I thought I may as well give this ago.
To make sure I keep the deck the same, I've written down every card in my deck.
If you don't know what the card is, chances are I've made it up, I know of 23 cards I've made up for my deck. (I do play Yugioh a bit, but not much, I do enjoy it a hell of a lot)
My Deck in real life is full of random cards pulled together for a single devastating combo, this lot isn't, alright.
Chapter 1.
Of Swords and Synchrons.
In the middle of an arena, a full crowd around me and my opponent. My trusted cards in hand held in my hand in what looks like a critical position and my black duel disk on my arm. No monsters, no traps or spells. My opponent is the great Yugi Moto, on his field is Slyther the Sky Dragon with 3000 attack points, two face downs and 2000 life points compared to my 850.
My last draw.
"My Move. Draw" I speak, looking at what I've drawn. My trump card…alright a chance to win. "First off, I play the spell cards Durudal's Sacred Law and Monster Reborn" I place the two cards down and see them pop as on the field. Durundal's Sacred Law looking like a sword with a sacred light upon it. "Thanks to Durundal, I can bring back my Battle Ox, as long as I remove one card from the game.
I look at my hand, seeing that the only card I can really remove is Big Shield Gardna…Sorry Gardna, this has to be done. I put the card into a pocket in my leather jacket, reaching onto my duel disk for Battle Ox, placing it on the field in attack mode.
"And then, due to Monster reborn, I can bring back my Blade Synchron" I continue, reaching down and pulling the card off, putting it on the field in attack mode, the projection of a squire holding a sword comes up (3 stars, 1000 attack points, 800 defence, showing me my trump card. "Next I play Call of the Haunted, to bring back my Judge Man in attack mode" I play the card, seeing my life point indicator going from 850 to 50; I bring back the warrior, seeing him and his club on the field. I place the three spell cards in the graveyard, reading my next move.
"Come on then, Craig" the champion tells me, standing relaxed with his cards in hand. "My Egyptian god won't fall too easily"
"Actually, he might do" I reply, smiling. "I'll tune my Blade Synchron to my Judge Man" Pointing to the two cards, the squire runs up to judge man, offering the sword he was carrying. The judge picks it up and holds it as the squire turns into those circles, floating around my Judge. "Fallen warriors lend their strength. Become the vassal of war you were born to be!"
A bright light fills the room, centred on my warrior. I raise my hand in one of those dramatic ways. The crowd roars as they know what is coming…My best Card.
"Come forth, Darkblade the Holy!" I shout. The light fades and my best card…no, my best man appears in the centre of a whirlwind. (8 star, 2700 attack, 2500 defence) he is still wearing his famous black armour, his white hair and brave face. He was holding his great sword firm. Man was I glad he was here.
"Heh, it appears your not good at maths" Yugi laughs, looking at my monster. "for all your work, your monster only has 2500 to my monsters 3000"
"I'm getting to that" I answer, pulling another card out of my hand. "I play pot of greed, which lets me draw another two cards" I pull the two cards, thankful that my cards have pulled through for me again. "I play Excalibur's wrath and United We Stand" both cards pop up, Excalibur's wrath image of a sword being forced out of its pedestal. "For every monster on the field, Darkblade gains 800 attack and defence points" I watch as the number goes up to 3500.
"Not so fast, I play the spell card pot of greed" the card pops up and he draws two cards, and I watch as the red dragon's attack points go up to 4000, higher then my warriors. I still smiled.
"Well then you've missed out on something Yugi" I tell him, I spy Tea, Joey and Tristan out of the corner of my eye, so I guess all of his friends are here. "Excalibur's wrath increases any warrior type monster's attack points by 1000" I watch as the sword join's my warrior, seeing him grip the handle and his Attack points go up to 4500. "And that is enough to destroy your dragon"
I can see in Yugi's eyes that he has admitted defeat. I always thought he would fight to the end in a doomed duel. He looks at his friends, smiling as he looks back at me.
"Your Good, Craig" he tells me, that is an honour in any right, the king of games himself saying that. He gives me a thumbs up which I return. "You win, now attack my dragon and finish this"
"Gladly" I answer, looking at my warrior, taking a side stance. "Darkblade the Holy, attack Slyther the Sky Dragon" I point to the mighty dragon. My warrior immediate moves towards it. "Dark slash of the holy!"
Darkblade slashes through the dragon, and I watch with a satisfied smile as it explodes. I've beaten the legend himself, in one attack.
"Battle Ox, Attack Yugi Directly with raider's rampage!"
My Monster runs toward the king, slashing at him and finishing what was left of his life points. I stand still as Yugi falls to the ground, watching as the holograms fade. I run over to the king, the crowd chanting my name even louder then before. I kneel next to him, helping him off the ground.
