Chapter 1: How are you Alive?!

Me: Hello everybody, sorry for not updating Neo Zexal. I have had Writer's block for the past couple of days. So in the meantime, while my writer's block disappears, enjoy this story called Neo Troubadour. Xero, can you please do the disclaimer.

Xero: The Author does not own the Yu-Gi-Oh! Franchise or their products. All rights go to Kazuki Takahashi. However he does own me.

It has been several years since the Battle City Tournament. The winner of that tournament was the Holder of Obelisk the Tormentor. His name was Xero Cross. He earned the nickname " The Tormentor," for defeating his opponent's slowly. Xero had won all of the Egyptian God Cards but gave two of them back to people who could control them and not abuse their powers. These people were Yugi Moto and Seto Kaiba. Yugi was given The Winged Dragon of Ra and Seto was given Slifer the Sky Dragon. After they all went their separate ways a few of them had gotten married. Yugi married Tea, Joey had married Mai Valentine, Seto had married Serenity, Duke and Tristan are still single, and Mokuba had just turned 18. Xero had started dating Ishizu Ishtar.

"I play the Spell card Graceful Charity, I draw three cards and discard two cards from my hand." Yugi said while Xero just looked at him with red eyes. Yugi did as the card told him to do, he discarded Archfiend of Gilfer and Celtic Guardian. "I tribute Gamma and Beta the Magnet warriors to summon Dark Magician." Yugi said while a man clad in purple armor and robes, holding a green staff appeared right in front of Yugi."

DM (2500/2100)

"Dark Magician attack his face-down card." Dark Magician did as told. He held out his palm and the face-down monster was about to be destroyed until it was interrupted.

"I activate my face-down trap card Crush Card, I tribute my face-down Monster to activate this card." Xero said to Yugi who just gritted his teeth. The monster was sacrificed and the Dark Magician started to evaporate into nothingness.

" Great, he has two monsters on the field while I have none, could this get any worse?"

"I end my turn," Yugi said to Xero who just grinned.

"My turn, Draw," Xero said. "I play the spell card Monster Reborn to revive my Summoned Skull." A monster with red muscles appeared with its skeletal structure was on the outside.

Summoned Skull (2500/1200)

"Hey Yugi, you know what I have in my hand?" Xero said earning a wide-eyed Yugi. "I tribute my three cards on my field to summon Obelisk The Tormentor. The three monster were sacrificed and their energies were twirled into a spiral vortex. The vortex started getting bigger until it was big enough to summon something of enormous height. The vortex started to distort and a giant blue behemoth came out. It red eyes looked downward at its opponent and looked back at its owner. It gave a giant huff. Everybody who was watching the duel as well as the duelist just anime sweat dropped.

Obelisk The Tormentor (4000/4000)

" Obelisk, attack Yugi directly with Fists of Fate." Xero said while Obelisk just raised one stone muscle. (A/N: Just think of how people raise their eyebrows.) Obelisk raised its fist and rammed it into Yugi.

Xero LP: 2500

Yugi LP: 0

After the duel, Yugi and Xero headed back to his house which was a renovated Game Shop. Ever since his grandfather died from a stroke, Yugi has taken up the Game Shop business with his Wife and child, who they named Alex. When they reached the shop, Yugi said farewell to Xero. Xero walked back to his mansion alone. He earned the mansion by beating the Battle City Finals. Apparently, Seto had planned for the winner to get a mansion. Like he needed another one. He owns 3 of them. He planned on taking a detour to the beach. When he arrived the sun was setting with a redish-pink across the horizon. While he was looking he saw something wash up on the shore. He walked over and saw and sixteen year old teenager with two shades of green in his hair. He was covered head to toe in what it looked like black soot from an explosion. He guessed the boy was dead since the cold water was not waking him up. He got up and was about to walk away when the teenager started to groan. Well, this was not the first time Xero was wrong in guessing things.

"Hey kid, are you okay?" Xero asked while looking at him.

"Do I look okay to you?" The young teenager snapped back at him.

"Yes, you do, unless you want me to say no." Xero said to the young teenager who just looked at him dumbfounded. How could this man think he was okay. He just lived through and explosion.

"I just lived through an explosion!" The young teen yelled at him.

"I can see that, you are covered in black soot." Xero said while turning away and walking in the direction to his mansion.

"You're just going to leave me here?" The young teen said to him.

"Well, you are allowed to come, however when we get to my house the first thing you are going to do is take a shower." Xero said to young teenager, who started to follow him. "By the way, do you have a name?" Xero asked while looking at the teen.

"Yes, It's Noah." Noah said to Xero who just looked at the kid like he was crazy.

"HOW ARE YOU ALIVE?! I SAW YOU EXPLODE?!" Xero said while Noah just looked at him closely. Suddenly Xero's a certain card in Xero's deck started to wiggle like it was laughing. Xero pulled it out and looked at it. "Why are you laughing, you giant blue pimple." Xero said to the card. (A/N: There are spirits in here and Obelisk is one of them.) The Card stopped moving and the next thing Noah knew, Xero was In the sand. Obelisk decided to puch him into the sand and started to laugh at him. (A/N: If you cannot tell by now, I decided to give Obelisk a Prankster personality. Just think how funny it is.)

"And how do you know I exploded?" Noah said while helping him up. Xero just pulled out two cards from his deck and showed them to Noah.

"Those cards, How did you get them?"

Me: R&R and no flaming. Also I have 4 OC spots left for this story so if you want yours in here PM me with the Title "My OC for NT." If I get more than 4 I will most likely choose the ones that have the most descriptive details. Here was I require:

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