This is a Rewrite of Chapter 1 and includes a lot of internal dialogue by Dai, if you see ' following a " then that is him thinking something to himself.
In an ancient ruin far from any society rests a chain that was created to serve as a bonding tool and a symbol of everlasting peace between the people of Egypt. After a while it was discovered that the people of the time were often being targetted by others who wanted to disturb that peace and innocent people were being attacked. So King Aknamkanon had to give the innocent ones the power of the monsters from the stone tablets as guardians and used the very same chain to bind the pure monsters to the innocent and vulnerable people of their nation.
For a time this kept the peace going, until one day a royal guard of the pharoah named Debilitas decided he wanted to have a chance to be king. As he hatched his plan he secretly formed a grand army of men who were as greedy as him who were promised places in the palace if they aided him. After a short time spent gathering his soldiers he then took the chain and bound to his men the very same monsters that were once bound to the people, only at this time he chose to seal up only the darkest and most vicious of monsters.
Upon his first attempt he stayed hidden in the shadow playing the part of the loyal and ever devoted guard to King Aknamkanon and let his men be thrown into cells. He of course had not revealed that he had the chain nor had he revealed his face to any of his soldiers. Instead he had sent a lacky to gather up the soldiers and then killed the lacky shortly after the order was carried out.
The second attempt he made however was after he managed to break his men out of their cells. When he sent them to attack he had decided in a great deal of arrogance to not only fight alongside them but to challenge Aknamkanon to a shadow game in an attempt to claim the throne. In the last moment he was slain by the king's mighty beast who at the time was known as Winged Sage Falcos and his soul was banished into the very chain he had used.
As he was vanishing from the plain of exsistence he uttered a severe curse. "When darkness returns to the world of mortals, when all the light seems to have conquered this planet, remember this, I'll be back, and while I'm gone I muster up all the darkness in my own heart to bind these powerful beasts of stone to the many people of the planet!" With those chosen words he made the chain's power reach out to all the people of the planet at the time and caused them all to have monsters bound to them based on their characteristics and personalities. (this would explain the instances where the people who tried to assassinate Atem or other people of the royal guard would have a monster in them, of course that is just for my version of the story though.)
Many thousands of years later however the shadow games were thought to have been gone but were once again at the hands of the millenium items ressurrected and the chain's spirit had returned. The spirit waited and waited in the ancient ruin that the king had sent it to and as he lay waiting he felt the power of the shadows dwindling so using every ounce of strength his spirit had stored up and called out to a single archeologist. "Come claim me in the ruins just west of the River Nile."
"Oh dear lord I must be off my medication again." Said a man named Hideki Hidehiko (double wise... yeah should have thought that one through a bit more) as he rubbed his head while looking over some old papers.
"I said claim me you senile fool!" Debilitas screamed into his mind finding it easier to communicate with him once he started. "I am waiting patiently for you to come to a spot three hundred miles west of the River Nile. You will spot a pyramid there and you will find a chain in a ruin just south of that pyramid."
"All right I'll do what you want just please don't hurt me!" He exclaimed putting his hands on his ears.
"Believe me I won't do you any harm, just claim me and obey what I say after that." He stated. 'With any luck this fool will be my host, though I hope that isn't the case, sounds like an old codger, I can't have an old fart as my host.'
Three weeks passed and finally the chain rested in the backpack of a young man named Daisuke Hirehiko who was a senior at Domino High and a friend of Yugi Mutou. "Hey Yugi, you got any new cards recently?"
"Nah, after something a couple years back I kind of gave up dueling, well not gave up I'm just not into it anymore." Yugi said with a sigh. 'I miss Atem.' He thought to himself. "What about you?"
"Just the other day I got myself a Buster Blader and a bunch of other sweet cards, but I was hoping to test them out against someone. Sucks that you don't play anymore."
"I still play I just don't do it very often! Tell you what, bring in your deck tomorrow and we'll have a duel." Yugi stated with a smile. "By the way have you seen Jonouchi or Honda around?"
"Can't say I have bud. Have you seen Anzu?" Daisuke to tell the truth didn't really like Anzu but he had a friend who was seriously crushing on her.
"No, it's weird, ever since lunch she vanished. It was the same for Jonouchi and Honda. I hope they didn't get into a fight, they were gonna walk me home for a whole week."
"How about I walk you home instead?" He asked smiling. "It'll be a great chance to get more new cards too!" He exclaimed.
"You're acting just like Jonouchi did when he first started playing and you've been at it for two years." He said smiling. "All right, I accept your offer." He said as they headed out the door. "So how have things with your dad been going?"
"Well ever since he came back from that trip to Egypt he just hasn't been the same, keeps talking about how he had to give me something and that if he didn't he would die. The same thing every ten minutes I swear." Daisuke said with a sigh. "Dueling helps keep my mind off of it."
"I'm also sorry about what happened to your grampa." Yugi said as he looked down. "If my gramps every died I would probably never want to go out again."
