Hawk: Well, since this has been on the backburner for a while, I thought I might as well add this: Yu-Gi-Oh! Xross! Just something to note, this doesn't really have anything to do with any existing Yu-Gi-Oh! series beyond the card game and maybe a few references here and there, other than that, it's its own universe for all intensive purposes, kinda like VRAINS. I've probably been blabbing on too much, so let's get straight to it!
Drive 001: The one who moves onwards! Yuga Senku!
"Well this sucks." A male voice said, obviously bored.
"School doesn't start for a while, everything is closed for today, can't duel anyone right now… This couldn't be much worse."
This boy was about 16, wearing a red jacket with white at the top and black highlights over a white T-shirt with a "39" on it, as well as green jeans, a brown belt and a keychain resembling the Millennium Puzzle. He had silver hair with red bangs & blue highlights pointing off in an "X"-shape with a "V" at the front and hazel eyes. He had black fingerless gloves with a cyan star on the right one and a black duel disk on his left wrist.
"Sigh. *great*…"
(A/N: Whenever these ** appear, that means the dialogue is in English in-universe as opposed to Japanese)
Suddenly, his duel disk started vibrating, with text saying: INCOMING CALL FROM: RYOMA, with a green phone icon and a red one, he detached the duel disk from the wristband and pressed the green one, before putting it up to his ear.
"Hey Ryoma. What's up?"
"You know why Yuga, you start school tomorrow. Shouldn't you be preparing?"
"Don't worry so much! I'll be fine! I'll be back before you know it!" Ryoma sighed.
"Fine. I'll see you then." The line then cut. Yuga quietly laughed to himself.
"Older brothers…" He began walking down the street before taking out his deck and smiling.
"Can't wait to try you guys out. You're so good, I might actually stick with you!" He sighed and put it back in his pocket.
"Too bad You're not finished yet." Behind him, a shadowy figure stared at him intently.
"There. More target practice. Hehehe, this is too easy."
Yuga stopped at a building with a sign that read 'Game Brain'.
"I guess this could help the unfinished deck problem." He entered the building to a plethora of various board & other 'family-friendly' games. At the end there were a set of stairs going up with 'Floor 2" written on the wall.
Yuga shrugged and walked up them to be greeted by several different Tabletop RPG's and card games being hung on the walls. Yuga picked off a pack and walked up to the counter in time to hear a broadcast on a radio.
"3 more people have suddenly gone missing in Haven City in the past 24 hours, this makes the amount of missing persons cases in the past week add up to 46. None of the people seem to share anything in common and were not known to each other, puzzling the police."
"46? *Holy crap*, that's a lot for one week."
Yuga handed over the pack and the amount it was worth.
"Here you go." The store clerk handed the pack back to him. He looked over to his left.
"Hey, is that card yours?" He pointed to a face-down card on the counter. Yuga picked it up and looked at it.
"Cross Magician? Can't say I've even heard of it. Looks sorta decent, though. Don't mind if I do." He took the card and put it into his deck.
"H-Hey! That could be someone else's!" The clerk exclaimed. Yuga turned back.
"Well they would have returned by now, wouldn't they?" He then walked out of the store. "C-Come back here!" Yelled the clerk, exacerbated.
Yuga continued to walk past multiple people and buildings not really going anywhere.
"*Damn*, none of these cards are particularly helpful." He then looked over to a building's ground-floor windows, he saw a strange man looking at him in the reflection. He looked around, but no sign of the man.
"Huh. That's weird, must've imagined it." Yuga continued walking on. He passed another building and looked into a window, the man was there again, but again, only in the reflection.
"Get it together, Yuga!" He started to head back to his own house before walking past a third windowed building
"*Nope*! I'm not looking at the reflection!"
"Well, that's fine, I didn't need you to." Yuga quickly looked around in panic, looking for the voice's point of origin.
"W-Where are- Mmf!" He barely managed to finish before he was grabbed from behind from the mirror and dragged into it.
Yuga was exposed to strange kaleidoscope-like imagery before falling onto the ground.
"Argh… What the hell?!" He got back up and looked around but no-one was there.
"Come back here you little-" He stopped as he saw who was around him, or rather, who wasn't.
"Where is everyone? The whole place looks deserted." There was also something else that seemed off, but Yuga couldn't exactly put his finger on it.
"Hey! Anyone? Hello?" Still no-one.
"This is getting creepy." He kept looking around until he saw something.
"Hang on, this sign is back-to-front! What's going on here?!"
"I can answer that question." Yuga turned around to come face-to-face with the same man that appeared in the reflections crouching on the roof, now he could get a good look at him. The man looked pretty disheveled and unkempt, he had messy longish white-blonde hair and red eyes, he was wearing a black aviator jacket.
"*Hey you!* You're the creepy guy I saw in the windows!" Yuga called out. The man scoffed at him.
"The very same. Let me guess, you want out of the Mirror Dimension?"
Yuga looked at the man with a cautious expression.
"What is it to you? Also, what's the Mirror Dimension?" The man jumped down from the roof.
"I'm not just some 'creepy guy', my name is Raiz. Don't lump me in with your pathetic kind." He said, visibly annoyed.
"Also, as for the Mirror Dimension-"
"Wait, rest of your kind? Are you telling me you're not human?" Raiz looked even more annoyed than before.
"You, shut the hell up. As I was saying, the Mirror Dimension is, as the name suggests: an echo of your disgusting little world. Why it's based on your world more than mine, I have no idea."
"*Whoa*, so what was that about not being human?" Yuga asked.
