The New Generation
The Bad Luck Duelist
"Now, Fortune Lady Earth! Attack directly and end this duel!" Akira shouted as her monster attacked her opponent, bringing her life points down to 0.
"The winner is, once again, the champion Akira Sato!" the announcer cheered as everybody in the large arena cheered for Akira.
"Akira."
The cheers of her fans was almost deafening, but Akira still felt like she could pick out a familiar voice in the middle of it.
"Fine, I have ways of getting you up."
Out of nowhere, Akira felt as though she were being slowly suffocated. Writhing to and fro, throwing her beautiful blond hair about, her crystal blue eyes shut in fear before snapping open.
Akira opened her eyes to see a woman with jet black hair tied into a bun, mischievous blue eyes and dressed in a red coat over a black tank-top and a long red skirt. Akira tried to say something, but realized the reason for her lack of breath immediately after: her mouth and nose were being held shut by the older woman.
"Look at that, you're awake," she said with a smirk, allowing Akira to breath again.
"What...the...hell? You could have killed me Kin!" Akira shouted angrily once she got her breath back.
"Could have, but I didn't, did I little sis?" Kin asked arrogantly. "I'm heading out in an hour, with or without you."
"Right," Akira said with a sigh, reluctantly getting out of bed and walking over to a nearby mirror. Looking back at her, through dull brown eyes, was a girl, shorter than average by just a few inches, her pale, freckled face framed by short hair the same color as her eyes. At least, that's what she assumed was there and not the blurry mass she saw in front of her. Putting her glasses on, she was at least slightly happy to see it was herself in the mirror and nobody else. Any other day, she would have purposely taken her time with getting ready just to irritate her sister, especially since one hour always meant at least two when it came to things like this. It was just a way to get her to hurry up. Not that she needed that today. "Today I start my trip to the top!"
Exactly fifty-nine minutes later, Akira was ready to head out, dressed in a yellow t-shirt, jeans and a pair of black sneakers. When she got into her living room, she saw that her sister was ready as well, though considering she had only had to put on a pair of high-heeled shoes in the time since waking Akira, that wasn't saying much. "I had a dream last night," Akira said with a yawn.
"The same dream where you're a pro and beat everybody who challenges you?" Kin asked lazily, getting to her feet. She was taller than most people Akira knew and her skin was perfectly tanned. The differences between the two girls were astounding and more than once, people had wondered whether one of them was adopted. "If you don't do well today, that's never going to happen."
"I'll be fine."
"Sure you will. And your perfect record will be none the worse for it," Kin replied, dodging a flying pillow thrown by a red faced Akira. "Time to head out," she said with a smirk, heading out the door of their small apartment, Akira closely behind her. A few minutes later, the two of them were well on their way to the examination building for Duel Academy.
"Hey Kin? If I were to lose the duel today, what would happen?" Akira asked nervously.
"Depends. If your scores on the written exam were good enough, you'll still get in. Just don't expect any great treatment at the school if that happens," Kin said, half paying attention to Akira and half looking through the deck she would have to use as a proctor. "You're lucky. They just build dorms for the girls over at Ra and Slifer a few years ago, so you'll have somewhere to stay when you bomb today."
"Don't joke about that!" Akira shrieked.
"Okay, okay. Anyway, you'll do fine. Just focus on actually finishing the duel. Don't chicken out like you always do. That deck of yours has potential," Kin said with a sad sigh.
"...I miss her," Akira said quietly.
"So do I, but she'd want you to move on and do something with your life. That's why she gave that deck to you," Kin responded as the train stopped. "Here's where we get off," she said, hopping off the train with Akira right behind her.
"You'll be with me while I wait, won't you?" Akira asked.
"Nope. I have things I need to get done. Applicants to test, written exams to grade, things like that," Kin replied with a hint of regret in her voice. "In fact, this is where we go our separate ways. Just go tell them you're here and they'll give you a Duel Disk for your duel. After that, head to the room you took your written exam in and wait for them to call you, okay?" she instructed her sister. With a quick hug and final words of encouragement, Kin ran off to wherever it was proctors went while Akira was left all alone.
