Chapter 1
Five Beginnings, Arrivals at Neo-Domino
~Key card: Fallen Angel Ira~
"EVERYBODY LISTEN," the well known face of the Master of Ceremony appeared on the TV-screens all across Neo-Domino City, "the World Riding Duel Grand Prix is coming soon. Teams from every corner of the world are competing for the title of Grand Champion. And the winner will be crowned by our very own Hishino-sama, the organiser of this Grand Prix. RIDING DUEL, ACCELARATION!"
~Team Fortress~
WRGP D-Wheel Maintenance Service
"Laurence, would you please hurry up?" A muscular man, who wore his black hair in a ponytail, stood there with his arms crossed and shot a glance over to a smaller, thinner build guy with ash grey hair. The smaller guy ignored the comment while he continued working on the black and dark red D-Wheel. With one final nod towards the D-Wheel, he raised himself from the ground, while pushing his glasses back to their supposed place.
"Everything is all right, no parts shifted or damaged during the flight here. Will, go inform Joey that all the D-Wheels have been thoroughly checked."
"No need to, I'm here." A regular build guy appeared in the entrance, with a big grin on his face. "I take it that all of them have been checked up on now?"
Laurence gave a nod, which made his glasses slide to the tip of his nose again. He quickly pushed it back. "We still need to take them for a test round, just to be sure."
"FINALLY, it's about time we get to do something. We can take the D-Wheels for a spin, while we check out the city."
"Will has a good point with that."
Laurence gave Joey a curious glance, who answered with a shrug.
"You know what I mean, we better get to know the city. Else we would get lost when we try to get to our first match and we might get lucky and see some of the competition there. We did miss the big announcement party."
"Hey, what are you two waiting for? Grab your helmets and let's go off."
Joey and Laurence turned around, Will was already sitting on his D-Wheel with his helmet in his hands. He put on his helmet and revved the engine a few times.
"Sounds good."
Joey grabbed his own helmet and sat down on his own marine blue D-Wheel. Laurence pushed his glasses back up and followed the other two, taking place on his smaller black D-Wheel with some white highlights. The three of them sped onto the street.
"Just admit it Laurence, that fancy gadget of yours is broken. We don't know where we are." William was leaning over the steer of his D-Wheel, watching Laurence, who was carefully ticking away on his laptop, which was wired to his D-Wheel.
"I don't understand, it should be working without a problem according to the data. The only possible explanation I can think of is that the signal is being blocked somehow." Laurence scratched behind his head and shoved his glasses back to their place. "Maybe if I try this…"
Uninterested, William let his glance go from Laurence into the direction Joey had gone, looking for someone who might be able to
give them directions to get back to the hotel. In the distance he saw Joeys D-Wheel approach and to Williams surprise, someone was seated behind Joey.
A few moments later Joey pulled up next to Laurence, William let his gaze go to the co-rider, who was female, with dark brown boots that almost reached up to her knees, a short light blue miniskirt and a pink top. Her blond hair fell backwards as she took of the helmet and smiled at both William and Laurence while she adjusted it so it wouldn't cover her light brown eyes. While she was busy with her hair, a small necklace was revealed, with a crescent moon as pendant. Laurence gave a questioning look to Joey.
"Guys, this is Karen, she said she could get us back to the hotel and asked in exchange if we could drop her off there as well." William nodded and Laurence, with a frustrated sight closed his laptop and disconnected it from the D-Wheel.
"Let's go then, I want to see if I can resolve the problems back at the hotel." Joey glanced over to William, who shrugged as an answer.
"Laurence is a bit cranky about the fact that he isn't able to solve the problems, claiming something about a signal being blocked or something." Joey nodded to signal he got the intention of William, Laurence wouldn't be pleasant to talk with for the next couple of hours when they got back.
Both William and Laurence gave Joey signal that they would follow his lead and the three D-Wheels sped off, both Laurence and William being able to follow Karen's instructions thanks to the video screens. In a short amount of time, they had come back to the hotel.
"See, I told you it wasn't a hard route to remember…" The four of them were now standing in front of the hotel, Karen had just gotten of Joey's D-Wheel. "… well I should get going myself now. Thank you for the ride." With a small bow she showed her gratitude and while waving she walked in the direction of the street corner, while Team Fortress waved back and entered the D-Wheel garage once she turned around the corner.