"Gramps and me never got along, he kept telling me that I was his most hated grandkid and yet I was his only grandkid." He said. "I am sad that he's gone but I'm not going to get uptight about it." He said sighing. "But my dad, well my dad is a different story... I just hope he snaps out of it soon." 'That way I can stop taking care of his ass and start enjoying my life and living it the way I want.' He said as he looked over at Yugi. "Anyway, do you think you would want to trade some cards after our duel tomorrow?"
"Sure thing, I've got some cards I think you might like." Yugi said smiling as they walked. Over the course of the walk Yugi and Dai had a nice long chat about how they met and everything else in between.
"Well here we are, come on in." Yugi said smiling opening the door.
"I AM THE ANGEL OF DEATH!" Grampa Sugoroku exclaimed with a grim reaper mask and a scythe. The result of this was both Yugi and Dai nearly jumping out of their shoes before he removed his mask with a big hardy laugh. "My word, you two sure are jumpy today."
"Can you really blame us Sugoroku, I mean the last thing we expected was some short guy in a mask carrying a scythe screaming that he was the angel of death." 'Crazy Old CODGER, I almost had a heart attack!' Dai thought as he put on a convincing fake smile. "Good one though, caught me totally by surprise and I'm usually the one that does the surprising."
Sugoroku then smiled and looked over at the area where he had a sink and stove. "Would either of you boys like some tea, I was just about to make some."
Yugi and Dai both nodded smiling. "Say Gramps, have any new games come in?"
"Well ever since the huge rise in popularity of Duel Monsters it has been tough to find anything else but you are lucky, I just got one in this morning." He smiled walking over towards the shelf and pulling it off. "Here you go, if you want to try it feel free to." He said before heading off to make the tea.
"That game looks kind of interesting." Dai said. "You know anything about it Yugi?"
"Sort of, I've heard of it, it is among the shorter of board game rpgs." He said smiling. "Wanna play it?"
"Sounds kind of boring, I'd rather do something that takes a while and needs more than two people usually."
"Yeah, unfortunately Ryo is away on some cruise trip with his family so we can't play Monster World* with him." Yugi said sighing. "Oh well, I guess we could get in a duel right now."
"Nah, I'll just get a look at your cards, everytime I see them I get so jealous but so anxious." He said smiling.
Yugi nodded taking him up to his room where his deck lay there on his desk. "While we're at it could you show me your cards, I'd like to see what I'm gonna be up against tomorrow." Yugi said with a smile.
Dai nodded handing him his deck case and smiled as he picked up the somewhat dusty cards that lay on Yugi's desk. "Wow, it really has been a while for you hasn't it." He said as he started flipping through them noticing a lot of Yugi's old key cards were gone. "Hey where's the Dark Magician?"
"That's a different deck, my other deck is in the puzzle box up on the shelf over there." He said pointing as he started flipping through Dai's cards. "Wow talk about upgrading, your deck is way better than the last time we dueled."
"Yeah I took your advice and put in some really decent combo cards, sadly it could be better if I weren't so unlucky, that one card you'll see in there took me five packs to find." He said as he flipped through Yugi's deck noticing there weren't any Egyptian God Cards. "Where are the three big baddies?" He asked as he waved the deck at him.
"I gave them to a person I knew I could entrust with them." He said smiling. "Tomorrow's duel is gonna be fun." He said smiling.
After a short while and a quick drink of tea Dai started heading home. "See ya tomorrow at school Yugi, I'll be sure to bring my deck and you do the same." He said with a smile waving as he left, his friends were the only joy he had left but even then he could do without the constant posing to make them remain his friends, if he were his actual dickish self then he would probably lose them. He then headed to a place a few streets over. When he arrived home he noted that his mother had once more passed out at his father's bedside, clearly exhausted from taking care of him all day. "Well isn't this just great?" He uttered to himself as he got her to stand up and helped her back to her own bedroom and allowing her to remain asleep. He set her in her bed and then heading back out to where his father was and was shocked to see him sitting up. "Dad?"
"Hey, how was school today?" Hiromasa, his father, asked with a gentle and caring smile.
"You really should be sleeping." He said calmly before smiling. "It was all right. Tomorrow Yugi and I are gonna have a duel." He said smiling.
"Really, I have a feeling you're not telling me something." Hiromasa said as he stared at his son.
"You can read me like a book dad. Well after lunch today a few of my friends just kind of disappeared." Dai said as he sighed heavily. "I'm just hoping they got sick and had to go home."
"Let's hope it is something that small." Hiromasa stated with a small chuckle. "Where's your mother?"
"Sleeping, when I got home she was out cold right next to you so I took her to her bed and tucked her in." He said as he headed out to the kitchen. "What would you like for dinner?" He asked with a sigh. 'Yet again I have to make dinner because mother passed out'.
"Anything really." Hiromasa said with a smile. He was also rather upset about how he had to try and pry the rest of the information out of him about Honda, Jonouchi, and Anzu.
"Got it, one Daisuke special coming right up." He said as he started cooking with a small grumble, he hated cooking but he was good at it. About ten minutes later he was done with a smile he brought out a plate with his special dish and gave it to his dad getting himself a plate and sat across from him eating as he did so.