"Ah, that. I'm what you might call an Arkon: an enlightened being far above anything humans will ever become. Go on, punch me."
Yuga cracked his knuckles and smirked.
"Gladly." He threw a punch square in Raiz's face, he didn't even flinch.
"What?!" Raiz chuckled and grabbed Yuga's wrist.
"Do you see now?" He then threw him off to the left into a cement column.
"ARGH! Crap... Tha- That's gonna hurt." Yuga said, obviously in pain, as he staggered to get up.
"I have a proposition for you, human." Raiz said.
"That being?" Yuga weakly asked in response.
"Only those with a King's Mark can go between the three worlds." Raiz held up a red mark on his left hand that resembled the kanji for king (王).
"Cool." Yuga remarked. "Where do I get one of those?"
"There's only one way." Raiz smirked confidently at him.
"A competition or battle of some kind. Your choice, of course."
Yuga smirked himself.
"My choice? Well then, it would have to be Duel Monsters."
Raiz started to laugh quietly.
"I was hoping you'd say that." His left arm was engulfed in a dark-red light, before it subsided and took on the form of a dark-red Duel Disk purely made of energy and a full deck already loaded.
"Wait, you were behind the disappearances of those 46 people this past week?" Yuga asked. Raiz laughed again.
"So what if I am behind their disappearances?" Yuga started sweating.
"How can I be certain you won't try to weasel out of this?" Raiz put his hand over his heart.
"I give my word." Yuga backed up.
So... My only way of here getting out is through dueling a sociopathic creepy guy who sits like a gargoyle while using an unfinished deck and losing means death or something worse? He thought to himself. I like those odds. He smirked confidently and loaded his deck into his Duel Disk as a cyan blade materialised.
"Well then, what are we waiting for?"
Raiz grinned.
"Let's go, then!"
"DUEL!" They both shouted.
Yuga: 4000
Raiz: 4000
"I think I'll start this off! *My Turn*!" Exclaimed Yuga.
Ergh… This is not a good hand. Let's hope for the best. Thought Yuga.
"I summon Krysta Kitsune!" A red orb appeared on Yuga's side of the field before absorbing fiery energy to take on the form of an ethereal, red nine-tailed fox with an upward pointing triangle on its forehead.
Krysta Kitsune, Level: 4
FIRE, Beast/Effect, ATK: 1600 DEF: 1400 (Attack Position)
"1600? That's the best you can pull off? I don't know what I expected out of you." Raiz remarked.
Yuga raised his eyebrow at him.
"Really? You do realise I'm building on this, right?"
He then held up a spell card.
"Continuous Spell! Krysta Regen! It allows me to send the top card of my deck to the Graveyard during my Standby Phase, and add a Krysta monster from my Graveyard to my hand!" Raiz still wasn't looking impressed.
"And now, I activate the Spell Card Krysta Transmutation!" Krysta Kitsune jumped into the air and destroyed itself.
"This card allows me to Special Summon a Krysta with the same level but a different attribute from my deck!" Kitsune's core turned orange and absorbed energy from the earth and took on a bull-like form with a downward pointing triangle with a horizontal line through it on its forehead.
"I summon Krysta Taurus!" Taurus took an aggressive stance and roared at Raiz.
Krysta Taurus, Level: 4
EARTH, Beast/Effect, ATK: 1800 DEF: 900 (Attack Position)
"I set one card face-down and end my turn! *Your turn*!" Raiz began his turn.
"My turn, Draw!" He looked at the card he drew and started laughing hysterically.
"That can't be good." Yuga gulped in preparation of what could happen.
"I already have all the means to bring out one of my best monsters!" Raiz could barely say the sentence coherently due to the laughing.
"I set Trump Fiend - Red Joker as a Drive Zone!" He set a half-orange half-dark red card similar to a Pendulum Monster upside-down in his main monster zone.
"*Oh crap*." Yuga mumbled. A yellow pillar of energy shot down from the sky and landed on Raiz's field, where it continued to shine.
Trump Fiend - Red Joker, Level: 1
LIGHT, Fiend/Driver/Effect, ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Drive: 10 (Drive Zone)
"So, I'd assume you know what I'm going to do next?" Raiz insultingly asked.
Yuga tightened his fist.
"You're going to Overdrive Summon, right? Bring out a monster with a Limit equal to the difference between Red Joker's Drive & one of your monster's levels?"
Raiz smirked.
"Exactly. I Summon Trump Fiend - Club Jack into my Drive Zone!" A dark grey, demonic and grotesque being with red eyes and wearing bone armour emblazoned with a stylised red 'Clubs' symbol in the center. It was holding a regal-looking staff.
Trump Fiend - Club Jack, Level: 4
FIRE, Fiend/Effect, ATK: 1700 DEF: 0 (Attack Position)
"Now then, prepare for your end, Human! I Overdrive my Level 4 Club Jack with my Drive 10 Red Joker!" Raiz yelled.
"Oh shit..." Yuga mumbled. Club Jack absorbed all of the energy in the pillar and exploded in a flash of light.
"13th Demon of fire heralded by the fool! Walk upon this earth once again and assert your dominance on this puny world!"
Raiz raised his hand up to the light and clenched his fist.
"Limit… BREAK! Overdrive Summon! Appear! Limit 6! Trump Fiend - Club Ace!"
A demonic creature similar to Club Jack stood where the pillar once was. Although his armour was gold, his staff was longer and was overall larger than Jack. He had a pair of fiery wings on its back.
