A/N: So this is my attempt at a Duel Masters Story. I hope you all enjoy the first chapter and tell me what you think, if I should continue on this or not. Thank you for your time and enjoy.
It's Duel Masters! The hottest Trading Card Game in Japan has finally hit State-Side! Using the Civilizations of Fire, Water, Light, Darkness and Nature, The object of the game is to break all of your opponents shields and deal one final blow: Todome Da! Already hosting tournaments around the world, the 'Duel Clash Association' (DCA) is itching for fierce battles and fast paced action. Are you ready to be a Kaijudo Ranked duelist? If so, get your gear and: Own The Zone!
Chapter 1: Next Gen Dueling! Enter: Kaijudo Generation
"Oh man if I see another Duel Masters commercial I think my head's going to explode!" A teen said as he changed the channel on his TV. The teen was caucasian, wider than average, but not fat; having short dark brown hair and brown eyes. He wore a Steelers football jersey, black jeans and white sneakers. On his wrist was a silver rectangular object, like a deck case with a design of dotted circles making 3 rings inside of each other.
"Yeah right, Jake. You play Duel Masters every time you head over to TCG Towers. Speaking of which, you said you were going to take me over there and teach me how to play." Another teen said, reaching into a bowl of Cheetos. He was an African American teenager, tan skin wearing a green baseball cap, green shirt with a black jacket, blue jeans and black nikes.
"But why do you wanna play? You'll just get addicted like the rest of us C.J."
"Because, the NYC DM Circuit tournament is three months away and you guys need a fifth member right? That's what you said on Facebook."
"But to think your family was planning to move here to NYC from California. Love the coincidence."
"So are we going or what? It's boring sitting here in the house all day."
"You got money? I'm not buying you any equipment."
"Equipment, What else do I need besides a deck?"
Jake grabbed his keys and a white and yellow glove sitting under it. "A Deck Case, a Dueling Glove and a Kaijudo ID." Jake reached into his wallet and pulled out an ID card, which was colored White. On it showed his picture, the same ring symbol and a letter, which was 'D'.
"Kaijudo ID?" C.J. questioned looking at it.
"Your pass to participate in the tournament. And to be the fifth member of our team."
"Really now, what do I need to get that ID?"
"If you come on we'll go to TCG Towers to get it." Jake said, opening the door leading C.J. Out.
"Ike! Bolshack Dragon! Break his last two shields!" A feminine voice said as a red and white glove covered hand twisted a red card on a table sideways. In front of the table, a Brownish-Red colored dragon dressed in a Silver breastplate and metallic wings flew up and smashed through two teal colored holograms that shattered like glass upon impact. Two face down cards on the other side of the table shot up into the air, leaving the area empty. "And finally, Explosive Fighter Ucarn, Todome Da!" the same voice said as a red dragon humanoid locked on his target, shooting the other player directly. The kid's tabletop showed the message: GAME OVER as it ran across the table in big red letters. The Dragons disappeared as the girl pulled her silky black hair back and over her ear.
"Good Game." The young boy said as he gathered his Duel Masters cards, sliding the deck into the Case on his wrist. His Deck Case had a design like a Green colored chain. His Kaijudo ID ejected from the machine, also being White in color. Under his name showed his W/L record which read 3-5. "Seven more wins to rank up to a 'C' License and get into the NYC DM Circuit. How many wins do you have Jamie?" he asked.
Jamie, his opponent, slid her deck into her case, which had a design of a Red Cog gear. Her Card ejected, as she grabbed it and read her W/L ratio. "It's 5-4." She replied a bit disappointed. She had the appearance of a Teen Girl, about sixteen. She was light skinned, long black hair with a red Scrunchy that she was tying into her hair. She wore a red shirt and a black Jean jacket that went along with the ripped black jeans and black sneakers. "After all the time it took to construct this deck, you'd think it would work."