"So other then your friends disappearing did anything else bad or awkward happen to you? Any teachers or bullies bother you?"
"Nope, well one teacher made a comment about how he thought I should be here helping to take care of you but other then that nothing really." He said smiling. "And you know I wouldn't need to worry about any bullies, after all, I'd kick their asses." He said with a smirk as he flexed his arm.
After a little while he finished eating and headed to his room setting down his backpack and taking the chain out of it. "So, this thing is responsible for my dad going into his condition and my grandfather passing away. Maybe there is some sort of awesome power within it." He said picking it up and looking at the different links in the chain.
The moment that he did so Debi felt the intent and was soon allowed to form as his spiritual self. He was about an inch or so taller then Dai and was built like a beast which pretty much meant he was mostly muscle. "Hey there, bout time you tried to use my power." He said with a smirk.
"Who are you?" Dai asked freaked out a bit, he had never seen him before but felt like he should know him.
"My name is Debilitas, and that chain you're holding happens to be my prison and my power." He said as he pointed to the chain.
"What do you mean?" He asked looking at the chain as it was starting to shine.
"Well let's just say I was sealed in it when I was still living in my own physical body." He said smiling. "But I can be freed, with your help."
"And what do I get for helping you?"
"Anything you want, power, money, fame, women... or men... if you swing that way." Debi said trying to hold back a chuckle.
Dai didn't have to listen long to make his decision. "I'd love to help but how can I help you."
"Just wear that chain, it will let me use my dark powers and take over your body occassionally, don't worry, I won't do anything too bad, I need a physical body to do what I need to do. There are seven other items like mine but they were lost most likely because I can't feel their energy, that is a problem."
"How so?"
"I could use all seven of them in combination with my chain to bring my body back and bound me to it once more giving it life, its the only way I can free myself from this prison." He said with a shudder. "Just wear the chain."
"Yeah, but this thing would stick out like a sore thumb normally." Dai said looking at the belt.
Debi smiled. "Well you could always say that it a belt." Debi said as he placed his faded hand on Dai's shoulder.
"It does make a nice belt." Dai said with a smile as he stared at the much more muscular being that stood befor him, well if he had any muscles that was.
"Together we will conquer everything, you will have everything you want and I will have everything I want." Debi said as he gave a chuckle.
Dai smiled. "Well there is one thing you could do for me right now."
Debi looked at him confused. "Oh really, how did you all ready come up with something to ask for, it had better be within my power."
"I want you to make my dad well again, he is a pain in my ass to take care of, you are the one who made him sick so you are the one who can make him better."
Debi chuckled and nodded. "First let me take over your half of the body, that will let me wield the chain's power, after that I'll take care of the problem." Debi smirked. "Now I can offer a permanent solution or a temporary one, which would you like?"
"Make it a temporary fix so as not to raise suspision, people believe in miraculous recoveries more then they believe in dying of an illness." He said as he then walked over and laid down on his bed and Debi nodded taking over and used his power to unbind the illness from Hiromasa before giving control back to Dai. 'Yes, I will let you sleep for now, you have earned it for being so willing to help me.'
Tune in next time for a shortened up card game between two main characters and possibly the "Godfather of Games" if you know who I mean. Also now on to more important stuff, the stuff that you should know if you are going to continue reading. From here on I will be focusing more on actual story then cards and pairings but there will be pairings and card games, so you don't have to worry too much about that.
The next thing is abreviations and other plot related stuff. I will be abreviating certain names to help me get more done quicker. Such as using Dai instead of Daisuke as my main OC name. I will also be abreviating his father's name as Hiro from here on, Jonouchi will be Jo , and the last one to mention is Debilitas will be Debi. If you wish to see their full names ever again just refer back to this chapter. Also abreviated versions for future characters will come when they are introduced.
Next up I want to point out that for the sake of the fangirls and the yaoi fanboy inside of me I will probably make either Dai or Debi gay and depending on who I may pair them with either Bakura (evil), Yugi, Jonouchi, or Ryuji (to be introduced later). The other one in this confused man's body will be straight so in a way my main OC is bisexual and I will be pairing the remaining one with Shizuka who is going to be brought in during the next chapter.
Lastly, I prefer the japanese names of some characters so if you are confused let me give you a run down. Ryuji is Duke Devlin, Jo is Joey, Honda is Tristan, Shizuka is Serenity, Anzu is Tea, Isis is Ishizu, Sugoroku is Grampa Muto, Malik (if in my story) is the non psycho Ishtar while Marik is his pyschotic alter ego, Pegasus J. Crawford is clearly Pegasus, Ryo is good, and Bakura is bad. I will stick with english names other wise for the sake of either ease, sake of jokes, or I just like their english version. That's all for now, pairings will be made later when I have made up my mind and introduced everyone who would be in a pairing.
*Monster World was the rpg game that was played in Season Zero by Ryo, Yugi and friends were trapped in it for a few chapters of the manga and about an episode in the anime, also that arc rewritten and included as the first duel Bakura was in during the first season in duelist kingdom.
