DISCLAIMER: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX or any other spinoffs. Also, any references to media and/or certain celebrities either belong or are inspired by them. I only only this story and the characters I, personally, created.
Greetings ladies, gentlemen and followers of the First Church of Christopher Walken. This officially signals the beginning of my new story, Spirit Journey. I hope you enjoy yourself, grab a big bowl of pie, some ice cream and remember to keep lights on in the room. Last thing I need in this world is more people with poor vision.
CHAPTER ONE: Four's a Crowd, But Three's a Party
Now entering inner monologue mode...
"Domino City...a city that really has nothing to do with dominoes or any possible pizza affiliations...Okay that was a sucky intro.
Alright, screw this. I'm Miles, a "duelist" from Chicago...okay from Anaheim, but I was Chicago born, love Da Bears, deep dish pizza and believe in the concept that a primarily white male who was raised in a libertarian home can thrive in the biggest left-wing nut-job capital of the world...simply by ignoring politics entirely until you're a grumpy 80-year-old living off Uncle Sucker...but anyways getting off track.
You're probably asking yourself one question...okay maybe several questions, but it's my inner monologue, so we get to answer my "your one" question. What the 30 foot tall Chuck Norris statue, is a teenage boy from America doing on the other side of the blue marble. Well, it all started a few years ago, blah blah blah, insert long and tedious card game here...but to put it short. I was always a bit of a trouble magnet. I got bullied constantly when I was a wee lad, but found 2 different ways to defend myself. Dueling and martial arts. So I could stop the bullying by systematically roundhouse kicking them in the face...or beating them in a card game. THAT'LL TEACH 'EM. Not that I'm a violent person, but I wasn't necessarily the biggest kid growing up, so I had to learn or get my glorious ass handed to me...Wait what was I talking about? Oh right, the being in Japan...thing. Well, my mom and I decided that no school in Anaheim was working for me, to put it bluntly, so we both decided that going overseas was the best option. Thanks Mom! You've always been the pinnacle of great decision making... So now, I'm going to Duel Academy, one of the best dueling schools on the planet...well, I might be. Depends. There are 2 portions of the entrance exam that you have to do to gain entrance into Duel Academy. The written and practical exam. I've already completed the written exam, it was...
FLASHBACK
"The Hell is an Acid Trap Hole!?" Miles thought pulling his hair in frustration
END OF FLASHBACK
Uh...Good enough? I got a 72. How delightfully average. Thank you multiple choice. Okay so I'm not exactly an experienced duelist. I've kinda kept my knowledge base to my cards and the one's I've faced. Who do I know runs a freakin' Acid Trap Hole...sounds like a pitfall SWAT teams use to catch stoners. Anyway, now I just have my practical dueling exam, which means just one thing...I get to duel...practically. So, now I just have to make my way to the Kaiba Dome which is right...
"Wait where am I anyways?" Miles said out loud, coming out of his inner monologue, completely and hopelessly lost. He started running in panic, and it didn't help that he was wearing jeans and a Bears sweater jacket, which just weighed him down.
Meanwhile, at the Kaiba Dome...
"All Applicants that have not dueled yet, please have your number on standby and await it to be called. I say again, if you have not dueled yet, await for your number to be called." The giant PA voice announced.
The duels continued commencing as various explosions and spontaneously appearing monsters spread across the various duel fields.
On the outside of the Kaiba Dome, 2 women in Yellow and white uniform tops and skirts stood at an application desk along with a man in a black suit wearing sunglasses.
"Okay ladies, looks like we've got 5 minutes remaining until application closes. So I'd say get ready to go." He said to them, unaware that a giant puff of smoke could be seen in the distance. This caught the mans attention as a figure appeared from that puff of smoke, charging at furious speeds. Suddenly the figure came to a complete stop right in front of them. It was Miles, who was very much gasping for air.
"Never...Inner Monologuing...Again!" He puffed and wheezed, sounding like the Stevie from Malcolm in the Middle. They stood there with a confused look on each of their faces. But he just smiled at this closing his green eyes.
Back in the Kaiba Dome...
"Dude you look winded as Hell." The voice came from a black male wearing a grey tank top with a blue shark on it and khaki shorts that went below his knees. He was light skinned and skinny, but had a decent build and had buzzed black hair.
"That's what happens when you run 5 miles to get here." Miles retorted still wiping sweat from his medium brown hair.
"The hotel is only 3 miles from here." This irritated Miles a bit.
"Okay, I'm not good with directions Kenny. It doesn't help when you inner monologue for 15 minutes." He explained.
"Yeah...wait what?" He asked totally lost on his last statement.