"Craig" he starts, looking at me.
"Yes Yugi" I answer.
"Craig" he repeats, I look him in the eye, then hear the whole crowd chant my name…
"Craig! Wake up!" I hear my mum shout. I wake up with a start, shame, I was enjoying that dream, I looked round my room, seeing my mum over me.
"Morning" I tell her.
"More like afternoon" she tells me, pointing to the clock opposite, it was 1:20 Pm alright; man I had a deep sleep. "Hurry up or the bank will be closed"
I winced as I heard this, jumping out of bed, my mom left the room. I started getting changed, putting on a red shirt, jeans and black socks. I jumped down the stairs, grabbing my jacket as I went by it and shoved it on. I grabbed a few money bags as I ran past them, kissing my mum goodbye and running up town.
England wasn't such a bad country when you get used to it, we moved houses about two years ago to a nice house nearer town centre. I ran through the place, dodging cars and pedestrians as I ran through the streets. I decided to cut through the park to save time, dodging more people.
"Look out, coming through, pardon me" I say as I cut through the crowd gathered to watch a demonstration of the new D-wheel. I was amazed as I watched it while running, bumping into someone accidentally, dropping my money bags on the ground. "Sorry sir"
I start to gather my money up, as the man turned round to see who bumped into him. He watched me pick up my money, looking at me intently.
"Tell me young man" he starts, I don't look at him, but I could see his clothes, he was wearing a blue uniform. "Do you like Duel monsters?"
"Sorry sir, but don't you mean Yugioh?" I correct him.
"Well, yeah" he continued.
"I like it, I just don't have a deck to use so I can't really join in" I was starting to regret using imaginary cards in my dreams.
"Tell you what young man, I'll get you a deck and you can join in"
I look up at the guy having finished gathering up my change. He's got blonde short hair…he looks familiar, I just can't place where. Well…I was too busy thinking he was insane for offering that in the first place.
"Thank you sir" I say, getting up and giving him a piece of paper, which I quickly write my number on. "Text me where you want to give it to me when you have it" I then run off, heading to the bank.
About five minutes later, I arrive at the bank, finding it was open…just. I walk in, hand in my bank book and get the money processed JUST before the place was due to close. I check the book, checking to see if the money had gone through.
"Right, £2000 in the bank" I manage to say, putting the book in a pocket, I then hear my phone ring, looking at the ID I find its James, my brother…what could he want from Telford? I answered the call…
"Hey James" I said, hoping I was speaking to him.
"Hey Craig, how are you?" he answered, he sounded odd, but I decided not to pry.
"Fine thanks, you?"
"Great thanks"
"Not being rude, James, but what do you want?"
I hear him sigh on the other end of the phone, as if I wasn't meant to ask it, I heard him speak to some one else but I couldn't make out the words.
"Alright, you know those Yugioh cards you've been wanting for a while?" he asked.
"Yeah, but the cards I'd like never come in" I answer, sighing myself.
"Turns out there's a deck on show right now that has those cards in"
"You mean Darkblade the Holy and so on?"
"Look, I don't know what you call them, but there in a deck in town right now, apparently being used for the D-wheel exhibition"
"Thanks for the Info, James, but I'm not getting those cards now am I?"
"Nope, just thought I'd tell you" he then ends the call there, most likely traffic on the way here. I feel my phone vibrate; looking at it I find that a text has arrived.
"Who could this be?" I ask myself, opening it and finding that it was from a number I didn't recognise.
Deck + D-Wheel at the park, meet me there Is all it says. Deck and a D-wheel, I thought there was only a few due to problems with the navigation and traffic problems, but I wasn't one to turn down an offer like that. I wandered around town, saying hello to a few friends I passed on the way.
The crowd had left, and all that was left was the old man, he stood next to the D-wheel, keeping it safe for whoever he was waiting for. I walked over to him, keeping a calm head as I thought about this.
"So then Sonny" he starts. "Here's your Deck and I even got you a D-Wheel"
Ok, now I swear he's insane, the D-Wheel would cost THOUSANDS to rent for a few minutes.
"Thank you sir, but who are you and why are you doing this for me" I ask him, you can see why I'm asking.
"Just call me sir, and who said I was doing it for free"
I looked over the D-wheel, seeing its black paint running down the whole thing; it was just a black version of Yusei's from 5D, but longer and padded for comfort.
"What do you want for it then?" I ask him, looking back at him.
"Put these on and duel me using those cards" he pulls a black duel disk out, with the card placements spaces inside the disk and a little eyepiece, almost like one of those army sights.
"Sure" I take the sight first, putting it over my left eye and on my ear. I then take the duel disk and put it on my arm, seeing it activate with a rainbow of colours. "So where's my deck?"
