Good Day Readers! Obviously I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh only Kylie and Katherine Hope along with the unique cards within their decks and whatever other OCs decide to crop up. Also this was originally written in dubbed so some chapters may have some dubbed dialogue remaining because I like it. Also italics symbolise another language not Japanese.
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Chapter 1: - The Duelist Kingdom Tournament
You want to hear a story, ok then I'll tell you one, this story however isn't a fairy-tale it's very real. This story begins three thousand years ago when the pyramids of Egypt were still young and mighty Pharaohs played a game of great power known as the Shadow Games or Dark Games, however these games eventually erupted into a devastating war.
When this dark power swept over the land, the Pharaoh who ruled at the time sealed it away at the cost of his own life, however his soul was sealed inside of a Millennium Item, one of eight mystical objects that held incredible magical power. It was said that the Pharaoh would one day return when the world needed saving once again. This is the story of how two sisters met the Pharaoh and helped him to save the world, this brings us to the present day in the spring of nineteen, ninety-seven.
*Yu-Gi-Oh*
"Kylie wake up, we're here," I groaned out as I forcibly shook my sister. Her prone form didn't even move except to bury herself further into the quilt cover and groan something incomprehensibly, I huffed at my sister's stubbornness so I walked over to the bathroom and filled a cup with cold water. I headed back over to my sister and dumped the water all over her which caused Kylie to shoot up rigid with shock.
"KATHERINE!" Kylie screamed. Her angular emerald green eyes glared down at me in annoyance as her long sun red hair plastered itself to her angular face, she then stood up and immediately set about getting herself dressed for our arrival as I was already dressed before I set about on the task of getting my sister up.
The older woman strode out of the bathroom looking a beautiful as she always did with her hair being pulled back into its' typical braid so that the strands wouldn't get into her eyes whilst she duel and her sharp jewel eyes were focused as she shuffled through her deck before sliding it into her deck holder.
She was dressed in an amber tunic top with jeans and a pair of flat knee high boots that were hidden underneath her jeans. Meanwhile my charcoal black hair rested softly on my shoulders and perfectly framed my heart-shaped face which emphasised my wide black-brown eyes, I wore a knee length, short sleeved, blue summer dress with a pair of dark blue tights, a long-sleeved blue cardigan and black ballet flats.
"Let's go," Kylie called out. Her voice knocked me out of my musings so I grabbed my deck pouch and looped the belt that held it around my waist and fastened it tight, Kylie already had her deck pouch fastened on and grabbed the duffel bag that was stuffed with food and sleeping equipment that we would need to survive whilst on the island.
We had been invited to attend the Duelist Kingdom tournament that was being hosted by Pegasus J. Crawford on his private island alongside other prospective duelists. The two of us headed out of our cabin and down the boarding ramp where all the other duelists were gathering and chatting however Kylie didn't stop so I hurried to keep up with her but this ended up with me smashing into someone.
"I am so sorry," I apologised. I rubbed the sore part of my head which had smashed into the person's head, I had been sent to the ground because of the collision but it sounded like the person was still standing and that they were surrounded by other people from the words flying about close to me.
"It's alright, are you ok?" A soft yet noticeably masculine voice asked. Although it was English the words were slightly accented, I looked up and saw a boy of about my height and age, he had hair that flared out in a star shape with multiple layers consisting of long blonde crooked, pointy locks for his fringe which framed his wide amethyst eyes, the rest were made up of five large black spikes and two smaller spikes coloured black with a magenta sheen along the edges. He wore a blue and white uniform complete with a closed buckled collar, around his neck was an upside down golden pyramid with a very familiar eye in the centre held secure by a piece of brown rope.
"Katherine come on," Kylie's voice called out. I snapped out of my stupor and scrambled to my feet before darting towards my sister who gently placed her hand on my shoulder as she looked behind me, obviously observing the boy. Kylie turned her attention back to me and ruffled my hair a bit which I immediately straightened out and I glared at her, Kylie smiled before we continued on up to the castle were Pegasus would greet us.