~Team Flame Wing~
WRGP Duel Stadium – Duel Lane C
Cristov sped through the empty stadium, following his two team mates that were duelling. His eyes darted from the brightly coloured motorbike D-Wheel to the driver, whose dark black hair came out from under her helmet and was flapping wildly with the wind, to the . Her field had two monsters present, one looked like a black goblet decorated with silver, bronze coloured wings sticking from the back and from the pedestal of the goblet all around stuck sharp metal pieces resembling flower petals. [ 2900 ATK] The other monster was a angelic being with black wings. It had a pair of smaller demonic horns on its forehead and wore a dark blue chest armour piece and dark blue leg protectors. Around the waist were the remains of what once was a white robe. [1900 ATK]
Her teammate only had a bipedal dragon on the field, covered in a scale armour with a dark red colour with it claws outstretched and small puffs of fire came out of its mouth. [1100 ATK].
Cristov turned his attention from the field to the one controlling the dragon.
"My turn."
Shirley – Hiita
3500 – LP – 2700
4 – SPC – 4
"I now have enough speed counters to activate this, Speed Spell – Half Seize. I select your Fallen Angel Superbia, its attack is halved and I gain an equal amount as what your monster lost."
Both Hiita and Fallen Angel Superbia started to glow, Superbia let his arms and wings hang as if he had no energy left, while Hiita smiled as his lifepoints went up [4150 LP].
"Next I summon Flamvell Grunika." He quickly threw the card on his Duel Disk.
A purple blue dragon wearing brown trousers and black shoulder patches, the edges being decorated by red fabric, from both the shoulder patches came a strap holding a emblem over the left part of its chest. On each side of the head a red wing shaped crest is attached, from his neck down between his wings a red flame waved wildly, just as the flame on tip of his tail. He eagerly flapped his wings [1700 ATK].
"Now, battle. Flamvell Grunika attack Fallen Angel Superbia." The dragon leaped forward, preparing to slash the Fallen Angel.
"Trap card open, Fallen Angel's Bewitchment." On Shirley's side of the field a trap card opened up, from it a blond ghostly angel with black wings appeared, he flew forward and softly guided Flamvell Grunika in the direction of Fallen Angel Ira.
"My trap card allows me to redirect a attack if you select a Dark Fairy as an attack target. I protect my Superbia and you lose your dragon. Now Ira, destroy Flamvelll Grunika." Ira with a gleeful smile flapped his wings and several feathers shot from it, destroying Grunika before it even came close. Hiita calmly shrugged as his lifepoints dropped. [3950 LP].
"I switch Flamvell Dragunov to defence and set this card." The dragon crouched down, using his wings as a shield before him [ 200 DEF] and a face-down card appeared behind it.
"Your turn."
Shirley – Hiita
3500 – LP – 3950
5 – SPC – 5
"Draw" Shirley picked up the card from her deck, looked at it and added it to her hand.
"Battle, Fallen Angel Superbia attack Flamvell Dragnov." Superbia flew forward to Flamvell Dragnov and tore it easily apart with its claws.
In his last moment, Dragnov shot a fireball at Shirley and her D-Wheel for a moment was engulfed by flames, Shirley let out a small yelp as her lifepoints were reduced [3000 LP].
"You activated Flamvell Dragnovs ability, when it is destroyed by battle it deals 500 points of damage."
"500 points is not much of a cost to rid myself of your monsters. Fallen Angel Ira, direct attack. Dark Feather Rain!" Fallen Angel Ira flew up, pulled his wings backwards and with a powerful thrust blasted forward, a rain of feathers fell down aimed at Hiita.
"You are not the only one who can use trap cards. Reveal trap, Magic Cylinder. You know what it does, it negates your attack and deals damage equal as your monster's attack." Two tubes appeared on the field; one pointed up to the sky towards the attack that was coming in, the other to Shirley. The attack was sucked in and then blasted towards Shirley. She let out a scream as the attack hit her and started to slip with her D-Wheel [1100 LP]. Cristov and Hiita glanced to each other worried, but Shirley had her D-Wheel under control again.
"There is nothing else left, I end my turn."
Shirley – Hiita
1100 – LP – 3950
6 – SPC – 6
"Draw." A amused smile appeared on Hiita's face.
"I summon Solar Flare Dragon." A serpentine dragon appeared, its body was completely covered by flames except for the belly, what looked like cracked brown volcanic stone. It green eyes focused menacingly on Shirley and it let out a terrifying hiss [1500 ATK].
"Solar Flare Dragon, destroy Fallen Angel Superbia. Go, Solar Burst!" The Solar Flare Dragon raised his head, opening his mouth wide open and a small started to charge in it. As the ball started to grow bigger, its colours started change from bright white to the yellow orange colour of the sun. Solar Flare Dragon made a throwing movement with his head and the small sun sped towards Fallen Angel Superbia.
