Soul Rider: HEL-LOOO, everyone! This is my first fanfic. I've been deeply inspired by 's writing perfection in his Numbershot stories. So, I decided to make my own Numbershot, focusing on the final Number: Number 99! Just to point out, I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL, its characters (including other people's OCs), or cards (including other people's cards) but my own characters and my own cards. Please review and enjoy!
Numbershot 99: The Final Number Is…
Chapter 1
*Within the Emperor's Key*
Astral was staring at the pillars with the glowing Numbers that he and Yuma had collected. They had only a few Numbers, but the twosome's progress was going smoothly. Still, something was on the spirit's mind. He was for some reason thinking about what the last Number would be like.
The last Number… It must be the most powerful of all the Numbers, Astral thought. What will happen if we come upon it? But more importantly, who is it that carries Number 99?
"Emissary of the Astral World…" someone in a calm tone said behind the spirit. Astral turned around all surprised and saw what looked like a boy that was about 13 years-old. The boy had light-tanned skin, wearing a peculiar outfit (somewhat resembles a Dark Signer outfit, but is instead with shorts that don't pass the fingertips, without the wing symbol by the neck, and a cape that goes down to the butt) of grey with yellow lines, and was barefoot. His hood was up, hiding his face. The only things of his face that were visible were two red bangs on both sides of his head that stuck out of the hood and a kind grin.
"Who are you?" Astral asked the boy with shock. Then, a faint glow emitted from the boy's chest in the form of a red and yellow "99", making the spirit gasp. "You… You can't be…"
"I am Number 99, the last Number," the boy answered in his calm voice.
"If you are the final Number, then what are you doing here? Why do you take the form of a boy?"
"I cannot tell you why I'm here except that I was the reason this mechanism was built." Astral let out a gasp at the statement. Number 99 was responsible for the creation of the strange mechanism inside the Emperor's Key?
"As for my appearance," he continued, "all I can tell you as of now is that it is because I was born into a soul, making me of a human Number."
What does he mean by 'human Number'? the spirit thought. "Are you saying that you are a living Number? A Number with a soul?" he asked the Number with a little confusion in his voice.
"Completely correct," Number 99 answered, ending it with a friendly chuckle.
"Does that also mean that you are a… a person?"
"Correct again. And it's for that reason that I have a name. A human name."
"And what IS your human name?"
"That I cannot tell you right now. It is time for my body and full conscience to wake up."
"Please! A hint!"
"All right. The hint is that you can see my power over people very clearly, for they change once they meet me." With that said, Number 99 vanished.
Astral pondered over the hint. '… Power over people… change once they meet me,' he thought of 99's words. What is that supposed to mean? How does Number 99's power influence these humans? Negatively or positively? The spirit looked up through an opening in the mechanism to see the clear, starry-like sky. I must tell Yuma of this encounter. He then flew out of the to the world outside the Emperor's Key.
*Yuma's bedroom*
Yuma was getting dressed for school, but he was not in a rush. He had woken up a few minutes before 7:20 AM and had plenty of time. Once dressed in his school uniform, he headed downstairs for breakfast. On the table in the kitchen were fresh rice balls in a neat pyramid on a plate. The young teenager took two off the top and started eating, not gulping them down.
"Well, you're sure up early this morning," said Akari, who was in the living room working on a news article. It's true. Yuma usually oversleeps and runs out the door once he was dressed. But since he woke up early this time, he was taking it slower.
"I'm just lucky this time, I guess," the teen gestured as he ate his rice balls. At that moment, the Emperor's Key started glowing and Astral appeared behind his human partner.
"Yuma! I have something to tell you! It's urgent! It's…" the spirit was shouting, but stopped when he saw Yuma wide awake, already dressed, and eating. His partner was staring at him. "Oh. I didn't expect you to be up already."
"Yea. Nee-Chan said the same thing." The middle scholar finished his second rice ball and headed out the door. "I'm heading off," he told his Grandma, who was at the door sweeping. She looked at him a little surprised.
"You're going already?" the elderly woman asked her grandson. "You still have half an hour."
"Yep. I want to go now for some reason." He answered and went off to school. Walking, not running.
Soul Rider: Pretty cool, huh? It may not be the best, but I tried to put a little mystery in this. Like: a human Number? Yuma being up really early? Definitely NOT normal, even for Astral. We'll see what happens next in Chapter 2!