"But I'm here, and my hair looks fine. And that's all that matters." Miles reassured himself. "So when d'ya go on?"
"I already dueled man." Kenny answered. "That's what happens when you get here on time."
"Well la-dee-frickin-da!" Miles yelled, channeling his inner Matt Foley. "I'm just waiting for my name to be called, should be any moment now." Just then the PA voice came on.
"Attention, applicant 89 Miles Palmer, report to Duel Field 2. Number 89, Miles Palmer to field 2."
"Huh. Right on cue." Miles realized. "Well, don't think much of it. It just means I can just predict the future and therefore are the smartest person alive." He began to make his way down to the duel arena.
Just as he was entering his arena, the previous duelist just finished winning his duel.
"Wish me luck...guy." Miles asked to the stranger he just met. Said stranger had black hair and wore a white Japanese school uniform.
"It's Bastion and if you expect to make it into this school, you'll need more than luck my friend." He retorted confidently in a British accent.
"Hey, that's a pretty good British imitation." Miles complimented.
"It's not an imitation." Bastion explained.
"Then why're you wearing a Japanese uniform?..." Miles asked. Bastion looked at him blankly.
"There's something not quite right in your head is there?" He assumed.
"How'd you know? Are you some sort of wizard?" Miles wondered with a lively expression on his face. "Oh wait, there's that duel thing I gotta win. Later Bastion!" With that, Miles ran into the arena.
"...Where was I just now?" Bastion wondered to himself, confused about the conversation he had with Miles.
Miles entered to arena and awaiting him was a man with orange hair and was wearing large sunglasses. He was also donning a dark blue suit.
"Alright applicant, are you ready for your examination?" He said sternly waiting for a quick answer.
"That depends. Does Christopher Walken want pie?" Miles asked back, but the proctor had no answer. "I'd say the odds are pretty good that he does. Dude loves his pie, some ice cream on it...mmm, put some on ya head! Tongue would slap ya brains out tryin' to get to it."
DUEL!
Proctor 4000
Miles 4000
The proctor drew his card, giving him six. "I'll start this duel by activating the Spell Card, Double Summon. This allows me to summon twice this turn."
"Woah...okay, I am TOTALLY lost!" Miles said sarcastically, pointing out the obvious explanation of the spell.
"Well, this will really have your head spinning. I'm summoning Marauding Captain to the field, and with his ability, I can summon Command Knight as well." He stated as the two warriors joined in at his side on the field. One of them was a blonde man in silver arming wielding a tall blade, and the other was a blonde woman wearing a crimson hat with feathers on the edges. She also donned crimson armor and a purple cape, and possessed a sheath blade.
Marauding Captain (1200/400) *3 EARTH
Command Knight (1200/1900) *4 FIRE
"Next due to Double Summon, I'll bring out another Marauding Captain." The blonde warrior took his place next to his twin. "And along with him is my Axe Raider." The bronze skinned warrior donned red and gold armor on his chest and shoulders and donned a golden axe.
Axe Raider (1700/1150) *4 EARTH
"Finally, thanks to my Command Knight, all my Warriors gain 400 ATK." The proctor explained as his warriors bulked up.
Marauding Captain x2 (1200 + 400 = 1600/400)
Command Knight (1200 + 400 = 1600/1900)
Axe Raider (1700 + 400 = 2100/1150)
"I'll end it there, but just for your information rookie, you should know that with both captains in play, you can't attack any of my monsters thanks to their effect." He continued to explain as Miles turn began.
Meanwhile in the stands...
"Sweet duel Bastion." as Bastion sat down, he was greeted by a boy with large brown hair that had two different tints. "Thank you." Bastion simply replied.
"By the looks of things, you just might be the 2nd best duelist here." that comment took Bastion as he looked back at the brown-haired boy. Then the PA voice came back on.
"Applicant number 94, Jaden Yuki, report to field 4. Jaden Yuki to field 4." The voice ended.
"Ha! Go time. Wish me luck guys!" the boy apparently named Jaden said with great enthusiasm as he started to run down to the duel fields.
"Hey Wait." Bastion stopped him. "If I'm second best, who's first?" Bastion queried.
"Your's truly." Jaden answered pointing to himself. "It's what I'm best at." Then he continued down to the duel field.
"Wow, he's so sure of himself." a short light blue-haired guy wondered as he watched his fellow duelist run to his match.
"I'll imagine he'll have to be considering his opponent." A voice butted in. It turned out to be Kenny who was sitting just a few seats away from them in another aisle.
Meanwhile, on the other side of the stadium, a few guys wearing a long blue blazers sat and watched the ongoing duels, paying particular attention on the one Miles was currently engaged in.
