The Darkus Duellist

(Disclaimer: the usual own nothing, nothing at all on with the show. This story takes place right after Alice is revealed as masquerade but when she leaves though the portal but drops her in middle of the fight between Astral world and Barian world with her new friend Astral can Alice pick up Duel Monsters fast enough to help him fight the Barian's.)

Chapter 1: Chance Encounter

As the dust settled from the shocking revelation of Alice being masquerade and the sudden appearance of Hal-G as she ran away from friends for betraying them however when she ran she ended up in strange city unknown to her. "Where am I" she said to herself "when she noticed a strange device on her arm with some sort of cards in it "what is this stuff" before her questions were answered something else came to her mind 'if I can't go home where can go from here and what do I do' before she could react a boy knocked into her "watch where you're going loser" he said before she said "I'm sorry I was in your way" noticing her duel disk he said "well if you want to make up to me how about a duel where loser puts their decks up for grabs" unsure how to react I just said "yes" when I saw the boy back up and turn on his duel disk she copied what he did and put the duel disk on when he said "duel" looking down at the duel disk she saw her opponents name Shark.

Turn 1: Shark-4000LP

"All right I summon Big Jaws in attack mode" monster 1800ATK level 3 "and place one card face down your up"

Turn 2: Alice-4000LP

'oh what now I can't do this alone, no don't panic, okay so the these cards are clearly monsters, and these look to be some sort of a ability cards and traps, so his monster has an attack number so if I play this with more attack'

"Okay I summon skilled dark magician in attack mode" monster 1900ATK level 4 "and I'll attack your monster"

Skilled dark magician destroys Big Jaws Shark loses 100LP

"I'll place one card face down and with that I end my turn"

Turn 3: Shark-3900LP

"not so bad, but not enough to even make a difference, first I'm gonna summon skull kraken in attack mode" ATK 200 LEVEL 3 "then use my face down, surface to bring back my water attribute monster Big Jaws in attack mode" monster 1800ATK level 3

"the time has come" a voice called as she found herself somewhere entirely new to her "whoever unlocks this will gain a great power, but at a terrible cost" the voice called "power, cost, what is this" she said as she looked at what could only be described as a door of some kind "do you have the courage to unlock it" the door said, as she reached out a bright light appeared in her hand, as it dissipated and she found herself holding what she assumed was the key to the door, with the key in hand she went to unlock the door, as she did she was flung back as the door opened and engulfed in share of cards "what's going on" she said as the cards disbursed she found herself back in reality "huh", shark about to make a move

"now I'm gonna use them to XYZ summon … hmmm aggggggggga" he started to sheik as a dark aura engulfed him "number 17 leviathan dragon be born" ATK 2000 Rank 3 "by using one overlay unit leviathan dragon gains 500 ATK points "attack her monster with shock steam blast" he said

Leviathan dragon destroys skilled dark magician Alice loses 600LP

With the attack Alice was flung back "that was intense" she said experiencing damage for the first time "Rise" a voice said, as she looked over she saw a shining figure "rise up" he repeated "who are you" she asked shocked at the new person "um mister, I asked you question" she said "astral" he said turning to shark "is that your name" she said in response "yes if I recall correctly" he said continuing the conversation "what do you mean if you recall" she asked "I do not now who I am, and cannot seem to remember anything else" with this said, she responded with "well I'd like to help in any way I can, but I kinda have to deal with this right now she said turning her attention back to the dual

"With this number I can annihilate you, but for now I'll end my turn with a face down"