"Hey look there's some impressive members gathered here. It's the champion of Japan, Insector Haga," One of the duelists commented. I looked over to the blue haired bespectacled individual and immediately shuffled closer to my sister as his beady bug-like eyes immediately creeped me out. They called out more people from the same tournament such as second place Dinosaur Ryuzaki and third place Kajiki Ryota.
"No way are those the Hope sisters, that's so cool," Another one commented. I ducked my head allowing my short hair to act as a barrier between me and everyone else although I felt Kylie's hand gently landed on my shoulder in a show of support as she knew how nervous and shy I got around crowds.
"Without Kaiba here then the winner has to be one of those two," They continued on their conversation. However this did peak my interest as I hadn't spotted the frosty eyed brunette anywhere even on the boat so I began to wonder if he was running late which seemed highly unlikely and wondered why they believed he wouldn't be here.
"Now that you mention it, that Yugi guy who beat Kaiba's got to be around here somewhere!" One duelist exclaimed. My eyes widened upon hearing those words whilst Kylie's narrowed in contemplation, I had only known my sister to stand any chance against the World Champion yet those always end in a draw and by the skin of both of their teeth.
The duelists surrounding us continued talking about this person but their words fell upon deaf ears as my thoughts sawm around the person. Yugi, so that was the name of the person who defeated the World Champion which was an impressive feat as I knew that Seto had three Blue-Eyes White Dragon which were some of the most powerful and rare cards in the entire world, it was at the moment that Pegasus decided to make his appearance.
"Welcome! Welcome to the Duelist Kingdom. Now allow me to explain the rules to you, please use your Duel Monsters cards freely during this tournament. You will hold two thousand Life Points and players are strictly forbidden from attacking the opponent directly. You may fight to your heart's content using your strongest card decks you've brought with you! Every duelist received a Duel Glove in advance and two star chips," Pegasus explained.
He finished up by saying only those who successfully gathered ten star chips via dueling would be allowed access to the castle in an opportunity to face off against the Creator of Duel Monsters himself, that this whole island would be the battlefield and that the competition would begin in one hour with only forty-eight hours to collect all ten star chips, so until that time myself and Kylie broke away from the group to find some peace.
"So Seto was beaten by an unknown duelist… how interesting. I wonder how good this Yugi really is," Kylie commented. I nodded my head in agreement with her statement, perhaps we would find out during this tournament. The hour passed, marked by fireworks, so me and my sister set off into the wooded area to look for our first opponents.
"I'll never forgive you!" A familiar voice echoed so me and Kylie decided to head in its' direction. Upon our arrival I saw the same boy who I had bumped into earlier, however I noticed that he was taller than before approximately Kylie's height and his hair was more wild with some of the yellow parts shooting up into his hair like lightning bolts whilst his eyes had become more angular and were a more crimson shade.
"Haga, I praise you for challenging me head on," The boy commented. I noticed that his voice had gotten much deeper when I compared it to earlier, it was then that I noticed the beady eyed bug duelist was also in the clearing we had found, Haga however simply snickered at the boy's comment.
"If I crush you right from the start, I won't even break a sweat later on," Haga taunted. I narrowed my eyes at the Bug Specialist knowing that this creepy worm had no chance of beating myself or Kylie, it seemed like his ego was rather inflated to believe everything would be easy after beating this stranger.
"I was just thinking the same thing!" The boy shot back. Haga cried out two words and the ground began to shake which caused the boy and his friends to freak out a bit as a duelling arena rose up out of the ground with the strangers being surprised by the size of the arena that stood before them, one even asked if they were set up all across the island.
"Oh interesting. I think we'll watch," Kylie commented. This summoned everyone's attention to us and Haga seemed to tense up upon seeing that the two of us standing there and took a miniscule step backwards causing Kylie to smirk a little.
