Hello everyone and welcome to my first ever fan fic story on this site. I've tried writing before years ago but I never thought they were good enough. But then I found this site so I decided why not to give it another go in this story Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal: The Phantom Number Hunter.
As I said it's been awhile so sorry if there might be some problems like some characters being OOC or grammar mistakes so please if you guys have any advice feel free to review with some ways I can improve this story.
Anyway now that long explanation is over and done with onto the story.
Yu-Gi-Oh Zexal: The Phantom Number Hunter
Numbers, I hate them so much.
They are an abomination to dueling.
But, I need them.
To destroy them.
And, to save my world. ~ Kaizen Nakagawa
Prologue: introducing Kaizen Nakagawa
Sometime in the future
In an unknown location in a dark narrow hallway, footsteps could be heard echoing, as a shadowed figure could be seen walking towards the exit of the hallway.
As the figure kept walking towards the end of the hallway, light was started illuminate the figure, which revealed, a white skinned, almost pale boy, who looked like he was 14 or 15 years of age. Midnight black hair was seen with long bangs that perfectly cover his left eye, his viable right eye was a bright green, like an emerald sparkling in the darkness.
Walking closer to the light, the boy can now be seen, his long sleeveless dark purple (which is so dark you could mistake it for black) duster coat, trailing behind him as he walked, his bare arms had black/purple straps on both of his triceps and long black wrist band on his right wrist and a slim purple and silver gauntlet of some kind, with a dueling deck on the top of his wrist, on his left arm. His black jeans could be seen along with his black lace up boots.
Stepping out of the hallway and into the light, a man, in his early 20's, with his Duel Disk deactivated, can be staring in my direction with a startled expression. Behind the man, I can see a person, on the ground, who has a Duel Disk on his arm.
The boy frowning at the sight thinks to himself 'he must have lost the duel then.'
But then he starts to smirk, turning he attention to the victor 'then it must be him, he's the number holder'
The man in question regains his composure, grinning at me with a dark smile on his face, as he responds to the boy's arrival "so who the hell, are you supposed to be."
The boy just stares calmly at the man before responding with "my name is of no importance, but if you want a name."
The man, with no time to react, watched as the stranger sprang into action, throwing his right arm out towards him, when suddenly a blue rope of some kind of energy, shot out of a hidden compartment in his wrist band, wrapping the energy rope tightly around the man's wrist. The man panicking with a scared expression clearly visible on his face, tried to pry of the rope off his wrist but to no avail.
They mysterious boy smirking at the sight, spoke "You can call me, Phantom!" the now named Phantom shouts.
The man still startled by the rope shouts "WHAT THE HELL IS THIS!" with a panicked and scared face shouts.
Phantom still smirking, just looks calmly at him "This is a Duel Anchor. Now ... we can't separate until we have a duel."
The man instantly calms down, when he heard the word 'duel' "A duel, huh, heheHAHAHAHA" he starts laughing a cold and evil laugh "A DUEL, THAT'S IT, WELL KID YOUR ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED, BY THE POWER OF MY NUMBER CARD!" the confirmed number holder shouts
Phantom starts grinning with a cheshire grin "YES, SHOW MY THE POWER OF YOUR NUMBER!" he shouts with excitement.
Phantom swings his left arm in front of him "DUEL DISK, SET" the side of the gauntlet opens and a piece of silver, purple and green metal pops out, which looks like a monster card zone slot with a spell and trap zone at the end, then suddenly four more pop out of both sides in an backwards arcing motion. He then puts his right hand in front of where his left eye would be, then in one motion moves his hair away from his eye, revealing a vertical scar on his eyelids that goes up to his eyebrow from his cheek, and a different colour eye, a pale blue colour, "DUEL EYE, SET, DUELING MODE ACIVAITE" the once pale blue eye changed to a bright luminescent blue.
The Number Holder prepares his standard D-pad "DUEL DISK, SET" he then pulls out a standard D-Gazer "D-GAZER, SET" the AR materializes with a bunch of random numbers.
"AR Vision – Link established." A computerised voice tells them.
Both duellist's take their five cards.
"DUEL!" Phantom and the number holder shout out.
