A/N: Okay before this starts I want to clear three things up. One. My other story will not be ending, this is just a side project for when I'm bored. Two. The reason for the lack of activity on the other story is because of me being swamped by work and three I'm not satisfied with the next chapter, as of writing this, said chapter has been rewritten five times all 9,000 words of it.
Right now onto the story. Would like to know what you think.
A teen of age fourteen wondered through a modern city, he was incredibly pale and had ghost white hair that was sporadically spiked up, while the right hand side was spiked and swept to the right, the hair on his left side covered his eye. His eyes were both a royal purple in colour, underneath his right eye was a jagged scar in the shape of a dragon's claw. His attire looked ragged and decayed, he was dressed in the bare minimum need to keep warm. All he had on was a simple green jacket, red t-shirt that was torn in several places, worn sliver jeans held up by a black belt with a tarnished golden buckle and had on his feet black trainers which had numerous holes in them. Buckled to his left arm was a pure red duel disk with a deck already loaded in.
People he walked pass all gave him weird looks, some commented on his appearance complaining about his ragged looked, others said that the kid was mad as he was seemingly talking to himself even though there was no one talking to him in the first place. Another reason people were looking at him was his frankly creepy look which was just so off putting.
Rumour was that the boy's name was Draga.
(Draga Pov)
"You are 100% certain that this is the correct place. Right?" I asked my fateful companion who shot me a glance 'For the last time Draga I'm certain that this is the place we will find them and if not. Well. Bite me.' I smirked holding up a glowing effect monster card with 2950 attack and defence points "I can do a lot worse than that if don't stop with that new sarcastic personality. Master Peace…" It seems my point was taken as he immediately ceased talking. I dropped my head to stare at the ground the thought of what to do next entered my mind, should I focus down our targets now or should I bide my time. 'Just to point out,' I heard Master Peace perk up 'you're going to collide with someone in 3…2…1!'
*Bang!* Sure enough just as Master Peace said it would happen I collided with another boy who had dual coloured red and green hair and crimson eyes. "That's a person!" Pain was the only thing my mind was set on notwithstanding the urge to strangle the person I collided with. Reorienting myself I saw the boy was with a girl who had dark pink mid-length hair, tied up in pigtails, clipped down by blue spherical hair clips, she also had bright blue she was helping him to his feet glaring daggers at me.
'Don't say I didn't warn you.' Master Peace said condescendingly causing me to snap my attention to him and growl "Point taken. I'll be more careful in future," I returned my gaze to the other two as my mouth twisted into a snarl "they're not exactly innocent too! Don't heap all the blame on me!" I seemingly struck a nerve because as soon as I said this the girl charged at me with her fan which she pulled out of nowhere. It didn't faze me at all and I gained a slight red glint in my right eye. Just as contact was about to be made I sidestepped the fan then almost simultaneously she was on the ground having fallen over my outstretched foot.
"Hey!" I heard the boy shout at me, it was becoming too funny for me to hold it in anymore I had to laugh "Sorry. Sorry!" I said wiping away a tear, I then felt a burning presence behind me turning around my previous victim had gotten up and was seething with rage becoming a bright crimson. Then an eruption on the level of Etna happened as the girl opened her mouth "Who the HELL do you think you are!" Out of the corner of my eye I could see the boy slowly begin to move away "Now you've done it…" He etched out. The tirade continued "You carelessly slam into Yuya, to make matters worse you don't even apologize for it and then you have the nerve! The nerve to trip me up perhaps the biggest mistake of your life!"
I readied myself for a full on fit fight only to be stopped by the boy who she called Yuya "Guys!" He said stepping in the middle and pushing the two of us apart "You don't need to fight we can solve this diplomatically." I calmed down slightly while the brazen bull opposite me didn't getting even angrier. "But Yuya!" She shouted "No buts Yuzu!" Yuya said with enough vigor to quell her anger for the time being. "Now tell us your name." He asked of me "Why should I?" I replied venomously.
"I'm just curious." He said with a sickeningly happy smile that caused a tiny bit of vomit to collect in my mouth. "Draga." I said trying my best not to be sick or cause a scene. He smiled at me again causing my vomit to collect this time on a larger scale "I'm Yuya Sakaki and my gracious friend Yuzu Hiiragi you 'met' earlier." Both mine and Master Peace's ears perked up upon the mention of their full names 'Told you it was the right place.' My mind was set but it's a lot more fun to toy with your prey before going for the kill. I turned on my heels and began to walk away hands in pockets. "Where are you going?" Yuya asked me.
"None of your business Sakaki."
