This fic will follow the rules of the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG to the letter. All names will be dub and TCG names, with several exceptions where I find the dub names unbearable and use the original.
This fic takes place two years before the events of Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's proper. Anime characters will appear, but they won't play huge parts. This fic also features second series Yu-Gi-Oh and Yu-Gi-Oh GX characters, due to a large event taking place within the fic.
And now for Turbo Duels. They will take place, so here's an essential card profile:
Speed World, Field Spell Card
If a player activates a Spell Card, other than a "Speed Spell", they take 2000 damage. During each player's Standby Phase, place 1 Speed Counter on this card for each player (max. 12 for each player). When a player takes damage, remove Speed Counters of the attacked Player from this card for each multiple of 1000 damage taken.
And onto the fic. Introducing Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's Seven Spirits
Chapter 1: Blazing up the Speed World
In this little world of ours, who cares about one justice seeking vigilante?
Turns out, a lot of people do. Just because I'm willing to trash highways, get people hurt, steal equipment and cards, and even go towards killing those in my way, I get Sector Security on my tail. The irony? Without me, they wouldn't be able to handle the scum of Satellite. I go head to head with the criminals while they relax and toss me cash and gear for my troubles.
And then chase me into the sunset.
Yes, it is a strange world. But it's a world I work to improve. And you're about to see how. Sit back, relax and watch me at work, my friends…
Two sleek motorcycles tore across the hard tarmac of the roads, throwing up dust behind them. One, slightly ahead of the other, was brutally scarred, with a chipped paint job and several vicious gashes in the side. Its black coating was starting to flake away in the wind and the wheels were smoking from the friction starting to melt them.
About ten metres behind, an orange cycle in far better condition followed. This motorcycle was well cared for, its paint shining in the reflected light of several street lamps. A silver insignia was painted onto the side, a twisting dragon made of flames over a pair of outstretched wings.
The rider of the orange cycle was lean, slightly underweight for someone of his age. He wore torn and dirty black jeans and a grey sleeveless jacket over a crimson shirt. Coating his hands were brown fingerless gloves and his footwear was a pair of worn and torn hiking boots. He was wearing a helmet, a simple orange painted affair with a chipped visor. A few strands of chocolate brown hair escaped its confines to brush against his neck, while his caramel skin was coloured orange in the street light.
The rider of the black cycle was wearing black combat fatigues and black boots. He also wore a helmet, his black. His skin was completely covered and he gripped the handlebars of his motorcycle with grim determination.
The pursuer, Julian Mikuro, grimaced beneath his visor. He noticed he was starting to sweat. This was going to be a tough chase, and he really didn't need anyone getting hurt.
"Aegis," he spoke, mouth dry "I think this calls for a hacking."
"You sure Sonic?" the reply crackled over a radio link built into his helmet.
"Yes," he answered, keeping his light brown eyes firmly fixed on his quarry "this guy's going to get someone killed. I'll start a Turbo Duel; you slip in and rig the autopilot so he's stuck in a track loop. I beat him; toss him over to Sector Security and the job's done."
"Okay," Aegis replied "do it." He nodded, forgetting that she wasn't there as he focused on the chase. He opened up the throttle of his Duel Runner and managed to get into position next to his quarry.
"Hey!" the criminal shouted "get outta here, punk!"
"No," Julian snapped "now then, what's your name?"
"Shinji, punk! Now stow it and run!"
"Fine, Shinji," the brown haired nineteen year-old answered. He calmly pressed his hand to the side of his Runners left handlebar, feeling it depress beneath his touch.
Duel Mode engaged a set of neon red letters spelled out on his screen. Shinji yelped as the same letters were spelled out on his Duel Runner screen.
"What?!" he exclaimed "you're a Security!"
"No," Julian calmly answered "I've just picked up some stuff. So get ready to duel, Shinji. And expect to lose."
"Fine," the criminal grumbled as a panel below the screen of his Duel Runner lit up and he let go of the handlebars.
Autopilot online. Speed World activated replaced the previous message Turbo Duel begin. Five cards slid from a deck in a holder on the glowing panel of Shinji's Duel Runner into his hand, as Julian let go of his Runner's handlebars and did the same. The street around them was obscured by a pulsating dome of purple energy, the appearance of the Speed World card.
Julian 8000LP, 0SPC/Shinji 8000LP, 0SPC
"Me first!" Shinji announced, drawing a card "I lay one card in defence!" He placed a card on the panel and a blank card image appeared between him and Julian.
