Well, this is the second post 5ds fanfic I'm writing [Apparently I like writing stories that happen after the anime]. This fanfic will not include canon characters, or any person associated with them. So basically it's a semi AU fanfic that occurs after the events of 5ds.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! I only own my own characters.

Yu-Gi-Oh! Neo: Tales of Chaos

Chapter 1 – Prologue

Zero yawned in boredom, looking around the shop. The day had been uneventful and boring... at least to him.

This was inside the shop known as 'Tyler's World', a pretty stupid name if you asked him. Tyler's World was a normal card shop situated in Neo Domino City. It wasn't a very big shop, but it was spacious enough for two duels to be conducted in it simultaneously. The shop had many cards in show glassed and had shelves full of card packs.

Zero was a 14 year old boy with short, rough black hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a grey hoodie and black trousers. HIs uncle; Tyler owned the shop and had Zero help him out by working at the counter.

He took his attention from book he was reading to the duel occurring. Apparently every employee who worked at the counter keep themselves busy by reading a book. The finals duel of the shop's tournament was taking place. Many duelists had gathered to watch the duel which was between two people his uncle Tyler considered to be the shop's best duelists.

The first duelist who Zero recognised as Ray Watagami had a machine monster with spider like legs and a face-down card on his field while the other duelist who was James Endo only had two face-down cards on his field.

Ray was a boy who looked about 15 years old; he had large spiky black hair with crimson streaks and wore a black trench coat. He wore a red t-shirt and black trousers under his coat. Ray stretched his hand towards his opponent and spoke, "Ally of Justice Catastor, attack him directly!"

Ally of Justice Catastor: Lv.5 Atk2200/ Def 1200

"I don't think so." James responded as one of his face-down cards flipped up. "My trap card; Dimensional Prison will banish your Catastor."

"Turn end." Ray declared, undisturbed by the turn of events.

"My turn, draw." James said as he added a card to his hand, bringing it up to a total of three cards. James looked the same age as Ray; he had smooth black hair and blue eyes. He was wearing a blue shirt and black jeans.

"Oh! James' trap has turned the tables! Ray is now at a disadvantage, with no cards in his hand and only a face-down card on his field, how will he cope?" a man who looked in his late twenties commentated with a microphone in his hand. This was Tyler, Zero's uncle.

Ray's LP: 4000

James' LP: 1300

"This duel is mine for the taking." James said confidently as he placed a card on his duel disk. "I special summon Gilasaurus in attack position!" a brown raptor dinosaur appeared.

Gilasaurus: Lv.3 Atk-1400/ Def-400

"When I summon Gilasaurus this way, you get to special summon a monster from your graveyard." James explained.

"I'll special summon Ally Salvo in defense position." A black meteorite like substance appeared. There was purple energy around the monster and it had holes in it.

Ally Salvo: Lv.2 Atk-400/ Def-300

"I activate the spell card; Big Evolution Pill!" James said as he inserted a card into his duel disk. "By tributing a dinosaur type monster, this spell lets me summon dinosaur type monsters without tributes for three of your turns."

Gilasaurus faded away as James' spell card appeared.

"I'll use that effect to summon Ultimate Tyranno!" James declared. A large, black Tyrannosaurus appeared, it let out a large roar which was meant to intimidate the opponent.

Ultimate Tyranno: Atk-3000/ Def-2200

"Ultimate Tyranno, attack him directly!" James ordered his dinosaur.

"Trap card activate! DNA Transplant!" Ray said as his face-down card flipped up. "This trap card changes the attribute of all monsters on the field to any of my choosing. I choose to change them to light attribute."

"Whatever, it won't stop your monster from being destroyed." James responded.

The large dinosaur rammed the meteor like monster. But before the monster faded away, it let off a burst of energy which incinerated the dinosaur and James' face-down card.

"What the hell just happened?" James asked furiously.

"When Ally Salvo is destroyed in battle by a light attribute monster, I can destroy up two cards on the field." Ray explained, smirking.

"But Ultimate Tyranno isn't a..." James said before realising it was because of the trap Ray activated. "Turn end." He said, gritting his teeth.

"My turn, draw." Ray said as he added a card to his hand. "I summon Ally of Justice Nullifier." A red robot with spider like legs appeared.

Ally of Justice Nullfier: Lv.4 Atk-1600/ Def-1200

"Ally of Justice Nullfier, attack and end this duel!" Ray ordered.

"No way." James thought. "I lost without even dealing a point of damage."

The robot stretched its hand towards James and shot a laser beam at him, reducing his life points to zero.

Ray's LP: 4000

James' LP: 0

"And Ray wins the duel, while accomplishing an impressive feat; taking no damage in the duel." Tyler commentated

Both duelists deactivated their duel disks as the crowd applauded.

"Though the odds were against most of the game, Ray stayed calm and trusted his deck. These made him get through the duel and end up winning flawlessly. I therefore declare him the strongest duelist in this shop!" He then added, "Until the next tournament of course."

Zero turned away to continue reading his book, "Heart of the cards... how pathetic."

"What did you just say?"

Zero looked up, wondering who was speaking so loud. He saw a girl he recognised as Tomoko; James' sister. She was in front of the counter and seemed to be asking him. "Are you talking to me?" he asked.

"Yes, I was." She replied. The girl had long black hair that stopped at her back and blue eyes. She was wearing a red top and a black skirt. "Didn't you just say that believing in the heart of cards is pathetic?"

"What if I did?" he asked back.

"That is stupidest thing I heard."

"What? Asking if I said that?"

"Of course not." She said, looking at Zero as if he were stupid. "You were saying that the belief in the heart of the cards is stupid."

"What you're trying to say is you believe in the heart of the cards and what I supposedly said offended you?" Zero said.

"Yes." She replied. She looked like she was going to continue talking until Zero spoke.

Zero went back to reading his book before talking, "To end this conversation, I'll just answer the question; I didn't say anything."

"Whatever." Tomoko shrugged it off. "Do you want to duel?"

"Nah." Zero replied, not even bothering to look up.

"Oh c'mon, just an old fashioned table-top duel right here."

"Even if I wanted to, I don't have a deck." Zero replied. "Besides, shouldn't you be consoling your brother?"

Tomoko looked at her brother who was sitting at a corner of the shop with his head hung. She sighed and then left the counter to console him.

"The price for first place is five free card packs of your choosing and a new, customized D-pad and D-gazer." Tyler announced, handing said gifts to Ray while the crowd applauded.

"Zero, let's go." Tyler called his nephew. The shop was empty as it was 7 o'clock, Tyler and Zero were about leaving.

"I'm already here." Zero replied as he came out of the shop. He was about 5'4", which was short in his own opinion. He and his uncle started walking, their house was some blocks away so a car would have been unnecessary.

Zero had been living with his uncle since he was 9, having lived in an orphanage before then. He didn't know what happened to his parents and each time he asked his uncle, he would get no reply. After some time he just learnt to live without that knowledge. But he promised himself that if he had the chance he would search for his parents.

...but one will find out that sometimes...ignorance is indeed bliss...

I shall be writing this story alongside my 5dsacademy story. The prologue is a bit shorter than I wanted, but the next chapter will be longer. Please read and review!