Phantom: 4000 LP
Number Holder: 4000 LP
"I'll take the first move." Phantom states, he grabs the top card of his deck "I draw" he makes the first draw. Phantom looks at his hand for a second before smirking. "I set, four cards face-down, then end my turn." Four holographic cards appear in front of him.
"What, that's it, haha, this will be over in couple turns" the Number Holder boasts confidently "My turn, draw" he draws. He starts laughing when he looks at his hand "HAHAHAHA, well kid looks like it's the end of the road for you." "First, I will set two cards face-down." Two face-down cards appear before him "then, I activate 'Heavy Storm' this will destroy all spell and trap cards on the field, so say good bye to your face-downs" a massive gust of wind blew across the field destroying all face-downs in into pieces.
Phantom doesn't look fazed by that move, in fact he looks rather bored by it. "Is that it, I expected more." Phantom taunts the Number Holder.
The Number Holder looked pissed off at that remark "That's it you punk, I'm going to destroy you, insolent punk!" as he says this dark clouds start to appear in front of the Number Holder, he smirks at this "Your probably wondering what's happening aren't you." "well I'll tell you, you see the two face-down cards I set that were destroyed, were the Trap cards 'Statue Of The Wicked', you see when this Trap card is destroyed and sent to the Graveyard, I can summon a 'Wicked Token' to my side of the field, and I just destroyed two, so appear my 'Wicked Tokens'"
Wicked Token #1(Fiend-Type/DARK/Level 4 /ATK 1000/DEF 1000)
Wicked Token #2(Fiend-Type/DARK/Level 4 /ATK 1000/DEF 1000)
"It's the end of the line for you kid, because I sacrifice my two Tokens!" he says with a savage grin. The two Tokens disappear in a golden light "To summon 'Ancient Gear Golem'!" they could hear the gears turning as the great machine monster appears.
Ancient Gear Golem (Machine-Type/Earth/Level 8 /ATK 3000/DEF 3000)
The Number Holder was still smiling but lost it, when he looked over at Phantom still looking bored. "Take me, seriously you brat!" he shouted at him
Phantom looks at him with bored eyes "then give me a reason to be" he says in a disinterested tone.
The Number Holder look at him incredulously "what, a reason, I have a monster with 3000 ATK and your field is bare, how couldn't you take me seriously?!" he asks him.
Phantom looks at him dead in the eyes "how about you bring out your Number, then I'll take this seriously?" he asks in a calm tone of voice, like he doesn't have a care I the world.
An angry vain appears on the number holders head "ALRIGHT FINE THEN, I WILL.!" "Now, I activate the spell card 'Rusting Gears', you see when I have an Ancient Gear monster on the field; I can equip this card to that monster; then I can reduce its Attack and Defence points to 0"
Ancient Gear Golem (Machine-Type/Earth/Level 8 /ATK 3000-0/DEF 3000-0)
"Next I use the spell card 'Machine Duplication', this spell card targets one of my machine monsters which has 500 or less Attack points; then I can Special Summon up to 2 monsters from my Deck with the same name as the selected monster, lucky you I only have one. Appear once more 'Ancient Gear Golem'"
The same great mechanized behemoth appears on the field.
Ancient Gear Golem #2 (Machine-Type/Earth/Level 8 /ATK 3000/DEF 3000)
'He now has 2 level 8 monsters, is it coming' Phantom thinks to himself with a small grin in anticipation.
"I Now Overlay My 2 Level 8 'Ancient Gear Golems', to build the Overlay Network!" the number holder shouts as his two Golems turn into two orange lights and enter a black galaxy portal. "XYZ Summon, come forth, Rank 8, Number 23; Lancelot, Dark Knight of the Underworld" The black portal explodes with power and out comes the skeletal knight, with two purple orbs spinning around its body.
Number 23; Lancelot, Dark Knight of the Underworld (Zombie-Type/Dark/Rank 8/ATK 2000/DEF 1500) OU 2
"Now, Lancelot attack this punk directly" the knight obeys his command a lunges at his opponent with his sword.
Phantom simply smirks at "I activate my trap cards from my graveyard."