Trump Fiend - Club Ace, Limit: 6
FIRE, Fiend/Overdrive/Effect, ATK: 2800 DEF: 0 (Attack Position)
"Wait, that's it? A Limit 6? I mean, it's not bad, but you actually scared me for a moment!" Yuga joked.
"Grr… I activate Club Ace's Effect!" Raiz angrily responded.
"When he's Overdrive Summoned, he can destroy all monsters you control! Seal of Clubs!" Club Ace's staff started glowing red, he circled it around to create a magic circle with a "clubs" symbol in the middle, he swiped through it and at Krysta Taurus.
"*Yeah, no*, I activate the Trap Card Destruct Construct! My monsters are safe from destruction once this turn!" The energy from Club Ace's staff was swallowed up by a hypercube that appeared in its way before the hypercube disappeared.
Raiz scowled.
"Rgh… No matter, normally using this effect wouldn't allow my to enter my Battle Phase, but I activate my Quick-Play Spell Decree of Attack. When one of my card's effects states that I can't declare my Battle Phase, I can ignore that restriction."
"*I call hax*." cried Yuga.
Raiz smirked.
"You may have been able to avoid effect destruction, but that glorified cow of yours is going one way or another! I attack Krysta Taurus with Trump Fiend - Club Ace!" Club Ace's staff began glowing again, this time he rushed straight at Yuga's monster and cut it in half, knocking Yuga back.
Yuga: 4000 → 3000
"Gaah! What the? That felt like it actually hit me." Yuga managed to say.
"The very nature of the Mirror Dimension grants monsters physical forms. When your Life Points fall to zero, you will almost certainly die from the wounds you sustain." Raiz smugly remarked.
Yuga struggled to stand up, but managed to do so by leaning against a window. He then heard a tapping on the other side of the glass.
"Huh?" He turned around to see a girl about his age with blue eyes and pink hair worn in 2 ponytails going halfway down her arms with burgundy streaks through the tails. She was wearing a black anime-esque school uniform.
"And I thought my hair was crazy." Yuga joked.
Raiz looked over at the girl.
"Oh look, another target. You'll have to wait your turn though."
That's not good. If I can't win this, then these kidnappings will just keep continuing. And after me it's… He looked over at the girl again. I don't care what it takes, this spree is stopping at 46!
"Alternatively, I could win and take that mark thing so I can go home. Let's go with that one, shall we?"
Raiz began laughing again.
"Well then human, let's see what you can do! I set 2 cards face-down and end my turn!"
Yuga smirked confidently.
"It's not over just yet! Destruct Construct's second effect activates! I can summon a monster from my deck with ATK lower than or equal to the damage I just took!" He picked out a card from his deck.
"I think I'll summon Krysta Ondine!" A blue core materialised and absorbed aquatic energy to take on a half-humanoid half-fishlike body with a downward-pointing triangle on its forehead.
Krysta Ondine, Level: 3
WATER, Aqua/Effect, ATK: 900 DEF: 1600 (Defense Position)
Yuga breathed a sigh of relief.
That'll hold him off for a turn or so. He placed his hand over his deck. Let's hope that's enough!
"*My turn, Draw*!" He looked at the card he drew.
"Nice! Krysta Regen's effect activates! I add Krysta Kitsune back to my hand by sending the top card of my deck to the graveyard!"
Raiz didn't look phased at all.
"It doesn't matter whether it's one monster or a hundred, they'll still be useless against me." Yuga gritted his teeth as he sent the top card of his deck to the graveyard.
"I now activate Pot of Desires! This card allows me to-"
"I know what Pot of Desires does. I don't need a filthy human to remind me." An obviously annoyed Raiz interrupted him mid-sentence.
"Okay, jeez." He then banished the top 10 cards of his deck and drew his 2 cards.
Overdrive Emergency? Like that's going to be useful! He then sighed and held up a card.
"Spell Card, Krysta Invocation! This card allows me to special summon 2 Krysta monsters from my hand with different attributes in Defense Position by negating their effects! I summon back Krysta Kitsune!" The same red core appeared and took its form.
Krysta Kitsune, Level: 4
FIRE, Beast/Effect, 1600 DEF: 1400 (Defense Position)
"I also summon Krysta Lycan!" A purple core materialised and absorbed the nearby darkness, only for it to take on the form of a wolf with over-pronounced features and a horizontal line on its forehead.
Krysta Lycan, Level: 4
DARK, Beast/Effect, 1800 DEF: 1200 (Defense Position)
"I now set a card face-down and end my turn. *You're up*!" Yuga said.
Raiz maniacally drew a card.
"My turn, draw!" He grinned when he saw the card.
"This will reduce any chance you have at winning to piss in the wind. Spell Card! Suit Change!" Club Ace started glowing.
"This card allows me to return a Trump Fiend monster to my deck in order to summon another Trump Fiend with the same ATK but a different attribute! I return Club Ace to the Extra Deck!" Club Ace kneeled and was then engulfed in light.
"13th Demon of water heralded by the fool! Walk upon this earth once again and crush all foolish enough to stand in your path! Appear! Limit 6! Trump Fiend - Heart Ace!" A being similar to Club Ace appeared, but with a blue "hearts" emblem on its chest, wings made of water instead of fire and a dagger & chalice instead of a staff.
Trump Fiend - Heart Ace, Limit: 6
WATER, Fiend/Overdrive/Effect, ATK: 2800 DEF: 0 (Attack Position)
"I forgot to mention, if I summoned an Overdrive monster with Suit Change's effect, it's treated as an Overdrive Summon."
Yuga stared at Raiz in disbelief.
