Ahhh... Worlds last year, he thought, what a memory: getting up to the Finals and then being beaten by Lewis, another member of PHX. He had been playing Cunning Tog, running 4 Undermine main deck in place of 4 counterspells, Lewis, or Ghost as he had become known, had won with a Blue/Green madness deck, it had a better matchup, it was rather funny, Legacy thought, that from the semi-finals up the only people remaining in the tournament were in PHX.
Legacy turned the music up on his computer, Limp Bizkit - Break Stuff, he began to type again, the article was against YuGiOh Chibis, the young Children versions of the YuGiOh characters, Legacy was fronted with an error, "Goddamn it! If that bitch doesn't stop it I'ma get mighty pissed!" He exclaimed, knowing that his sister, Caroline, was in CPL, the Chibi Protection League, along with Ricki egacy's previous best friend, Aiden.
Legacy removed the error and readded his sister to the firewall's shitlist, "She shouldn't be getting past this in a hurry!" He started typing what had been lost again, his sister often boycotted his documents, she didn't know where the bunker was, but she knew the IP of the computer. He couldn't understand why the CPL were so obsessed with removing people's rights to an opinion. He spat, "Terrorists!" He muttered.
He finished up the document and checked his watch, 6:32pm. He sent it to Azzie, the leader of PHX, Legacy knew Azzie's secret, and although he wouldn't reveal it, he hoped that one day someone did, the truth was that Azzie liked Pikachu, but liked was an understatement, Azzie used to have a massive Portal dedicated to Pikachu, and had spent more money on Pikachu merchandise than anyone. Legacy and Azzie disagreed on many things, and this was one of them: Why should Azzie be allowed to like Pikachu when the others were restricted to hating Anime? Not that Legacy cared for Anime, he just saw it as an injustice, plus he wanted to be the leader of PHX, it was obvious!
"FILE SENT!" The screen flashed. Legacy presed Shut Down on the GNOME toolbar, Legacy was running Linux for a reason, it was the belief of himself, and many other members of PHX, that Microsoft had installed a lot of Spyware in Windows XP. This would mean that they could see anything that Legacy typed. Even Azzie was running Linux because as a whole, the clan deemed Windows XP unsafe, so any computers which would dial into the PHX server had to run a non-Microsoft O/S.
Legacy walked out of his bunker, actually more of a hole in the ground with
a patch of fake grass on a trapdoor over it, which he could open with his remote.
He pocketed the remote after closing the trapdoor, and spat. "Shit!"
He whispered, tensely, as a bunch of people in black tops came towards him,
he counted, one... two... three! Three males, each of them about 16.
One of them ran towards him, "This is for tha Chibis, Bitch!" With
that he threw a kick at Legacy, which he easily deflected with his hand, and
set the youth rolling onto the floor, Legacy jumped up, and booted another one
in the face, sending him reeling backwards into the other, the three thugs ran
off, realizing they had no chance against him.
"Fuck CPL!" Legacy heard Azzie's voice behind him, "Nice fighting,
where'd you pick that up? Anyways wanna come to the crib? We got some shit to
do, y'know, playtesting for GP - Birmingham!"
Legacy just remembered: Grand Prix - Birmingham, how could he have been so dumb
as to forget it? It was the biggest tournament going to happen in the UK that
year, the year was 2004, and Legacy knew that as Worlds was coming up, the Grand
Prix would be a good place to scope out the current Pro metagame: the current
favourite decks.
"Yea aight then! I need to test my new creation, might be worth running,
it runs Wake with Ambassador Laquatus as well as Decree of Justice, basically,
even if they have loads of damage hate or life gain, I can just mill them to
death!"
Legacy and Azzie walked over to Azzie's 'Crib', it was actually a rundown warehouse
that PHX had bought with their prize money from last year's tournaments. They
stepped inside, the door groaned as they pushed it open, inside were Lewis,
Hailie, Duke and Rob.
"Aight?" Asked Legacy.
"Yea we cool" Replied Rob, who was mutilating Duke with his Zombie
Bidding deck, Duke was running Soldiers, which have a notorious matchup against
Zombies.
"Got an Exalted, Legacy?" Requested Hailie.
Legacy reached into his backpack and pulled out a folder, which was thicker
near the edges than at the spine. He pulled out a card, "Your late birthday
present." He teased, and passed her the Exalted Angel, he could never let
anyone know, but she was his idol. She was a fit girl, who played Magic, who
was good at Magic, and who was popular... but most of all, she hated Chibis
more than he did, and that's a lot of hate.
"Thanks," she blushed, and for a second Legacy thought that she winked
at him, but he was sure it was just his eyes decieving him. They had known each
other for a long time, since Hailie had lived next door to Legacy back when
he was called Matt, and when he moved, she happened to move next door to him
again.
Later, Legacy looked outside, it was dark, Shit! He thought, he quickly ran
home, checking his watch when he got to the door, he laughed pitifully, he didn't
have a clue how he would explain this to his dad, it was past 3:00am.
