Yu Gi Oh: Rise of Destiny

Chapter 1

A tall, lean man with long black hair and a blue overcoat sat in a dark room, sipping wine. A table was in front of him, with a Duel Monsters card atop it. The card pictured a large metallic orange being raising his hands above his head.

The man beckoned a tall man wearing a black cloak over to him.

"Send Zabano after the Chosen One. And send the others after his friends and the brothers Kaiba."

"Yes sir."

Mutou Yugi awoke with a start. Perhaps it was the cold winds blowing in from the open window. He couldn't sleep, so he decided to take a walk.

The young man got out of bed, and got dressed. He looked at the clock. 5:45 AM. Perfect for an early-morning stroll, where nobody can hassle you. He snuck out the door, after leaving a note for his grandfather, Mutou Sugoroku.

Yugi was walking slowly, enjoying the morning air, when a hand clamped over his mouth, and pulled him into a nearby alley.

The hand released him almost immediately. Yugi turned, to see a boy a bit taller then he, and most certainly younger. He had sleek bloodred hair down to his shoulders, and bright blue eyes. He wore a black cloak.

"Yugi Mutou, I presume." He asked. "I've come here to challenge you to a Duel."

"Why should I duel someone who nearly kidnapped me?" Yugi asked, annoyed.

"Because, right now, your friends are being tracked down by the great Dimension Lord. And once he has them in his grasp, they have no chance of living. So, unless you duel me, you won't be able to save your friends." The mysterious boy answered.

"What are you talking about? And how do I know you're telling the truth?" Yugi asked.

"Tick, tock, tick, tock...you're wasting time, Yugi." The boy mocked.

Yugi's body tensed. He couldn't take chances.

"Alright, I'll duel you. But we have to go back to my grandfather's shop to get my Duel Disk."

"Fine. Don't try anything funny, or maybe I'll just call up the Dimension Lord and have him kill off each and every one of your friends."

"Enough talking. Follow me, and I'll show you the way to the shop."

10 MINUTES LATER

Yugi and the boy faced eachother on the roof of the Kame Game Shop, duel disks on their arms.

"By the way, my name is Zabano, just for your information. Now, open your Soul Cards."

"What?" Yugi asked, positively bewildered.

"Soul Cards." Zabano said exasperatedly. "Three cards from your deck that represent your soul, your essence, and your self. When you lose a duel, one of your Soul Cards is destroyed. If all three are destroyed, simply put, you do not exist any longer. Your soul is gone."

"Is this a new way of dueling? I've never heard of it before..." Yugi asked.

"It was designed by the Dimension Lord himself. Now, enough talk already. Let's duel..."

Yugi immediately changed form, into the nameless pharoah from 3000 years ago.

Three cards appeared behind Zabano, life sized. Then, Dark Magician, Osiris, and Kuriboh appeared behind Yugi. Soul Cards.

DUEL START

Yugi: "I'll start off, by drawing a card! I'll summon Dark Blade(1800/1100) in attack mode, and set a card face down. Your move, Zabano."

Zabano: "I'll draw. And then I'll summon Magical Freight Car Bokoichi in defense mode(500/500)! Your move."

Yugi: "I activate the magic of Polymerization, to fuse my Dark Blade with my Pitch Dark Dragon to create a new monster! Dragon Knight of Darkworld(2200/1500)! Since Fusion monsters cannot attack the first turn they're summoned, I'll end my turn."

Zabano: "I draw a card, and then I'll set 3 cards face down. I'm also going to set a monster in defense mode. Your move, Yugi."

Yugi: "I'll send Dragon Knight of Darkworld to attack your facedown monster! Go! Dragon Soul Blade!"

Zabano: "I activate Ultimate Offering, and pay 1000 of my Life Points to summon two more Freight Car Bokoichi(500/500) in defense mode."

Yugi/4000 Zabano/3000

Yugi: "But what about your monster? I just launched an attack!"

Zabano: "I activate the trap card Negate Attack, stopping your attack in it's tracks."

