As of this writing this story takes place in an alternate reality. Therefore the events of Yugioh, Gx or 5ds have not occurred. But that does not mean that at some point I won't use the characters from any of these series. This is my first ever attempt at a fanfic, so I have no idea how long it will last, etc.
Now card-wise, I will be going by a combination of whatever the current ban-list is as well as what I feel should be or shouldn't be on the list. For example: Pot of Greed will be used by everybody, I mean why not? Everyone in the first two shows uses it. I feel it makes the game more interesting plus comebacks are easier to come up with. As of this writing Premature Burial, and Magician of Faith will be used.
Also some plotlines from GX will be used, but hey this is my first writing so cut me some slack ok? We all have our own versions of the story to tell, and while you may find mine to be bad, the same goes for me in regards to your story. But give me time; you might come to like my story.
I should also warn you that profanity will be used, especially by the "bad guys". Also the term breasts will be alluded to as well as other terms used to describe them, because let's face it this is an anime, and if you don't believe me take a good look at Mai Valentine and Alexis Rhodes, and then argue with me.
This story is about two best friends who gain acceptance into the prestigious Duel Academy. Along the way they encounter friends and make enemies, and of course they have exams to pass. But while all this is going on there is an organization working against them hiding in the shadows, can our heroes stop them in time?
Chapter 1: Envoy of the Beginning Part 1.
"Go Jinzo; destroy his Luster Dragon, with Cyber Energy Shock!" Eric shouted. Jinzo placed its palms about four inches apart and a glowing black energy ball appeared between them. Letting lose a guttural growl, Jinzo hurled the black orb at the blue dragon, which screeched and vanished. "Darn it!" Eric's best friend, David shouted as his life points dropped to a mere 850. "I've got you this time, bro" Eric shouted, "I place one card face down and end my turn."
"My turn," David said as he drew, "perfect, just what I need, I activate my Treeborn Frog's effect. Since I have no s/ts out I can special summon him in defense mode." A small brown frog with two white wings appeared on the field, with a croak, (Def-100). "Next, I activate Brain Control, by paying 800 life points I get to take control of Jinzo," David continued. Eric's eyes widened, and he groaned. He knew what was coming. "I sacrifice my frog and your Jinzo so I can summon the all-powerful Light and Darkness Dragon!" David announced. The two creatures vanished and in their place appeared one of the most powerful cards in the game. It stood easily twelve feet tall, half of its body was pure white while the other half, was inky black. It opened its mouth and bellowed out a roar, (Atk-2800).
"Finish this duel, with Chaos Blaze!" David shouted. The dragon then fired a golden energy blast from its mouth at Eric. "Arrrgggghhhh!" Eric moaned as his life point counter clicked down to zero. The dragon roared again before vanishing. "Need a hand, Eric?" David laughed. "Man, I totally didn't see that coming," Eric said as he stood up, "I was prepared for anything else though." "What was your face down?" David asked. "Shrink." Eric replied. "I thought so." David replied. "Let's see that gives me five wins and you only two, I guess my dragons and I are just too much for you." David said. "This time," Eric muttered. "Yeah right," Eric thought to himself, "It seems like ever since he decided to make his entire deck dragons I've been losing more often than winning. I guess it's true what they say some people really do have decks meant for them, but what about me?"