"Trap card open, Angel Fallen into Darkness!" Shirley raised her hand as the trap card shot open. "First I release a Fairy-type from my side of the field, I select Fallen Angel Superbia." The shadow that Fallen Angel Superbia casted on the road, started to grow darker, slowly extending upwards until it covered all of the Fallen Angel's body. Solar Flare Dragon's attack hit the caught Superbia, but the attack was absorbed into it. Suddenly it collapsed and only the shadow pool was left. "Now I can summon a monster from my hand with a certain requirements. Luckily, this one fits them perfectly. Rise, Fallen Angel Asmodeus!" Shirley slapped a card from her hand on her disk and something started to stir.
Slowly a pair of dark purple coloured wings raised from the dark pool, followed by a head, who was completely covered by a silver masked with a small pair of white wings on the back of it and a big red jewel between the olive green eyes. Its black hair was raised upwards. The upper body was clad in a black armour, with the edges being silver coloured, the shoulder pieces had their edges curled up as dangerous spikes. His lower body was covered with a white robe, the only ornament being the metal chains around his waist [3000 ATK].
Hiita starred at the new monster.
"Damn, that is a powerhouse. I place a card and I end my turn." As he announced it, from Solar Flare Dragons body came a gusts of flames hitting Shirley. She grinned her teeth together when she took the hit. [600 LP]
"Ah yes, I forgot to mention, at the end of my turns Solar Flare Dragon deals 500 damage to my opponent."
Shirley – Hiita
600 – LP – 3950
7 – SPC – 7
"Draw, it's time to turn the tables. First off, Fallen Angel Asmodeus monster effect activates. I select a Fairy from my deck and then send it to the graveyard. I send my Fallen Angel Ede Arai." The card shot from the deck, Shirley picked it up and showed it to Hiita. Finally she let it slide into her graveyard slot.
"Now since I have 7 Speed Counters, I have enough Speed Counters to activate this, Speed Spell – Dark Rebirth!" She placed the card in her Duel Disk. As it shot up on the field, a dark aura emitted from it. From it a claw extended, first seemingly grabbing around aimlessly, then it shot forward and grabbed Fallen Angel Ira.
"My Spell allows me to sacrifice a Fallen Angel from my side of the field and Special Summon a monster from my graveyard, who is double the level of the released monster. Rise once again, Fallen Angel Superbia." The claw dragged Fallen Angel Ira towards the card, who accepted his fate without fighting it. When Ira disappeared, the cards dark aura became visible and with a burst the goblet shaped Fallen Angel returned on the field. Immediately, the inside of the goblet started to glow and slowly a pair of dark silver wings raised from it. The demonic head that followed it had two horns bending forwards and a piece of black armour between them, which ran down to the back of its neck. It joined the chest armour, which was made of one big piece, covering it shoulders and all the edges were decorated with a dark pink colour. The lower arms were protected by the same piece of armour, these with a big gem resting at the start of the massive hands. It wore a white robe around its legs, who was torn from its above its knees and kept in place by chains. The rest of the legs were clad in the same armour, the feet ending in sharp edges.
"When Fallen Angel Superbia is special summoned from the graveyard, I can special summon a Fallen Angel from my graveyard. I introduce the monster I send to the graveyard earlier this turn. Fallen Angel Ede Arai!." Fallen Angel Ede Arai slowly descended, with a malevolent smile.[2300 ATK]
"Now due to Dark Rebirth, Superbia will be unable to deal battle damage to you, but your monster is not safe. Superbia, attack. Dark Pride!" The claws of the Fallen Angel were covered in a dark aura as it lunged forward and slashed through Solar Flare Dragon, who fell down in pieces.
A trap card shot up on Hiita's side of the field as Fallen Angel Superbia lunged forward. "Reveal trap, Backfire! Whenever you destroy a Fire monster on my side of the field you are dealt 500 points of damage." As Solar Flare Dragon was slashed to pieces, the parts were absorbed by the trap card and blasted a fireball to Shirley.
Shirley clutched held on tight, making sure that this time she wouldn't start swaying because of being dealt damage. She smirked as the fireball vanished. [100 LP]
"So close to defeating me, but you have no monster to protect you. There is no possible way you can survive this turn. Fallen Angel Ede Arai, attack directly." Ede Arai hang in the air for a moment and suddenly flew towards Hiita, slashed him and flew back in one swift motion.[1650 LP]
"Fallen Angel Asmodeus, bring it to a end. Lustful Strike!"
Fallen Angel Asmodeus calmly flew towards Hiita and slashed him. [0 LP]
Hiita's D-Wheel started to poor out steam and its speed decreased quickly.
