Okay so as most of you may have noticed I'm a bit of a sadist and like making people suffer. But only fictional people and I always give them happy endings. But anyway, from the minute I watched yugioh arc v and saw how innocent, optimistic and vulnerable Yuya Sakaki is, I knew he'd be a perfect victim so I created an AU with all the drama out of the way so I could make him suffer. So you know, this is non cannon.
PS I only know the dub names for people 'cause I can't watch subs, trying to read the text and look at the video at the same time gives me a headache.
PPS most of the cards in my OC's deck I just made up.
"Attention students." Yuya and Zuzu's teacher announced one morning. The two said duellists looked up to see someone they didn't recognise stood at the front of the classroom. It was a boy of around 14 with orange hair framing his face in perfect curls. He was quite tall and wearing the school's uniform. To tell the truth he looked like he could be a film star and all the girls in the room immediately began swooning over him. He just smiled confidently and acted like he hadn't noticed all the attention. "This class," The teacher continued. "Is Varsch Crescent, a new transfer student. I'd like it if you all welcomed him into our class."
"Hi." He greeted, even his voice was beautiful, it flowed silkily and in a perfect tenor. "It's so wonderful to meet all of you." He winked at the girls in the front row and they all squealed. Yuya and Zuzu had to cover their ears to blot out the annoying sound. They both scowled at the display, neither of them had any interest in this new student's good looks. However, it was because of this that Varsch had taken an interest in Zuzu. She was the only girl in the room not staring at him in awe and that intrigued him, for he had not up until this point met anyone who was able to resist his charms.
"Hello," He said, standing next to her desk and smiling down at her.
"Hi," She said, smiling also. Sure she thought this kid looked really stuck up and full of himself but she wasn't one to judge. "I'm Zuzu."
"Varsch."
"Hi." Yuya said, jumping into the conversation. "I'm Yuya."
"Nice to meet you." Said Varsch, pretending he wasn't irritated with Yuya for interrupting his chat to Zuzu.
"So where are you from?" Zuzu asked.
"A small village in China, it's quite nice there. My family had our main house there though we now have one in every country in the world."
"Oh, I see." Zuzu replied, sounding a bit disappointed. She was starting to think her theory about him being a snob was right.
"Wow, that's pretty cool." Said Yuya.
Varsch just ignored him and focused on Zuzu. "Is something wrong?" He asked, noticing her change in mood.
"Oh!" Zuzu flinched, surprised at the concern in his voice. "No, I'm good." She put on her best smile.
"That's great." He said, sitting in the chair next to her, which was also conveniently the one between her and Yuya. The latter beginning to feel a lot like a third wheel. "I was really nervous about my first day here, I'm glad to have made a friend." Varsch said sweetly to Zuzu. The young pink haired duellist smiled brightly, realising Varsch may not be so bad after all. Only a few minutes later the two of them were chatting together like they'd known each other for years.
Meanwhile, Yuya was beginning to have a bad feeling about this Varsch character. He'd blatantly ignored his attempts at conversation, sure he was talking with Zuzu but couldn't the three of them chat together? He sighed and looked out the window; perhaps he was being to harsh, he'd only just met the guy, he should at least get to know him before he judged him. Besides, it wasn't like Zuzu wasn't allowed to talk to people other than him, he just didn't like feeling left out.
When Zuzu started laughing at something Varsch had said to her, the boy in question turned around slightly and noticed Yuya looking out of the window almost sombrely. He couldn't help but smirk internally, from the moment Yuya had opened his mouth Varsch had disliked him. He sounded way to happy and carefree, it was so annoying. Of course he didn't plan on being mean to him, just avoid him hopefully. Which would make it harder to get closer to Zuzu, but don't let it be said he didn't enjoy a challenge.
"Varsch?" Said Zuzu, snapping him out of his thoughts. He laughed and turned back to her so they could continue their conversation. He was pleased Zuzu seemed comfortable around him, he figured it wouldn't be long before she fell for him like every girl ever has. He enjoyed it when they became smitten with him, he liked leading them on and then breaking their hearts. He took so much pleasure in breaking their hearts, and he couldn't wait to break Zuzu's.
Yuya and Zuzu were about to walk to You Show when they were approached by Varsch.
"Hey Zuzu," He greeted, casually moving in-between her and Yuya.
"Hey Varsch," She said, seeming to have not noticed the irritated look on Yuya's face.
"I was wondering if I could walk you home, I would very much like another opportunity to talk with you." Varsch said, in his most charming voice.
"Oh I'm not going home, me and Yuya are going to our duel school." She told him.
"Oh yea…" He said, suddenly looking interested.
"Yeah!" Yuya piped up. "It's called the You Show Duel School, and it's not exactly the most popular duel school around." He gave a quick nervous laugh. "But it's defiantly the best."
"I see," Said Varsch. "You know; I duel from time to time."
"Really!" Yuya exclaimed. "That's great, maybe you and I could duel sometime."
Varsch thought about this. A duel with Yuya… If he crushed Yuya in a duel Zuzu would defiantly fall for him. Plus, he'd get to destroy that annoying freak. He was confident he could defeat this kid; his attitude was that of an amateur duellist, while he himself had been one of the Chinese junior champions. Not that they needed to know that.