Shaking away these thoughts Eric glanced at the clock. "We better get going, the store will be getting in its new shipment of the next set, and we don't want to miss that," Eric said, as he retrieved his duffel bag. "The shipment arrives at 11:00 so we have enough time to get there before the line gets too long," David said as he gathered up his stuff. "No worries," Eric said as they headed out the door, "Mr. Z owes us a favor, after we helped him out last month reorganizing his stock. He promised us first pick." Eric and David hopped on their bikes and headed down the block. "Should be an interesting set," David said. "Yeah I know," Eric agreed, "the set introduces a new type of monster called the Gem Beasts." "I wonder what they do." David mused. "We're about to find out," Eric replied as they pulled up in front of Zielinski's Card and Comic shop. The boys chained their bikes and headed inside
"Hello, boys," Mr. Z said. He was just lifting the first box of packs onto the counter. "As promised you get first pick plus your first five packs are free." He opened the box, "help yourselves, I'm going to start getting ready for the rush." Eric rifled through the box and selected five packs that he felt were good, and then David picked his five. Eric tore open the first pack and sorted through it. The top card depicted a small purple cat with; two big red eyes, four big ears, and a large ruby on the end of its tail; (Atk-300. Def-300). The monster's name was Gem Beast Ruby Carbuncle. "So this is a Gem Beast?" Eric thought. He flicked through the rest of the rest of the packs and discovered that there were seven different Gem Beasts, as well as an assortment of spells and traps that supported them. For some reason Eric decided then and there to build a Gem Beast deck. But for now he had to focus on getting all of the components.
Ten minutes later, the first wave of customers arrived and the store became a flurry of activity. David and Eric spent their time talking with friends and trading, old stuff for the new cards. By the time they left, Eric was confident that he had everything that he would need to build a powerful deck. When Eric got home, he went straight into his room and started to build his new deck. Needless to say Eric still lost to David the next day playing a straight ahead Gem Beast deck. But Eric wasn't discouraged; he just had to find the right balance. So with David's help Eric combined cards from his old deck with the Gem Beast deck.
Several months later…It is now mid-August, and Eric and David have enrolled at the prestigious Duel Academy. In order to be accepted they had to pass a written exam as well as a field exam. The written exam was first and the boys studied lightly for it confident that they could pass. After Eric had finished he waited for David in the hallway outside. "Man that written exam wasn't as bad as I thought it would be." Eric said as David walked through the door. "Yeah, I really expected it to be worse but who cares? It's over now the fun part begins." David said, cracking his knuckles. "Right, now we have to duel against duel proctors to get into the academy," Eric said as they headed towards the arenas where the duels were being held.
"Whoa," exclaimed David, "talk about intense." There were at least a dozen different duels going on at once. Monsters of all shapes sizes and colors could be seen; some looked familiar while others did not. "Oh yeah, I can't wait to see who I'm up against." Eric said, grinning. Just then a man in a white coat, emblazoned with the word JUDGE, and carrying a clipboard bustled up to us. "Names?" he asked while gazing at the clipboard. The boys told him their names and he checked the names off of his list. "All right," he said pointing at Eric, "head to field #8 and your opponent will meet you there, and you go to field #2, David. Good luck to you both." And with that he left. David turned to Eric and said, "this is it bro, I'll see you after the duel, good luck." Eric wished the same and headed out to field #8.
Field #8 turned out to be close to the bleachers and Eric got to take a quick look at his potential peers, before looking at the opposite side of the field. To his surprise there was no Duel Proctor. "Where's my opponent?" Eric wondered. Suddenly a voice came over the loudspeaker and said, "Attention! Would Dr. Harkins please report to field #8 for his next duel?" "Dr. Harkins? This kid's dead," someone up in the bleachers said. "Yeah," chimed in the girl sitting next to him, "I heard he's ruthless and he defeated all the applicants who went up against him today." "Gee, thanks for the confidence boost," Eric thought as he glanced at her. Unfortunately the guy sitting in front of her was tall and broad-shouldered so Eric could only see her face. "My older brother told me he used to be in the army before he was kicked out for unnecessary roughness," the first guy said.
"Ten-hut!" A voice shouted. Eric turned and saw that a guy was now standing opposite him on the field. He was tall and had a buzz cut. He wore camouflage pants and a blue trench coat, and a camouflaged duel-disk rested on his arm. "Dr. Harkins?" Eric asked. Harkins scowled at Eric, "I keep telling those idiots to address me by my rank. From now on applicant, address me as Major, or sir!" Eric took an instant disliking to this guy. "Fine address me as Eric," Eric replied. "Silence applicant," he snapped, "you want respect? Earn it." "Fine," Eric said, as they activated their duel disks, "Let's do it to it!" (E-4000. MH-4000). "Go ahead, make the first move, applicant," Harkins said with a sweep of his arm. "Thanks, don't mind if I do," Eric said, as he drew his first card, "I summon a monster in defense mode, and I'll also place one card face down and end my turn."