Okay...You can do this Akira...Just stay calm...There's barely anyone here anyway, Akira thought to herself, following her sister's directions. She hated crowds, always had and always would. It was just so easy to get lost in them. Luckily, there didn't seem to be that many people there that day. "Maybe I'm early. Or late. Or Kin's playing a joke on me and the exam is tomorrow," she said to herself as she reached the room she had been directed to. As soon as she opened it, she regretted it. At least she knew where everybody was know. All packed into that one room. She recognized many of them from the day she took her written exam, but nobody by name. Trembling, she walked into the room, feeling like her every move was being watched and judged by the strangers around her.
"You okay Akira?" one of them asked as she passed by him. She immediately froze up, realizing that this stranger knew her name.
"W-W-What d-d-did yo-you s-s-say?" Akira asked nervously.
"I asked if you were okay," the boy said with a kind smile. His right eye was covered up by a black eye patch, but the left one was unobscured and a bright jade green. His straw yellow hair was styled into a pompadour.
"You...didn't call me Akira?" Akira asked, letting out a breath she didn't even realize she was holding in. Her nervousness was just playing tricks on her, hopefully.
"Should I have?" the boy asked with a chuckle.
"Um...Yes. That's my name. Akira Sato. It's nice to meet you," Akira said, smiling back at the boy.
"And I'm Alan Young. It's a pleasure to meet you," Alan said cheerfully.
"You're a foreigner?" Akira asked.
"Yep. British actually," Alan replied.
"And...um...Is it rude to ask about your eye?" Akira asked curiously.
"Not at all. It's just a regular eye after all, as you can clearly see," Alan said, indicating his left eye.
"Actually, I meant the other one," Akira pointed out, hoping it was okay to ask about as well.
"I figured as much," Alan said, reaching up to his eye patch and moving it aside. Unlike his left eye, it was a bright hazel color that seemed to shine in the light. "I got heterochromia. I generally get less stares if I keep one of them covered up."
Seems like you'd get more wearing an eye patch like that, Akira thought to herself as Alan replaced the patch.
Over the next few minutes, Alan and Akira passed the time generally talking about their own lives, their decks, their strategies for winning the exam and where they planned on ending up once they passed. By the time they were finished, most of the people in the room had been called for their exam and the two of them were among the last ones left. They weren't waiting long though, since they were both called almost seconds later. As she parted from Alan, Akira sighed and hoped that whoever her proctor was, she could at least finish this duel.
"Um...I'm here," she said nervously once she reached her arena.
"Finally! I've been waiting for you!" Kin said eagerly, waving at her little sister.
"Kin? They don't have some sort of rule or something against you grading your own family?" Akira asked.
"Nope. Of course, you'll get no special treatment from me today, so you'd better do your best! Got it?" Kin said sternly.
"G-G-Got it," Akira said excitedly as she slipped on her Duel Disk.
Akira: 8000/Kin: 8000
"First move goes to you Akira," Kin said with a smile.
"R-Right," Akira said, drawing her card. "I'll play Mausoleum of the Emperor first," she said as she put the field spell in play. As she did, two large obelisks rose out of the ground, followed by a platform with a ceremonial fire on top of it. "With this, we can summon monsters without tributes so long as we pay 1000 life points for every monster it would need. And I'll pay 1000 to summon Fortune Fairy Chee in attack position," she continued on as a brown haired fairy in an orange dress appeared on the field. (0/0)
Akira: 7000/Kin: 8000
"Now I'll play Swords of Revealing Light so you can't attack for three turns and turn it over to you," Akira finished off as three swords of pure light appeared above the field.
"Nice move sis, but let me show you a real first move," Kin said, frowning at the cards in front of her. I guess I gotta work with what I've got. "I'll start by summoning Mystical Elf in attack position," she continued as a blue fairy with blond hair appeared on her side of the field (800/2000).
"Than I'll play Painful Choice. This spell card lets me choose five cards from my deck and than you choose one to add to my hand. The rest go to the graveyard," Kin continued as she selected her five cards. When Akira saw them, what little color she had drained away. Her sister had chosen three copies of Dark Magician, a Red Eyes Black Dragon and another copy of Painful Choice.
