Well hello everyone it's been a while since I've wrote a fanfic so have so patience with me please and I hope your enjoy my fic. Be warned again there will be blood but hey I'm sure that's what you'll like. Also note that there won't be any GX characters in this chapter but don't threat cause of course I'll thread them into this story eventually. Now behold a story where people of the shadows, the demons, the ghosts and the evils know the ways of the shadow realm. Yugi and Jaden aren't the only people to have encounters with such a dangerous place. Now lets begin.
The Puppet Versus The Rookie
The child had only been day dreaming for a minute. His boring teacher Professor Marion Ette (he liked using his full name) had been droning on and on about Macbeth. He had no interest in it. Ryan was just a fourteen year old boy that felt that he didn't need this. It was why he didn't pay attention in the subject, it was why he didn't care about the people in his class especially those that had gone missing, moved away and transferred. It was also why he never noticed the change in the atmosphere until the last second.
He turned slowly. He gasped. The room was now empty minus him and the Professor that now sat at his desk writing away with no pause. He didn't even look up.
Ryan got up slowly; he noticed how the room had suddenly changed to a violent purple colour that pulsed around the walls. It was so strange how the walls looked like they were moaning.
Then the light drained from the room. The windows became slabs of pure black as if it were night already. This was strange, but it was a dream right? A dream nothing more.
Then out of the blue the professor stood up finally acknowledging Ryan's existence.
"You look lost Ryan" The professor spoke. He was young and had light brown hair and his skin was pale. Despite the fact he looked so young he was a very intelligent person one to rival even the older residents of the school.
"Sir…what…what is this place?" he asked trembling as his eyes scanned the walls of the class room. He swore he had seen a moaning face in one of them.
He turned back to the Professor and yelped. The professor's hair had fallen out replacing it with long locks of red hair that hung over pale skin that was now turning to a cold stone grey.
"Welcome to the shadow realm boy…welcome to the brink of death" he laughed out maniacally as something sprouted from his back. It had arms and a head and was attached to a torso. But…this was no creature. It was a puppet.
"What is this place?" He yelled at him "What the hell are you?" He yelled again. The head on the puppet turned and laughed at me with a wooden clunking sound, the puppets head was a sphere shape and had a crudely drawn female face on it.
"This is the shadow realm a world that has existed since ancient times…and there are those few who know of its existence" The Professor now held out his hands. As he did the wailing and crying of many voices echoed through the room.
"You wonder why so many people went missing? Because I fed them to the shadows!" He wailed with laughter as he took a step back his eyes wide as he watched the creature now begin to walk forward, "They screamed as they were devoured…bit by bit…"
The creature clambered onto the desk of the professor "Now state your game boy"
"What?" He whimpered as he kept taking steps backwards his body shaking.
"In this world there is still a fair chance for the opponent to win when we play a game…in fact it's the only rule of the shadow realm" the creature held up its hands.
"Now…pick" He clicked his fingers and the puppet on his back leapt off him and landed on the desk besides him. Its wooden chest opened and in it was revealed a vortex, an endless vortex with thousands and thousands or different packages in it swirling around like they were caught in a tide at sea.
"Pick one of those? But it could be anything…how do I just pick?"
"Simple…"
The puppet raised its wooden hands before grabbing his arm and thrusting it into the vortex. He screamed in fear but this didn't last long as a package fell into his hand and he pulled it out.
"Aha…a card game…how dull" The creature sighed as the puppet sat down on the floor it's body clunking with every movement.
"A card game?" He asked puzzled before yelping as all the desks around them flew in different directions. He looked down at the package, his eyes widened as he witnessed what was in his hands. A pack of duel monster cards.
"You've got to be joking? Were going to decide my fate by playing a card game I gave up a year ago?"
"In order to cheat death you have to play death and it's exactly the same here" The professor smirked before the puppet infront of him transformed into a strange table like object.
"Yeah but why the-" He yelped as he felt a stinging pain in his arm and looked down. On his arm was now a duel disk. A blue and green duel disk that looked more ancient than hi-tech but still it was useable and it was not going to come off.
"Buy how am I supposed to remember how to play this?" He yelled out in frustration.
"Oh you'll have to remember how" the professor said before drawing five cards from a deck he placed on the wooden table before him. He looked over the cards before playing one.
"I play one card face down and then place one card in defence mode…"
He looked puzzled at the card that had been placed on the table. It didn't look half as threatening as he would have thought it would be. It was just lying harmlessly on the table.
"Now I play Revealing Light! This card flips all face down defence cards face up!" He yelled as he played a magic card with a hand with light radiating from it.