He takes out a deck and shoves it into the holder, then walks about 10 paces away from the Bike; I do the same in the opposite direction, turning back to the man, seeing him with no duel disk.
"Err, how will you duel me without a duel disk?" I ask, he then undoes the uniform and shows me one of those chest duel plates along with its respective card placement thing.
"With this, now class is in session" he answered, I knew what came next.
"Duel!" we both shout at the same time.
A few people saw and heard us, looking at us and seeking entertainment they decided to watch us. We both drew five cards; looking at mine they seemed to be the cards I had dreamed of… especially Blade Synchron.
"You can go first if you want, Kid" he tells me, I look at him and wonder what pan he might have.
"Fair enough, and call me Craig" I answer, putting my hand on my deck. "Draw!" I pull the card out and check it, finding Scrap Iron Scarecrow. I look at my hand and just confirm what I have. Mirror Force, Double Summon, Judge Man, Blade Synchron and Battle Ox. "Alright, I begin by placing three cards face down on the field" I place Magic cylinder, Scrap Iron Scarecrow and Mirror force down, reaching for a Battle Ox. And placing it in defence mode. "Battle Ox in defence and that's it"
"Come on, Craig, you can do better then this can't you?" he taunted, he held his hand near the deck, a card was pushed out and he grabbed it. He looked at his hand, examining his hand. "I summon Ancient Gear Soldier in Attack mode!"
The old metal of the soldier came out of the ground, created by the hologram; it lifted its way out of the ground; holding an ancient gun; the cogs moving around inside it.
"This is what an expert can do!" he shouted, the group had turned into a small crowd; some were asking about my opponent, some even me. "Ancient Gear Soldier, Attack Battle Ox, Mechanized barrage!"
The soldier aimed his gun at my Battle Ox, like I was going to let him get away with that.
"Reveal face down card, Scrap Iron Scarecrow!" I shout, the defensive item appeared in between my monster and the gunner, absorbing all the bullets and then going back down.
"What!" he shouted.
"Simple, Scrap Iron Scarecrow negates one attack and sets back down once used" I answered, smiling as I saw him struggling.
"Fine, I play Graceful Charity." I watched as the card flipped up, showing the picture I remembered well. "So I can draw three cards, so long as I discard two"
I watched him draw the cards, seeing him smile as he had a plan; he discarded the two cards as he said he would. "I then place two face downs and end my turn" I watched as he did this, pointing to me. "Just try and beat me now, freshman!"
"Easy" I replied, drawing a card, fissure, great, and a perfect plan with a perfect win. "First off, I play fissure from my hand" I watched as his soldier was turned into scrap metal, he still smiled as I did this.
"I play Call of the haunted!" he shouted, revealing the card. "And I use it to bring back my Ancient Gear Golem!"
I was dreading something like that, I watched as the massive machine came out of the ground. 3000 attack points was going to be hard to topple, but at least I could do it.
"I end my turn"
"Fine, Draw" he gets a card from his jacket, smiling as he holds it in the air "I play Giant Tunade, which removes all magic and traps cards from the field!" a whirlwind picked up, blowing all spell and traps from the field… the golem was still standing due to a loop hole in it's use. I had lost my greatest defence, and was wide open. "Go Ancient Gear Golem; attack Battle Ox with Mechanized Melee"
I watched as the Golem slowly punched my Battle Ox…Sorry buddy, I then watch my life point's drop to 2000, due to the golem's effect. The monster slowly resets to its original position, content with the damage done. "I'll end my turn by placing two face downs"
"Alright" I nervously start, pulling the card out of my deck, Pot of Greed, useful right now. "I play Pot of Greed and Draw two cards" I draw them and look, seeing I had drawn Monster reborn and United We Stand. Anything is good right now. "Alright, I play Monster Reborn to bring back my Battle Ox" I point at the space where I would place it, seeing it return in a blue light. I could see my opponent laugh as he saw this.
"Don't you DARE laugh at these cards!" I shout at him, the crowd had grown and were now all looking at me. "I know that this is the first duel we have together, but I trust my deck to get me through this!" I looked at my deck, thinking about what to say next. "And let me show you my deck's strength!"
I pulled Blade Synchron out of my hand and placing it on the field. "I summon Blade Synchron!" I watched as the squire appeared, holding the blade as usual. "Next, I play double summon to bring out my Judge Man" I place the card in the graveyard and watch the noble warrior appear, removing Battle Ox from the field. "Next, I tune Blade Synchron with Judge Man!"
The squire walked over to the Warrior, holding the sword above him, the Judge picked up the sword as the squire turned into the three green rings, flying upwards, the judge jumped up and stopped in the air as the rings went around him.
