YU-GI-OH

SHADOW WAR



CHAPTER 1:

THE RIVALRY



"Your move, Joey." Yugi said to his friend Joey.

"Alright, I'll use my newest card, the Lightning dragon." Joey plays his newest card that he gotten a little earlier. The Lightning Dragon has a good 2200/1600 ability. "And I am going to have it attack your Stone Frog."

Stone Frog is one of Yugi's newest cards. Stone Frog has an ability score of 1400/1800.

"Good move," Yugi congratulated. But it's actually also a bad move."

"What? Why is that?"

"You're not the only one with new cards Joey." Yugi flips over his faced down trap card call Reversed Flush.

"A Reversed Flush, what does that do?"

"Reversed Flush allows you to deal damage to me."

"So what is that a bad move?"

"My Stone Frog remains in play. And it also redirects the damages from my life points, to yours."

"What?"

"I'm suppose to receive 400 damages. But thanks to this card, 'Reversed Flush,' the damage is dealt straight to you instead."

"Yeah big deal, that's a great card, and it only brings my life points down to 300, I still have a chance to beat you for the first time." Both Yugi and Joey been playing for awhile. Yugi have only 1375 life points left, as Joey has 700.

"Oh, did I mention it doubles the damage?"

That gotten Joeys attention. "Oh no, I lost again."

"Sorry."

"What's going on guys?" It was Tea. She is heading over to see what's going on. "Oh, you two were playing Duel Monsters. So how many points did Yugi win by this time?"

"Hey wait an minute, how did you know I lost?" Joey demanded.

"You always loose to Yugi. Not to mention you always moan when you lose."

Joey begins to growl.

Yugi then said, "he's doing much better. He actually brought me down to 1375. That's his best yet against me."

Later that day, in Yugis and Joeys last class, a new student walks in. The teacher told everyone that his name is Chincha, and he's from China. Everyone greeted, and Chincha sat next to Yugi.

"Hi, I'm Yugi, and this is my friend, Joey."

"Hello," Chincha replied. Then he notices the pyramid around Yugi's neck. "Hey, what's that?"

"Huh? Oh this, this is a millennium puzzle. I solved it, and suddenly…lets just say it brought me better luck in the duel monsters game."

"Oh, you play duel monsters?"

"Yeah, don't you?"

"No, but I've heard a lot about it. It's no different then the game I play over in China. Same rules, same everything, except we call it the Demishine Masters. In fact I also have something like your millennium puzzle, that also brought me luck." Chincha brought out a necklace of a dragon. This is called a Zodiac Tied. From Ancient China. It is rumored that Deminshine Masters are played among clan leaders of ancient china, until something happened, and the monsters are sealed in cards."

"That's almost the same legend as my millennium puzzle. Except it came from Ancient Egypt. And over their they call it the Shadow Game, and it was between Pharaohs."

"Hey I got an idea," Joey went. "Since both of our games isn't different from each other, why don't we play a game sometime?"

"I would love too," Chincha said, "but over in my country, we play to keep cards from the loosing opponents. That's what separates both of our games. With this rule I lost only four cards, but won eighteen."

"But we can still play for fun. Not gambling any of our cards. Can't you do that?"

"Only in an official duel."

"Well, this is just for fun, so it wont be official."

Chincha thought for a moment. "I guess that would be alright."

"Cool."

"So were you two in any tournaments?"

"We were in the Duel Monsters tournament that took place on an island a few months back. All we have to do is collect ten stars from our opponents before we can duel a man name Maximilleous. We start out with two chips, but I have to share one with Joey. Which is ok, because I defeated a rival who threw away my best cards overboard from the ship. I took both of his star chips."

"Wow. A lot had happen, huh?"

"You could say that." Yugi smiles and closes is eyes and at the same time, cocks his head a little.

Then Chinha says, "the tournament I was in, took place last year. It was for the Zodiac cards." Chincha shows Yugi and Joey his Zodiac monster cards, all in Chinese. I have defeated many rivals, and won all twelve of these cards as prizes."

