Chaos Avatar Desertion Chapter 1: The Arrival, a yu-gi-oh fanfic

This story has been rattling around in my head for ages. I've picked at it and picked at it, and finally I decided to do something with it.

This story will have characters from other franchises in it, but they don't feature prominently enough for me to properly justify it as a crossover. This story also follows James Cameron's Avatar, but not closely enough to call it a straight rewrite.

Chaos Creatures are beings of my own invention. To see some images of them, follow the DeviantArt link on my profile page.

Let's see, anything else? Yes—go read the short story "Desertion" by Clifford D. Simak. This story follows that reasoning.

Chaos Creatures © K.D. Wicks

Yugi woke up with no idea where he was.

It took him a few moments to reorient himself—he was on the starship Fortress Whale, heading for some new planet that needed his brother for some important mission.

Yugi launched out of his sleep pod, grateful for the zero-gravity—it made things easier for his slight, weak body. He angled over to storage, to see the only reason why he was on this flight.

His brother was dead.

But there was a part of him that still remained.

Yugi gently landed and put his face against the test tube, where the results of his brother Yami's participation in AGiLE's program resided. A combination of his DNA with that of the native sentient beings of the planet they were heading for. The only reason that he, Yugi, last and closest living relative, was even out here.

He had seen it before launch, and had been startled by the bestiality of it. Now, after exiting hypersleep, seeing it again….It reminded him of his brother, of the sort of things his brother used to typify.

The sentient beings of the planet they were heading for, Yugi recalled from the vids, were called Chaos Creatures, and they were responsible for the majority of the strange look of the thing. Claws, armor, tail, wings, spines, that helmet, larger eyes, larger and more numerous teeth, longer face, barrel chest….

But still, there, around the face, and in that hair, were Yami's loyalty-inspiring qualities, and that uniqueness that set him apart.

Yugi was vaguely aware of the fact that somehow, he was going to be put into that thing. The notion scared him somewhat.

But it was the idea that he'd be back with his brother that enabled him to go forward with it.

Yugi—along with pretty much everyone else on the ship who was awake and not needed to pilot—was in the viewing dock, staring at the planet they were heading towards. His feet were touching the deck, but his weight was negligible in the semi-gravity the crew had activated.

The planet had several moons, and seemed to itself circle a larger gas giant, which helped to shelter it from the white star it circled. The planet itself was large enough to be a gas giant in its own right, but Yugi knew from the vids that its gravity was similar to earth's, with breathable—yet deep—atmosphere. Somehow, the planet had multiple levels, eventually going down to its magma center. But from the vids, it had looked a paradise.

Yugi noticed the gravity steadily increasing as the crew took a long approach in. he grinned, despite himself.

He was finally going to see Planet Chaos.