Ryan shielded his eyes as a blinding flash burst through the class room. As it faded his eyes squinted through the light. And then he choked. Something was now standing towering over him. A giant wooden golem with bright yellow eyes, sphere like fists and a burnt on 18 number on his chest. It towered over him almost hitting its head against the top of the class room.
"This…this isn't real…it's just a dream…just a dream…" He whispered to himself his body shaking as he looked into the creatures yellow eyes.
Professor grinned, "I knew that showing you just what this game means would scare you…behold boy the wooden giant possessed by evil Inpachi!"
(1600/1900)
"I'm not scared!" He yelled at the blue professor before drawing five cards forcefully from the deck on his arm before looking over them.
"I need to remember…my strategy..." He tapped his forehead before looking over the cards once more. He had to remember what his strategy was otherwise he was already dead…
"I…I play…one card….face down in defence" He put the card onto the duel disk and it appeared in front of him harmlessly. He felt sweat trickle down his forehead.
The professor just smirked as he drew another card "I play Blazing Inpachi into attack mode!"
(1850/0)
Another Inpachi appeared except this time it was covered in searing hot flames. He could feel the wave of heat radiating off the creatures body.
"Then I play two cards face down and attack your face down monster!" The flaming giant raised its wooden hands before throwing a blaze of fire at the defence card burning it to ashes.
"That was Giant Rat!" Ryan declared managing to get some courage from the effect.
"When it's destroyed I can bring out another earth monster with 1500 or less attack power" The giant rat's ghost appeared in front of Ryan before forming into a huge grey rat.
"So I play another Giant rat!" (1450)
The professor merely smirked "I play the face down card I had Ultimate offering!" The face down card he had flipped up revealing a purple card with a purple monster on it spawning another monster.
"This card lets me sacrifice 500 life points to summon more monsters…and I'll sacrifice 500 life points to summon another blazing Inpachi"
The professor paused for a moment before suddenly retching all over the wooden puppet table. He looked like he had just thrown up. But out of the vile red and green liquid that came spewing out of his mouth another flaming Inpachi formed.
Ryan almost felt like being sick himself. The sight was too much he wanted out "Hold on how many life points are we playing with?" Ryan called out in a panic as he felt the searing heat. He began to furiously sweat.
"8000 so that means I have 7500 oh and by the way I'm activating the card Light of intervention" Another trap card this time with a demon on it caught in a beam of light was revealed.
"This makes it so neither of us can set monsters…and I may as well activate ultimate offering again to summon Charcoal Inpachi to defence mode" He played the card face up and an Inpachi coloured ash black appeared sat down. It's charred body giving off a little smoke.
(100/2100) Professors Life points: 7000
"Now Blazing Inpachi will attack your rat" Another ball of fire. Another burnt rat sent to the grave.
"I'll activate its effect again to summon …" The rat spirit rose from the fire forming into a different monster. It was a blue gas like monster that formed into the shape of a tiger.
"This is soul tiger!" (0/2100)
"Fine your turn…"
He drew a card from his deck "Okay now I remove Giant rat from play to summon Gigantes!"
The spirit of the rat rose again before being slammed into the class room floor as a giant wearing armour crashed onto the floor with a echoing roar. He was carrying a huge log which he smashed against the ground sending powerful tremors through the class room floor.
(1900/1300)
"And now I attack with Gigantes!" Ryan pointed at Blazing Inpachi. Gigantes flew at the burning giant smashing him in the face with a giant fist and shattering him into burning shards.
Professor's life point: 6950
"And I'll end it at that" Ryan said proudly a wide smile on his face. He wasn't afraid anymore. He had two monsters on his side of the field one with reasonable attack and one with reasonable defence. Plus he still had 8000 life points.
The professor drew a card "I now sacrifice my Blazing Inpachi to summon Wood Borg Inpachi in attack mode!"
The same charred inpachi appeared out onto the field except this time he was covered in metal plate armour and had tank tracks instead of legs. (500/2500)
"Then I'll play Tribute doll and sacrifice Charcoal Inpachi to summon my most powerful monster Zoa!" A doll nailed to a table appeared behind Charcoal Inpachi before both of them disappeared behind shadows that swirled around them.
A blue demon like creature staggered out of the shadows hissing at Ryan. Fear had returned. The creature was hideous. And vicious and it wanted his blood.
"Zoa has 2600 attack power and will now attack your gigantes!" The demon lashed out at the giant grabbing it in both hands before biting its head clean off.
Ryan shrieked as blood spilled from the creature head before the rest of its body was torn apart and fed to the shadow creature.
"Bastard…" Ryan swore at him.