(Later on)
'Master Draga…' I heard another one of my monsters speak out to me in its ethereal form. This monster was clad in green armour with light strokes also adorning it. He also had a set of black-greenish wings and pointed ears. "What is it Dinomight?" I asked refusing to pay him any attention knowing what he was going to ask 'I must ask where are we and what are you doing?' He'd probably fare better talking to a brick wall "Dinomight I'll skimp on the details but what I'm currently doing is integral to the grand plan and you know full well how I go about my business."
The reason Dinomight asked me this was for two reasons, one he was annoyed like most of monsters that even though the targets were there for me to take then and there I ignored them and left. Reason two was the fact that I was currently sat doing absolutely nothing other than watching the world pass me by.
Then Master Peace replaced Dinomight 'Draga.' He said coldly. 'The next time the opportunity presents itself you have to take it, if you do were finally free from our shackles.' I sighed heavily running a hand through my hair "Master Peace I'd love nothing more than to finally be free but I think I've earned my due rest. The last time I jumped the gun I ended up getting scarred by him." Master Peace lapsed into silence, simply nodding before vanishing leaving me by myself.
Well apparently fate hates me because literally as soon as Master Peace left the brazen bull passed me by alongside a young girl with red hair and a hair band. 'Wonderful…Just wonderful.' It is possible I have the worst luck in the world "Draga?" I heard her call out to me then approach me. "Yes what do you want?" I wasn't expecting what happened next "I just want to say sorry for what happened earlier. I wasn't thinking straight" Well I guess someone wore down the horns "I'm sorry too Yuzu I was just on edge a bit." I lied but she was none the wiser.
She wanted to continue but she appeared to be interrupted by noticing something, following her line of sight I saw two people, unsure of what was happening I asked her "What's going with Tweedledum and Tweedledee over there?" I saw her clench her fists ever so slightly "They're the underlings of this bastard Sawatari who not that long ago stole some of Yuya's pendulum cards." Pendulum? Never heard of that archetype before, I listened closely to what was being said.
"He's really going all out this time isn't he…?" One muttered "He says he's going to crush Yuya completely this time" The other said in a matter of fact way "He says he's going to focus in on his weak points and attack him from there." The other boy checked his watch and panicked "Damnit! We're late! We better hurry you know how he gets when he's hungry." The two boys ran off to the warehouse containing their over-ambitious friend.
Yuzu immediately jumped into action. Heh. I guess it's a common trait amongst them. "Why that bastard…" She then turned to the young girl "Ayu go back to You Show and tell Yuya where I'm going and what I'm about to do." She then proceeded to sprint off in the direction of the underlings leaving me and the girl called Ayu by ourselves "I think you should do as she says." I told her coldly "And if you're wondering she's going to fine…" Ayu left shortly after and I began the long march "Well for now she's safe for now…"
(The warehouse)
The door to the warehouse swung open "You coward!" Yuzu shouted causing Sawatari to nearly choke "I'll stop your plans right here and now!" Sawatari was handed a drink and composed himself for a speech "Yuzu Hiiragi it looks like you've fallen into my t-" Yuzu loaded her disk "Duel me!" Sawatari continued his speech regardless "And because y-" Yuzu interrupted him again "Shut your mouth and duel me now!" An irritated Sawatari tried to continue "The goddess of victory will shine upo-"
"Are you afraid to lose to me?!" Sawatari raged "Let me finish! Godamnit!" Yuzu snorted "I don't plan on listening to a coward, a sore loser and a second rate duelist!" Sawatari turned scarlet "Second rate you say! Second rate!" He narrowed his eyes at the insult Yuzu had thrown at him, "In fact you're even worse than second rate, third rate, fourth rate not even one hundredth rate classifies your skills!"
"Now you've done it!" At a flick of the wrist one of his friends shut the door of the warehouse tight and stood outside guarding it as Sawatari walked towards Yuzu "I'll give you the chance to take that back now." Yuzu was unfazed "Too bad I don't feel like it one little bit you tier 4 duelist!" Sawatari gritted his teeth "I'll beat that ignorant attitude out of you." Sawatari placed his duel disk on and activated it "I'm going to make you wish you had left."
I'm a fast walker and with the help of some of my monsters tracking down the location was simple. I then saw one of the goons from earlier stood in front of the door of warehouse number 52. The goon standing in front seemed to melt into a puddle at the sight of me that was just rude, sure I'm not exactly a looker but come on, be civil. "Are you going to let me in or are you just going to gawk at me. I'll give you three seconds to decide." He still wouldn't move so I followed through kicking him in the stomach hard enough not only to knock him out but also hard enough to blow the door open to see the gaping faces of Yuzu and the other goons.