Turn 4: Alice 3400LP

"He appears to be angry" Astral stated "yeah your right, but that dragon is going to be our problem in the duel" she said, with this Astral's gaze fell upon the dragon "wait I recognise that word" he said before I asked "wait what do you know about Duelling" "plenty, wait that's it yes I duel" he said, with this Alice said "this is kinda my first duel" "very well I will assist you then, first draw" he said "right" with that said she went a drew a card "first summon Magician's Valkyria then use monster reborn to summon skilled dark magician back" he said with I following instructions "now that you have two level for monsters it's time" with this I thought about what shark did "alright I overlay my Magician's Valkyria and skilled dark magician to XYZ summon" she took the monster out her deck to get her first look at it "number 39 utopia" ATK 2500 Rank 4 'I've got it' "then I activate dark pendant for utopia to gain 500 ATK" Utopia ATK 3000 "now attack Leviathan dragon" with this the attack was under way "now I activate Utopia's special ability to negate it's attack, but that's not all because I activate double or nothing so that it can attack again with double the attack" Utopia ATK 6000

Utopia destroys Leviathan dragon shark loses 3500LP

With this astral look over to I "a good move for your first Duel" he said "well I'm not finished yet, now I activate Hinotama to deal you 500 points of damage"

Shark 400LP – 500LP = 0 I victor

Alice Win

As the duel ended Astral claimed the Number from shark 'I see so by collecting the number cards I can regain my lost memories' with this I was recovering from the shock of the situation with her cloths not returning to normal, it was just one thing after another "you know for noob, you're not that bad a duellist" shark said "don't worry about that whole bet thing it was just nice to have a game" I said "Hm well then see you round" he said walking off.

After the duel Astral explained his understanding of the number cards and himself "so I need to help you get your memoires back, by winning duels and collecting number cards, but if I lose you'll disappear forever" she summed up what he said "yes that is correct" he replied "I'm not sure if you should trust me to do this" by this time and the calming down I was thinking more about the whole her being masquerade 'I mean after what I did to Shun, Dan and the others' "non-sense you are a brilliant duellist, having you as a partner would be efficient, that last combo you preformed was done without my input despite that it was a very effective move" Astral said 'I should help at least to make up for the things I did as masquerade' with new goals I said "I'll do my best to help you".

I was walking around town as Astral figured out how to enter the golden key 'I said I was going to help Astral but even if I didn't I'd still be stuck here, I don't even have anywhere to live, no I've got to think about' she thought for a few minutes passing a couple of students in the meantime 'wait school, I've still got to go to that, I should enrol somewhere' with that thought I headed to an information centre to get info on a school 'if I can find a school that provides housing for its students that should solve that problem' from their she found a school that suited her needs Heartland Academy.

Soon after I found herself in a meeting with the principle "I see so you're a transfer form Russia, I also see you're a second year Miss Gehabich, well we will get you settled in to our student dorms without a problem" the principle of the Heartland Academy stated "so is there any sort of part time job I can get" she asked " there a shared kitchen with raw ingredients that the schools buys in bulk for the use students so if you know how to cook don't worry about that, your school uniform will be provided for you and" he continued while showing I to her dorm 'I'm kinda of glad I found a coat to go over this outfit' she thought came out of her own head when they arrived "this building complex is owned by the school and for student housing because of the amount of space you don't have to have a roommate in your dorm but most students do anyway, it gives them company but this is where I will leave you for now have a nice day Miss Gehabich" he said as he handed over the key, when he left I clasped it had been a long day.

A/N: first a few things I wanted to say, 1 the deck Alice is using is a dark Magician style deck with numbers and Hydranoid (monster details below) 2 I also had to set up Alice with a place to live, and that was the only thing I could think of to set one up.

Details on Hydranoid will stay constant

Hydranoid: type dragon normal monster level 4 ATK 2000 DEF 1500 no effect

Duel Hydranoid: type dragon fusion monster Level 8 ATK 3000 DEF 2250 fusion materials 2 Hydranoid's effect, once per turn by discarding one card destroy one monster, cannot attack directly the turn this effect is activated

Alpha Hydranoid: type dragon fusion monster Level 12 ATK 4000 DEF 3000 fusion materials 3 Hydranoid's or Hydranoid + Duel Hydranoid effect, once per turn by discarding a lcard you can destroy all monsters on the field expect this card, this monster can lower its ATK 2500 in exchange this card cannot be effected by spell, trap or monster effect.