To whoever is reading this story, I deeply thank you for giving my first fanfiction a shot. I wouldn't have had the courage to post this had I not been given supportive advice from my author role models. I hope you enjoy this story, and will strive to meet your expectations. The first four chapters are going through a revision, and anyone who can point out my mistakes only needs to PM me about it and I will see what I can do!
And now for the disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! or any of it's spinoffs, only my OCs and my own custom story arcs and concepts.
It's time to Duel!
Prologue
Lizzie Calhoun was walking home from school after a long, miserable day of being taunted by her classmates, terribly taught classes and more torment from her peers. She had ponytailed blue-black hair, with lightly tanned skin and sky blue eyes and wore glasses to help her see properly. As she walked by the local cemetery, she thought of her parents, who had died in an archeological accident on a trip to Egypt about ten years ago and her uncle Innes disappearing two years after that, leaving her in the care of Aunt Dana.
She shuddered at the thought of her aunt 'it's not that she is a bad person, but she seems to be too busy with her job lately to spend time with me, or even her own children, leaving me to care for the house.' She smiled when her cousins Cynthia and Seymour came to mind, a sweet, considerate seven year-old girl and a cute, mischievous five year-old boy who were Lizzie's favorite, and perhaps only real reason to return home, as they loved the stories she came up with to entertain them, which in turn lightened her heart. She passed the elementary school Cynthia went to, then walked downtown.
Lizzie started browsing the stores to compare the prices, then stared thinking about where to buy herself and her to cousins' next meal ' I could try the local Asian restaurant, but the main courses almost all include meat or fish, which make me sick whenever I eat them, and if I took Seymour to a fast food joint, Aunt Dana would be furious so that's out of the question...' eventually, she decided on a cheap, but decent quality pizza parlor and bought some pizza to go, then headed home to have dinner with her cousins.
Lizzie walked up to the door of the two-story blue painted house with the pizzas in her arms, then put the food down, and opened the door- only to be tackled by her cousin Seymour "Liz-Liiiiiz! You're finally back!" a child's voice came from the other side of the room, which turned out to be Cynthia. Cynthia and Seymour both had golden blonde hair, while Seymour had amber eyes, and Cynthia had ice blue eyes. "hiya, Cynthi, hey there Sey'!" She called her cousins by their nicknames with enthusiasm "Guess what I got us for dinner?", then gestured to the food lying next to her. upon seeing the box of baked goodness, Seymour squealed with recognition and delight "Pizza!" and proceeded to make a mad dash for the dining room, while Cynthia and Lizzie gazed in the direction he sped towards when they heard some things fall over, and grinned in response to Seymour's high-pitched shout of "I meant to do that!" then headed to help him pick things up and set the table.
At dinner, the three had what seemed to start as a normal conversation, but Lizzie seemed to notice something appeared to be wrong with Seymour. He would often look around the room at things that weren't there, and often seemed to be listening to something at random moments even though no one else could hear it 'Not exactly something new for him' Lizzie thought as she took another bite from her vegetarian pizza slice, then frowned mildly ' But this time is different, he actually looks deeply concerned about something... this hasn't ever happened before until these past couple weeks, and not ever this bad'.
Deciding to figure out what was wrong, Lizzie began to speak with her youngest cousin "Hey, big guy, what's eating you? you look troubled..." Seymour turned his head towards her, then tilted his head to the side "What? It's nothi..." he stopped partway through his sentence, listened to an unheard sound and nodded to no one in particular, then continued "Liz-Liz, can we please talk alone after dinner? It's... important." Lizzie seemed confused, did somebody at school give him a hassle again today, too?
Seymour was encouraged by his mom to be a quick learner, something about getting an academic job or something, and thus his vocabulary was significantly broader than others his age. Because of these things, he was bullied by his peers, much like Lizzie was, so the two of them spent a lot of time talking in private. 'Though this time it may be something different." she thought before smiling warmly at her cousin "Sure, Sey, We'll talk after I've cleaned up the dishes, ok?" Lizzie finished her last pizza slice, got up from her chair, and started putting away the leftovers, still wondering what was happening to Seymour to have him acting this way.