"Oh, may I see them?" Yugi ask.

"Sure, go ahead." Chincha hands over his cards.

Yugi and Joey starts to look at them. Monkey Zodiac 2600/2700, Sheep Zodiac 2700/2400, Horse Zodiac 2600/2550, Tiger Zodiac 2475/2000, Rabbit Zodiac 2100/2700, Rat Zodiac 2245/2300, Snake Zodiac 2350/2200, Ox Zodiac 2850/2600, Rooster 1980/2350, Dog Zodiac 2100/1980 and finally the Boar Zodiac 2425/2000.

"Hey wait a minute," Joey starts to complain. "I see only eleven cards here. I thought you said twelve. Plus their suppose to be a dragon in their too. So what happen to it? Did you loose it?"

Chincha answers with a small laugh, "no, of course not. I kept my Dragon Zodiac in my pockets. Don't worry, when we duel, you'll be able to see it in action. Let's just say it's much stronger then those other eleven cards."

"Yeah no wonder, it's a Dragon Zodiac for crying aloud. It's suppose to be the strongest anyways."

"So tell me, does your country has the same type of cards like my Zodiacs?"

Yugi answers, "not that I know of. My grandpa knows a lot about this game. He never told me about this, so I presume we don't have any cards like that."

"Too bad."

Late that night, Yugi, Joey and Maya is in Joeys bedroom, talking about stuff, like their day, and what their plans would be. Joey even brought up Chincha.

"Oh, maybe I should duel him sometime." Tea said.

"Not before me, Tea." Joey said. Then he turns to Yugi and said, "hey Yugi, aren't you going to argue who gets to duel Chincha first?"

"Nah, I'll go last." Yugi said. Besides, I would like to have time to research this Deminshine Masters game. So that way I can think of a strategy against his deck, and maybe even his Zodiac cards."

"What? He has Zodiac cards?"

Joey turns back to Tea, "yeah, zodiac monster cards. He has one of each animal of the Chinese zodiac. He only showed us eleven of his, and wont show us his Dragon Zodiac unless we see it in a duel first.

"I would even like to do research on Chichas Zodiac Tied. I think it could be a lot like the millennium items, except they have the souls of old clan leaders of ancient china."

"Yeah well, as soon as I find this Chincha kid, I'm going to clean the floor with him." Maya promises

The next day, Joey showed Maya where Chincha locker is, and left her there to wait for him. Maya waited for after a couple of classes before Chincha actually showed up.

"Well it's about time you showed up." Tea said.

"Um, do I know you?"

"Oh, I'm sorry. I'm Tea. My friends Yugi and Joey told me a lot about you. And I was wondering if you would like to duel with me. Officially."

"But in my game, officially would mean we'll have to gamble with one of our cards."

"Yeah I know. Listen, I got this really old card that I never use, but it's really good. It's called an Angel Serick. If you win, you can have it."

"Alright, and if you win, you can have my Dragon Zodiac card."

"What? Are you really going to put that card on the line?"

"Of course, do we have a deal?"

This kid doesn't know what he's getting into. "All right, I accept." They shook hands. "We'll play right outside, during lunch. I'll even put my Angel Serick in my deck."

"Alright, I'll meet you their."

After a quick lunch, Yugi and Joey talk inside in an empty class room. Yugi is coaching Joey on strategy. "Now, don't just stick with your beginning strategy, if you have to, think up a new one."

"Oh, ok. That'll be kind of hard. But I'll give it a try when I'm in that situation next time."

"Good, because you are going at random, and sometimes not thinking. That's usually your weakness."

"Yeah, well…" Joey went silent. "Hey, is that Tea and Chincha their?"

Yugi look out the same window, seeing them. "Why, yes it is."

"Oh, that bitch. I told her I'm going first. Let's go see how she's doing." Knowing Tea, they knew that she and Chincha are dueling.

"You play a pretty good game," Chincha congratulated.