"How's that fair!?" Raiz ignored the question.
"When Heart Ace is Overdrive Summoned, all monsters you control lose their ATK and effects! Seal of Hearts!" Heart Ace tipped its chalice towards Yuga's field, flooding it in a black liquid which restrained his monsters before forming a blue magic circle with a "hearts" symbol in the centre.
Krysta Kitsune
ATK: 1600 → 0
Krysta Lycan
ATK: 1800 → 0
Krysta Ondine
ATK: 900 → 0
"I swear, if you have another Decree of Attack, I'll kick a puppy." Yuga complained.
"Fortunately for you, I don't have another one in my hand right now." Raiz held up a monster.
"But I can summon Trump Fiend - Diamond Queen!" Diamond Queen appeared on the field, it was similar to Club Jack, but more feminine, with a yellow "Diamonds" emblem instead and wielding a chakram.
Trump Fiend - Diamond Queen, Level: 4
EARTH, Fiend/Effect, ATK: 1600 DEF: 0 (Attack Position)
"I'll end my turn there."
Yuga drew a card
"*My turn, Draw*!" He frowned upon seeing his card.
Brutal Brawl!? I know this deck isn't finished, but I'm sure I made my deck better than this!
"I set a card face-down and end my turn." He turned to the girl back in the real world and gave her a thumbs-up to reassure her, only for her to shrug in response.
"Tough crowd." Yuga mumbled.
"You don't know when to quit, do you?" Raiz taunted
"My turn, draw!" He threw the card he had just drawn up into the air before catching it with his other hand without even looking at it.
"Show off." Yuga muttered.
Raiz looked at his card and smiled insanely, before turning to Yuga.
"Dude! Can you stop laughing? It's getting really annoying!" Yuga said angrily.
"I think we're finished here. This card will end you this turn." Raiz began laughing so hysterically, he could barely stand.
"Spell Card! Archfiend's Execution!" Heart Ace started glowing purple.
"I can target a Fiend-type monster I control and force all monsters with lower ATK into Attack Position!" Heart Ace leapt into the air before slamming the ground with its fist. This created a shockwave that launched all of Yuga's monsters into the air, switching them to Attack Position.
Krysta Kitsune
(Defense Position) → (Attack Position)
Krysta Lycan
(Defense Position) → (Attack Position)
Krysta Ondine
(Defense Position) → (Attack Position)
"Oh crap." Yuga knew that he'd lose if he didn't do anything soon, he'd lose.
"That's not all! I also get to destroy a monster you control! Now which one should I choose?"
Yuga smirked in response.
"Not gonna happen! Krysta Ondine protects all Krysta monsters from being targeted by card effects! Looks like you wasted a card there."
Raiz looked at him condescendingly.
"I never said that this effect targeted, I just said it destroyed. But thank you for telling me that, now I know who I'll destroy! Say goodbye to Krysta Ondine!" The purple aura surrounding Hear Ace gathered into an orb of energy and rammed itself at Ondine before imploding, taking her with it.
All according to plan. Yuga thought with a small smirk in his face.
"This is the beginning of the end for you, human! Diamond Queen, attack Krysta Lycan!" Diamond Queen threw her chakram at Lycan, when Yuga said...
"Are you sure about that?"
Raiz stared at him, genuinely concerned.
"What?"
"I activate the effect of Krysta Ondine in my graveyard! All battle damage I take this turn involving Krysta monsters is halved! I'm safe for another turn, it seems." Moments before the chakram hit, a cyan barrier shielded Yuga from most of the blast.
Yuga: 3000 → 2200
"Ergh…!" Yuga was pushed back slightly by the blast.
"Now, Trump Fiend - Heart Ace! Attack Krysta Kitsune!" Heart Ace's dagger began glowing blue, it threw the dagger into the air, only for it to rapidly multiply and stop midair. The daggers then pointed themselves at Yuga's monster and violently sped in its direction, tearing it to shreds.
Yuga: 2200 → 800
"GAAAAAA!" Yuga was sent hurtling back into the wall, breaking the window in the process.
"*Tha-That all you got*? I'm not done yet…" Yuga strained out. He tried to stand, but he had no strength to lift him up.
"Well then. It looks like your mouth has gotten you into a situation you can't get out of. I end my turn here, face it, you're pathetic." Raiz taunted, fighting back laughter.
Yuga glared at Raiz angrily.
"What did you call me?" Raiz smugly replied: "Pathetic, like a worm taking on a wolf. You can't win against me, no human can." Raiz began laughing again.
Yuga clenched his fists and struggled to stand up.
"No-one's gonna call me pathetic ever again, No more!" He brushed off the glass and managed to get up, walking back towards Raiz.
"My turn, draw!" He violently thrusted the arm that held the card out to the right before slowly taking a look at it.
No. This card is useless… I'm done… All the cockiness he had shown during the duel vanished from his face as tears started welling up in his eyes.
"This is perfect. We are going to win this duel." Yuga's eyes darted around.
"Who's that? Where are you?!"
The voice spoke again.
"You know very well who I am, you took my power for yourself, after all." Yuga started frantically thinking what that meant, until he remembered.
Cross Magician? Can't say I've even heard of it. Looks sorta decent, though. Yuga put the card he drew in his hand. Cross Magician, that's right, I have that card now. It's all or nothing from here on out!
Raiz's smile became increasingly disturbing.
"Oh dear, did you hit your head too hard? Or are you just grasping for a miracle? Either way, this is too fun!" He laughed even harder and more insanely than before.