"I think a duel sounds great." He grinned, actually looking at Yuya for a change. "How about I come with you to your duel school and we duel there."
"Really!" Yuya cried, looking thrilled. "Great, come on."
Then without warning he grabbed Varsch's arm and dragged him along as he rushed to get to You Show.
"Hey wait up!" Zuzu cried, running to catch them up.
It took them less than five minutes to make it to the duel school, which Varsch was only too pleased about. He couldn't rip his arm from that annoying brat sooner. He found the more time he spent with Yuya, the more he hated him. He was so free spirited it made him want to throw up, and his enthusiasm annoyed him to no end. He would relish crushing him in this duel.
"Hey Yuya! Zuzu!"
The trio of young teens turned to see three children known as Ally, Fredrick and Tate.
"Hey guys." Yuya said, laughing happily.
"Hey, who's this?" Ally asked, looking up at Varsch.
"This is Varsch," Said Zuzu. "He just started at our school today."
"Oh cool." She giggled, and Varsch flashed her one of his best smiles.
"He and I are going to duel." Yuya announced.
"Really?!" Tate cried, "Awesome!"
"So where's your action field?" Varsch asked.
"I'll show you." Zuzu said, "follow me."
The group of duellists all trooped indoors. Once inside, Yuya showed Varsch to the main arena while Zuzu set up the arc system. The younger children all settled themselves in the observation area to watch the duel, keen to see what kind of duellist this new person was.
"Okay Zuzu, we're ready!" Yuya yelled, waving up at Zuzu at the control panel. She nodded and activated the action field spell. She selected the one entitled: shinning carnival. Instantly the entire room became a hoard of flashing lights and colours, until both Yuya and Varsch were surrounded by colourful tents and streamers. A sea of colourful shapes floated in the air, glowing brightly against the black of the scene.
"Interesting." Varsch observed, while Yuya was just getting psyched up for the duel.
"Okay then, shall we begin?" Varsch asked, but was quite taken aback when Yuya decided to jump onto one of the platforms around the field.
"Defiantly." Yuya said. "Ladies and gentlemen now presenting the duel of the century."
Everyone aside from Varsch rolled their eyes fondly, use to Yuya's overacting and excitement.
"I'll go first." Yuya said, drawing a card from his deck. "Now to kick things off, I summon my Whip snake.
Performapal Whip Snake – ATK 1700
"Then I'll place two cards face down and hand the spotlight to you for a bit."
Varsch drew his card without a word, looking very calm and serious.
"I summon Kung Fu master Shinikome in attack mode."
A humanoid female monster, with a blue Chinese dress and hair in a black bun, appeared on the field.
Kung Fu Master Shinikome – ATK 1600
"Next I activate the spell card cave of miracles,"
As soon as he'd activated the card his monster disappeared from the field.
"What the?" Yuya said, looking confused.
Varsch smirked as he explained, "This card stops you from attacking any of my monsters for three turns. Finally, I'll end my turn with a facedown."
Yuya was curious as to why he didn't summon a more powerful monster and attack him. Varsch's strategy was unclear to him, but he wouldn't let that affect his game.
"I now summon my Performapal Bowhopper."
Performapal Bowhopper – ATK 1500
"You might be able to protect your monsters, but you're wide open, so Bowhopper can attack you directly."
Performapal Bowhopper attacks Varsch
Varsch Crescent LP 4000 – 2500
"And now my Whip snake will also attack." Yuya announced.
"Not so fast, I activate a trap." Said Varsch. His facedown card flipped up to reveal the trap: Warrior's Cry.
"This allows me to sacrifice my Kung Fu master Shinikome to summon my Yin Warrior."
A bright glow erupted from his side of the field and when it died it revealed a female humanoid monster in a white gown with white skin and hair as well as a white staff with a black sphere on the end of it.
Yin Warrior – ATK 2600
"And thanks to her special ability anytime you try to attack me directly and she's on the field your monster has to attack her instead."
Yuya gasped as she sent out a bright flash from her staff and destroyed his attacking Whipsnake.
Yuya Sakaki – LP 4000 – 3100
"Wow, nice job." Yuya laughed. Varsch's face twisted in confusion. How could he be enjoying himself after having failed his attack? And even complimenting him, there was something wrong with this kid.
"My turn," Yuya announced. He drew his card and was pleased to see it was exactly the one he wanted. "I now activate, preformapal recasting." He slotted the card in his duel disk and it appeared on the field. "Now I can shuffle all the preformapal's in my hand into my deck and redraw, plus an extra card for good luck." He then placed three cards back in his deck and drew four new ones. "And now," Yuya announced showing his newly drawn Stargazer and Timegazer magicians, everyone aside from Varsch got excited, knowing he was about to pendulum summon. No matter how many times they saw it, it never failed to amaze them. "I use my scale 1 Stargazer and scale 8 Timegazer magician to set the pendulum scale." As per usual with pendulum summons, the two magicians appeared behind Yuya in beams of light as a huge pendulum began to swing between them. "Swing far pendulum, carve the arc of victory. My monsters are ready, to SWING INTO ACTION!" Yuya cried as the pendulum swung in a circle creating a vortex from which sprung his monsters. "Hop to it preformapal hip hippo. Flip to it preformapal lizardraw and turn up the heat odd-eyes pendulum dragon."