"Oh it does, it's just that people make better decks than you can." Jake said as he walked into TCG Towers, C.J. straddling behind him.
"Hey, Jake, Where have you been?" Jamie asked.
"This dude right here just moved into the area, I was just showing him around." He replied. "C.J. I like you to meet 'Lady Amaterasu': Jamie's our teams Fire user."
"Nice to meet you," Jamie smiled.
C.J. Blushed a little, pulling Jake back. "Dude, she's hot!"
"That better not be a pun." Jake said.
"I'm serious; you told me she wasn't that cute."
"She's a freaking tomboy; of course she's not going to be that cute."
"Are you kidding? She's beautiful."
"Then go and ask her out. Or better yet, Duel her. I bet your crush is going to disappear."
"How am I going to Duel? I don't even have anything." C.J. said out loud.
"Don't have anything? What you never played DM before?" Jamie asked raising her eyebrow.
"Honestly... No I haven't. But I really wanna learn."
Jamie sighed. "OK follow me." she turned and walked towards the counter where the Cashier was. He looked Middle Eastern, dark skin and spiky hair. He was dressed in all black, from head to toe, shirt, vest, khaki pants and shoes. He had sunglasses that lay on his head as he skimmed through the iPad II on the counter, playing DM on the Trade Cards Online website, being projected on a holographic screen.
"Hey Karon," Jamie said, causing the Cashier to look up.
"What do you need?" Karon asked turning back to his game.
"I need some stuff for the new kid"
"By stuff you mean...?"
"Deck, Case, Glove and Kaijudo ID. That stuff."
"Um, I understand the deck and ID, but why do I need the glove?" C.J. Asked.
Karon chuckled. "You're really new to all of this aren't you?"
"Unfortunately..."
"OK, let me run it down." Karon pulled out a Black and White Glove from his pocket and showed it to him. "We 'Duelist' duel with Dueling Gloves. These allow us to access Kaijudo Terminals scattered around the city for Dueling. Of course you can get any table or a flat surface and duel. But it's just so much fun to watch your cards battle it out on a virtual playing field.
"You know, I think the YU-GI-OH anime did the exact same thing." C.J. said thinking about it.
"Now's not the time to break the fourth wall."
"The what?"
"Moving on, these Deck Cases are computerized, not only holding your deck, but giving your Deck Avatar, your trump card a miniature VR form and it's own personal AI like so." Karon takes his deck case, it's design having a Mask with four black curves, two on each side. Karon pressed a button, and it projected a skeleton-like Liger with a blue mane.
"The name's Kage the Deathliger." The hologram said.
"Wha…? Did the hologram talk?" C.J. questioned.
"We all talk." The small red light on Jamie's deck case lit up as a Bolshack Dragon materialized on her shoulder. "My name's Blaze."
"It's just a little trinket that the new 2015 Ver. Deck Cases come with. It's optional so if you want, you can have it set. Moving on is the actual Deck. It has a 40 card limit filled with creatures with spells which you can choose from thousand of cards. About ten years ago, the last booster pack in English was released." He held up a booster back labeled: "Thrash of the Hybrid Megacreatures."
"Then the DCA revived Duel Masters and made it international again, mass producing and releasing the Japanese expansions in English in 2011. We are now currently in line with Japan's current expansion, with the next series coming in a few weeks."
"You getting all of this?" Jamie asked.
"Yeah I am."
"Good, there's a lot of explaining that I'll get into later on, but let's just get to the basics of sorts, then we'll assign you a deck."
"Assign?"
"First you're going to need to take a five questioned survey." Karon reaches under the table and pulls out a sheet. "It should take about thirty seconds. When your done, just slip it into the computer and results should come up."
C.J. nodded as he filled out the sheet.
1. What is your favorite color? Green
2. What's your favorite creature? Tiger
3. Do you believe in either A) Rush and attack? Or B) Think before acting? (A)
4. Deck Style: Single or Combination? Single
5. Team Affiliation:
"What do I put for number 5?" He asked as he started at the blank spot.