Everyone was shocked by my "entrance" and shivered upon viewing me. "Who are you?" He asked curiously as I continued on before stopping beside Yuzu "Draga. What are you doing here? This is my battle." She asked me, I ignored the question and zeroed in on the apparent leader of the bunch, Sawatari I'm guessing. "Showing up all of a sudden…Are you supposed to be a knight sent to save the Princess." Sawatari said but it fell on deaf ears as I threw out my arm, revealing and activating my duel disk.
"That's an odd duel disk you have there and going by your silence you have no intent to answer any of my questions" Sawatari stated towards me, probably the only right thing he has said to me so far. Yuzu was quite angry at me for interfering in "Her battle." Jesus are they sisters or something. "Draga. Let me take him!" She was about to place on her disk and activate it when I silenced her with a cold glare forcing her to retreat behind me.
"This is going to be too easy!" Jesus this guy has an enormous ego on him, I can't wait to put him in his place "I'm going to crush in five seconds flat with my new deck!" He continued to gloat.
"Duel!" We both shouted.
Draga: 4000 LP Sawatari: 4000 LP Cards x5
"I'll let the challenger go first." He mocked as I quite happily started.
"To being I activate the field spell Dragonic Diagram!" The warehouse around us morphed into an ethereal backdrop and the floor wrapped into black and yellow markings, "When this card is activated all True Draco monsters I control will gain 300 attack points and gain survive one battle they are involved in where they lose." I plucked two cards from my hand "I'll set these two cards face down and end my turn." The people around me stood in shock and silence until 'someone' decided to break it in an unceremonious way. Sawatari laughed at me "So I guess that entrance was just for show, you've got no real bite in you!" Yuzu was pretty livid with me "Draga! You better fix this! His friends then jeered me "Sawatari end that worthless excuse for a duelist." These petty insults didn't affect me "I end my turn. Now get on with yours!"
I could see him gulp but he maintained a sense of bravado about him. "I'll show my perfect dueling! It's my turn! I draw!" Sawatari glanced over the field smugly "Allow me to use those set cards of yours!" He plucked a card from his hand "If there are two or more set cards in my opponent's spell or trap zone I can special summon this card from my hand!" He swiped the card onto his disk "Come forth! Escher the Frost Vassal!" Level 4 (800/1000) "I now release Escher to tribute summon Mobius the Frost Monarch!" The smaller version of Mobius was replaced by the large version as it towered behind Sawatari. Level 6 (2400/1000). One his friends took this as an opportunity to stroke his boss' ego "Wow it's his first turn and he already has a 2400 attack point monster! Neo Sawatari sure is great!"
"Mobius' effect activates when it is tribute summoned, it can target then destroy two cards in my opponent's spell or trap zone! Take this!" Mobius charged up a beam in his hands and struck my two facedowns "Freeze burst!" My two facedowns were coated in ice then shattered not before they were revealed to be True King's Return and True Draco Heritage "I'm just getting started by the way! I activate the Spell Tribute Carnival! If I've successfully tribute summoned this turn this card allows me to do the same again!" Sawatari slid the card into his disk. "He's going to release a twenty four hundred attack monster to summon a new one?" Yuzu was surprised but I didn't bat an eyelid. I'd seen worse, much, much worse. "That's right! I release Mobius the Frost Monarch! To summon forth Mobius the mega monarch!" Mobius was replaced by what looked to be the final step on the evolution ladder of the card Level 8 (2800/1000). "Usually this would require two tributes but if it's a monster that has already been tribute this turn you can count that monster as two for the summoning of a mega monarch!" Sawatari struck a pose as his friends stroked his ego further "Amazing!" They yelled.
"You've jumped the gun a bit don't you think." I asked him causing his face to drop "Huh?!" I pointed to the card "If you had waited until I had three other face downs you could've destroyed them as well but your ego and lust to finish this has caused you to jump the gun per se." Sawatari growled at me for a bit before composing himself "It doesn't matter anyway I attack you directly with Mobius the mega monarch! Go Imperial charge!" Mobius charged directly towards me and Yuzu.
"Pathetic…" I raised my hand and pointed in Mobius' direction "I activate the trap True King's Return!" Yuzu was stunned and Sawatari looked around the field in desperation "But you don't have any traps!" He shouted leading me to laugh "I have one in my graveyard. Which you sent there earlier under Mobius' effect." His goons followed the leader almost to a tee "Trap card from the graveyard." One questioned "Can he even do that?" another one said "If you want to know. I can activate this card when it has been sent to my graveyard by card effect," Mobius collided with my outstretched hand as I began to crunch in on the water monster "it allows me to destroy on monster on the field and considering how Mobius is the only one currently on the field…He's done for!" In one fell swoop I shattered the ice behemoth leaving it nothing more than debris.