"Next I'll lay two face-downs! Your move!" Two blank cards appeared behind his existing one.
Julian 8000LP, 1SPC/Shinji 8000LP, 1SPC
"I draw!" Julian snapped "I'll lay a card face-down too!" A blank card appeared in front of him and he scanned his hand for any other help.
"Next I'll lay down two face-downs as well." Two more cards appeared behind his first card, mirroring Shinji's field.
Julian 8000 LP, 2SPC/Shinji 8000LP, 2SPC
"Right!" Shinji announced, drawing his next card "I sacrifice my Worm Apocalypse to summon Worm Erokin!" His face-down monster was revealed to be a pale pink tubular worm with long whip like arms and legs, before it fell apart into shards of rainbow light. The shards rebuilt in a different way, making a fat green monster that was more like a toad than a worm. Disgusting green slime dripped from it to the ground and Julian had to recoil away from it (ATK: 2400).
"Next I'll activate Speed Spell – Angel Baton!" Shinji yelled over the wind. Another card appeared, releasing a burst of light that formed into a beautiful blonde haired female angel in a blue robe.
"This lets me draw two cards and toss one!" Shinji explained, doing so. The angel vanished.
"Worm Erokin, attack his face-down!" His Worm spat a burst of green acidic slime into the card, which exploded into a dark green turtle with a metal UFO for a shell (DEF:1200). The turtle was instantly melted by the acid and screamed as it exploded.
"Too bad you just triggered UFO Turtle's special effect," Julian commented drily "when it's destroyed by battle, I can Special Summon a Fire Attribute monster with 1500 or less attack points from my deck." He calmly withdrew his deck from its slot and searched through it quickly, finding a card in five seconds and removing it, shuffling the deck and replacing it.
"I choose Little Chimera!" A grey cat-like creature with a purple ribbon-like tail appeared, an aura of flames bursting into life around it. (ATK: 600).
"Pathetic!" Shinji jeered.
"And now all Fire monsters gain 500 ATK points," Julian replied, starting to laugh. His Little Chimera glowed slightly (ATK: 1100).
"And now, in response to that summon, I activate one of my face-downs! Backfire!" One of the cards flipped to reveal its face "now whenever you destroy a Fire monster on my field, you take 500 damage!"
"Your move," Shinji growled.
Julian 8000LP, 3SPC/Shinji 8000LP, 3SPC
"Right," Julian muttered, drawing and examining his cards yet again "I summon Ultimate Baseball Kid!" A boy in a red baseball uniform appeared on his field, swinging his spiked metal bat viciously. A yellow symbol was painted onto his helmet, the kanji symbol for fire (ATK: 500).
"Now, to add to the fire, I'll use his summon to activate my DNA Transplant trap," Julian laughed. His second face-down flipped up. Then, Ultimate Baseball Kid glowed as Little Chimera's effect kicked in (ATK: 1000).
"Now I pick an Attribute and all monsters on the field become that Attribute. So I'll go with Fire!" Suddenly an aura of flame surrounded Worm Erokin (ATK: 2900).
"Oh no," Shinji muttered.
"And my Ultimate Baseball Kid just so happens to get 1000 ATK for every other Fire monster on the field," Julian chuckled. An aura of flames surrounded Ultimate Baseball Kid and he cried out, swinging his bat into the ground (ATK: 3000).
"Ultimate Baseball Kid, attack Worm Erokin!" A flaming baseball appeared in front of Ultimate Baseball Kid and he effortlessly hit it straight through Worm Erokin, leaving a smoking hole before the monster exploded. The flame aura around Baseball Kid receded slightly (ATK: 2000).
"Little Chimera, attack him directly!" Little Chimera lunged at Shinji and slashed at him with her claws.
"I'll end by throwing down a face-down," Julian said. His card appeared behind Ultimate Baseball Kid.
Julian 8000LP, 4SPC/Shinji 6800LP, 3SPC
"My move!" Shinji snarled, drawing viciously and almost overbalancing "I summon Worm Dimikles!" A purple slimy six-tailed fox appeared, dripping slime onto the floor just like its comrade. The barbs on its tail lashed as a flame aura surrounded it from both DNA Transplant and Little Chimera (ATK: 1700).
"Now its attack gets a boost thanks to Chimera," Shinji said angrily. Dimikles's body was engulfed in flames as the aura increased (ATK: 2200). At the same time, Ultimate Baseball Kid glowed (ATK: 3000).