Karon looked at the fifth choice before replying. "What team are you a part of. Basically what team are you going to be fighting with?"
"I'm not part of a team. My friend Jake said he was going to teach me and if I was any good enough then I'd be his team's fifth member."
"Team KG?" Karon raised his eyebrow.
"That's what it's called? KG?"
"It stands for Kaijudo Generation, as in we aim to be our Dueling Generation's top Kaijudo Duelist, the highest rank you can get on your license. It's like an S Class rank." Jamie explained.
"We?"
"She's including Me and Jake as well." Karon moved in. "I'm Team KG's Darkness Deck user, the 'Dark Reaper' Karon Davidson. Jake's, if you know already, is our 'White Knight of Light'. Our buddy Dylan's the 'Deep Sea General' of Water. In order to enter into the Tournament in a few months, we need a Five-man team with a total of 50 wins. So we all decided to aim for ten wins each from all of us. Unfortunately we can't use our 'Real Decks.'
"Real Decks? Why not?"
"Because, now that we are a team we have a team rank. As of now our rank is Rank D. There's going to be C-Ranks at the tournament that have C-Rank decks. Basic decks that have some support from the first few booster packs. For example D-Ranks use decks made from sets 1-5. C-Ranks 6-13. B-Ranks are from 14-23. and A-ranks use 24-35." Jamie added. "However, higher ranks can use cards from previous sets. These rules were made to keep it fair among the tournament scene. Outside the tournament, in just exhibition matches or whatever, we can use our Class A Decks."
"A-Rank? How long have you guys been playing?"
"A few years now. We have Kaijudo Class friends and family who taught us how to play. It's just in our blood to duel."
"At any rate, let me take this." Karon took the sheet from C.J."
"Wait but what do I do for number-"
"Don't worry about the last one." He interrupted. Just pick one of these decks so your tutoring lesson can get started rookie."
Karon stacked five Deck Cases onto the table. "These are the Civilizations, Elements whatever you wanna call them. Red for Fire, Blue for Water, Black for Darkness, Yellow for Light, and Green for Nature. Take your pick."
C.J. Chuckled. "Well that should be simple. I'm going with Nature. I love the color Green."
"Right. Take this glove and we'll find a table." Karon handed him an Green and White Dueling glove. C.J. Slipped it on and followed the cashier. Jake watched them walk to a nearby table and joined in to watch followed by Jamie.
"This should be fun." Jake said.
Jamie nodded. "Does he have potential?"
"When we were kids, we played YU-GI-OH. He would win most games because he knew how to use this deck that his brother made for him. That was back in California."
"You realize that this isn't YU-GI-OH right?"
"Yes I know that. And he does too. But to him, a card game's a card game. From Crazy Eights to YU-GI-OH, C.J.'s been able to pull wins out once he got into the game; once he figured out the strategy of the Deck, and the situation of the game. He would piece together everything he needed.
"Interesting." Jamie smirked. "I want to see this for myself. Yo Karon, let me duel him."
"Okay then, just go easy on him." Karon said, backing from his spot giving it to Jamie."
"Not a problem." She smirked. She slid her ID card against the Case. The computer read the barcode and unlocked, her 40 card deck of pure flames popping out.
"Kettou Da! I challenge you." Jamie called out to C.J.
"All right then I accept." C.J. replied.
"Idiot, you're supposed to say 'Yoshi!'" Jake corrected. "Then you can talk in English if you want. It's an honor's thing in this TCG to use Japanese phrases."
"So I'm guessing it's mandatory to do it. Fine. 'Yoshi!' I accept." C.J. said.
"Good you're getting it." Jamie said. OK. Shuffle your deck and place it on the table. Then slide the top Five cards onto the shield zone, the area between the two white lines. Don't look at them."