"You're Kylie and Katherine Hope," Haga commented. However it seemed that the other four didn't know who we were, I sensed their eyes on us and so I clung to my sister as I hid my face behind my hair once more, I felt Kylie release a sigh as she shifted the weight in her legs.
"Come now don't focus on us, get to the duel," Kylie pushed. The boys reacted to her words and they immediately leapt up on to one of the podiums with Weevil taking the red one and the mystery boy taking the blue one, the two of us walked over to the side of the duelling arena to get a better look at the action.
"You only have one star chip. If I steal it from you, you'll be knocked out of the tournament immediately! Then I only have to bet one star chip to even the match," Haga declared. However the mystery boy wasn't having any of that as he declared that Haga would be betting two star chips as the mystery boy wanted one of them to be utterly crushed… Haga had clearly ticked this guy off. "But Yugi, what will you bet in place of the other star chip?" Haga asked.
The mystery boy declared it would be his deck however I was more focused on that name, Yugi, this must have been the boy that defeated Seto which meant Kylie would get to see how good he was right off the bat and judging from my sister's smile, she was rather happy about this turn of events
"Interesting, so that's the boy that beat Seto. I think I'm going to enjoy this tournament," Kylie commented. I saw her hand drift to her deck as she lightly traced the outline of her cards that rested within the pouch.
"Now that's interesting, very well. Had I known this would happened, I never would have wasted Exodia like that," Haga commented. I was confused by his mention of the single most powerful monster in the game, the three other people that were with Yugi encouraged him on and I heard more people arrive to watch the duel but they didn't recognise Yugi.
"That's Muto Yugi, who beat Kaiba and I'm his best friend Jounouchi Katsuya and… our chummy buddies!" The blonde boy commented. The last part caused the other two individuals to fall down in shock, I noticed that the blonde boy's hair style was very sporadically arranged in a taper-like and unrealistic fashion and he had brown eyes, he wore a long green open jacket with a raised collar, a plain white T-shirt underneath and blue jeans with trainers.
The other boy had brown hair that was arranged in such a way that a large portion spiked out from the front of his head and he had brown eyes, he wore a long brown coat with a raised collar, a white button shirt underneath and black jeans with shoes. The girl had brown shoulder-length hair that was sectioned into two layers, consisting of an inner layer that was a darker shade of brown, with the outer layer being a lighter shade and blue eyes, she wore a yellow shirt, which flows like a skirt at her thighs, with a pink waistcoat over it, a blue mini-skirt and a pair of brown knee-high boots.
The new spectators were surprised to see that Yugi and Haga were duelling at this early stage claiming it was an elite duel, if Yugi had defeated Seto through skill then there could be no doubt that he probably was a high skilled duelist.
Haga – LP: 2000
Yugi – LP: 2000
The Duel Arena proceeded to activate and I noticed that the field of the Duel Arena seemed to take of the appearance of our surroundings which hadn't happened before, Weevil began the duel by bringing out Killer Bee with the giant bug being holographical projected onto the field.
Killer Bee – Attribute: Wind, Type: Bug, Level: 4, ATK/1200, DEF/1000.
"My card is Mammoth Graveyard,"Yugi declared. As he did, the boy summoned his monster causing the bones of the mammoth to appear on the field.
Mammoth Graveyard – Attribute: Earth, Type: Dinosaur, Level: 3, ATK/1200, DEF/800.
Yugi declared an attack however despite being evenly matched in points only Mammoth Graveyard was destroyed which surprised Yugi and everyone else who had seen the event… except for Haga, who had seemed rather confident that his monster would survive the battle.
"Yugi, you don't seem to get why I chose this forest for the location of our duel, shall I tell you?" Haga questioned. He didn't allow Yugi anytime to answer before he continued on his tirade. "The truth is, Pegasus-san told me the new rules for the Duelist Kingdom tournament. Take a good look at this arena's field, my area is shown very clearly on the display. The field we're battling on right now is eighty percent forest while only twenty percent is made up of Wasteland," Haga explained.