The three of them followed the track back to the arena. Hiita stopped in the pit and took off his helmet, revealing his short blond hair, while his eyes darted from Shirley to Cristov. Both Cristov and Shirley took off their helmets; Shirley's black hair fell down completely and a few strings fell before her eyes, which she put behind her ear. Cristov's short red hair formed a contrast to Shirley's dark hair.
"Ugh, I still can't get used to the driving suit." Shirley got of her D-Wheel and parked it. Then she turned to Hiita and Cristov, who were doing the same, and put her hands on her hips. "So, how did I do?"
Cristov gave a thumps up in response. "Your handling of the D-Wheel has improved a lot, considering this is the second duel you do without auto-pilot." Hiita nodded in approval.
"You have beaten my prided deck fair and square, Shirley-san." He made a slight bow towards her, Shirley started to giggle in response.
"I can't get used to these differences of how you guys act over here and how people are back in the US, right Cristov?" Shirley turned to Cristov, who was starring off to Neo Domino's silhouette. "Cristov?"
"Tomorrow….tomorrow, is the big day. We will show the world what we can do. We will show people our strength and win the Grand Prix."
~Team Ancestral Dragons~
WRGP Duel Arena – Main Duel Lane
"Come on Nemuru-chan, we need to hurry. You are not even wearing your Riding suit." Nemuru looked up to the man that was talking to her, her ice blue eyes lifting up from the pages of her book. His appearance had a calming aura, which was strengthened by his friendly smile and the brown hair that was pointing in every direction.
"Why would I, Koushaku-kun? We are going for a spin on the D-Wheel, to test out the track you say. I much rather stay here and continue reading."
Koushaku sighted and take a look at the book. He couldn't see the title as the sleeves of her kimono covered it. "You aren't researching about that family myth of mine, are you?"
"If you didn't want to pick my interest, you shouldn't have told me about it. Besides I would have found it at some point, myths were Gods turn human and form a lineage are very rare and thus one of the most interesting." Nemuru lowered her head as she continued reading.
"Well, can't help it if you don't want to. Tozaru-kun, let's go." Tozaru looked up from his D-wheel, as he was cleaning up the handles.
"Nemuru-chan isn't coming?" Koushaku shook his head and pointed to a small red furred ball in the corner.
"Nemuru-chan will keep Daiichi-kun company." Hearing his name, the ball started to move as Daiichi got on his legs, revealing himself in full length, the red fur on his back and head went over into white on his sides, the tail was playfully curled up the tip touching almost the base of the tail. Daiichi barked a few times, showing that he heard his name and started to wag his tail. Nemuru looked up from her book and smiled at Daiichi, who immediately came towards her to see if he could get attention from her. Koushaku and Tozaru got on their D-Wheels and signalled a goodbye to Nemuru, who waved back at them as they sped off. She starred off in the distance, while rubbing Daiichi on his head.
"Daiichi-kun, you're glad that you have some company don't you?" A happy bark confirmed this, though Daiichi was unrelated to the name of Team Ancestral Dragon, he is the team's mascot and Koushakus pet. Nemuru smiled as her eyes slowly moved back to the book.
"Koushaku-kun, are you sure it was alright to leave Nemuru-chan behind?" Tozaru moved a bit faster to catch up with Koushaku as they both sped over one of the several tracks specially made for the WRGP. At first Koushaku didn't seem to have heard Tozaru at all.
"Tozaru-kun, you know how she is. Besides, she is probably the last of us who needs training on handling the D-Wheel. She was practically raised on it." Koushaku shot a glance at Tozaru, who met the glance and gave a nod. Both of them revved their engines and aimed to go through the next corner as the first. Tozaru barely made it, but instead of initiating a duel after passing through, they both revved their engines again and went full speed to the next corner, once again Tozaru took the first corner.
After several laps, the two D-Wheels came back in. Tozaru grinned at Koushaku while he took of his helmet. Koushaku gave him a thumb up. Nemuru was still petting Daiichi, who now was looking at the two arrivals happily wagging his tail and giving some loud and happy barks. Koushaku puts his helm down on the seat of his D-Wheel and lowered himself on his knees, signalling for Daiichi to come. Daiichi leaped forward, putting his front paws on Koushakus shoulder and licked him in the face. Tozaru snickered at this.
"Hey, Koushaku-kun are we going to keep our usual duel order?" Nemuru looked up at Tozaru, seemingly surprised at the question. Koushaku put the down the legs of Daiichi and looked to Tozaru.
"For the moment yes, but we should do the usual background checks on the opponents and adapt to it."
"The usual then," Nemuru softly muttered, "Can we go now? This isn't a really comfortable seat."
