This is my first work of Fan Fiction I'm actually publishing, I do must of my stuff just for my own amusement but I thought it might be fun to see what other people thought; any and all advice on how to make it better is welcome.

Chapter One: The Melee and the Beginning

The Melee of Champions, a legendary event in the Duel Monsters world. The rules were similar to the original game, but there was no set field. Players were eliminated when their LP hit zero, but they didn't have to duel any specific opponent, and they could run from an opponent in hopes of coming back with a better hand later, draws were done every five minutes instead of alternating turns, as a result. The field was in a huge forest, private property of some Industrial Illusions Board-Member, and over a hundred duelists would be participating. One such Duelist was Joshua Greene, also known as the Heavy-Hitter. His technique was basically super-charged monsters with equip spells and a few traps, not normally a good dueling style, but perfect in a melee.

Josh smiled as he eliminated yet another duelist. His Vorse Raider, which was equipped with two Axe of Despair Cards and a Dual Swords of Flashing Light Trice card, had been destroying opponents for a while now, he also had a Luster Dragon and an Alligator's Sword. When the duelist he had just defeated was picked up by a jeep and driven away, a voice spoke into the piece on his ear.

"In a heavily forested area to your left, the six remaining duelists are fighting."

He smiled and made his way to the afore-mentioned woodland area, drawing two more cards in the seven or eight minutes it took him to arrive there.

He saw four of the duelists of to one side, clearly defeated, while the last two were duking it out. One of them had a Marshmallon in defense position, and was dealing fairly large amounts of damage with cards like Meteor of Destruction, Ookazi, and Sparks. The other duelist however, a tall boy dressed in a long coat and wearing a hood that effectively hid his face, had a monster that Josh had never seen before.

It was the Five Headed Dragon, a monster with 5000 attack and defense, possibly the most powerful fusion monster ever. Josh looked at his hand. Fairy Meteor Crush was there. He played it, equipping it to the enemy's dragon.

The hooded boy attacked Marshmallon, and dropped the other duelist's LifePoints down to 0 in an impressive attack called Five Element Storm, then turned to Josh.

"Thank you, but why help me?"

"I don't like people who 'duel' that way." Josh said, smiling.

"I appreciate that, but I also attack your Alligator's Sword with my Dragon!"

Alligator's sword was destroyed, but Josh sacrificed a Kuriboh from his hand to negate damage.

Then he played Change of Heart.

Right before Josh declared his attack, the boy said, "The Cameras can't see us."

"What?"

"We only have a few minutes to talk, so listen, I need you to take my deck, okay?"

Josh repeated his previous question, somewhat louder.

"I know it's kind of weird but I need you," he paused, taking all of his cards out of his duel disk and shuffling them, before holding them out to Josh, "to take these. The penalty for losing here is your deck, it's a way for Industrial Illusions to get back foil cards, hike up rarity and prices and what-not, but that doesn't matter, what matters is they can't get their hands on this deck, and I just lost!"

Josh reached out, taking the cards, "But why me?"

"You beat me, and did so more than honorably. Another thing; you muster never tell anyone where you got the strongest card in that deck, ever, and try to use it as little as possible, I came here to find someone worthy of it, to hide it, and that someone is you!"

Josh numbly slid the deck into his deep pocket and watched as all the defeated duelists were driven a kind of minibus which had appeared soon after he received the deck. He himself was escorted away by helicopter, to a stage where he accepted a two-hundred thousand dollar gift-certificate for all Industrial Illusions products or services, a hand-shake from Maximillion Pegasus himself, and a unique monster called Melee Champion, a lvl 7 warrior monster which had 2800 attack and could attack an opponents LP directly.

On the train ride home he flipped through the deck, looking at an amazing series of fairly simple combinations and very powerful monsters. He saw the 'strongest card' right away, and knew why the hooded boy had asked it be kept secret. The Egyptian God Card, Winged Dragon of Ra, said to be strongest of the three, formerly property of the King of Games, Yuugi Muto. Rumors had it he had hidden where no one could find it right before retiring, other rumors said someone called 'The Pharaoh' had trapped it in the Shadow Realm, some said it was encased in stone; but here it was, in his hand.

He wondered who the hooded duelist was.

"You managed to plant the deck with a worthy candidate?"

"Yes, Master Kaiba."

"Good, I wouldn't appreciate if the Blue-Eyes reprints got in the hands of just anyone. Begin monitoring the subject immediately, its time to initiate operation Monster Reborn."

End of Chapter One

It's a bit on the short side, I don't really like that, but otherwise its alright, I thought.

-Thanks for Reading, will update soon,

Victor97