Chapter 1: The Beginning Chapter of the Shadows
"Go blade knight attack him directly!" a boy yelled as his monster began to attacking. "Hold it right there, john go facedown chain cripple!" "What my chain cripple trap card does is that Chain cripple stops your attack and you lose life points equal to half of your monster's attack so you lose 800 which happen to be all you have left." The boy directly across from john yelled as a chain struck john and left him with zero life points. (0/2300)
"In a totally one sided duel with a moment of loss for control of this duel its Jacob!" the announcer bellowed as a tournament bracket showed up on the mega screen showing Jacob going against his next opponent in the finals Sean.
"So my next opponent is Sean let's see what I can pull up on him." Jacob thought to himself as he pulled up a holographic screen from his watch and after going through several screens, he finally found Sean, "so it seems he uses elemental heroes and cards like those of Yugi Moto's this duel shouldn't be too challenging." As Jacob was about to deactivate the watch something caught his eye "wait his record shows he's lost only 3 times, "this won't be as easy as I thought, and I better stay on guard," Jacob thought to himself as he picked up his duel disk, strapped it on his wrist and walked out into the arena. As Jacob entered the arena, he got both sides from the audience showing hatred and love for him. It was quite the opposite as Sean entered the arena as the audience praised him as if he was a god and the duel began.
"Well I can see which one of us is the fan favorite, but who the audience likes more is nothing that will decided the duel it's about your skills and ability to think quickly and stay one step ahead of your opponent" Jacob thought to himself.
Jacob is very tall, very thin young adult and has a very distant focus always leaving people curious on what is his angle, but he always does this to make sure no one knows about his past and he wears a leather fabric jacket and a necklace with an emblem on it that no one can recognize. In addition, Sean was someone Jacobs's age a little taller than Jacob was though Sean always had a killer focus on who or whatever his next target is. "Alright you two I want a clean duel you both begin with 4000 life points direct attacks are permitted get to your corners and get ready to duel." The ref said with the blandest voice in history.
"Let's get this over with Sean I got a prize to claim." Jacob said with the up most confidence if not arrogance. "I'll make the first move; I draw and set four cards facedown and summon prison guard in defense mode (0000/2450) when he is summoned I get to draw 1 card and that ends my turn." Jacob said as four facedown cards appeared and a prison security guard with giant shields on his arms with those facedown cards.
"It's my move so let's get dueling, Sean said with confidence. I set three cards face down and summon elemental hero avian in attack mode (1000/1000) ….", Sean said as he was about to end his turn
"You've triggered my trap prisoner retribution when you summon a monster with more attack than mine I get to take one card from your hand. You lose 300 life points, but I cannot draw a card at the start of my turn for the next three turns, so I will take your pot of greed card. Oh, and I forgot to mention that prisoner retribution ends your turn" Jacob said, as he knew he gained an early lead although it was only a slight lead. (4000/4000à3700)
"I will now play pot of greed you were so nice to give me Sean so that will give me the ability to draw two cards. Then I activate the prison grounds field spell this increases the attack and defense of all my prison monsters by 300 and decrease the attack and defense of your monsters by 800 then I activate my two-facedown cards. What the facedown cards in question are my Prison warden's rage and punishment of incompetence. Punishment for incompetence causes you to discard one card every time you lose life points, prison wardens rage doubles all damage from prison monsters, to keep both these traps I must pay 1000 life points during the start of each of my turns. Now to start the real action I switch prison guard to attack mode and attack avian for 400 life points of damage, which will end my turn." (4000/3700à3300)
"Nice move Jacob now it's my turn I activate my two facedown cards the warrior returns alive to add avian back to my hand and hero signal this allows me to summon avian with the ability to be unaffected all of your spells. Then I activate the equip spell hero sword to increase the attack of avian by 800 (1800/1000) now avian attack and destroy his prison guard!" Sean yelled as he thought he might be getting a lead on him (4000à2500/3500).
"Not bad kid, but you fell into my trap when you destroyed prison guard his ability lets me special summon any level four or lower prison monster from my hand. The monster I chose to summon is my lone prisoner (1850à2150/960) who when special summoned by a prison monster's effect destroys your monster and takes half of his attack out of your life points. You have to discard 1 card and the damage is doubled from my two traps." Jacob said as he got a smug look on his face (2500/3500à1700).
"Now It's my move so I'll pay out the 2000 life points to keep my traps (2500à500/1700) then I activate prisoners shackles this attaches to my monster and decreases his attack by 400 but I gain 500 life points each turn (500à1000/1700). I'm not done yet I sacrifice my lone prisoner to summon prison master (2500/2000) who when summoned while I have prison warden's rage and punishment for incompetence I gain 1500 life points and you lose 1000 life points (1000à2500/1700à700) now I attack you directly to end this duel."
"It is over with almost all of his life points in tact Jacob is victorious the tournament and the prestige chained prison fighter card." The announcer bellowed as Jacob grabbed his card and left with his trophy.
Before Jacob realized it, Sean decided to follow Jacob to find out why and how he got so good and if there was something, he was hiding. Half way to his house Jacob said "you should come out from the bushes I know your there Sean, I heard you a mile away now just tell me what is it that you want? I have places to go things to see and most importantly high-class duelist to beat." Jacob asked, as he was annoyed that Sean tried to be his shadow.