"Wonder how that kid's gonna get out of this mess Chazz." One of them with a spikey brown hair, who seemed to be the largest of the group asked his cohort, who had large messy spiked black hair.
"Yeah Chazz, whatcha think Chazz?" The other guy asked, who had dark blue hair with a drooping curly bang going down the right side of his face and wore a pair of glasses.
"Who cares. Really, it's kind of pointless to give these scrubs false hope. When we know anything below an Obelisk is nothing but a door mat on my way to being the king of games." Chazz said with a ton of cockiness.
Up a few levels there were two other people overlooking the duel. One a teal haired guy wearing a white blazer with 2 pointed coattails, the other was a blonde haired girl wearing a white top with blue trimmings along with a blue miniskirt and blue boots.
Back at Miles' duel...
"Well, that's quite the lineup ya got there." Miles admitted. "I haven't seen this many knights since watching my uncle's theater group's rendition of Monty Python and the Holy Grail." Miles rambled. "However, the fire department isn't gonna stop this show. I am!" He exclaimed drawing his card.
"I'll start by summoning this to the field." He said, revealing his monster card. "Blackwing - Sirocco the Dawn." As he called it, the humanoid bird, donning a crow's mask and donning black feathers along with claws and talons appeared in front of him.
Blackwing - Sirocco the Dawn (2000/900) *5 DARK
"Looks like you need to read the rules a bit more rookie. That's a level 5 monster, so you need to sacrifice a monster first."
"Looks like you need real glasses, and not those Ray-Bans." Miles retorted beginning to explain. "Since you were the only one with monsters in play I didn't have to make a tribute to bring Sirocco out." The proctor grunted, returning his statement.
"Next up, since I do have a Blackwing out, I'm able to Special Summon this to the field. Blackwing Gale the Whirlwind." He set the card in his monster zone, revealing a smaller bird, cover in black, white and green feathers along with a yellow face and red eyes.
Blackwing - Gale the Whirlwind (1300/400) *3 DARK
"But that's not all folks." Miles quipped. "Because i have TWO Blackwings out now, I can Special Summon this fella. Blackwing - Zonda the Predator." His third monster was similar to Sirocco, in which he had a bird-like mask, but had feathers at the end of that mask, resembling dreadlocks. He also had black and grey feathered wings, and donned thick black armor on his chest, covering his muscular build. Like Sirocco, he had talons and claws.
Blackwing - Zonda the Predator (1700/1300) *4 DARK
"Quite the lineup you have rookie." The proctor commended. "But make no mistake, they won't be able to do anything with the wall I've put up."
"Yeah yeah, I know about your Captain's abilities, but all of that won't matter with this card." Miles stated pointing out the card he was holding his hand. He flipped it over and it revealed a picture of 3 Blackwings in the eye of a large black wind storm. However, the proctor was focusing on something else.
"A Trap card?" He said confused.
"Not just any trap card. Delta Sparrow - Black Cell! A trap that I can activate from my hand when I'm in possession of 3 Blackwings. and 1, 2 and um...3, tres, drei, twois...another language's word for 3." Miles exclaimed with excitement. "And with this in play, it cancels out your face-up cards abilities for the rest of the turn. Including Spells, Traps...and of course the Monty Python players right there." Suddenly Zonda, Sirocco and Gale all flew above the proctor's field and began flapping their wings together forming a giant black tornado that engulfed his field. The storm ended, and the 4 warriors were revealed and dropped their weapons as if losing their will to fight. Not only did it cancel the Captains's abilities to prevent attacking warriors, but Command Knights power boost was gone as well.
Marauding Captain x2 (1600-400=1200/400)
Command Knight (1600-400=1200/1900)
Axe Raider (2100-400=1700/1150)
"No way!" the proctor yelled in surprise.
"Oh, but there's much more. I'll start with Gale's special effect. Once a turn, I can halve one of your monster's ATK and DEF. Slice him like Italian beef." Gale jumped into action, flapping its wings causing wind to form and it struck one of the proctor's captain, cutting his points.
Marauding Captain (1200/400/2=600/200)
"And la pièce de résistance, Sirocco the Dawn. With him, allows 1 Blackwing to attack with the combined ATK of all face up Blackwings on my field." Miles explained.
"That can't be. No way is there a card that powerful!" The proctor yelled in disbelief.
"Well in normal circumstances, that monster is the only one that can attack this turn, but considering your monsters and mine..." Miles pronounced, as his 3 blackwings combined for a final attack.