Preformapal Hip Hippo – ATK 800
Preformapal Lizardraw – ATK 1200
Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon – ATK 2500
Varsch just stared open-mouthed, what was this? He'd never seen anything like it before.
"So, what do you think of my pendulum summoning?" Yuya asked cheerily.
He just continued to stare, Yuya took this as a good sign. That he was too awe struck to talk.
"Well then," Yuya continued. "I now activate the spell card Wonder Balloons." The card in question flipped face up on Yuya's field. "Now I can send a card from my hand to the graveyard to place a counter on this card." He placed one of his cards in the graveyard and a counter appeared on the card. "I think I'll let you take a shot now."
Varsch snapped out of his daze in order to draw a new card. "I've never heard of this pendulum summoning you do but no matter, I'll beat you anyway." He looked at the cards in his hand and smirked, just the hand he needed.
"First I summon my Kung Fu Warrior Shin." A male humanoid monster in Chinese robes with a vail and sword appeared on the field.
Kung Fu Warrior Shin ATK 1700
"But he won't be sticking around for long." The new monster glowed slightly before bursting into little golden sparks. "Because I'm sacrificing him to summon my Yang Warrior." Another monster similar to the Yin Warrior appeared, except this monster had a black colour scheme and a white orb at the end of it's sceptre.
Yang Warrior – ATK 2600
"And now, I'm going to activate the spell card Polymerization."
Everyone gasped, so he knew how to fusion summon. The entire field glowed as his two monsters merged together into one.
"I fusion summon, Yin-Yang Sorcerer."
The entire field was bathed in white light, which faded to reveal a half black, half white humanoid with one angel wing, one bat wing, a Yin-Yang symbol painted across the face and long flowing silver hair.
Yin-Yang Sorcerer – ATK 3200
"Thirty-two hundred attack points!" Yuya cried, staring wide-eyed in shock.
"That's right, and all of them aimed right at you." Varsch said. "Attack!"
His monster raised its staff preparing to attack.
"I activate my trap card." Yuya announced. "Command Performance, this card switches your monster into defense mode since I control a preformapal monster."
Varsch gritted his teeth in frustration as his sorcerer was switched into defense mode. All he'd had to do was attack that stupid Hippo of Yuya's and he would have severely damaged his life points.
Yin-Yang Sorcerer – DEF 2500
"My turn, I draw." Yuya said, pulling a card from his deck. It was the only card in his hand but he slotted it straight in his graveyard to add a new counter to his Wonder Balloons card. "Now, watch and wonder people!" Yuya laughed, as he jumped from the platform he was stood on and landed on the head of his Odd-Eyes. He grabbed the horns of his dragon and the two took off. They flew around in the air for a bit as the audience watched in awe. Varsch stared with both irritation and confusion. Yuya showed off for a few more minutes until he leapt over to one of the tents and grabbed an action card. "Alright!" He yelled happily. "I activate the action spell strength bell (this is an action spell specific to my made up field, I've noticed all the fields have special spells). This spell not only powers up my Odd-Eyes by one thousand points, but it changes your monster back into attack mode."
Yin-Yang Sorcerer – ATK 3200
Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon – ATK 3500
"But that's not all…" Yuya said slyly.
"What?" Varsch gasped.
"I now send my Wonder Balloons card to the graveyard to activate its effect."
Said card disappeared from the field, and Yuya's Odd-Eyes began to glow.
"Since it had two counters on it my dragon's attack points increase by two thousand."
"WHAT?!" Varsch cried.
"Oh and before I forget." Yuya said, sounding smug. "When your monster is level five or above the damage you take is doubled.
Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon – ATK 5500
"Attack!" Yuya ordered. A huge red orb glowed in Odd-Eyes' mouth then burst forth in a stream of energy, destroying Varsch's sorcerer. Varsch was blown off his feet as his lifepoints hit zero and the action field disappeared.
Varsch Crescent - LP 2500 - 0
"Yuya!" Ally, Fredrick and Tate yelled, running over to him and congratulating him on his win.
"Thanks." Yuya laughed.
"Nice duel." Zuzu said, appearing behind him, Yuya laughed and rubbed the back of his head self-consciously. He turned his head to look at Varsch, who was kneeling on the floor with his back to everyone, fuming over his loss. He couldn't believe he'd lost to such a fool of a duellist.
"Hey."
He looked up to see Yuya beside him offering his hand.
"That was a good duel, I had fun."
Varsch just stared at him, taking in his cheerful tone and goofy smile. This was the kid who'd defeated him, this happy, care-free, idiot. He took another look at his smile and knew right then he wanted more than anything to wipe it off his face. He liked breaking people, and right now there was no one he wanted to break more than Yuya Sakaki. So that was that. From that moment, he made it his mission to have revenge on the fun loving clown, he'd break his spirit if it was the last thing he did.