"Thanks, but it's not over yet." Chincha has about 800 life points left, as Tea has 1650.

Chincha draws a card, and then smiles. "You want to see my Dragon Zodiac?"

"Of course."

"Well I just drew it, and going to…" He quickly notices that Yugi and Joey are on their way there, running as fast as they can. "Sorry, but I don't want Yugi and Joey to see my Dragon Zodiac yet." He places the card into his shirt pocket.

When Yugi and Joey arrived, they noticed the playing field. Chincha has his Boar, Ox and Rooster Zodiac out. But also a couple new creatures, a Blue Lightning Lion 2150/1900, and a Dark Samurai 2300/1750. Also a trap card, facing down, presumed it to be in hiding.

And Tea has her Angel Serik out in play.

"Why do you two have to show up, he was about to play his Dragon Zodiac until he noticed you two were coming." Tea yelled at both Yugi and Joey.

"Um, sorry." Joey went.

Chincha lays down a card, facing down. A monster card, no doubt, since it is in a monster slot.

"Your turn." Chincha said to Tea.

Tea drew a card. "Ah ha." She plays a Burning light card that increases the Angel Serik cards abilities to 3000/3150. "Alright, and my Angel Serik will attack your Boar Zodiac." In attempt to deal 1000 damages to Chincha, and win that Dragon Zodiac card.

But Chincha wasn't worried, he kept smiling. "Sorry, but I'm afraid you just lost this round."

"What?"

Chincha flips over his monster card, that is actually a trap card called Ambush. This trap card is just like Yugis 'Reverse Flush,' except it deals normal amount of damages, and it can be played on a monsters slot. This card can be used to trick his opponents in attacking.

Chincha: 800 Tea: 650

She wasn't too happy about that. So she ended her turn.

Chincha draws another card. He plays it on his under his Ox Zodiac, faced down, so no one can see. "My Ox Zodiac attacks your Angel Serik."

Tea thought for a moment, and realizes that Chincha still has a hidden trap card. So keeping her mouth shut, she plays the Shield card that cancels opponents attack.

But Chincha flips over the trap card. Showing it to be called the Countersack. That counters opponents card that just been played, and deals 50 damages to the opposing player.

1 Chincha: 800 Tea: 600

Then finally Chincha showed what the card he had hidden under his Ox Zodiac. It's a spell card called, Evil Eye. It makes the defending monster not to fight back, and get destroyed if possible. And all extra damages is still dealt to the opponent, doubled. Which deals 600 damages.

Chincha: 800 Tea: 0

"I lost," Tea became stunned. "I lost, ah, 800 to nothing. I can't believe it."

Chincha got up, and grab his cards and Tea's Angel Serik card as well. "Good game, you were one of the few people who came close to almost beaten me." Then he turns to Yugi, and Joey. "So, who's going to challenge me next?"

Joey instantly went, "I will. Tea is suppose to go after me, but I'll challenge you, anytime, anywhere."

"I can't believe it. Why did I lose? Rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr." Tea kicked Yugi and Joey out of her room so she can work off her anger.

"Boy, I never seen her this mad before." Joey went.

"I know." Yugi agreed.

They waited for over an hour before Tea finally calmed down. "Just how could he have beaten me?"

"Well, it is a different game, with same rules and all that. So maybe you lost, because Chincha's deck is different by country designed. And anyways, the way Chincha explained his Dragon Zodiac card to us, it seems that either way, you'll still lose."

"Who ask you?" Tea yelled, as if her anger came back.

There's something about that Zodiac Tied that bothers me. Yugi thought to himself. I wonder if there is a connection between Chincha, the millennium items, and even Tea's rage. She never been this angry after a lost, and she doesn't loose a lot. And she hadn't been on a good winning streak either. So what's going on?

Chincha stands by the window, staring past it. Watching clouds as if they're taking form of a dragon. Then in a complete different voice he said, "now, let the Shadow War begin the continuation. Ancient China against Ancient Egypt, being fought in Japan. Who would've guessed it?"