C.J. nodded and followed the instructions, shuffling and placing the cards face down.
"Now lay your hand on that circle there and we'll get started with today's lesson." Jamie slid her glove on and pressed her hand on the circle. C.J. did the same, causing the Kaijudo Terminal to light up. Suddenly ten holographic teal rectangles shot up five each lining up next to each other.
"Now draw five cards and lesson 1 will begin." Jamie smirked. It made C.J. uneasy but he shook it off.
The teens each drew five cards and got started.
"Alright. I'll start. First player doesn't draw a card on their first turn. So all I can do is put down Mana if I can't summon anything either." Jamie pulled a card from her hand and set it upside down behind her shields.
"I charge mana and that ends my turn. Your move."
"Right." C.J. nodded. He drew a card and followed the same routine. "I charge mana and end my turn."
Jamie drew a card and charged mana. "Now, I have 2 mana, so if I can I can summon a creature or cast a spell. See that white number in the upper corner?"
"What about it?" he replied as he examined the "2" on one of his cards."
"When the number of mana matches the number on the card, you can use it. Watch this." Jamie twisted the two fire cards sideways causing the machine to emit two ruby-red holographic crystals, each with the Gear symbol representing Fire."
"I summon: Mini Titan Gett!" Jamie announced setting the card onto the table. The Crystals joined together and turned into a red sphere, which then formed into the creature on the card; a spiky haired kid-like creature wearing an open trench coat with armor around his collar, arms and legs. The collar armor had boosters, while the arms and legs had mini missiles and air skates respectively. His eyes and the sides of his face were covered with a mask, like binoculars. The creature fell from the sky and landed onto the battle zone, awaiting orders from his user.
"That is so cool!" C.J. said, as it was the first time he'd seen it up close and in real life.
"Unless having an effect that says otherwise, Creatures can't attack when their summoned. And with no mana left to use, I end my turn."
"Okay then. My turn." C.J. drew another card, charged more mana and twisted it sideways. Like with Jamie's mana, two emerald-green crystals appeared each with Nature's chain symbol. "I summon: Burning Mane!"
C.J. set the "2 mana card" onto the table as the crystals joined and formed into a Brown Lion-like humanoid with a sienna-colored mane. When it appeared, it slammed onto the battle zone, swinging a dead tree it brought along. He as well stayed still awaiting orders."
"I end my turn." C.J. said.
"Not bad, you're picking this up pretty quick." Jamie twisted her cards vertically and drew another card. She once again put mana down, but only turned two. Two Fire crystals appeared.
"I cast the Spell: Crimson Hammer!" She set the card on the table, as the crystals turned into a crimson colored wave, that swept Burning Mane away. It struggled to stay above the water, but utterly drowned, exploding into green data. The table suddenly popped the card into the air, much to C.J.'s surprise.
"Cards that've been used or destroyed go to the graveyard pile." She said as she put the crimson hammer into the graveyard. C.J. nodded, putting his first creature there as well. "Now, Mini Titan Gett: Ike!" She called out as she twisted her creature's card sideways. Mini Titan Gett nodded, sliding across the Virtual Battle-Zone, and preforming a flying sidekick at C.J.'s middle shield, shattering it. The shield then sprung up as C.J. caught it as well.
"Does this go to the graveyard as well?" he asked.
"Not exactly. Broken shields return to your hand. If they have a symbol like a 'Diamond with a Lightning Bolt' on it, it's called a Shield Trigger, or an ST. they are Creatures or spells that have the ability to be summoned or cast without paying any mana if going to your hand from the shield zone."
"Okay. So in that case, I can use it right?"
"If the situation calls for it, it's up to you."
"All right. In that case, I use the Shield Trigger: Natural Snare, and send Mini Titan Gett into your mana zone." C.J. smirked.