"Show me your last-ditch effort! Show me your desperation! SHOW ME YOUR DESPAIR!"
"Calm the hell down, Raiz-kun." Yuga smugly remarked.
Raiz stopped laughing and glared furiously at Yuga.
"What did you call me?"
Yuga wiped the tears out of his eyes.
"I called you Raiz-kun. You're talking and carrying yourself like a greater scope villain, but you don't look like you're in charge, so just calm down for a bit."
Raiz was fuming.
"Raiz-kun? Raiz-KUN?! RAIZ-KUN?! Who gave you pathetic humans the right to talk down to me like that?! No-one! That's who! You forget yourself! Just who the hell do you think you are that you can talk to me like that?!" Raiz madly ranted.
Yuga stepped into a stance and held up his right hand.
"I am the saviour of the human world and all life that thrives on it… I am Yuga." He then held his hand in front of his face and struck a pose. "Yuga Senku!"
Raiz chuckled slightly.
"You? The saviour of the human world? Don't patronise me."
"*Shut up*, I am if I say I am." Yuga breathed in and out.
"Krysta Regen's effect activates! I send the top card of my deck to the graveyard to return Krysta Taurus to my hand!" The top card of his deck was automatically sent to the graveyard as he picked the card he wanted out of it.
He held up a monster.
"I set Krysta Soul as a Drive Zone!" Yuga placed his monster upside-down in the main monster zone, much like Raiz set Red Joker, and a yellow pillar erupted on his field.
Krysta Soul, Level: 1
LIGHT, Fairy/Driver/Effect, ATK: 0 DEF: 0 Drive: 1 (Drive Zone)
"What could you possibly planning to do with a Drive 1?" Raiz scoffed.
Yuga shook his head.
"You really don't understand combo game, do you Raiz-kun?" Raiz scowled as he was called that.
"Krysta Taurus's effect also activates! I can special summon him to a Drive Zone I control!" Taurus's core flashed onto his side of the field and took shape.
Krysta Taurus, Level: 4
EARTH, Beast/Effect, ATK: 1800 DEF: 900 (Attack Position)
"I now activate Krysta Soul's ability! I can make its Drive equal to double the amount of the monster in its Zone! So that makes it a Drive 8!"
Krysta Soul
Drive: 1 → 8
Yuga lifted his hand towards the sky.
"Let's go! I Overdrive my Level 4 Krysta Taurus with my Drive 8 Krysta Soul!" Krysta Taurus reverted to its core, and absorbed all the energy from the Drive Zone, before exploding in a flash of light.
"Wizard that exists between worlds! Rain your judgement upon the wicked!" Yuga clenched his fist. "Limit… BREAK!"
A luminous figure descended over Yuga's field.
"Overdrive Summon! Appear! Limit 4! Cross Magician!"
The light surrounding the figure shattered to reveal a man with a red 'X'-shaped breastplate over a long black coat holding a black rod with a silver 'X' at the end with the top 2 prongs being longer than the others. He was wearing a black helmet with a silver 'X' over it and 2 blue gems where the eyes would be. His arms were decorated with several different gold & silver armbands.
Cross Magician, Limit: 4
DARK, Spellcaster/Overdrive/Effect, ATK: 2500 DEF: 2000 (Attack Position)
Raiz staggered.
"No. No that's not possible! You couldn't possibly have-!"
Yuga interrupted him.
"Oh couldn't I? I guess this is just proof that I really am humanity's saviour. Huh Raiz-kun?"
Raiz looked genuinely scared.
"I-Impossible…!"
Yuga pointed at Raiz's monsters.
"Cross Magician! Attack Trump Fiend - Diamond Queen!" The 'X' on Cross Magician's rod split in half and snapped into the shape of a sword, with a yellow energy blade appearing where the longer prongs were. He ran up on thin air towards Diamond Queen before dropping down slicing it diagonally, then landing and slicing it the other way in an "X" shape.
Raiz: 4000 → 3100
"What?! He actually dealt damage to me?!" Raiz exclaimed, evidently frustrated.
Yuga breathed a sigh of relief. What do you know? I think I might actually win this! He thought to himself.
Cross Magician turned to face him.
"Yuga, was it? Don't be afraid to use my ability if need be."
"Oh yeah, that could be helpful!" Yuga gave a thumbs-up to his new monster.
"I think I'll end my turn here. *Your turn*!"
Raiz furiously glared at him.
"You… You'll pay for that insult! My turn, draw!"
He took one look at the card and instantly played it the moment he saw it.
"I activate Suit Change!"
Oh god, not ANOTHER one. Yuga thought.
Heart Ace began glowing.
"I return Heart Ace back to the Extra Deck, so I can summon back Club Ace!" Heart Ace exploded in white light, only for Club Ace to stand again.
Trump Fiend - Club Ace, Limit: 6
FIRE, Fiend/Overdrive/Effect, ATK: 2800 DEF: 0 (Attack Position)
"And as you know, this summon is treated as an Overdrive Summon, so your Cross Magician isn't staying around any longer!" Club Ace started charging its attack.
"Yuga, NOW!"
"*Got it*! I activate Cross Magician's effect! When he would be destroyed by a card effect, I can negate his destruction and destroy another card on the field!" Yuga pointed directly at Club Ace.
"Guess which card I pick?" Club Ace launched its effect at Cross Magician, only for it to vanish into nothing, before appearing again behind Club Ace, destroying it.
"NO! NO NO NO NO! I'm not losing! I Refuse to lose to a human! DO YOU HEAR ME?! I REFUSE!" Raiz screeched.