The number holder is shocked by this "f-from the graveyard"
"Yes, I had intentionally let my face downs get destroyed for this reason, you see 3 of the face-downs that were destroyed were 'The Phantom Knights of Shadow Veil' and its ability is; When an opponent's monster declares a direct attack while this card is in my Graveyard I can Special Summon this card in Defence mode as a Normal Monster." Phantom explains with a grin on his face.
As the 3 trap monsters start to appear, the Number Holder interrupts "Well sorry to burst your bubble kid, but I activate the special ability of Number 23; by using an Overlay Unit I can negate the activation of 1 of your traps." The skeleton knight absorbs 1 of the purple orbs and negates the summoning of 1 of the trap monsters.
Number 23; Lancelot, Dark Knight of the Underworld (Zombie-Type/Dark/Rank 8/ATK 2000/DEF 1500) OU 1
Phantom doesn't look phased by this development "it doesn't even matter, show yourselves, my 2 'Phantom Knights of Shadow Veil'"
Phantom Knights of Shadow Veil #1 (Warrior-Type/DARK/Level 4/ATK 0/DEF 300).
Phantom Knights of Shadow Veil #2 (Warrior-Type/DARK/Level 4/ATK 0/DEF 300).
Phantom smirks as two of his monster are on the field, but drops it when he sees his opponents smiling so wide you'd think it would fall of his face. "I activate the other special ability of Number 23; when Lancelot has an Overlay unit it can Attack my opponent directly." Phantoms eyes widen at this development and braces himself for the impact. When it hits he gets sent flying and lands on the ground hard.
Phantom: 4000-2000 LP
Phantom could hear his opponent laughing as he was sent flying, as he was slowly getting up he started to … laugh? His opponent stopped laughing to hear his laugh, confused he waited for his opponent to get up. As of now he was fully standing up with his eyes over shadowed with an excited grin on his face. "HahahaHAHAHAHA" his eyes now visible they contained unhidden excitement and his mouth turn up in a psychotic smile. "Yes, this is great, a number that's actually damaged my life points, yes, I'll take great pleasure in destroying you!"
The Number holder took a step back in shock at the threat a 'kid' had given him and how confident he sounded when saying that.
Phantom, still with that slightly psychotic grin, grabs the top card of his deck "My turn, I draw!" he shouted, forcefully drawing his card, creating a force of wind strong enough to were his opponent was forced to shield himself from it. Looking at the card, quickly coming up with a strategy to win "First, I Overlay my 2 level 4 'Phantom Knights of Shadow Veil' to construct the Overlay Network!" the 2 trap monsters turn into 2 purple lights that enter a yellow galaxy portal which explodes with power "Formed from the pitch-black darkness, to fight those foolish enough to oppose its treacherous fangs!" and from the portal a black and purple dragon appears "Come, My Faithful Dragon Of Darkness!, XYZ Summon, Rank 4, 'Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon'!"
Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon (Dragon-Type/Dark/Rank 4/ATK 2500/DEF 2000) OU 2
As the black dragon roars to life, the Number holder seems terrified "w-w-what is that monster" he asks fearfully, his opponent can only merely chuckle at the terrified man
"Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon, has a special ability by using an overlay unit; I can target 1 level 5 or higher monster my opponent controls; its Attack points becomes half its current Attack, and if it does, this card gains that lost Attack." Phantom's opponent breathes out a sigh of relief thinking he's safe, oh how wrong he was "I now activate the spell card 'Xyz Encore'; this card lets me target a face-up Xyz monster you control; then you have to detach all Overlay Units for the targeted monster; then the Xyz monster is returned to your Extra Deck!" I exclaimed loudly, his monster starts to glow brightly then it vanishes back into his extra deck. "OH NO" the Number Holder exclaims in shock, "and now the final effect of 'Xyz Encore'; when the Xyz monster is sent back to the extra deck, the remaining Overlay Units on the monster are Special summoned back to the field." In a shining light, Ancient Gear Golem return to the field.
Ancient Gear Golem (Machine-Type/Earth/Level 8 /ATK 3000/DEF 3000)
The Number Holder realizing how bad the situation starts to panic "oh no, it's a level 8 monster that means, 'Dark Rebellion'….!"