"How…quaint," Harkins remarked as he drew. "I play the spell card, Double Summon, which allows me to..." "Normal summon twice in one turn," Eric said. "Well, well," Harkins said, snidely, "it appears your knowledge of cards is greater then your manners! So now I place a monster in defense mode." A card appeared horizontally on the field. "But it won't be there for long because I sacrifice it so I can summon Freed the Matchless General in attack mode!" Harkins shouted, as a tall, armor-wearing warrior appeared on the field, (Atk-2300). Harkins selected another card from his hand, "Next I activate the equip spell Fusion Sword Murasame Blade, which…" "Gives Freed an extra 800 attack points," Eric cut in. "Stop interrupting me, applicant," Harkins spat, "now I also equip Freed with the card known as Big Bang Shot, which raises his strength by another 400 points bringing his total up to 3500!"
"Damn, a monster with 3500 attack points on the first turn, this duel's over," the guy up in the bleachers said. "I wouldn't count him out yet," the girl said. "Pay attention, applicant, because thanks to Big Bang Shot, you still lose life points even though your monster is in defense mode, did you know that?" Harkins asked. "Of course," Eric replied, "I know pretty much what any card does" "What? You do?" Harkins looked shocked, "no matter Freed carve up that defensive monster of his!" Freed let out a battle cry and used the Fusion sword, to slice through the defensive card, revealing the defending monster, which looked like a large, blue, emerald-capped turtle shell, (Def: 2000). "Arrrgghh!" Eric muttered as his life points dropped by 1500 as the Gem Beast Emerald turtle was destroyed.
"Take that, applicant." Harkins laughed, as a square emerald appeared in Eric's s/t zone (spell/trap zone). "Oh yes, the Gem Beasts become continuous spells when they're destroyed," Harkins muttered, "oh well, doesn't matter. I'll end my turn by placing one card face down, your move." (E-2500. MH-4000). "Good, now I can take down your monster," Eric said as he drew. Harkins laughed, "With what?" "I'll show you but first, I summon Gem Beast Sapphire Pegasus, in attack mode!" A winged horse appeared on the field. It was pearly white, with golden wings. In the center of each wing sat a large, round, royal-blue sapphire. A royal-blue horn made of sapphire glowed on its head. (Atk-1800).
"And when he's summoned, his special ability lets me place one Gem Beast from my hand, deck, or graveyard into my spell/trap zone as a continuous spell." Eric took his deck, rifled through it for a couple of seconds, and chose a card saying, "I'll take my Gem Beast Ruby Carbuncle." He placed it face-up in a s/t slot in his duel disk, and a oval-shaped ruby appeared on the field. Eric then re-shuffled his deck and set it in the deck slot.
"Big deal," Harkins said, "your little pony's still not strong enough to take down my general." "Obviously, I wasn't done yet, so I'll activate my Rare Value spell. Here's how it works, you choose one of my crystallized Gem Beasts, and I'll discard it." Eric said. "Fine I'll choose your Emerald Turtle, not that it makes any difference." Harkins said. The emerald disappeared from the field. "Now I get to draw two cards," Eric said as he drew. "Now to get rid of your general, I activate the trap card, Gem Raigeki!"
