Tale of a Viking
Ru-Fi-Oh
Ok, this is going to be a bit confusing, but really cool…maybe. Let's lay it all down for you. First and foremost: This is a Yu-Gi-Oh Fan Fiction. Easy enough right? It takes place in the Battle City time period. Got it? Not that hard. Now here's the biggie: It takes place in a Parallel Universe. Confused? Let me explain. In this story, there is no Yugi, or his pharaoh counterpart. The reasons for both are 1) I like using OCs, and 2) Pharaohs are not part of Norse history. That's right, Norse. Now, don't get mad at me, but for this story, I've changed the whole Egyptian thing. Duel Monsters are now instead Norse based, or to a more fathomable term "Viking Based." Now I know maybe one of the first things on your mind is "Well, now you're going to have to change all of the cards accordingly." Which might be true, but I'm not going to, it makes things heckuva lot simpler for both me and you. I am, however, changing the origins of two aspects, and these are the Millennium Items, and the Egyptian God Cards. Obviously, I will be changing these to the Nordic Items, and the Norse God Cards. These things will come into play later on.
Another thing that is way different is the Characters. I have made some up and I have kept some and moved them around, and maybe changed their views/personalities a bit, but it all works out. Example of this in the story ((also acts as pre-intro)): Our Protagonist ((good-guy/main-guy)) is Luther Jacobs; he is backed up by three friends. Anthony Coram ((Tristan-type)), Rex Raptor ((Joey-type)), and Alicia Abbot ((Thea-type)). Ooh, this is going to be good P.
Just for reference, if you get confused:
Scandinavia, Norse, Nordic, and Northern Germanic are all the same thing…
Well, that's basically it for explanations, hope you enjoy the story
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Prologue – So Here's the Story
- A thousand years ago marks the time when "normal" life as we know it had started. Since before then, things were sure different. More than a thousand years ago marks the time when the Scandinavian people we know better as the "Vikings" ruled much of the northern hemisphere. As normal human beings who never experienced those times of the Vikings, stereotype them as the buff, bear-hide wearing, sword brandishing, pillaging and pilfering men searching for more land to inhabit. In truth, that is way off. This is only what history has written, and that's because history forgot what really happened. The lands of Scandinavia, which include Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, the Faeroe Islands, and some of Greenland, as we know them today, are in a quite alliance with each other. But it wasn't always like that. Wars were constantly waged over many issues, namely land, and were fought just how the history books say. The men fought with honor, and expectations to be seated in the great hall of Valhalla if killed bravely. The history books, however, hadn't mentioned that the wars were fought with monsters.
- The Scandinavian warriors were armed with many different monsters, traps, and magics at one time, and were sent into battle with such. The wars and their many battles had always turned out bloody and devastating. Some monsters were hard to control and would go on rampant rages killing anything it saw. Magic could always have gone wrong, and Traps could spring at any moment. Eventually, small alliances were made and things calmed down a bit, and finally, after yet another bloody war, one alliance decided they wanted to put an end to all of it. They had a lot of ideas and compromises that would end the whole "Duel Monster Wars" as it was called, but they needed to bring together all the leaders of all the Scandinavian Countries. It took a while, nearly a dozen years, but all of the 7 Leaders were eventually pulled together, using the magic that they could ((with the help of some expert wizards)) they created 7 mystical objects called "The Nordic Items" all of which had magical properties which they used to lock away all the monsters and magics, as well as the memories time had of the Scandinavian people. The items were then sent off to all different parts of the world, in the safe-keeping of unknowing owners. Now, a thousand years later, the memories time had lost were unveiled.
- A man by the name of Maximillian Pegasus discovered a ruin that held tablets of stone encrypted with Nordic Runes and pictures; he also discovered what he later learned as was "Odin's Right Eye." This "Nordic Eye," as it can also be called, gave him the power to read others' minds, trap souls, and most importantly, access the deceased memories of the Nordic People. With this knowledge, Pegasus invented a game called "Duel Monsters" in mock comparison to the wars that the Scandinavians had fought practically all their lives. Some modern touch-ups were made to attract interests, and soon, "Duel Monsters" was a very popular card game.
- Kids and adults alike had bought and played with these cards for the many months it had been released. Then, a man by the name Rex Raptor Senior saw a revolution in business. He had a decent sized research team, RexCorps, developing a new technology soon to be called "Solid Vision" which was a very advanced form of holography that could be "felt" to an extent. One day while watching some kids enjoying a game of Duel Monsters, he made the connection and thought, What if Duel Monster players could actually see their monsters fight against one another? And thus, the revolutionized Duel Monsters was born. At first, the holograph version of Duel Monsters was only to be played in an Arena, using the primitive Solid Vision 1.1. But as both Duel Monsters and Solid Vision progressed, Solid Vision 1.2 was released, but only as a very rare prototype involving a spinning disk that was portable and could create holographs of Duel Monsters anywhere a player wished. But this was also too cumbersome, and through months of toying and experimenting, The Solid Vision 1.2.2 arm attachment field which was a lot more portable and was infused with better hologram technology than ever before. In celebration of this wonderful upheaval, Rex Raptor hosted a grand tournament which he called "Battle City" where players would use this new technology to battle one another in hopes of gaining entrance to the Battle City Quarter, Semi-, and lastly Finals. But there is more than meets the eye in this situation concerning Rex Raptor Senior, but more into that later.