"Worm Dimikles, attack Little Chimera!" Shinji yelled. His monster lashed out with its tail barbs, stabbing through Little Chimera. Julian grimaced as his monster exploded. The aura around Ultimate Baseball decreased with its attack points (ATK: 1500).
"Now I'll activate another Speed Spell – Angel Baton!" The angel appeared again and Shinji drew and discarded.
"My move," Julian muttered. A blast of flames shot from the Backfire card and struck Shinji, reducing his Life Points by 500 thanks to the destruction of Little Chimera.
Julian 6900LP, 4SPC/Shinji 6300LP, 4SPC
Julian drew and examined his hand with a soft sigh "I activate my Speed Spell – Summon Speeder! This lets me Special Summon a level 4 or lower monster from my hand, so I'll summon Flamvell Archer!" A man appeared on his field, wielding a flaming bow and with hair of flames (ATK: 1000).
"Next I'll summon Little Chimera!" A second grey cat appeared, creating a flame aura around all of Julian's monsters (ATK: 600).
Flamvell Archer (ATK: 1500), Little Chimera (ATK: 1100) and Ultimate Baseball Kid (ATK: 4000) now looked more than ready to take Shinji on.
"Ultimate Baseball Kid, attack Worm Dimikles!" Ultimate Baseball Kid hit a flaming baseball through Worm Dimikles, exploding the fox.
"Now, Archer and Chimera attack you directly!" Shinji screamed as Chimera savaged him and Flamvell Archer fired a blazing arrow into him.
"My move," he groaned. Ultimate Baseball Kid's aura was reduced as he lost attack (ATK: 3000)
Julian 6900LP, 5SPC/Shinji 1900LP, 2SPC
Shinji drew. How was this brat beating him?
"Shit," he swore, taking out his anger "I summon my Worm Dimikles!" Another purple, slime-dripping six-tailed fox appeared (ATK: 1700). Ultimate Baseball Kid's attack grew again (ATK: 4000).
"Now I'll lay one card face-down and end my turn."
Julian 6900Lp, 6SPC/Shinji 1900LP, 3SPC
Julian drew, wondering why Shinji hadn't attacked last turn. He could have reduced Ultimate Baseball Kid's attack quite a bit.
"I attack with Ultimate Baseball Kid," he said. Ultimate Baseball Kid fired his attack…
"I activate my face-down, MIRROR FORCE!" Shinji yelled in triumph "now all of your attack position cards are destroyed! HAHAHA!" A mirror barrier appeared in front of Worm Dimikles and shot Ultimate Baseball Kid's attack straight back, destroying all three of Julian's monsters.
"Yeah, you just forgot my Backfire," Julian said. Shinji immediately stopped laughing.
"Joke's off me and on you!" Julian yelled as three blasts of flame shot from Backfire and struck Shinji, reducing his Life Points by 1500.
"Now I'll activate another Speed Spell – Summon Speeder!" Julian yelled "to summon my Flamvell Dragunov!" A red and silver armoured dragon appeared in front of him, roaring and snarling (ATK: 1100).
"And now for my favourite face-down! I activate Spiritual Fire Art – KURENAI!" His card flipped up and Flamvell Dragunov erupted into flames.
"Kurenai allows me to sacrifice a Fire monster and deal its attack to you as damage." The flaming Dragunov struck Shinji and exploded, taking his Life Points with it.
Julian: 6900LP, 6SPC/Shinji 0LP, 1SPC
Shinji's Duel Runner cut out, stopping and falling over in time to let a blue and white Duel Runner pull up beside it. Julian gunned his Duel Runner ahead before spinning round to face the blue and white suited rider.
"Nice work vigilante," the officer admitted.
"Payment," Julian stated. The officer glared at him through the visor of his helmet before sighing and pulling a bag off of his Duel Runner and casually tossing it to Julian. It landed in the teenager's hands and he opened it, checking the stuff inside. It was a nice amount of money, about three thousand yen. Enough to support the group for a while.
"See ya," Julian said, both to the officer and Shinji. He spun the Duel Runner around and blasted away, kicking up dust in his wake…
As he rode along the open highway, Julian reflected on the duel. He hadn't had such an easy battle for a while; Shinji must have been really out of practice if he forgot that Worm monsters work best when played face-down.
But still, it had been good. He hadn't had to use any Synchro Monsters. Especially not that one…
He shuddered. He wasn't going to think about that card, not after what it had done before.