"Calm down Raiz-kun, it's just a game." Yuga said, tauntingly.
Raiz in a fit of rage grabbed a nearby concrete pillar and pulled it out of place.
"I REFUSE TO LOSE TO YOU!" He threw it at Yuga like a javelin.
Yuga braced himself for impact, but the pillar vanished.
"Are you so pathetic you can't even take a loss, Raiz?" Yuga opened his eyes and looked around to see a tall-ish man with straight, cyan shoulder-length hair and orange eyes. He was wearing a white long-sleeved shirt over a pair of grey pants and brown boots. He had an orange King's Mark on his left hand.
"Tch! Veiss… The last thing I need right now is you hovering over me like you're my babysitter. I don't need your help." Raiz said in disgust.
Veiss walked towards him.
"I'm not here to help, I've come because you-know-who's been active recently."
Raiz's eyes widened.
"Impossible… You don't mean… Agito, do you?"
"The very same." Veiss's tone was unflinchingly serious.
"*Uh, hey*. You guys wouldn't mind telling me who this Agito guy is, would you?" Yuga asked.
"That's none of your business!" Raiz snapped.
"To repeat what he said, that information is highly confidential. It's leagues above what you humans should know." Veiss replied calmly.
"Good to know I'm appreciated." Yuga grumbled under his breath.
Veiss glared at Raiz.
"Your little stunt is drawing unwanted attention in the human world. Do you know how much longer until they discover our existence?"
Raiz scoffed at Veiss's warnings.
"So what if they do? We outnumber and overpower them in almost every single way, what threat could the humans pose?"
"This isn't your, nor my call, Raiz." Veiss said, disappointed.
"This order comes directly from the council. You are to be punished for activities threatening secrecy. Your punishment is your King's Mark being revoked."
Raiz started laughing nervously.
"I-If this is just some joke Veiss, I'll have your head for this. It's not funny. Hehehe…"
Veiss closed his eyes and sighed.
"You know me, Raiz. I don't joke." All hope drained from Raiz's face as he fell to his knees clutching his face.
"So you're saying… That I'm to lose to this human!?" Veiss looked at his grovelling comrade
"You're well aware of how binding the contract is." Raiz screamed in anguish.
"I… I end my turn…"
Yuga wiped the sweat off his brow.
"Hey, Veiss was it? Thanks for… Something, I guess." Veiss didn't respond.
"Hmf. Anyway, *my turn*, draw!" He held out a card in his hand.
"I'll summon Krysta Garuda!" A green core appeared on the field and absorbed all the nearby wind, before it took on a green bird-like form with a black upward-pointing triangle with a horizontal line at the top on its forehead.
Krysta Garuda, Level: 3
WIND, Winged Beast/Effect, ATK: 1500 DEF: 1300 (Attack Position)
"Battle Phase! Krysta Garuda attacks you directly!" Krysta Garuda dive-bombed towards Raiz, raking its talons across his face.
Raiz: 3100 → 1600
"N-No…! Impossible…!" Raiz rasped.
Yuga assumed a stance before holding up his hand side-on.
"Now, prepare to face my Hissatsu!"
(A/N: Hissatsu means 'Finishing move' in Japanese)
"Cross Magician, attack Raiz directly!" Cross Magician's rod snapped into its sword shape again, as he floated into the air and slashed twice in an 'X' shape, creating energy blades in said shape.
"Grand Cross!" the blades fell down on Raiz, creating an 'X'-shaped mark on the ground.
Raiz: 1600 → 0
Yuga Wins!
"*I think we're done here*." Yuga taunted.
"How could this happen…?" Raiz said out of despair, as his King's Mark vanished.
Yuga felt a searing pain on his left hand.
"Ngh! What the-?" A red mark shone through his glove: Raiz's King's Mark, it was his now.
Veiss's eyes widely opened.
"Yuga Senku, right? You've been the first human to have ever defeated Raiz, or any Arkon I'm aware of for that matter. You intrigue me."
Raiz picked himself up.
"Yuga Senku… I'll do well to remember that name AND this insult!" The two of them vanished in a flash of orange light.
"Hey wait! How do I use this… thing?" Yuga asked. But it was too late, they were already gone.
"Great… Now how do I get out?" He asked rhetorically.
"Hold the mark up to a reflective surface, and you'll be able to freely travel between your world and the Mirror Dimension." Cross Magician said.
Yuga held up his new card.
"Just who or what are you?" No response.
"Well fine, be like that." He was about to walk over to a pane of glass, when he collapsed out of pain.
"My leg…! How did-?" He saw a shard of glass sticking out of his right leg.
That's right, when I took that direct attack from Heart Ace. Yuga flashed back to that moment. He remembered something Raiz said:
The very nature of the Mirror Dimension grants monsters physical forms. When your Life Points fall to zero, you will almost certainly die from the wounds you sustain. Yuga shook his head.
I'm gonna have to think about this later, I need to get back home. He yanked the piece of glass out of his leg, as it started bleeding.
"Hopefully no-one notices." He joked to himself. He hobbled over to a window hand held up his left hand to it. The surface rippled as he did. Yuga stepped through and was shown the kaleidoscope-esque tunnel he saw earlier. He came back out in Haven City. He sighed and sat down.
"Are you okay?" A female voice asked. Yuga looked up to see the same girl from earlier.
"Oh, it's you! Yeah, I beat that guy no problem." Yuga bragged. The girl looked over to her right.