"Say what?" Jamie jumped as she watched vines pop out of the ground, grabbing Mini Titan Gett. The white vines constricted him until he was crushed into Red Data, reforming into a Mana Crystal. It disappeared as Jamie moved Gett into mana.
"Really quick I'd say." Jake commented. "Nice move dude."
C.J. smirked. "Just like when we were kids right?"
"Yep."
"You got to realize that it's only the beginning, I have other Aces up my sleeve." Jamie said.
"Let's go then. Ikuzo!" C.J. taunted.
A few turns passed as the last member of Team KG walked in. He was average height, looked about 16 like the rest of the team. He had spiky black hair and wore a blue bandana around his forehead. He wore a Sapphire-blue hoodie, blue jeans and blue and white sneakers. The Hispanic teen walked over to the table where he saw Jake.
"So, Jamie's destroying another kid here?" he asked.
"You'd be surprised." Jake said smiling. "The kid's giving her a run for her money, and they've only been playing for the last 15 minutes. Not only that, but he just started playing 15 minutes ago."
the teen's face jerked towards the table and back at Jake. "Are you kidding me? Jamie's our strongest duelist on our team."
"Trust me, with enough soil, even the mightiest flame can be put out." Jake said. "Trust me Dylan, it'll be worth it."
Dylan sighed and watched the duel along with Jake and Karon.
On the table, Jamie had seven mana charged, one shield left and an Explosive Fighter Ucarn, Bolshack Dragon, which was tapped and a second Mini Titan Gett. C.J. had 10 mana, which he was resetting, two shields, one he recovered with the spell: Mana Nexus, and Creatures: Two Bronze Arm Tribe he summoned last turn.
"Alright, all he needs to do is attack me one more time. If this shield is Tornado Flame, I can kill off his Bronze arm tribe before he can attack with it. As long as-"
"So, you said that to summon an Evolution Creature, I need to not only the right mana number, but also the right Race."
"Yep, like how I was able to summon Armored Cannon Balbaro earlier, by evolving my Immortal Barron Vorg. Both were Humans so I was able to evolve them... You have an Evo don't you?"
"Two actually. I Evolve both my Bronze Arm Tribes into: Barkwhip the Smasher, and Fighter Dual Fang: Respectively!" C.J. tapped eight mana and overlaid both cards on each Bronze Arm Tribe.
"Are you kidding me!" Jamie growled lowly. She couldn't believe that she was getting thrashed by the new kid so easily. Talk about "picking up a game right away." Jake wasn't kidding.
The Eight emerald crystals materialized, dividing into groups of two and six. They joined together forming spirals of white blades, like flower petals. They flew towards the twin Bronze Arm tribes as they grabbed a hold of them. A Green vortex engulfed the two as they instantly broke free in their new forms. Barkwhip the Smasher was an Orge-type creature wielding a giant hammer. It's back extended farther as it supported two more arms handling thorn whips. Fighter Dual Fang was the form of a giant humanoid Feline, having great big silver horns that curved from his forehead back. It too had two extra arms as it carried a giant golden bladed sword. It front paws held a shield-like claw, which also held Fighter Dual Fang's Evo Crystal which was glowing Green, rather than white. Barkwhip's was revolving around him, unharmed by his anticipation to strike.
"Barkwhip: Ike! Break her last shield." He tapped Barkwhip as he charged, jumping over Jamie's army and smashing the last shield with his hammer.
Jamie retrieved her last shield and bit her lip. The last shield was: Tornado Flame."
"Got lucky kid. Since I lost this, I'll show you my last shield." She flipped the card over revealing it to be Tornado Flame. This surprised the three others. Even they believed that was pure luck.
"Tornado Flame's a ST Spell with the ability to kill you opponent's creature with 4000 or less. If he never evolved his creatures, then one would've been destroyed before the final attack, guaranteeing Jamie the win." Dylan recited like he was prepared to give a speech on Shield Triggers.
"Maybe it was luck, or anticipation, or just plain skill."