Ryan's life points: 7300
"But..." Ryan began before pointing towards him "Gigantes special effect activates because when it's summoned all traps and spells on the feild are destroyed" All the Professors cards shattered under the tremours that Gigantes corpse caused as it hit the floor.
"I end" The professor chuckled as he watched the boys face pale.
"I draw…" Ryan murmured too shook up from what he had just seen. He looked at the card he had drawn and then the cards in his hand.
"And….I'll sacrifice my Soul Tiger and the wolf axe wielder in my hand to The Black Luster Ritual!" He played down the magic card revealing a black shield with two swords on it. The Tigers spirit and the wolf axe wielders formed into the two blades before the shield shattered.
A knight was revealed wearing black and yellow armour and carrying a large sword. His hair was red and skin was pale and there was a dragon emblem on his helmet. (3000/2500)
"Now I remember" He growled at The Professor his fists clenched.
"My strategy was Earth Monsters I always used Earth Monsters in my deck because they were perfect sacrifice for the Black Luster Soldier" The Professor seemed to ignore him. His eyes were more focused on the threatening blade that the Black Luster soldier held in his hands.
"This is for Gigantes! I play on Black Luster the Sword of the deep seated and Invigoration!" Two magic cards appeared one with a purple sword on it with two glowing red eyes in the back ground and one with a colourful yellow light.
"Together these two cards increase his attack power by 900 but decrease his defence by 200 because of invigoration" Black Luster sparked with yellow energy before his sword turned into the same purple blade on the card (3900/2300)
"And now I'll destroy your Zoa!" He yelled and the knight lashed out at the demon cutting it straight down the centre into two shadows.
Professors life points: 5650
Ryan grinned at his trump card, sure it had cost him all the cards in his hand to make that move but it didn't matter, "And since he was your most powerful monster your practically beat-"
"Wrong" Professor yelled with a sickening grin "First of all I activate Michizure!"
A card with a man holding onto a cliff with another man holding onto his leg appeared.
"This card activates when you destroy one of my monsters I can immediately destroy a monster on your ride of the field" Zoa's soul rose from the ground before dragging a struggling Black Luster Soldier with him.
"An by the way know this…your finished…next turn you will have to draw sword of the deep seated because of it's effect to put it on the top of your deck"
"Yeah but you only have Woodborg and Inpachi on your side of the field!" Ryan exclaimed in fear. Surely he could take two attacks and pull out something bigger and better? Right?
"Oh you idiot…I draw" He looked at the card before grinning "And now I play Cost Down"
A magic card with two swords penetrating the cards level stars appeared "It reduces all monster cards in my hands level's by 2 points meaning that level 8 monsters become level 6 and only need one tribute" He grinned before playing a card.
"I now summon Perfect Machine King by sacrifice Wood Borg!" The upgraded machine fell to pieces before a light red and white giant robot appeared in its place with missile launchers on its back.
(2700/1500)
"This may not threaten you with your big 7300 life points but this card is one of my most powerful creatures"
Ryan froze. He said Zoa was his most powerful creature…he had been tricked. The professor wanted him to play a more powerful card so he could destroy it. And now with the next turn bringing him only a sword that he couldn't equip to any of his monsters he would probably be finished.
"But I'm not going to waste my time by waiting three turns…you see first of all Machine King's attack power is increased by 500 for every machine other than itself on the field (3200/1500) but also now I'll play on it mega morph! Which will double this cards original attack power to 5900"
A card with a strange circle artefact appeared above the robot showering it with a green aura. (5900/1500)
"Now plus I'll now move my Inpachi to attack mode (1600/1900)" The professor looked down him with a smirk on his face.
"Now do the math kid…5900 plus 1600 will equal?"
"7500" Ryan murmured breathlessly. He had lost. He was doomed.
"Good now Perfect Machine King attack!" The machine's rocket launchers fired a wave of missiles towards Ryan. He braced himself for the impact. This was going to hurt and he knew it.
But how badly it hurt surprised him. Mainly because when the missiles impacted on his arms, legs and lower body. They were blown to pieces.
His barely half a body lay on the ground. He let out a wild scream of pain as blood flowed from his severed body parts. He could hear the professor laughing.
Ryan's life points: 7300-5400 1900
Machine Kings Attack power is now halved due to mega morph 1850
"I attack with Inpachi"
Ryan looked up trying to utter the word please but he was already dead as the creature crushed his head under its wooden fist.
The professor looked down over the perfectly intact torso. He reached down. And ripped out his heart before eating it.
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Well that certainly didn't go the way you were probably expecting it to eh? Well this is a nice return for me and yes I will try and post another chapter but how long that will take me could be a while but don't threat I'm sure inspiraion will come to me eventually.