Yugi: "Fine...your move..."

Zabano: "I flip my face down monster face up: Magical Locomotive Dekoichi(1400/1000)! Now I can draw 3 cards, one for each Magical Freight Car Bokoichi I have on the field."

He picks up three cards.

Zabano: "Now I activate Book of Moon to flip my Locomotive Dekoichi face down. And then I think I'll flip him up again to draw 3 new cards."

He picks up three more cards.

Zabano: "Let's do that one more time. I activate a second Book of Moon card to flip Dekoichi face down, and then flip him face up again. You know the drill. I get to pick up three new cards, leaving me with 9 cards in my hand."

He picks up three more cards.

Zabano: "Now, I'll activate the spell card Infinite Cards to make sure that I don't have to discard any of my precious cards. Card advantage wins games Yugi, and I'm gonna prove that to you on my next turn! Make your final move!"

Yugi: "I activate the spell card Triple Attack! It allows me to divide my monster's attack points by half to attack three of your monsters instead of one! And I'll add this card as well: Fairy Meteor Crush! Dragon Knight, launch three attacks, one on each of Zabano's monsters!"

Yugi/4000 Zabano/1600

Zabano: "No!"

Yugi: "And that's not all! For I activate one final card: Restructer Revolution! It does 200 direct damage to you for each card in your hand!"

Zabano shut off his duel disk, and hopped atop Yugi's chimney.

DUEL END

"It's been fun, Yugi, but you've shown me that you're obviously the Chosen One. Gotta run, maybe we'll run into eachother again someday." Zabano said cheerily as he jumped off the roof, and into the darkness.

"Come back here!" Yugi roared. It was to no avail. Zabano was long gone.

JOUNOUCHI HOUSEHOLD

Kawai Shizuka couldn't sleep. She walked down to the kitchen of the apartment building she shared with her brother Jounouchi, and opened the fridge. Suddenly, she felt the cold, hard, muzzle of a gun against her back.

"Turn around, and don't make a sound. Or I'll pull the trigger, even if it means disobeying my orders..." A deep male voice hissed.

Shizuka gasped, but stifled a scream as she turned around. Facing her was a tall, burly man wearing a black cloak and hood, with a shawl covering his mouth. He grabbed her arm, and twisted it behind her back. Her eyes watered, but she didn't show weakness. She couldn't, not now.

"You will come with me. You will not speak, and you will obey me until we reach the destination point. Understand?"

Shizuka nodded, and the man started to lead her out the door, when a figure appeared in the doorway. The figure threw all of his weight into a tackle that sent the cloaked man flying into a wall.

"Never, ever, touch my sister again, got it?" He said, stepping into the light. He was a handsome young man, under his mop of blonde hair and the faint smell of a street fighter. This was Katsuya Jounouchi, one of the top 3 Duel Monsters players in the world.

"Now, do you wanna settle this wit' our fists, or what?" Jounouchi said, cracking his knuckles.

"I'll go with the 'or what' part." The cloaked man replied, grinning. He pulled a deck of Duel Monsters cards out of his cloak.

Jounouchi's eyes widened.

"It's time to duel..." The cloaked man said, still grinning.

KAIBACORP HQ

Seto Kaiba was pulling an all-nighter, working on his latest DuelDisk model, when a crash sounded in the hallway. The young CEO jumped up, and ran into the hallway. One of his stained glass windows had been shattered, and there was muddy footprints tracked all around the shattered glass.

Mokuba...dear God, please let him be alright...if something happened to him... Kaiba thought frantically. And where the hell is Isono when I need him? He sure picked a convenient time for a bathroom break!

The CEO ran toward Mokuba's room, and on the way grabbed his DuelDisk off a table, and inserted it, his deck in the deck slot, onto his arm quickly.

In Mokuba's room, it was dark, and it took a few minutes for the expert Duelist's eyes to adjust. When they did, he saw a short, stubby cloaked man with a long rifle in his hand.

"Ah...Mr. Kaiba..." He said in a gravelly voice. "Pleasure to meet you."