The forest field powered up the insect cards that Haga used, I gritted my teeth at this as Pegasus telling Haga just wasn't right since Duel Monsters was meant to be played fairly, although it seemed that luck was on Yugi's side in that moment.
Yugi had laughed after Haga's speech and pointed out that Killer Bee had been destroyed due to the fact that Mammoth Graveyard had also gained a field power source thanks to the wasteland portion, Yugi explained that the reason why the tournament was held on this particular island was because it had every single type of environment contained within its' borders.
The duel continued with Haga summoning out Heracles Beetle however I noticed that Yugi looked torn about what to do and I didn't blame him as he couldn't rearrange his deck in the middle of a duel and would have to power through it somehow.
Heracles Beetle – Attribute: Earth, Type: Insect, Level: 5, ATK/1500, DEF/2000.
Heracles Beetle – ATK/1500 – ATK/1950, DEF/2000 – DEF/2600.
Yugi eventually managed to make a move by summoning out the monster known as Gremlin and equipped it with a spell card known as Horn of the Unicorn which increased the Gremlin's attack power.
Gremlin – Attribute: Dark, Type: Fiend, Level: 4, ATK/1300, DEF/1400.
Gremlin – ATK/1300 – ATK/2000, DEF/1400 – DEF/2100.
The two monsters clashed however even though it had a higher attack power, Gremlin was still destroyed as a result of the battle which surprised everyone although we soon found out that the Field Power Source negated all equip spell effects thus rendering any combo attempt useless and so Yugi lost a lot of Life Points due to this move.
Yugi – LP: 2000 – LP: 1350.
"An insect card with that little attack power can become very strong due to the Field Power!" Jounouchi commented. The brunette boy claimed that the insects had the advantage on this field and the brunette girl simply told Yugi not to give up.
Yugi decided to take the defensive route and placed his card face down in defence position so as to protect his Life Points however Haga retaliated by summoning out his Basic Insect which he then equipped with two spell cards raising its' attack points even higher.
Basic Insect – Attribute: Earth, Type: Insect, Level: 2, ATK/500, DEF/700.
Basic Insect – ATK/500 – ATK/2150, DEF/700 – DEF/1410.
Haga then had his insect destroy Yugi's only line of defence although the duelist quickly rebuilt it by playing another monster face down to protect himself however Haga declared that he would be setting a secret card face down on the field which meant it was probably a trap card however I heard Kylie hum obviously having noticed something that had escaped Haga's attention.
Haga summoned out more and more insects obviously preparing to obliterate any defence that Yugi attempted to build, it was lucky that Haga was too overconfident to trying and see beyond the current situation that the duel was at since that meant that Yugi would probably be able to surprise him at some point.
"The way it's going, his enemies will keep increasing!" The girl commented. It was obvious that she wasn't a duelist so I had to wonder why she was here and how she even got on the island to begin with but that could wait until another time.
"Even if you say that, Yugi's attack's been sealed," Jounouchi commented. The more I watched this duel the more confused I became as the person duelling was so different to the boy I bumped into on the docks that I wondered if he was actually a different person.
Haga claimed that this was going to be Yugi last day as a duelist and his insects were going to celebrate but Yugi wasn't backing down as he proceeded to play another monster in face down defence position, Haga attacked but Yugi laughed as he revealed that he had laid a trap and proceeded to activate it.
The trap was Holy Barrier – Mirror Force and when the attack was fired from Basic Insect, the hidden monster came out revealing itself to be Black Magician and a mirror barrier appeared before him causing the attack to be bounced right back and destroy all of Haga's monsters in one sure fire blow which severally depleted Haga's Life Points.
Haga – LP: 2000 – LP: 555
"I guess you became Japan's Regional Champion by pure luck. You're too confident in your strategy and you didn't pay attention to my card. Let me say this clearly Haga… you're too weak!" Yugi lectured. This individual was most certainly a completely different entity to the person that I had ran into at the docks, was it coincidence that they looked familiar or was there something else involved in the coincidental similarities between him and that young boy.