Okay! Hello all! This is the first chapter of my new fic, Scion Rising. I will tell you now, my descriptive skills need work. And I find it hard to write romance. So you might see the better written parts are mostly in the duels and humor scenes.

However constructive criticism is always appreciated! Flaming will not be tolerated if I care enough to check for those.

I might take a cue from other authors and bring in random Yugioh characters for comedic purposes.

Disclaimer: I do not own Yugioh, GX, or 5Ds. If I did, it wouldn't be nearly as awesome and popular as it is.

So now with that, on with the show!

Prologue:

Tyler Verano, a healthy young man with pitch-black black hair and sunglasses, was running through the street of his neighborhood. He wore a red t-shirt and black pants.

Now, this would normally be considered just a run for health. Would be, if not for Tyler's frantic cries.

"Awww man! Why did I have to go and have that stupid party! I overslept and I'm gonna to miss the boat!" Tyler cried. The day before, he had received a letter of acceptance to the special Duel Academy Mach. It was like a normal Duel Academy, but they also had lessons on the newest thing to Duel Monsters: Riding Duels.

Sometimes referred to as 'Turbo Duels' or 'Speed Duels', Riding Duels involved riding a motorcycle installed with hologram technology at insane speeds while playing the card game. At first, nobody thought it would catch on. But then something happened. Celebrity duelists began endorsing it.

Suddenly it was the newest thing since sliced bread. Seriously, people went from "It'll never catch on" to "Did you see Zack Mason's recent duel? He left that guy in the dust!"

Zack Mason. The current Riding Duel champ. However, in most circles he was referred to as the 'King'. A pretty pretentious title if you ask Tyler.

Anyway, Duel Academy Mach's Riding Duel classes were optional so you didn't have to take them, but the regular classes were also very intense and the school was one of the top academies around even after only being open for about five years.

And Tyler was getting in. He thought he could try a Riding Duel and see if it was for him. If it wasn't, he still had a safety net in the form of a highly-regarded curriculum.

Of course, all of this was moot if he didn't make it to the scheduled boat on time.

"I left the house so fast, I didn't get to check if I had everything." Tyler muttered. "Let's see……shades? Check. Cards? Check. Disk? Check. Pants? Check. Thank God!" Tyler listed off several things. "Great. Set. Now, I just gotta get there!"

Tyler's legs pounded on the ground as he ran as fast as he could towards the docks. He prayed to whatever random benevolent deity watching him right now for some good fortune and make the boat hold up for a few minutes.

Why was he running? The dock was within running distance. Simple. Also, his mother was out shopping seeing as him and all his friends ate everything edible in the house last night partying.

So now here he was about to miss his chance to enter the Academy, all because he partied all night. "I swear I'll KILL myself if I miss that boat!" he muttered to himself.

By now he could see the port and docks. He prayed his boat was still there.

'If my backpack didn't hold, well EVERYTHING, then I'd ditch it! It's SO heavy!' He thought.

Now he ran into the docks and asked the ticket guy about the boat.

"To Duel Academy Mach? Right over there. You just barely made it." The ticket guy said, a red-headed guy with freckles. Because it's always a red-headed guy with freckles.

"Don't remind me."

He approached the ramp to get on the boat, but was stopped by a big buff security guy. Because it's always a big buff security guy.

"Ticket?" He grumbled in a deep voice.

"Oh yeah, just a sec-" Tyler stopped dead, hand in his pocket. He didn't feel anything. He checked his other pocket. Nothing. Tyler paled.

2 minutes later………

"Where is it!? Where!?" Tyler had basically somehow altered reality and began searching through his things in an obscenely short amount of time. "No no no no!"

He had been in such a rush, he forgot his ticket to get on the boat.

"Sorry kid." Security said. "No ticket, no boat ride." Then he started to feel sorry for him considering the circumstances. "If you got money you could buy another ticket." He offered.

Tyler had forgotten pocket money too. "No money……" he sighed depressingly.

"You knuckle-head!" a voice cried out.

Tyler turned around to see a group of people standing behind him. His friends from the party. "Guys?"

"You dope. You forgot your ticket!" His pal Rash yelled at him. "All that bragging about getting into this pretentious academy and all about to be flushed from a forgotten ticket!"

"Uuuh, I think you mean 'prestigious' Rash." Tyler corrected.

"I know what I said."

'He does make a point. That messed up word oddly made context in that sentence.' Tyler thought, then noticed Rash was handing something to him.

"Take it and go! And when you get back, we'll duel. Hopefully you'll actually get some skills studying at this place." Rash taunted.

"Right. You're on!"

Tyler grabbed the ticket and shoved it into Security's hands. "Thanksgottagobye!" Tyler yelled as he ran past him onto the boat.

"Just wait! I'll be coming! Get ready for Tyler Verano, Duel Academy Mach!"

*Insert Opening Credits Music and cue footage of future events*

Well that was the prologue. How was it? Not much else to say about this chapter. Please R&R