"You didn't exactly make it subtle, though." Yuga looked where she was indicating and saw a broken window: the same one Yuga crashed into in the Mirror Dimension. It had police officers investigating the scene, including a man with silver hair, much like Yuga's, however his hair was shorter and neater than Yuga's, with red bangs going down the back to the nape of his neck. He was wearing a dark grey business suit with a crimson tie.
"Hey, Ryoma!" Yuga ran over to the scene. Ryoma turned around.
"Yuga? What are you doing here?" Yuga froze.
Oh no. I'm gonna have to make some bullcrap up on the spot!
"I… noticed something suspicious happening and decided to look into it!"
Ryoma raised an eyebrow.
"Really?"
"Oh yeah! I saw some guys set up something on the other end of the street, I overheard the words: Sonic boom… Black market and… Bomb. I think you guys should look into it." Yuga explained.
Yep, I'm grounded. He thought.
Ryoma sighed.
"Take that down as a witness statement." He said to another officer.
"Roger." The officer responded.
Wait, WHAT? Did that ACTUALLY work? Yuga thought.
Ryoma looked over to the girl Yuga was with.
"Who's this?" He asked. Yuga raised his hand slightly but then put it down.
"Actually, that's a good question. What is your name?" The girl put her hand on her hair, only to reveal it was a wig by taking it off, showing short black hair underneath a wig cap.
"Keishi, Keishi Kagami." Yuga lightly smiled.
"Keishi, huh? *Great to meet you*."
"Wait, was that English just now? Are you American or something?" Keishi asked.
Yuga put his hand behind his head.
"Nah, I just lived there for about 3 years." He turned around and started walking off.
"Hey Ryoma, I'm just gonna head back, that okay?" Ryoma nodded.
"That sounds like a plan." Yuga gave a thumbs-up while still walking away.
A few hours passed, Yuga and Ryoma were back at home. Ryoma was looking over something on his computer when Yuga passed him. "Is that security camera footage?" He asked.
"Yeah. Just going over what happened in the area to find out what happened." Ryoma responded.
"Cool, I'm just gonna hit the hay, feeling a bit tired to be honest. Night." Yuga walked off to his room.
"Good night, Yuga." Ryoma turned back to the monitor and looked through more of the footage. Until he saw something off at one point and rewound to that particular moment. He saw what looked to be Yuga being abducted by a strange man into a mirror.
"What in the world?" He looked over at Yuga's room. Yuga was fast asleep already, seemingly peaceful, however his newly obtained King's Mark started flashing…
Preview
Yuga: So this is Haven Senior Academy, huh?
?: Hey you! What's with the high-and-mighty attitude, huh?
Keishi: This'll go nowhere fast...
Yuga: Alright then, *Mullet Man*. You're on!
Yuga: Next time on Yu-Gi-Oh! Xross: "School days! Haven Senior Academy". *See You*!
Cards
Krysta Kitsune
Level 4, FIRE, Beast/Effect
ATK: 1600/DEF: 400
During each of your opponent's Standby Phases (Quick Effect), you may inflict damage to your opponent equal to the number of "Krysta" monsters you control x100.
Krysta Taurus
Level 4, EARTH, Beast/Effect
ATK: 1900/DEF: 900
If you have a Drive Zone on your side of the field, you may special summon this card to that zone. This card can make attacks equal to the amount of "Krysta" monsters you control except "Krysta Taurus".
Krysta Lycan
Level 4, DARK, Beast/Effect
ATK: 1800/DEF: 1200
When this monster declares an attack, (Quick Effect) this card gains ATK equal to the number of "Krysta" monsters x100 except "Krysta Lycan" until the End Phase.
Krysta Ondine
Level 3, WATER, Aqua/Effect
ATK: 900/DEF: 1600
Face-up "Krysta" monsters you control cannot be targeted by your opponent's card effects. Once, if a face-up "Krysta" is battling an opponent's monster and this card is in the GY, you can activate this effect.
●All battle damage you take this turn involving "Krysta" monsters is halved.
Krysta Garuda
Level 3, WIND, Winged Beast/Effect
ATK: 1500/DEF: 1300
If you control no face-up monsters, you may Special Summon this card from your hand, if you do, add 1 Driver monster from your deck to your hand.
Trump Fiend - Club Jack
Level 4, FIRE, Fiend/Effect
ATK: 1600/DEF: 0
During the Standby Phase, if you control this face-up card and 2 face-up FIRE "Trump Fiend" monsters with different names except "Trump Fiend - Club Jack", inflict 500 damage to your opponent. If a face-up FIRE "Trump Fiend" monster would be destroyed by a card effect, you may discard this card from your hand, negate that monster's destruction.
Trump Fiend - Diamond Queen
Level 4, EARTH, Fiend/Effect
ATK: 1700/DEF: 0
During the Standby Phase, if you control this face-up card and 2 face-up EARTH "Trump Fiend" monsters with different names except "Trump Fiend - Diamond Queen", inflict 500 damage to your opponent. You may discard this card from your hand; add 1 non-EARTH "Trump Fiend" monster from your deck to your hand.
Krysta Soul
Level 1, LIGHT, Fairy/Driver/Effect
ATK: 0/DEF: 0/Drive: 1
Driver Effect: Once per turn (Quick Effect), if you control a Level 5 or lower "Krysta" monster in this Drive Zone, you may change this card's Drive to double that monster's level.
Once per turn, recover life points equal to the number of "Krysta" monsters you control x200.