"Flamvell Nidhogg," he spoke, the words ashen in his mouth…
He stopped outside a grimy café and leaned his Duel Runner against a metal fence, carefully chaining it to the fence in three places. He didn't need to get it stolen. Julian pressed a button on the Runner's console and the card panel detached with a hiss of steam. He removed his Turbo Duel deck from the Duel Disk and placed his Ground Duel deck in its place before strapping the disk to his arm and entering the café, noticing the neon signs showing the menu and the grease on the tables.
"Hey Jul!" the obese, grimy clothed owner yelled over the din of a snooker game going on in a corner "what can I get'cha?"
"The usual, Hank," Julian answered. The barkeeper chuckled and grabbed a relatively clean, though not shining glass off of a shelf behind him and filled it to the brim with a pretty weak alcoholic concoction of beer and lemonade. Julian received his drink and calmly placed his money on the counter before sitting at a table and sipping it slowly, paying attention to the games going on around him. Subtle movements, all part of a great cosmic game that took thousands of years to unfold. Every single move, from the largest gesture to the smallest scratch, could unfold into something dangerous.
Then he realised he was going over the top to avoid thinking about that card…
What is Flamvell Nidhogg? That's a question I won't answer. I keep that card close, in my deck, because it has sentimental value. It's the last thing I have left of my uncle.
My parents died when I was two, victims of the event known as the Zero Reverse. They were two more members of the team researching Enerdy for the benefit of humanity as a whole.
They died to find that benefit. I still can't forget that every time I duel I use my parent's legacy. In a way, they help me bring criminals to justice by letting me duel them. Duelling is simply combat with an honour code. Perhaps that's why it's addicting. Because we fight battles through our cards.
After the Zero Reverse, my uncle took me in. He taught me how to live a good life and be an honourable and respectable citizen of New Domino City. He saw the passion inside me. The same passion that inspired Kelsey's pet name for me, Fireheart. I am one of the few people to know the truth about the Zero Reverse, after that son of a bitch Rex Goodwin covered it up. Goodwin? There's nothing good about that bastard.
After I passed school, I had choices to make. But that was the night it happened. The night I lost my uncle.
And that card was responsible.
Card Stats:
Monsters:
Worm Erokin
LIGHT/ Reptile/Effect /Level 6/ATK: 2400/DEF: 1200
This card cannot be Special Summoned. Once per turn, you can select 1 "Worm" Reptile-Type monster you control and flip it into face-down Defense Position.
Worm Apocalypse
LIGHT/ Reptile/Effect /Level 1/ATK: 300/DEF: 200
FLIP: Destroy 1 Spell or Trap Card on the field.
Worm Dimikles
LIGHT/ Reptile/Effect /Level 4/ATK: 1700/DEF: 1400
FLIP: This card gains 300 ATK and DEF.
(The 'Worm' cards have been released in the Duel Terminal sets Synchro Awakening, Invasion of Worms, Justice Strikes Back, Demon Roar God Revival and Champion of Chaos in Japan. A U.S. release date, if any, is unknown.)
Flamvell Archer
FIRE/ Pyro/Tuner /Level 3/ATK: 1000/DEF: 200
Once per turn, you can Tribute 1 face-up Pyro-Type monster to have a face-up "Flamvell" monster gain 800 ATK until the End Phase.
Flamvell Dragunov
FIRE/ Dragon/Effect /Level 2/ ATK: 1100/DEF: 200
When this card was destroyed by battle and sent to the Graveyard, inflict 500 damage to your opponent. You can remove this card in your Graveyard and 1 face-up FIRE monster you control from play to add 1 "Flamvell Dragunov" from your Deck to your hand.
(The Flamvell cards have been released in the Duel Terminal sets Synchro Awakening, Invasion of Worms and Justice Strikes Back in Japan. Again, a U.S. release date, if any, is unknown.)
Spell Cards:
Speed Spell – Angel Button
Normal Spell Card
Activate only while you control "Speed World" with 2 or more Speed Counters. Draw 2 cards. Send 1 card from your hand to the Graveyard.
Speed Spell – Summon Speeder
Normal Spell Card
Activate only while you control a "Speed World" with 4 or more Speed Counters on it. Special Summon 1 Level 4 or lower monster from your hand.
(All 'Speed Spell' cards are used in the Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's anime series. Creative credit for the above 'Speed Spells' goes to the writers of 5D's.)