Blackwings - Zonda the Predator (1700+1300+2000=5000/1300)
"That won't make a difference." Miles concluded. "Blackwings finish him off with triple wing attack!" As he commanded, the three Blackwings launched a giant gust of wind towards the weakened Marauding Captain blowing away, along with all of the proctor's lifepoints.
Proctor 0
Miles 4000 WIN
"Ughh...Well done rookie. I welcome you to Duel Academy." The proctor congratulated while still recovering from the triple onslaught.
"Thanks." Miles simply stated as he walked out of the duel field. "Man that was easier than I thought. Didn't even have to Synchro Summon." He thought to himself.
"Damn! What the fuck man! I know these proctors use pretty weak decks, but one turn?" said Kenny to Miles who returned back to watch the rest of the duels with his associates.
"Well it's pretty easy when you have a strategy." Miles confessed to his friend.
"Really? And what would that be." Said Bastion who was sitting just across the aisle.
"Simple." He stated, adding a rasp to his voice. "You see, first. You get the monsters. Then you get the Spells and Traps, then you get the lifepoints...then you get the women." Miles said with a very Al Pacino-like voice.
"I guess, at least it makes sense." The blue haired guy laughed.
"To him I suppose..." Bastion wasn't as amused. "Regardless, a One turn knockout is impressive, even against an exam deck."
"Definitely. I'm Syrus by the way." Syrus introduced himself "Nice to meet you, um..." he stuttered forgetting his name.
"Miles." He introduced back to Syrus. "So I guess that's the last duel going on."
"Yes, and you're missing quite a good show." Bastion stated.
"Oh man! I almost forgot about Jaden!" Syrus panicked as he remembered his friend who was currently dueling.
"What's his deal?" Miles wondered.
"That Jaden guy is dueling right now." Kenny explained. "And he's dueling a teacher, Dr. Crowler. And he's losing." Returning to duel field, the one named Jaden was up against a tall, lanky...man? with long blonde hair in a pony tail, in a blue blazer with...pink frills? And wearing...purple lipstick...So he's dueling Eddie Izzard then?
Anyways, His colossal machine just succeeded in destroying his only monster which looked like the equivalent one of Snarf's hair balls that put on a wing cap from Mario 64. Crowler's monster on the other hand looked like a massive rusty metal giant. It had 1 piercing red-eye and what seemed to be a trojan helmet on as a head.
Ancient Gear Golem (3000/3000) *8 EARTH
Crowler 3000
Jaden 2000
"Fine, I guess your lame little monster saved you this time." Crowler scoffed.
"Hey slow down there teach. Just because you beat him, doesn't give you the right to call him lame." Jaden defended.
"Oh yes, I forgot how you new duelists are so attached to your cards. I'm sorry." Crowler mocked with a huge grin on his face.
"Yeah well you should be, because by attacking my Winged Kuriboh, you set off a trap card!" Jaden shouted, revealing his trap, which showed a search light with an "H" in the middle of it.
"Hero Signal allows me to summon any level 4 or lower Elemental HERO from my Deck, so I bring out Elemental HERO Burstinatrix." He explained as his new monster was a pale-skinned dark grey haired woman with a slim figure in a red body suit.
Elemental HERO Burstinatrix (1200/800) *3 FIRE
"My turn." Jaden drew. "Alright Winged Kuriboh this one's for you." Looking at his Graveyard. "I'm bringing my Elemental HERO Avian back to my hand by activating the Warrior Returning Alive." His spell depicted a blonde armored warrior, heavily battle scared and using his sword as a crutch. His Avian returned to his hand.
"Now I'm gonna summon him to the field." He stated as his new hero was male, and donned a green feathered suit and white feathered wings, along with talons on his arms and feet.
Elemental HERO Avian (1000/1000) *3 WIND
"Oh okay, another amateurish mistake." His opponent, the teacher, Dr. Crowler pointed out his assumed mistake. "But this is good, this is good. Now will anybody like to tell us what he di-..." However, he was interrupted.
"Actually I wasn't done. I know my 2 monsters aren't strong enough to take down that Gear Golem alone, but combined it's a different story and I have just the card to do it." Jaden retorted as he revealed his spell card, which showed the apparent fusing of 2 monsters. "I activate Polymerization! Fusing Elemental HERO's Avian and Burstinatrix to create, the Elemental HERO Flame Wingman!" Jaden called out his new monster, which was a lizard-like humanoid with red and green skin and a large spiked tail. He was armed with a large dragon-like mouth as one of his hands.
Elemental HERO Flame Wingman (2100/1200) *6 WIND
"So whatcha think teach?" Jaden asked, receiving another pretentious grin from the professor.