"Who are you, and why have you vandalized my mansion?" Kaiba demanded of this new visitor.

"All of that will be explained soon, Kaiba." The man said, cackling. "But now, since your here, my only choice is to challenge you to a duel!"

"You've got a death wish?" Kaiba said, smirking. "No problem..."

Anzu Masaki sat alone in the park, listening to the birds sing. She always loved going there early, since it gave her time to think.

Five cloaked men approached her, and surrounded the bench she sat on. Two of the men reached out, and grabbed her arms. They pulled her to her feet, and forced her to walk forward. The tallest man, presumably the leader of the group, walked forward. He took Anzu's chin in his hands, and forced her to look at his cloaked face.

"You are coming with us. Just for conversation, I believe you know Mutou Yugi?"

Anzu nodded weakly. It was all she could do.

"You will be a great assistance to us in his downfall. The Dimension Lord has ordered your capture, and that is exactly what we're here to do."

Oh no...I have to warn Yugi...but how can I? These guys are surrounding me, and if I did get free there would be nowhere to go, and they'd just grab me again! Anzu thought desperately.

The men chuckled, and started to drag her off, when she had an idea.

"Can I have one last request?" She asked innocently, making sure to look as helpless as possible.

"Fine. One request." The leader said coldly. "Hurry up and talk."

"How about we play a little game of Duel Monsters? I have a hunch that you all are good at the game..."

The leader turned around, and pulled a deck of cards out of his cloak. "Since you don't have a Duel Disk, we'll play on the ground. If you win, I'll let you go free. But if I win, you come with us without struggling. Understand?"

Anzu nodded. It was going to be hard, but she knew she could prevail...

UNDERBELLY OF AN URBAN CITY

One man walked alone on the busy streets of Tokyo, Japan. He had white hair halfway down to his shoulders, with long bangs that fell over his eyes. He had chocolate brown eyes, and wore black jeans, a sleeveless grey T-shirt, and a black vest, open. He had spiky wrist-bands on both wrists, and wore black boots. He wore a Duel Disk on his arm, with a deck of Duel Monsters cards inside it.

"Where is Gavon? He should be here by now..." The young man muttered in a throaty voice.

A tall guy with spiky orange hair and bright blue eyes stepped out of a nearby alley. He wore a red coat, with blue jeans, and was shirtless. He had an arrogant smile on his face.

"Hey you!" The red-haired man shouted in a nasally voice. "I see you've got a Duel Disk. Wanna duel?"

The white-haired man smirked. "You got a death wish?" He asked.

"Just shut up and duel! The red-haired man shouted.

They both readied their Duel Disks, and drew their hands...

The red-haired man dropped to the floor, his pupils white and his mouth wide open. His soul was gone.

The white-haired man laughed coldly, and held up a monster card. The image was of the red-haired man, a look of horror on his face.

Another man appeared from the shadows. His torso was the size of a tank, and his legs were well-built and powerful. He wore a white leather jacket, black jeans, and a black T-shirt. He had slick black hair, with solid sideburns lining his face, and a huge cowlick dividing his eyes.

"Ryuza." The large man grunted. "What've you been up to?"

Ryuza tossed the card with the picture of the now-soulless man to the large man. "Here. A new addition to your Soul Collection."

The large man grunted in approval as he pulled out a deck of cards. Every one of them was a blank Normal Monster card with a picture of a man or woman with a terrified look on their face. He added the new card to the deck, and slipped it back into his coat.

"Come, Gavon," Ryuza said cheerily. "We wouldn't want to be late."

"Yeah." Gavon grunted, as the two walked on.

The setting is in the same dark, classy mansion from before. A man with long black hair sits atop a throne. He wears a blue trenchcoat, buttoned closed over his chest, black pants, and silver wristbraclets. A slim girl with pink hair in a ponytail is standing in front of him. She wears a light satin black coat, and a black skirt.

"Kazumi," The man atop the throne said in a soothing, British-accented voice. "You are early."