Trump Fiend - Red Joker
Level 1, LIGHT, Fiend/Driver/Effect
ATK: 0/DEF: 0/Drive: 10
*Effect Unknown*
Cross Magician
Limit 4, DARK, Spellcaster/Overdrive/Effect
ATK: 2500/DEF: 2000
1 Driver + 1 monster
Once per turn, if this card would be destroyed by a card effect, you can destroy 1 other card on the field instead. When your opponent targets a card(s) with a card or effect (Quick Effect): You can target the number of other cards that would be appropriate targets for that card/effect; that card/effect now targets the new targets.
Trump Fiend - Club Ace
Limit 6, FIRE, Fiend/Overdrive/Effect
ATK: 2800/DEF: 0
1 Driver + 1 FIRE monster
When this monster is Overdrive summoned, you may destroy all monsters your opponent controls, you may not declare your Battle Phase the turn you activate this effect. Cannot be targeted by card effects. This card cannot be destroyed in battle as long as you control at least 1 FIRE "Trump Fiend" monster.
Trump Fiend - Heart Ace
Limit 6, WATER, Fiend/Overdrive/Effect
ATK: 2800/DEF: 0
1 Driver + 1 WATER monster
When this monster is Overdrive summoned, you may negate the effects of all monsters your opponent controls and reduce their ATK to 0, you may not declare your Battle Phase the turn you activate this effect. Cannot be targeted by card effects. This card cannot be destroyed in battle as long as you control at least 1 WATER "Trump Fiend" monster.
Krysta Transmutation
Normal Spell Card
You may target a "Krysta" monster on the field, destroy it and Special Summon 1 "Krysta" monster from your deck with the same Level, but a different Attribute.
Krysta Invocation
Normal Spell Card
Once per turn, you may select 2 "Krysta" monsters in your GY; Special Summon them in face-up defense position with their effects negated.
Suit Change
Normal Spell Card
Once per turn, you may target a Fiend monster you control. Return it to your deck and Special Summon a "Trump Fiend" monster with the same Level or Limit. If the monster summoned is an Overdrive monster, this summon is treated as an Overdrive Summon.
Archfiend's Excecution
Normal Spell Card
Target a Fiend monster you control. Change all face-up monsters your opponent controls into attack position.
Krysta Regen
Continuous Spell Card
During each of your Standby Phases, you may send the top card of your deck to the GY, add 1 "Krysta" monster from your GY to your hand.
Brutal Brawl
Quick-Play Spell Card
When a face-up monster you control battles an opponent's monster, you may pay 1000 LP' your monster gains 1000 ATK until your next Standby Phase.
Decree of Attack
Quick-Play Spell Card
Activate only when an effect that lists "you may not declare your Battle Phase the turn you activate this effect" is resolved. You may declare your Battle Phase this turn. You may only activate 1 "Decree of Attack" once per turn.
Destruct Construct
Normal Trap Card
When a monster(s) you control would be destroyed by battle or card effect, it is not. During the End Phase, you may special summon a monster with ATK equal to or less than the damage you took this turn.
Overdrive Emergency
Normal Trap Card
When a face-up Overdrive monster you control is targeted for an attack, you may banish 1 Driver monster from your GY; that monster gains ATK equal to the difference between its Limit and the banished monster's Drive x100.
Hawk: Well, I'd say that went well. That's as decent a start as any.
Yuga: I think that's the readers' choice, don't you think?
Hawk: True, true. I'm probably getting ahead of myself. I plan on continuing this for a while, I don't know how long yet, but I have a general idea of where I plan on taking the story. If you liked this, make sure if you leave a review down for people to read.
Yuga: You can even ask questions about it! We don't care how stupid you think they are. Who knows? It might be answered some day.
Hawk: We do care a bit.
Yuga: It's the internet we're talking. Best not to expect anything out of people, that way you can't be disappointed.
*Time Travel Portal appears*
Future Hawk: I have arrived from the future to inform you that I fixed the formatting and added a Card statistics section so people can read the cards used and better understand the duel. (Seriously, that formatting tho. Eep...) I'm also here to give a better understanding of Overdrive Monsters and how they work. So strap in, kiddies!
●First of all you'll need a "Driver" Monster. These cards look kinda like a Pendulum monster, but the bottom-half is a dark red, and there's only 1 scale: a cyan downwards-pointing one called a "Drive". You need to place it upside-down in a Main Monster Zone, where it becomes a "Drive Zone". While a Drive Zone, not only is that Zone now treated as a linked zone. But the Driver isn't treated as a monster, but as the Zone itself, and is affected by cards that would affect Zones (like Ground Collapse).
●A Driver as a Drive Zone cannot change back into a monster unless an effect states otherwise (in which case, it's treated as a Special Summon) and it can't leave the field except through effects or as an Overdrive material. Drive Zones also (usually) have "Driver Effects", much like Pendulum Effects. You can set as many Drive Zones as you have Drivers in your hand (unless an effect states otherwise).
●When you play a monster over a Drive Zone, you can then Overdrive Summon. It will need to be a monster with a Level for this to work (unless you-know-the-drill). You then send the monster and the Driver to the graveyard to Special Summon an Overdrive Monster from your Extra Deck with a "Limit" (Gold Orbs with Red Stars formatted to the left of the card) equal to the difference between the Driver's Drive and the other monster's Level to the Exact Zone where the Driver was (we're having none of this Extra Monster zone shit).
Future Hawk: Phew! It took about 3 hours to fix this, guys, from the layout (shudders), to the small mistakes to the cards & dialogue and adding the card statistics section. It took a while... Anyway, bye!
*Portal closes*
Hawk: Fair enough. But yeah, thanks for reading this, and I'll catch you later!