"I think you're dueling very well for an amateur. But next time, try bringing out a monster that has MORE ATK points than what's already out." Crowler criticized as the a bunch of people in the crowd stood a bit shocked, for some reason.
"What does he mean?" Syrus said with a confused look on his face.
"It means Flame Wingman stands no chance against his Golem. Shame too." Bastion began explaining. "Because when the Wingman destroys a monster in battle, that monsters ATK comes out of the opponent's lifepoints."
"They're deducted right out of his life points?" Syrus asked.
"Apparently, and that would total 3000. Enough to take him out." Miles added. "I need something like that in my deck. Does it come in white?"
"I doubt this guy would go through all that just to bring out a monster that's weaker." Kenny countered. "He's probably not done yet."
"Alright young scholar, I don't mean to rush you, but I am a very busy man." Crowler said with no enthusiasm, as if he was done with this kid. "Are you done yet?"
"Of course I'm not done yet. And of course I knew my Wingman was weaker than your Golem, but that's why I have this." He said, flipping his card. "Skyscraper. Go!" Jaden activated his field spell, which caused massive buildings to come out of the ground.
The site changed to that of a huge city and it turned dark. On the top of the tallest building, stood the Flame Wingman. Meanwhile, the Gear Golem stood idly by around some smaller buildings.
"Alright Flame Wingman. Go in and scrap that Gear Golem!" Jaden commanded as his Wingman jump from his perch and dived towards the mechanical menace.
"Fine with me. Bring him on! This silly little Skyscraper field spell hasn't lowered my Gear Golem's ATK by 1 point!" Crowler boasted with great cockiness as he welcomed the attack. The Wingman continued his attack, drawing closer to Gear Golem.
"Sure, my Skyscraper hasn't lowered your Golem's ATK, what it's done is raise my Flame Wingman's ATK, by a grand total of 1000." Jaden explained with excitement in his voice.
"WAIT TIMEOUT!" Crowler shouted with a panicking look on his face.
"Skydive Scorcher!" Jaden yelled as his Flame Wingman burst into a flaming shot and ran right through the Golem, causing it to explode into pieces.
"Not possible! My very best card reduced to scrap!" Crowler couldn't believe it, and was met with a piece of debris from his gear golem on the top of the noggin...some hologram.
"And it only gets better, because my Flame Wingman's super power, inflicts damage to you, equal to the ATK of your destroyed monster." Jaden said, pointing his fingers at Crowler. "Sweet huh?"
"No way..." Crowler couldn't believe it, as the remaining debris from Gear Golem came crashing down on him.
Crowler 0
Jaden 2000 WIN
The crowd was in total shock, for the most part.
With the Chazz and his goons...
"It must have been dumb luck." Chazz excused it. "No way does a 2nd rate rookie take out someone like Crowler."
Then with the blue girl and guy.
"That kid has a future here, don't you think Zane?" The girl asked, but her friend was already walking away from the duel area.
"Alright Jaden! Way to go!" Syrus yelled in excitement for his friend's victory.
"Nice, I could use a little healthy competition." Bastion exclaimed.
"Mmm...Neat." Miles said plainly. Mildly impressed he was able to pull it off.
"I kinda saw that coming didn't I?" Kenny gloated. "Looks like I'm the one that can predict the future."
"Sorry, but I've already copyrighted that phrase." Miles stated. "Bet you didn't predict that."
"I can predict bullshit in your future. But that's kind of unfair since you're full of the stuff already." Kenny retorted receiving a shoulder nod from Miles. But something intrigued Miles when Jaden finished his utterly stupid victory dance. He saw him talk to his monster.
"Oh c'mon!" He thought. "I get treated like a mental ward patient, but he talks to his cards and he gets a free pass!? No justice." Miles thought to himself, but then suddenly a sound came from nearby, sounding like a bird squawking.
"Gesundheit." Miles excused Kenny.
"I didn't sneeze. You're probably hearing things man." Kenny answered, which confused Miles to an extent, however, he was used to hearing weird voices in his head.
"Probably just indigestion. No more hot wings before bed for me." Miles reasoned with himself in his head as he got up and started walking out of the duel arena.
So yeah, Miles uses Blackwings. Relax, don't set your flamethrowers to Great Aunt Lil's 1997 Thanksgiving incident levels just yet. I will be using quite a few new cards. I'll also be using new cards for the other characters as well, just to spice up the activities!
Well guys, that's all I've got for now. Tell me what you think, and like before, I'm really looking forward to what you guys suggest. I'm sure it'll be a trip. Until then, I'm out, got iron my Blackhawks rally towel!