The two boys nodded to her request and started to prepare to leave the track. Nemuru got up and straightened her kimono and slapped a few times on her upper leg to get Daiichi to her so that he wouldn't be in the way. Koushaku and Tozaru quickly grabbed their bags and placed their D-Wheels in their own separate section in the maintenance area.
Nemuru was waiting outside, starring at the setting sun when both of them emerged from the Arena. She smiled as Daiichi happily jumped up against Koushaku.
"I will be leaving you two now, I'm going to see my grandparents before I head home." With a bow and waving while she turned around, she calmly walked away.
"Send them our regards, Nemuru-chan." Tozaru waved back, attracting Daiichi's attention and who started to playfully snap at Tozaru's hand while jumping up at it. Koushaku gave a nod and a small wave with his hand as confirmation.
"See you tomorrow, be on time."
"I will"
~Team La Nature Savage~
Hoshino Hotel
"C'est incroyable, je n'ai pas dit, Nicole que je n'ai pas des choses de luxe!" Marie shot an furious look to her companion. Nicole shrugged at this outburst and calmly entered the hotel.
"Je n'ai fait pas quelque chose, c'est l'hôtel pour tout les participants du Grand Prix." Nicole eyes scanned the entrance hall of the hotel and she was pleased with what she saw. The hall was big, with some luxurious red sofa's in the middle for waiting guests, the floor was clearly made of marble and was so clean that you could see your own reflection. Finally her eyes fell on the counter where they are supposed to check in, frowned a bit at the clearly digitalized methods, she was fond of the older hotels with their keys system. Marie entered after Nicole and was followed by a third female. She looked anxiously at Marie.
"Marie, ce n'est pas la faute de Nicole et nous n'avons pas de payer pour le logement et…" Jeanne stopped as Marie raised her hand to signal to stop talking.
"La faute, ce n'est pas relevant. Nous avons une autre problème. Nous ne parlons pas le langue de Japon." Jeanne and Nicole nodded in agreement, their only hope was if there was a translator or that the cleric spoke French. Suddenly Nicole's jaw dropped open as she starred at the elevator. She pointed at the person coming out and Jeanne and Marie looked at who she was pointing. A female with long blond hair with a few bangs that curled away horizontally from her face, wearing a white one piece riding suit with red accents running down her arms and calves and had grey coloured padding on her shoulders and knees.
"Ce n'est pas possible..C'est Sherry Leblanc, elle peut nous aider." Before Jeanne and Marie could stop her, Nicole was waving her arms and shouting Sherry's name. Sherry turned around, with an expression of annoyance. Nicole was oblivious to it and rushed towards her. As soon as she started talking French with Sherry her expression softened a bit. Both Marie and Jeanne sighted at the display that their friend gave, but they were relieved to hear from Nicole when she returned that Sherry told her that the cleric spoke a little French, sufficient enough to get their rooms.
About fifteen minutes later, Nicole let herself fall down on her bed, relieved at the fact they were finally there. Marie was admiring the view of the city and noticed that they could see the bridge connecting Satellite and Neo-Domino City from here, yet Satellite was hidden from view unless she hang out of the window. Her eyes moved to the Duel Lanes that were in use, her thoughts skipping to the upcoming weeks of the WRGP. Dark thunderclouds started to cover the setting sun and Marie turned to her teammates. Nicole had fallen asleep still with her clothes on, Jeanne was putting a blanket over her and gave a friendly smile as Nicole seemed to mutter something inaudible in her sleep. Jeanne then signaled that she would be heading of to sleep, not wanting to wake Nicole. Marie smiled at the thoughtfulness of her friend. She threw a look to the now darkened sky.
"Arriver ici, c'est une fin et une ouverture..."
~Hoshino Residence~
"Hoshino-sama, your tea." A man with neatly cut black hair and wearing a black tuxedo place a teacup and a small teapot on the desk. He then looked at the man who he served, the shades of grey were starting to show in the dark brown hair, the face showing signs of weariness of age and a busy life, yet they dark brown eyes sparkled with life still. Hishino turned around and waved to his servant to leave. As he heard the door close behind the servant he looked outside again as a thunderbolt brightened the sky and illuminated everything with an eerie light.
"It's starting."
~Key card: Fallen Angel Ira~
Cristov: It's starting, the WRGP is finally starting. Everything we worked for, tomorrow at "PRELIMINARIES, 4 BATTLES FOR ENTERY"! RIDING DUEL, ACCELERATION!
Author's note: This has been a work of fiction in the works for ages now, due to lack of time to plan and the amount of planning it needed. This is also my first big fanfic, so bear with me. Finally, I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's, I do own the OC's and thank some friends for the help with custom cards.