Jamie's expression changed. "Did he really anticipate my shield being Tornado Flame?" She thought.
"But you're right, it was just pure luck. Fighter Dual Fang: Wrap it up, Todome Da!" He tapped Dual Fang as the hologram roared, Swinging his blade, sending a Green wave of energy to smash through her creatures and into her.
The shield zone read: GAME OVER like earlier as Jamie nodded. Once again, the three jolted up in amazement.
"She's not flipping out!" Jake realized.
"Uh Jamie...? Are you feeling alright?" Dylan asked as she collected her cards, putting them back into the case and re-locking it with her ID.
"Yeah, I'm great. Why?"
"Because 'Lady Amaterasu' was just beaten by the new kid." Karon clarified calmly.
"And? It was his first duel, I went easy on him." She replied, just as calm.
"C.J. collected the cards, flipping over the two remaining shields. To Jake's surprise it was: Natural Snare, the card C.J. replaced his shield with, and a third Mana Nexus, two of which were used in conjunction with Dimension Gate."
"Hey Jamie, check his last two shields." Jake motioned, so that Karon and Dylan looked as well.
"What's the big deal?" C.J. asked.
"I would've lost anyway." Jamie said. "Granted you played your cards right, when the turn would shift to me, after tornado flame killed Bronze, you would have one creature left. I would attack with Bolshack Dragon, breaking the two. Natural snare would activate, sending Ucarn to mana. Then Mana nexus would appear, Making you put the Snare back there from mana to keep me from attacking as then I'd lose Gett as well. With nine mana, you could summon Dual Fang or Barkwhip and get the final kill."
"But wouldn't it make more sense to kill off bronze first then take out the shields? That way he wouldn't have anything to attack with." Dylan pointed out.
Jamie smiled. "You know that's not my style. When it come's to Fire, you have to play fast and think quick. Nature on the other hand, is calmer and able to take a minute to build it's army."
"Here's the deck back." C.J. said.
"Keep it. It's yours." Karon pushed it back. "So is this." Karon took the deck and swiped an ID Card on it.
C.J. Henderson: Identification Confirmed.
Team Affiliation: Kaijudo Generation.
Civilization user: Nature
Deck Avatar:...
The computer stopped. Everyone turned to C.J. who thought about it. "Well it should be obvious: Tsume, the Fighter Dual Fang."
Deck Avatar: Fighter Dual Fang, Name: Tsume, Race: Beast Folk.
Registration Complete.
The Green light on the Case lit up as a rough voice spoke from it.
"Not bad for a Rookie. You have excellent potential as a duelist." it spoke. Fighter Dual Fang materialized as green data bits formed on C.J.'s shoulder. Tsume, sat his front arms crossed with his back arms stretching, the Sword crossed behind his back.
"Thanks." C.J. replied.
Blaze, and Kage showed up as well, Making comments about C.J.'s skills, to which everyone joked about.
"You know, NYC is better than California; definitely."
"Aw come on, you can't really mean that," Jake said. "we had fun growing up in LA."
"Yeah, but it's calmer here."
The four looked at him like he was stupid. "Not in the least!" They said in unison oddly; it's a team thing.
"I live in Staten Island though. That's the 'Suburbs of NYC.'"
The four thought about it and nodded. "Where are you going to school at?"
"Here in Manhattan; Stuyvesant High School."
"Sweet, you'll be going to school with us then." Dylan said. "I'm Dylan by the way."
"Nice to meet you." C.J. smiled.
Later that night C.J. skimmed through the deck, picking up a few boosters before he left. He decided to go with a Beast folk deck, separating the beast folk with the non-beast folk that were in the deck. After he was done, he locked his deck and went to sleep for his next challenge: School...
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A/N: And so, needs the first chapter of DM: Kaijudo Generation. I hoped you enjoyed and leave reviews so I can see if I should keep going with it. And read my other stories too ;) Good night readers.