"I want to know how you got so good, where you came from and what that emblem on your necklace is from and what it means, that's what I want." Sean said, as he grew furious by the rudeness of Jacob.
"So what you want is to stick your nose in matters that do not concern you in any way, shape, or form?" Jacob said without even looking at Sean. As Jacob continued to walk through the woods, Sean continued to follow him. After a while Jacob grew tired of this, Jacob snapped his fingers, and two duelists jumped out and said they would handle Sean but they said it simultaneously.
"So Sean said if he's dueling against two clowns he starts with 8000 life points. They both agreed so the duel began and Sean drew his first card none of the three knowing it, but Jacob was watching off in the distance as if he was accessing Sean and his skills. Jacob was only doing this because he thought the duel was too short to judge Sean on his skills.
"I draw and I set two cards facedown and I summon elemental hero wildheart (1500/1600) in attack mode to end my turn.
"Then it is my turn, I am chin yang and I will set three cards face down and summon my red archery girl (1400/1500) in defense mode to end my turn."
"So it my turn and I draw but before I begin my turn, I am chin ying. I activate spell economics so we do not have to pay life points for activation of our spell cards and I activate toon world. So now red archery girl is toon mermaid (1400/1500) and I summon toon tomato (1400/1100) in defense mode now I set four cards facedown and end my turn."
"Finally now for a real monster to be summoned so I summon elemental hero heat in attack mode (1600à2000/1200) it gains 200 attack points for every elemental hero I control so it's at 2000 enough to roast your tomato!" Sean yelled, as he was about to get an early lead.
"Not quite go face down toon briefcase now you shuffle your elemental hero heat back to your deck and shuffle your deck." chin yang had said as a giant briefcase ate elemental hero heat.
"Now I activate pot of greed to draw two cards and then wildheart will slice and dice your tomato so I will end with one face down, your move chin yang."
"Actually, it must wait for my brother to finish choosing a replacement for toon tomato and he just did toon-masked sorcerer (900/1400). Therefore, now I will make my move by summoning dark rabbit (1100/1500) in attack mode and activate shadow toon while I have toon world in play I can target one of your monsters and you lose life points equal to its attack. (4000/4000/8000à6500) then I play comic hand so I get a toon version of wild heart. I will attack you directly with dark rabbit and toon wildheart (4000/4000/6500à5000à3900)"
"Now I can play my trap Sorrowful Blessing. When I lose over half of my life points in one turn, I can draw until I have a hand twice as big so I get to have a hand of eight. I activate a rival appears so you pick one card in my hand if it's a monster it stays on the field if it is the same level as one of your monsters so pick" and in his hand, all except one card were monsters and most of them were level four.
"I pick that one" chin yang had said and the card he picked was elemental hero Sparkman and he was summoned,
"Sorrowful Blessing also will skip chin ying's turn so I draw and I summon element hero burstinatrix in attack mode and play polymerization to avian and burstinatrix to summon elemental hero flame wingman (2100/1200). Now I equip Sparkman with spark blaster to let me switch your monster into attack mode so toon-masked sorcerer is in attack mode and I attack toon-masked sorcerer so he which means it is destroyed and you lose 1200 from the battle and 900 from flame wingman's effect (4000à2800à1900/4000/3900). So now, the score is even or at least a bit more and I will end with two cards facedown.
"Finally it my turn again and I will sacrifice both my monsters to summon toon blue eyes white dragon (3000/2500) go destroy his flame wingman!"
"Go face down invisible hero. My invisible hero trap card prevents my elemental hero from destruction by battle, but I still take the battle damage. Still I do not mind taking 900 points of damage so now flame wingman safe (1900/4000/3900à3000).
I end my turn your move brother." Chin ying said.
Thank you now I draw and active greedy toon so I get to draw 1 card for every two toon monsters in all our graveyards I have 2 you have none and my brother 4 so I get to draw 3 cards. Now I summon toon silent magician and activate toon hammer to give him 1500 more attack and he get to hit directly but for only half the damage so go toon slam smack (1900/4000/3900à1500) so now I end my turn."
"I have to make this count…I draw Sean said as he had his eyes closed until he completely drew the card I play polymerization to fuse Sparkman and flame wingman to summon the shining flare wingman (2500à3700/2100). I activate graceful charity to draw three card but discard two so now flare wingman is at 4300 (3700à4300/2100), and I activate enemy wipeout so I can attack all your monsters so this duel is over (0/0/1500). Just as Sean won, Jacob slowly clapped his hands and told Sean to join him and his group of elites and that chin yang and chin yang are just lackeys. Sean followed Jacob and Jacob explained he was a convict and that he paid his dues so he wants to stop anyone else who tries to do the things he did.
The prison changed me but for the negative because the things that happened there scarred me for life. The warden released me because of the traumatizing things had experienced he took pity on me. I was very thankful because when I first got to the prison the warden was cruel, ruthless and inhumane towards the prisoners. Another thing the warden did for me was he revoked my prison sentence from any files. "At first the warden was cruel and I hated him until I started to help with keeping the most psychopathic man I have ever met under control."