As it turned out, Seymour had been having nightmares about Uncle Innes, my parents and monsters, of all things! What was strange was that he claimed to see and hear spirits, and that they were warning them about something bad that would happen to her tonight. Of course, Lizzie didn't really believe this part, and thought it was part of an overly wild imagination, smiled and sent him to bed before going out for her evening stroll. 'It just seemed so unreal' she mused 'that he could see something that can't be proven or explained. I hope he hasn't gone crazy, but then again, I'm kind of crazy in my own right, so maybe...'
Lizzie was lost in her thoughts until she heard a barely audible voice 'he*p *s'. She turned towards where she thought she heard the voice, only to notice an abandoned warehouse down an alley. Now Lizzie knew that there were no such things as ghosts or monsters, but she knew that street gangs did, so she started to walk away…. 'Help u*…. Please' she heard the voice a bit clearer this time and came to an abrupt halt.
She started to remember what her uncle taught her before going on an archeological expedition many years back that she always clung to "True the world is a cruel and dangerous place, but always remember this: every good, honorable deed helps makes the world a better place for everyone to live in, so if somebody needs your help, please, do so." Lizzie looked towards the warehouse again, sighed deeply "What the heck am I doing?" she thought aloud as she sprinted towards the old building.
Inside the warehouse, Lizzie searched the place for the one calling for help. The warehouse looked like it had seen better days, cobwebs littered the building, and most of the things left in there had rotted or rusted beyond recovery, but no matter how much she looked, nobody was in there. She seemed ready to give up and call it a night until she heard whimpering coming from the far end of the building. When she checked over there, she found a boy around the age of nine years old curled up behind a pile of crates.
He had light blue-green hair that covered his eyes and wore clothes that looked like they belonged in the Middle Ages. She walked towards the child and tried to tap him on the shoulder "Hey there, are you oka-"she drew her hand back after her hand passed *directly through* the kid!
Lizzie blinked at the kid curled up on the floor, then stared with her mouth wide open. 'I think I'm hallucinating, if not then I'd better rethink my sense of logical possibilities. Now which one is worse; going crazy, or-'
her train of thought was interrupted by another voice, this time she was disturbed by the fact that it came from everywhere, yet nowhere at the same time 'If you wish to help the boy, and find answers about your lost loved one, state your name to the Stone of Ages'.
She looked around and noticed everything suddenly turned pitch-black, the only thing visible being a massive stone tablet with strange hieroglyphs covering it from top to bottom. She cautiously walked up to the tablet, and noticed something strange 'while it looked full from a distance, it wasn't even close. The inscription is incomplete! Shaking her head she muttered to nobody in particular "Well, if this is a bad dream, I'd better get it over with….. My name is Elizabeth Calhoun!"
the moment her name was uttered, hieroglyphs began to etch themselves into the tablet's surface, then everything went white…
Scene Change
The first thing Lizzie noticed when she awoke was that she was no longer in the warehouse. The second thing, she noted, was that she appeared to be in some kind of old-fashioned tent. She then felt very cold water splashed in her face. She flailed about on the ground then jolted upright, fully awake and aware of the contents of the tent.
Several survival and food preserving items were neatly placed on one end, a large amount of weird looking cards littering the other, and a strange bipedal reptile crouching down next to her. Normally something like this would totally freak her out, but she didn't, she even felt almost… safe with it nearby, for some strange reason.
The lizardman then spoke to her in in a rough, mild Scottish accent "oi, are you alright lass? I found you lying by the river that way. Did something happen up north I didn't hear about? Where are you from anyways?" upon closer inspection, the monster had blue-green scales, spikes on his shoulders, elbows and knees, and webbed claws for hands, cloth wrappings covered his wrists, in addition, he wore a silver pendant around his neck.