Luckily his parents were asleep, his dad on the sofa with beer cans all around
him, and the ashtray next to him, and his mum with the TV controller in her
hand. The TV was on, SkyMovies+, Legacy shrugged and walked upstairs.
He soon kipped off, knowing that there was no school for another 5 weeks, so
he didn't have to get up early in the morning, well he was right about that,
or he would've been.
Legacy awoke sharply, he had felt something small rub against him, he had
no reason to think that anything had, because his room door was locked, but
he got his torch anyway, he shone it all over the room, the window was open,
it must've just been the wind, he closed the window, and snuck back into bed,
the clock shone bright green light: 4:52am.
He dreamed about snowboarding with girls, but his dream was interrupted with
visions of a small white creature, purple-tipped, he thought it was just another
dumb thing he had dreamed up, but he didn't forget it in the morning. Legacy
was so fascinated by the creature he had dreamed about that he created a Magic
card for it:
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XYZ (Dont have a name)
2+W+W
Creature - Cute Legend
2/3
When XYZ comes into play, remove any number of permanents from the game you
control, put that many Cute counters on XYZ. Whenever damage is dealt to XYZ,
you may remove a Cute counter from it and prevent that damage.
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It wasn't like him to have a cute little furry thing on his mind, usually
he had Magic the Gathering on his mind, he was afterall, almost the WORLD CHAMPION,
and a seriously respected member of the essentialMagic community.
Even when he was playtesting his deck on Magic Online later, he was daydreaming
about the creature, it had turned into a very sudden obsession with him, extremely
sudden. Then he remembered, he had definately seen this creature before, that
was it, it was on his sister's dartboard, dare he ask his sister what the creature
was?
Caroline popped her head through the door, "Have you stolen me Chocolate
Cake?" She roared at him... "No Caroline, but I do have a question!"
"Noo one who hate the chibis askin' me no questions!"
"It's about your dartboard!"
"Me said... What about me dartboard?" She grinned menacingly.
"Who is that, on it?"
"That be dumb Digimon, Calumon!" She yelled at this point "He
be da Chibi enemy, cos he not actually cute, he be fat and ugly!" And with
that, she stomped upstairs.
"She can talk" Murmured Legacy, grinning. "Calumon, eh?"
He logged onto the Internet in his bunker, he didn't dial the PHX server, which would normally have been a macro in his mind, he searched for Calumon:
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Found: 21 Documents relating to calumon
.LIST 10 out of 21
1/ Calumon Should Die
2/Kill Calumon
3/I never hated something so much before...
...
4/Calumon is Real
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He didn't even let it load any further, he clicked on #4. A picture of Calumon
popped up, this was the creature he was thinking about, how could he care? It
was just some anime creature. Then something beeped in his pocket, he pulled
out his pager, it wasn't doing anything! He saw a red light flashing in his
pocket.
He pulled something out of his pocket, a black item, it was almost circular,
had a screen on it and about nine buttons, the screen said, "FOLLOW THE
RUBY LIGHT!"
Legacy was shocked, he had never owned one of these before, never mind that,
he had never seen one of these before, hell, he didn't know what it was, but
he knew it was meant for him, that was obvious. The item bleeped again, he switched
off the computer, taking with him a printout about Calumon, he jammed the print
in his pocket, took out the remote and closed the trapdoor. He ran in the direction
the 'Ruby Light' pointed him.
He came to a very strange sight, I must be dreaming, he thought. But then he
saw it, little Calumon, he had never felt so bonded with anything, Calumon was
lying down and not moving, he didn't look asleep but he couldn't be...
Legacy picked the little thing up, Calumon was almost weightless, he stirred
though, he was alive! He had a very high voice, "Hi! Who are you?"
Legacy responded, "Me? Legacy, and I already know who you are!"
Calumon looked like he was about to cry, "How come?"
"Don't be upset, I just looked you up on the Internet!"
"Have you come to take me away?"
"Take you where? You and I were..." He didn't know what he was saying,
conversing with this Digimon was strictly against PHX rules, What PHX don't
know, can't hurt them, he thought.
"We were what?" Calumon sounded curious.
"Nevermind."
The black item was bleeping, the screen was bringing up a complex message:
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You were destined to be together, Calumon is your partner, for many weeks he
has wondered aimlessly, let him take example in what you do!
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Legacy thought, What I do? All I do is play magic all day, how would that
help him? He would just get bored out of his mind!
Calumon chipped in, "Wanna play?"
"Play what?" The message had struck him, and he sounded cold.
Calumon looked upset again, but Legacy stroked him, "I'm sorry, my bad
attitude took over, how about we eat?"
"Yaaaaaay!"
"Not so loud!"
"Why not?"
"Hard story, but to make a long thing short, I don't want anyone knowing
about this yet."
"Oh, play secrets!"
"Yea, that's it!"
And with that, Legacy walked with Calumon towards the town centre, both of them
famished, both of them happy. But Legacy knew things couldn't remain this way,
or he would be shunned by all: CPL, PHX, goddamn him, he thought, but he couldn't
bear to part with Calumon.