"Achtung! What's going on?" Harkins demanded as a large gem surrounded the Big Bang Shot equip spell. "By sending a crystallized Gem beast to the graveyard, I can destroy any of your cards like your favorite soldier, over there," Eric said grinning, "but if I destroy Big Bang Shot, Freed is removed from play instead of being sent to the graveyard." "No! I order you not to!" Harkins demanded. "Sorry," Eric said, "I don't take your orders, I send Ruby Carbuncle to the graveyard to activate Gem Raigeki!" The gemstone holding the equip spell began to exude a powerful energy, vaporizing the card and Freed vanished. "Nein!" Harkins shouted. "Now, Sapphire Pegasus, attack his life points directly with Sapphire Lightning!"
Sapphire Pegasus unfurled its wings, and the sapphires on its wings began to glow. The sapphires then transferred their energy to the horn on its head. The horn then fired a royal-blue lightning bolt at Harkins, who grunted and dropped to one knee, with his life points. (E-2500, Dr. C-2200). The audience cheered. "That was an awesome move," the girl said. "Way to keep us in suspense with that trap card," the tall boy in front of her agreed. Eric grinned, "How was that for a move, doc? Not only did I crush your best monster, I took away almost half of you life points too, I'll finish up by placing one card face down." Harkins slowly got to his feet, "Bravo, no applicant has defeated my general in a long time; however this battle is not over, I play Pot of Greed and draw two cards. Next I activate my trap card, Call of the Haunted!"
"Oh," Eric said. "With this card I special summon the monster known as the Trojan Horse!" Harkins said as a large wooden horse appeared on the field, (Atk-1600). "I don't get it, why didn't he use it to block the attack?" the tall boy wondered. "Because he's planning on sacrificing it for something more powerful," the girl replied. "Now then, applicant," Harkins said as he drew, "I'll sacrifice my Trojan Horse and since I'm summoning an earth attribute monster, it counts as two sacrifices. So I can summon Gilford the Legend!"
An immense figure rose to the field. He wore dark blue armor over his muscular frame. A black-horned mask covered his face, and he wore a swirling black cape. He also had two swords strapped to his back and carried an immense broadsword, (Atk-2600). "Now for his ability, whenever he is summoned I can equip him with all of the equip cards in my graveyard," Harkins said. "No way!" the girl exclaimed, as Gilford's attack jumped up to 3800. "I'll also equip Gilford with, Lightning Blade, which raises his attack by another 800 points raising his attack up to 4600, giving him enough to finish this pathetic duel," Harkins taunted, "Gilford carve up his little pony!" "Sorry to disappoint you," Eric interrupted, "but I activate the trap card Waboku, which not only protects my monsters during battle, it also prevents me from losing any life points as well." "Foolish boy, you're only delaying your inevitable loss. I end my turn." Harkins smirked.
"Time for a come-back," Eric said as he drew, "I summon Gem Beast Amethyst Cat in attack mode!" A pinkish cat, with a large gold amulet containing a large purple amethyst on its neck, appeared on the field, (Atk-1200). "Here, kitty, kitty, kitty," Harkins said in a sing-song voice, and then laughed, "oh yeah she's real tough compared to my warrior." "You know something there doc? You shouldn't go laughing at my monsters just because they don't have attack points through the roof like that warrior of yours. Sometimes abilities are much better than brute strength, I should know, I've gone through quite a few decks before this one and…" "I don't want to hear your life story, applicant. Now get on with your turn so Gilford can crush you like the little cockroach that you are," Harkins bellowed.
"What's the matter doc, are you in a hurry to lose?" Eric taunted, "If so, let me help, I activate the spell card Smashing Ground!" "What?" Harkins exclaimed, as a large fist dropped down from the sky and crushed Gilford. "I win, go Amethyst Cat and Sapphire Pegasus, direct attack." "Neeeiiinnn!" Harkins shouted as his life points dropped to 0. The crowd roared its approval, and a voice over the PA said, "Congratulations, Eric and welcome to Duel Academy!" "Yeeeessss!" Eric shouted pumping his fist in the air. "Good job, bro!" Eric turned and saw David at the edge of the ring giving him the thumbs up. "How'd your duel go?" Eric asked, walking over and slapping his hand. "Like this," David replied….
To be continued…….