Phantom smirks "I now use the ability of 'Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon'; by using an overlay unit; I can target 1 level 5 or higher monster my opponent controls then halve its attack points and 'Dark Rebellion' gains the lost attack points." The dark dragon eats an overlay unit and its wind start to expand revealing purple electricity "Go, 'Dark Rebellion', Treason Discharge!" Phantom commands the electricity shot towards 'Ancient Gear Golem' trapping him in a circle of electricity.
Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon (Dragon-Type/Dark/Rank 4/ATK 2500-4000/DEF 2000) OU 1
Ancient Gear Golem (Machine-Type/Earth/Level 8 /ATK 3000-1500/DEF 3000)
The number holder gasps in shock "4-4000 Attack points!" Phantom smirks even wider at the man's fear "Again, Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon, Treason Discharge!" The dragon eats the final Overlay Unit and shoots out more electricity, binding the Golem even tighter.
Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon (Dragon-Type/Dark/Rank 4/ATK 4000-4750/DEF 2000) OU 0
Ancient Gear Golem (Machine-Type/Earth/Level 8 /ATK 1500-750/DEF 3000)
If the man wasn't scared before he was pissing himself in terror t-t-t duel this efficiently, with such strength, such power the man thinks to himself in despair. "w-who are you?" he couldn't help but ask.
Phantom still smirking knowing his victory was at hand "I am the Phantom Number Hunter, and your number is mine!" shouting the last part "Dark Rebellion, end this Duel" electricity started to spread all over the Dragon's body to its two blade fangs, it started to charge flying at the Golem head first "Go, Revolt of Lightning, Disobey!" the dragon hit its mark and the Golem exploded, resulting in an explosion that knocked the number holder unconscious before he even hit the ground.
Number Holder: 4000-0 LP Loser
Phantom: 2000 LP Winner
The AR finally dispersed, breathing out a sigh Phantom deactivated his Duel Disk retracting it back into the gauntlet and deactivating the 'Dueling mode' of his eye and it returned to its original pale blue colour. With those deactivated he approached the unconscious man. Standing above the fallen man he extended his right arm with his hand stretched outwards, he muttered "DUEL EYE, NUMBER CAPTURE" the man still unconscious started to move around in pain, he started moaning in pain and the moaning turned into screaming. After a minuet a glowing card floated out of the man's chest and into Phantoms hand, the card finally in his hand the glowing stop and revealed 'Number 23; Lancelot, Dark Knight of the Underworld' smirking satisfied with the work done he turned and started walking back down the hallway he came from.
"BEEB, BEEB, BEEP" My Duel Eye informed him of an incoming call from a 'Dr Nakagawa' rolling his eyes he answered and a brown haired woman in her early 40's appeared in what appears to be a white lab coat "Hello Doctor" he greeted her formally. On the other end he herd her sigh exasperated "you know you don't have to call me that, I swear your spending too much time with your father" she tells him softly. He sighs this time almost tiredly "Sorry Mother, I was just finishing my hunt for today" she perks up slightly hearing this, "how many did you get today?" she asks with a slightly exited expression. "Four today mother, have Big Brother and Sister back from their hunt yet?" he asks his Mother with a smile on his face. "Yes there back, you should come back to, Rika has been dying to see you all day" she says with a chuckle at the end. His expression brightened when he heard the name 'Rika'. "Ok I am coming back right now" he says with a bright smile. His mother mirrors his expression "Ok, be back soon Kaizen" with that he ends the call.
He made it out the building to notice that it was dark out. In the distance he can see a city with bright lights and a tower with a big hart on top of it, he stops in his walking to just look at the city frowning he lets his thoughts flow through his head.
In a couple of months the World Duel Carnival will start, the perfect place for numbers to hide.When he thinks of number thoughts go to three people who are a challenge to me Kite, Yuma and Astral. He thinks of the last name with absolute distaste.
He starts walking again.
My Name is Kaizen Nakagawa, and your numbers are mine.
Prologue end
Next chapter: Numbers!?
Fan-made cards used in this chapter:
Rusting Gears