"Sorry sis, but I'm choosing Painful Choice," Akira declared as Kin slipped the other four cards into her graveyard.
"And I'm activating it again. Now choose," Kin replied. Her five cards this time were two copies of Red Eyes Black Dragon, two copies of Gene-Warped Warwolf and another Painful Choice.
"I select Painful Choice again," Akira said.
"One more time!" Kin said cheerfully, choosing her last Gene-Warped Warwolf, three copies of Phoenix Gearfried and finally another Mystical Elf.
"I'm going with Mystical Elf!" Akira said happily.
"Now I'll play two Different Dimension Capsules. I'll remove from play two cards in my deck and I get to add them to my hand in two turns," Kin continued on as two sarcophagi appeared just outside the arena. "One card face down and it's your move," she finished as a card backing appeared behind her Mystical Elf and one of Akira's swords disappeared.
"I draw," Akira said as she examined her hand. "And I'm activating Luck Loan to special summon Fortune Fairy Ann in attack position," she continued as a purple haired fairy joined Fortune Fairy Chee. (0/0)
"Congratulations. You now have two useless monsters instead of one," Kin taunted.
"It's about to be three, because I'm going to summon Fortune Fairy Swee in attack position," Akira continued.
"Wrong. I activate my Trap Hole to destroy your monster," Kin said as a hole appeared underneath a green haired fairy and swallowed her up.
"F-Fine. I didn't need her anyway. Now I'll activate my spell card, Reversal of Fate. It destroys all Fortune Fairies on the field and I get to summon a Fortune Lady of the same attribute from my deck for each one," Akira said as a dark flame encased both Fortune Fairy Ann and Fortune Fairy Chee. When it faded away, it revealed a violet skinned women wielding a spear (?/?) and a woman wielding a flaming staff (?/?). "So here's Fortune Lady Dark and Fortune Lady Earth! And their attack and defense points are equal to their level times 400!" Akira added in. (Fortune Lady Earth: ?/? - 2400/2400, Fortune Lady Dark: ?/? - 2000/2000).
"Real scary sis. You gonna do anything with them or just end your turn again?" Kin asked.
"I'm gonna finish this! Fortune Lady Dark! Attack Mystical Elf!" Akira commanded as Fortune Lady Dark rushed at Mystical Elf and ran her through.
Akira: 7000/Kin: 6800
"But I'm not done! Fortune Lady Earth! Attack her directly!" Akira said again as Fortune Lady Earth charged at Kin.
Akira: 7000/Kin: 4400
"You done yet?" Kin asked with a lazy yawn.
"Yeah, I'm done," Akira said.
"Great. Because now, the gloves really come off," Kin said, drawing her new card. "I activate Harpie's Feather Duster to destroy all your spell and trap cards," she continued as a great wind blew away Akira's remaining two swords and her mausoleum.
"Next, I activate Emblem of the Awakening. With this, I'll send the Summoned Skull in my hand to the graveyard to ritual summon Cu Chulainn the Awakened," Kin continued as a red haired man wielding a long spear, dressed in armor and wearing a strange necklace around his neck (500/1000).
"Your monster's pathetic big sis," Akira said, chuckling to herself.
"Really? Than I guess I'd better beef him up. I'll activate his ability! By removing from play a normal monster in my graveyard, Cu Chulainn adds their attack points to his own until my next standby phase. I think I'll remove the Phoenix Gearfried you sent there," Kin said with a smirk as the spirit of Phoenix Gearfried rose out of her graveyard and flew into Cu Chulainn (500 - 3300). "Now! Cu Chulainn is attacking your Fortune Lady Dark!" Kin said as Cu Chulainn leaped at Fortune Lady Dark and impaled her.
Akira: 5700/Kin: 4400
"And that's the end. Your move," Kin said smugly.
