Dragon and Rider

by bricann

Just one event can change a life. Yusei discovered that himself. From the Dark Signers to Yliaster, he thought he had seen it all. But when he finds something new, his life is about to take a bigger change than what happened than when he discovered he was a Signer. This is the story of the dragon and the rider. What's in it, you ask? Read to find out.

1. Birth

I DO NOT OWN ANYTHING FROM YU GI OH 5DS OR ERAGON/INHERITENCE CYCLE (whichever you prefer to call it)! ALL RIGHTS GO TO THEIR AUTHORS AND CREATORS!

Some ideas come from the story A Modern Day Rider by VyxenSkye. All those ideas go to her. I OWN NOTHING OF THEM!

Chapter 1

Birth

Yusei walked outside after doing a long, harder job for someone. The clouds had started to come in and thunder clapped in the distance. He walked out and towards his duel runner only to bump his foot into an object. He looked down at his foot and noticed a large, pale blue, oval shaped stone sitting there. He reached down curious and touched its smooth surface. Yusei didn't know why but he felt compelled to keep it. He carefully picked it up and took it with him back to the garage and apartment he shared with two of his friends.

When he entered, he found his friends Crow and Jack were still gone and took the stone over to his room. He set the stone on his bed and looked at it confused.

'Why did I want to take it here so bad?' Yusei thought.

He took off his glove to get a better feel for the strange stone. He found that it had a strong heat radiated from it. It wasn't painfully hot but it was warm. Yusei tapped on it with his knuckles only to receive an echoing ring from inside it. As if it was hollow.

'What is this thing?' Yusei thought.

He set his palm on it again. This time a bright light emerged while Yusei struggled to hold in a cry of pain as searing hot shocks went up and through his body. But he couldn't tear his hand away. It was as if his hand was locked to it. When the light died down and the pain stopped, he brought his hand in front of him in shock. On the heel of his palm was a swirling, white mark that gave a faint glow.

'What in the world?' Yusei thought shocked. 'What just happened?'

Yusei turned as he heard the front door shut. "Yusei!" called Crow.

Yusei instinctually hid the stone and walked out to meet his friend. "Hey, Crow," he greeted.

"Hey, Yusei," Crow returned. "You doing okay? You seem a bit, I don't know, pale."

"I'm fine," Yusei said. "There have just been a lot of calls lately."

"I know what you mean. I'm practically on a twenty-four hour shift," Crow responded. "We probably both need more sleep."

"Probably," Yusei agreed.

The day went on as normally as possible but Yusei's thoughts kept drifting back to the stone. 'What is that stone? How did it give me this mark?' Yusei thought.

That night, Yusei was lying on his bed unable to sleep. He looked at the mark imprinted on his hand. Yusei was tore away from his confused thoughts by a cracking and crunching sound. He slowly sat up unsure what to think. He reached under his bed and brought out the stone. The first thing he noticed was that it was rocking back as a crack was growing larger and larger. But soon, the crack exploded the outside causing Yusei to shield his face with his arms. When he slowly brought them down, he saw a little creature attempting to stand. It was pale blue, almost white, with feathery, scale like wings. It was about the size of a large cat with its deep purple eyes staring at Yusei longingly.

"It was an egg," Yusei muttered softly.

He heard a soft rumble. Sighing, he got up and silently travelled to grab some meat. He walked back in and set a small bowl of raw meat on the ground. The small being in front of him dashed to the bowl and didn't hesitate to eat it.

Yusei kneeled down as it finished its meal. He held out his hand to the being. It looked at him before rubbing its head against the hand. Yusei was shocked as he felt a wave of happiness, pleasure, and satisfaction fill his mind.

'It can't be sending me its feelings. But I feel like it is,' Yusei thought. "What are you?" he asked aloud.

Suddenly, a blast of visions hit his mind. All showing a large, white being similar to this one flying high in the air with a person on its back. The creature flew to the ground and set a familiar egg on the ground before it switched to Yusei picking up an egg.

He now understood what the being was. It was a dragon. But how it was possible, he didn't know.

"I should probably keep you a secret for now. But I won't be able to keep you here," Yusei said. The dragon looked at him. "I'll take you over to the forest and visit you as much as I can. But what about a name?" Yusei muttered the last part. He then thought of something that he wasn't sure he would ever really have normally thought of. "How do you like the name Star?"

Another wave of happiness and approval filled his mind. He picked up the dragon before silently leaving the garage with it in his arms and to the forest.

The next morning, Crow walked to the kitchen to find Jack sitting there with coffee in his hand like usual.

"Hello, Crow," Jack greeted.

"Hey, Jack. Where's Yusei?" Crow responded.

"Don't know. He was gone before I woke up," Jack replied.

"I thought he stopped doing this a couple months ago," Crow groaned.

"Well, let's go find him," Jack said finishing his coffee and getting up. The two of them took off fast after that was said.

Yusei had been with Star all night. The dragon just didn't want him to leave. He had made it to the deepest part of the woods and Star was sleeping in his lap. The dragon slowly woke up and looked at its friend.

"Star, I really should get going," he told it gently. "I'll be back, I promise." The dragon got off but Yusei felt its sadness. Yusei couldn't help but feel sympathy for his dragon friend. "I'll see you soon," he told his dragon. "Take care of yourself."