"Fallen warriors lend their strength. become the vassal of war you were born to become!" I shouted, raising my hand up as the bright flash came on. The crowd watched in awe as my tuning occurred, even my opponent was amazed. "Darkblade the Holy, Come Forth!"
A great sword appeared, spinning around and landing blade down on the ground. Nothing else happened for a bit, but then a warrior in black armour landed on the ground, his appearance like I remembered it from my dream.
"Hah, easy" I heard someone say, I looked round finding no source of the noise, so I presumed it came from the crowd. I looked at my opponent, seeing him still smiling.
"You've done your maths wrong, boy. 2500 doesn't beat 3000" he gloated, laughing a bit. I laughed back, think how silly he was.
"That's the part you are meant to think" I spoke, holding United We Stand in my hand. I heard him gasp, as everyone looked at him.
"What are you planning boy?" he asked, getting slightly angry.
"This" I turned the card round, showing him the card. I watched as he squirmed as he realised what the card was. "I activate United We Stand!" I placed the card in the slot, equipping it to my monster, putting him up to 3500 attack points. I was happy at that.
"Oh wait" the guy realised something. "That only does 500 damage to my life points" he then scratched his cheek. "I will have 2700 life points left"
"And that's where Darkblade's effect comes in, but more on that later" I answer, getting my free hand pointing at his golem. "Go, Darkblade the Holy, destroy Ancient Gear Golem with Holy Slash of shadows"
I watched my warrior charge towards the Golem, slashing at the legs and throwing his sword at the creatures head, jumping up and grabbing it, holding still. "And that reminds me" I start, looking at the guy panic as his golem starts to collapse. "if Darkblade destroys a monster in attack mode, the monster's attack points come out of your life points!"
"What? No!" he shouted, I watch as Darkblade slashes the head of the golem off, heading towards the guy. "I can't lose to another Slacker!"
"You abused the cards, this is payback!" I answer, oddly he sounded like he had lost to someone before. Then the golem's head landed on him, followed by the rest of the golem. "Well, that was fun. Hard but fun"
The holograms disappeared and I put my cards back into my deck, putting the deck into a pocket in my jacket. I loved the way the duel disk folded up, the card placements folding into my disk, then shrinking a bit to more accommodate my arm. The crowd rushed over to me, saying things like 'awesome duel' and 'where did you get that card?' and 'are you a pro?'
I was only a newbie, nothing more then that. This was my first real duel, but I could find combos in the deck. I zoned out for a bit, feeling something…weird. I looked round and saw someone with long green hair and someone next to her with black hair standing in the shadows of some trees, someone walked by them and they disappeared. Well, it was strange, but I guess I was seeing things.
"Nice duel, Craig" my opponent came over and said. I looked at him, hoping he wasn't here to insult my cards any more. "You've earned that Deck and D-wheel"
"Well thanks, but who are you?" I asked him, everyone looked at him, wondering the same.
"I am Doctor Crowler, Phd in Duelling" he answered.
"Never heard of you"
"I have" someone in the crowd spoke, everyone looked at this one man. "He's the new scout for Kaiba corp."
"Kaiba Corp? That doesn't exist" I sceptically spoke.
"You mind your mouth Craig or I'll take them back off you" Crowley told me, I looked at him, still in disbelief but looking.
"Alright, so what do you want?" I ask, scratching my head, whacking myself with the duel disc
"Mr Kaiba is organising a new tournament for new players, it begins in 6 months and I believe a James wanted you to join" Crowler told me. He was speaking to me as if I was four years old.
"Good old James, he does want me to play then"
"I am the one who made this D-Wheel for you" I heard James speak, I turned round and saw him in formal clothes, I was amazed that he got here so quick.
"Nice to see you" I spoke.
"Craig, I had a bit of spare time and Mr Kaiba asked me to build a D-wheel for a new duellist" he walked over to me, thinking. "I recommended you and he agreed if you could beat Mr…"
"Doctor!" Crowler interrupted.
"If you could defeat Crowler" he continued, ignoring Crowler. "I told him of the cards you wanted and he got this deck specially made"
"Wow, thanks James" I spoke, the crowd started leaving now, and so I walked over to the D-wheel. "So how do I work this?"
"Let's get it home first, and then I'll tell you, alright?"
"Fine"
"Crowler, haven't you got something to do?" James asked him.
"Ah, yes, I have to tell Mr Kaiba about this, good bye" he then ran off, heading out of the park as fast as possible.
"What a weird guy" I commented, starting to move the D-wheel home.
So this is practically how it will work, if it's a new card I've made up, I'll put down the stats, ignoring effects of course.
Crowler might be the only Character from the series that I put in. the rest will be OC's with their own decks.
And please, tell me what you think of the New monsters so far.