the world of Yu-Gi-Oh, you'd be up there with Yu-gi and Kaiba."

At that moment, dark shadows come out of both my and Eli's cards as well as the tv behind us. They surround us while Deshawn drops his cards and backs away scared.

"What the hell is going on?!" Eli exclaims as the shadows swallow him.

"I don't know..." I start to say before the shadows swallow me too, and my vision goes dark.