"Fine," Akira said, drawing her card. "During my standby phase, Fortune Lady Earth gains a level and you take 400 points of damage," she said as Fortune Lady Earth hurled her staff at Kin. (2400 - 2800)
Akira: 5700/Kin: 4400
"Now I'll play my spell card, Fortune Call. It lets my take control of one monster you control until my End Phase if I control a Fortune Lady or Fortune Fairy whose level is higher or the same as that monster. The only downside is that the monster I take control of is the only one that can attack," Akira said as Cu Chulainn was pulled to her side of the field by Fortune Lady Earth. "Now, Cu Chulainn! Attack directly!" Akira commanded as Cu Chulainn stabbed at Kin.
Akira: 5700/Kin: 1100
"Now I'll summon Fortune Lady Fire in attack mode and end my turn," Akira finished as a red skinned woman wielding a scythe appeared on her side of the field. (?/?). "Oh, and my Fortune Lady Fire gains 200 attack points for each of it's levels," Akira added as her Fortune Lady powered up (400/400) and Cu Chulainn returned to Kin's side of the field.
"Than it's about time I ended this, isn't it?" Kin asked, drawing a new card. "And now, the two cards I removed from play get added to my hand. And I'll activate them now. Advanced Ritual Art let's me send normal monsters from my deck to the graveyard who's level equal the level of a ritual monster in my hand and ritual summon that monster. So I'll send three copies of Cloudian - Smoke Ball and three copies of Kozaky to summon my Lycanthrope in attack mode!" she said as a monstrous werewolf appeared on her field (2400/1800). "Now to finish this up! I remove from play my Dark Magician to boost Cu Chulainn's attack points!" she continued as the Dark Magician's spirit rose from the graveyard and entered Cu Chulainn (500 - 3000). "Now, Cu Chulainn! Attack Fortune Lady Earth!" Kin said as Cu Chulainn attacked the defenseless fairy.
Akira: 5500/Kin: 1100
"Now it's your turn Lycanthrope! Tear apart her last monster!" Kin finished as Lycanthrope leaped at Fortune Lady Fire and devoured her.
Akira: 3500/Kin: 1100
"And whenever Lycanthrope inflicts damage to you, you take 200 points of damage for every normal monster in my graveyard and right now, I've got twenty," Kin added as Lycanthrope slashed at Akira herself.
Akira: 0/Kin: 1100
Winner: Kin
Akira dropped to the ground as the holograms in the Duel Disks shut down. "You okay Akira?" Kin asked concerned.
"I can't believe it. I lost. Again," Akira said to herself sadly.
"Relax. You can still get in, remember. You'll probably be in Slifer, but there's no shame in that, you hear me?" Kin said, trying to cheer her sister up.
"I know. I...I just need some time alone okay?" Akira said, not standing up.
"Take all the time you need," Kin said with a sigh. At least there weren't any more applicants coming her way today.
There you go people. The first chapter of the first story I have on this site. Not much to say here really. I will say that I will be accepting OCs (just don't expect them to play major parts in the story since I have most of it already thought out with characters I've made). Also, as you can see, I am using a few original cards and will post their descriptions after every chapter so you can see what they do.
Original Cards
Name: Reversal of Fate
Type: Spell
Property: Normal
Effect: Destroy all "Fortune Fairy" monsters you control. For every card destroyed by this effect, you may Special Summon one "Fortune Lady" of the same attribute from your hand or deck.
Name: Fortune Call
Type: Spell
Property: Normal
Effect: Choose one "Fortune Lady" or "Fortune Fairy" you control. Take control of one monster your opponent controls with a level equal to or less than the selected monster until the End Phase. Only one monster may attack this turn.
Featured Card
Name: Lycanthrope
Attribute: Earth
Type: Beast-Warrior/Ritual/Effect
Level: 6
ATK/DEF: 2400/1800
Effect: This card can only be Ritual Summoned with the Ritual Spell Card, "Synthesis Spell". When this card inflicts Battle Damage to your opponent, inflict 200 damage to your opponent for each Normal monster in your Graveyard.
OC Application
Name:
Year:
Dorm:
Deck: (if you want to send their entire deck, fine, but I'd prefer you just sending the general theme of their deck)
Favorite Cards:
Personality:
Appearance:
History:
Please send all OCs to me via PM. Any OCs submitted via review will not be acknowledged.