It was only now that Yuzu had realised what I planned for with my facedowns "You set those up hoping that he would destroy them…" That was a half-truth but I wasn't going to let her know anything about that. Sawatari had ceased his gloating presumably it was just mere debris just like the shattered Mobius "I place one card facedown and end my turn."
"How unfortunate…" I said in a rather creepy tone of voice "I'll finish this duel right here and now!" I could see Sawatari trying to remain straight faced and stoic but anyone could see that he was practically pissing himself.
"I draw! For a start I'll activate the spell Monster Reborn! Which allows me to revive one monster from the graveyard!" Sawatari kicked himself back into his smug mode "But you don't have a monster in your grave! Looks like you've misplayed Mr Creepy!" I'm guessing creativity is not his strong point "But you do…" Sawatari's bravado completely left him after that "I revive Mobius the mega monarch from your graveyard!" The previously destroyed monster recollected himself back onto my side of the field. "Next I'll activate the effect of Dragonic Diagram by destroying one monster I control I can add one True Draco or True King card from my deck to hand! Say goodbye to Mobius again!" Sure enough Mobius soon vanished into the ethereal background.
"I'll add to my hand True King's Retribution! I now activate my second copy of True Draco Heritage! But it won't be staying for long as I'm using it for a tribute summon!" This had the expected reaction "What?! You can't tribute a spell card for a monster!" Yuzu said perplexed "It's a very special ability only my deck has so watch and learn!" I removed the spell and showed it to them as they watched on seeing the card transform from a spell to a monster before their very eyes "I now summon Dinomight Knight, the True Dracofighter!" Level 6 (2500/1200) "Dinomight gets a boost of three hundred attack points due to Dragonic Diagram!"
Dinomight (2500 – 2800)
"I then activate True Draco Heritage's effect from the graveyard it destroys your last line of defence!" The destroyed card was revealed to be Mirror Force. "Dinomight to battle! Attack him directly!" Sawatari was blown back across the warehouse by the sheer force of the blow Dinomight dealt to him.
Sawatari (4000 – 1200)
"I now activate True King's Retribution! At the end of this turn you take damage equal to the total attack points of all True King and True Draco monsters on my field!" Sawatari had just barely gotten up when he heard me explain the card's devastating effect and began to flap his arms wildly "Wait! Wait! We can talk this over surely!" In response I stuck out my thumb "Game over." I stuck it thumbs down "I end my turn." I turned to Yuzu "You may want to get behind me!" Just then a massive burst fames emerged from the card flying straight towards the snivelling Sawatari. Unfortunately while I had the power to seriously injure the guy I wasn't about to do it just yet so I divulged the flames so they would only graze him.
Sawatari (1200 - 0)
Draga: Win!
"Sawatari!" The three stooges ran up to their boss and carried him out of the warehouse although not before I was able to trip them up sending the structure crashing down almost comically "Watch your step next time…" I said to the trembling bodies before me who quickly picked their boss and raced off into the distance.
"Right! I'm off!" I said to Yuzu who was still behind me clinging to my jacket refusing to get off me "That means you get off." I picked off her arms and threw her away gently and as fate absolutely hates me Yuya came racing in the exact moment of this happening. "Yuzu! I'm here! Are you alright? Ayu told me you were in danger!" He spoke panting and out of breath, throwing himself on her causing both of them to blush brightly. I spoke for her "Yuzu's safe Yuya. I took care of the problem and he won't be troubling you two anytime soon." Placing my hands behind my head I began to walk out of the warehouse. "Draga?" Yuya asked me "What?" I replied "Thank you for helping us…"
"Don't mention it. People like that coward Sawatari are a stain on honour. I'm more than happy to deal with them." After that I left the two lovebirds to themselves. Out of the corner of my eye I could see a figure stood in the alleyway with spiky black and purple hair
'Well it seems my past likes to haunt me…'
A/N 2: In regards to my other story…I'm not sure when the next chapter will come out. It is currently sat open on my computer but I just can't bring myself to write it. I will continue it but it is a case of when I post. It could be anywhere between now and maybe at the very latest Christmas time. I'm not really sure.
Cards used in this chapter:
True King's Retribution- At the end of the turn you activate this card your opponent takes damage equal to the total attack points of all True King and True Draco monsters on your field