Lizzie paused for a moment before carefully asking "umm… I'm sorry, but who and, uh, what are you, and where exactly *am* I? I don't remember there being a river near my neighborhood." The lizard monster stared at me with slight interest "ahem, my apologies, I was so busy asking you question after question that I forgot to introduce myself. My name is Draco, I am a monster known as Gagagigo, and am the first of my species to aspire to become a knight. Would you care to introduce yourself next?" Lizzie smiled lightly 'a lizard monster that dreams of becoming a knight? This is getting more interesting by the minute' she thought, then answered honestly "my name is Elizabeth, but everybody calls me Liz or Lizzie. And in the order that you asked me, yes, I'm okay, I have no idea where I am or what is going on in the nearby area, and lastly, I'm from the United States, in the state of Florida, which I would bet is not on your maps. It's nice to meet you, by the way, Draco."
The monster grinned, or at least it looked like a grin to Lizzie "Aye, it's nice to meet you too, miss, errr, Liz. Now, while you are correct that your homeland doesn't show up on our world's atlas, that doesn't mean we here in the Mythic Realms don't know of it," Lizzie looked a little surprised at that, and tucked the information she just obtained away, including the name of the dimension she was in " Maybe I can help you get home. Our worlds are connected, after all, and I've been itching to see another dimension for a change!" Lizzie was at a loss for words for a minute or so. 'Our worlds are connected? Maybe I can get home!' she thought, not fully realizing that she had stopped thinking this was a dream. After a long moment of silence, she asked "so, can you really get me home? My cousins can't be left alone for very long, and my aunt would kill me if I wasn't there to take care of them…" she frowned, realizing that she had no idea how long she was out.
What Draco said next shocked her "well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, lass, but you were unconscious for an entire week. I had to take care of you the entire time! I'm sorry, but you've probably been missing for quite some time, for time flows differently in this dimension." He stated in a sad tone. Lizzie started to tear up, not wanting to believe what she had just heard, as for all she knew, she could have been gone for decades. "What am I going to do now?" she whispered to herself fearfully
It took Draco a half hour of comforting to return Lizzie to her normal self, then they exchanged information on each other's dimensions as they walked to the Ether Gateway. As it turned out, the Mythic Realms were a collective of dimensions in which humans and monsters were able to coexist, and even doing so there was considered a normal part of everyday life. as Draco was explaining, he missed a turn on the road with Lizzie haplessly following his lead, leading them into a den of wolf-like monsters "No! Bad doggies, BAD doggies!" she cried out as they rummaged through her things using their snouts, intrigued by the scents inside. Draco shook his head "Well, this isn't what I expected to happen." the wolves began tearing at the textbooks Lizzie was planning to look through the other night, much to her annoyance, and one of their cubs found a new place to sleep on top of the reptile monster's head "usually when I get lost, it's not near as mundane as this!" Lizzie looked at Draco with wide, bewildered eyes "Are you for real? we went from the Saldoa Hills where we started, to a forest fifty miles away and into a wolf den! How is *that* normal!?' she shouted above the wolves' howling. The aspiring knight shrugged his shoulders as they scavenged what they could from Lizzie's belongings.
Despite the wolf-den incident, Lizzie and Draco quickly began to become friends , even telling each other about their everyday lives. Draco was part of a monster clan that revered a legendary knight from another world who was transformed into a dragon, and sealed away in yet another dimension where only monsters lived, and they even adopted the knight's name as their own. A few hours of travel later, the duo reached what looked like a stone gateway "this is the closest Ether Gateway to Earth for a hundred miles. It should lead to the country known as Japan, if I'm correct. I'll follow you through to make sure you catch a boat to your homeland, then find my way back here." , and despite the bond they had made, it was almost time for the two to go their separate ways. "Well, this is it. Are you ready to head back to your world, Liz?" Draco asked. The other nodded, and as the Gateway opened, the two of them leapt in. little did they know that this was merely the beginning of many adventures to come.
Elsewhere, a boy with spiky blonde and purple hair was playing a card game with one of his friends at High School, while their other friends watched. These were Yugi Muto and his group of close friends, and soon these two groups will meet, and history will be written anew.
And that's the beginning of my very first Fanfiction on this website. I thank anyone willing to take time to read this, and hope you enjoyed it. I thought I would add a little bit about Lizzie and her cousins lives, and show one of Draco's may flaws, among other things.
Until the next duel!
