Yugioh 5ds: Dark Horizons
Chapter 1: Arrival
"The ferry should be arriving at Neo Domino City in a few minutes, please gather your belongings and prepare to depart." A voice over the intercom says as the ferry cruises through the waters.
The people on board begin to lift their luggage and head towards the part of the ferry where they will depart. As everyone does so, a figure is seen leaning on the railings at the front of the ferry looking towards the metropolis. The figure is a young man of 18 wearing a long sleeved black high collared jacket over a yellow shirt. He is wearing black pants and yellow boots. His black hair is spiked up and has eerie yellow eyes. The figure is also wearing headphones. He seems to be nodding his head up and down to the beat of the song playing in his ears.
As the city grows closer and closer the teen rummages around in his jacket pocket and pulls out a piece of paper. He unfolds it and begins to read its contents to himself.
Dear Taiwa,
It's been awhile, how's everything going? I'm doing good, taking life a day at a time. Well the reason I'm writing is to invite you to this get together where I live in Neo Domino City. There is going to be this party with some of our classmates from Duel Academy. It should be fun, so get down here. Talk to you later man.
Your friend
Yusha Tatsujin
'Wow Yusha, I haven't seen you in a few years…. ever since our graduation duel.' Taiwa smiles thinking back. 'I wonder how you've chan-."
Taiwa is suddenly interrupted by a tug at his jacket causing him to turn around pull out one of his headphones and come face to face with one of the ferry workers.
"Excuse me sir, we have arrived at our destination." the worker informs Taiwa with an annoyed look on his face.
"Oh ok, sorry"
Taiwa quickly lifts his backpack, throws it over his shoulder and begins to leave the ferry. He runs down the ramp and onto the pier. He catches up to the other passengers and slows down to a walking pace. Taiwa's eyes widen as he glances at the tall skyscrapers of Neo Domino City.
'This place is huge…' Taiwa thinks to himself as he walks down the street.
Taiwa pulls out a ticket from a pocket in his backpack and begins to read it. He stares at it for a few seconds then looks left and right confused.
"You're not from around here are you sonny." a voice says.
Taiwa quickly turns to see a small elderly woman smiling at him. He pulls one of his headphones out of his ear and smiles back.
"Is it that obvious?" he asks.
"Yea, but don't worry I'll help you find what you are looking for."
Taiwa relieved by this shows the woman his ticket. She scans it very fast then turns her back towards the teen.
"You will have to take a left here, and then walk 3 blocks and then take a right at the light; it will be the first building on your right." The woman informs non-saliently.
"Ummm…ok?" Taiwa replies confused as the woman hands him back the ticket.
"But if you want I can take you there myself."
"Oh, can you?"
"Sure, I always like to help tourists." the woman says as she snatches the ticket out of Taiwa's hand.
The woman begins to walk down the block as Taiwa follows.
"Ummm, I didn't even get your name." Taiwa asks politely
"It's Yuuyou sonny, and what's your name?"
"Taiwa…Taiwa Wakari."
"Taiwa ehh?" Yuuyou says aloud as she navigates Taiwa through the crowd of people on the Neo Domino City streets. "So what brings you out to our city?"
"I'm visiting a friend from when we were in school." Taiwa smiles "It's been a few years, so it was worth coming all the way from Onkyou."
Yuuyou nods her head as she stops in front of a building. Taiwa stops along side her and looks up at the large gray building with "Customs Storage" in big letters on the face.
"Well here you go sonny, the place where they store the foreign shipments before their owners arrive." Yuuyou exclaims as she hands Taiwa back his ticket. "It must be pretty valuable, for you to bring it all the way here"
"Yea…very valuable." Taiwa answers as his right hand passes over a bulge on his right side underneath his jacket. "Well, I should be getting inside. Thanks for all your help Yuuyou I'll be seeing you around hopefully."
"No problem sonny, take care."
Taiwa waves goodbye to his guide as he runs up the steps of the building and pushes the glass door open. As he walks in he stops and surveys the area.
"Can I help you sir?" a voice calls out.
Taiwa turns his attention to the source of the question. He sees a woman sitting at a desk marked "information".
"Yes, I'm here to pick up my things" Taiwa responds as he hands the receptionist his ticket.
The receptionist breezes through the information before looking up at him.
"Ahhh yes." the receptionist spins her seat turning her back on Taiwa as she looks up at a wall of hanging keys.
After a few seconds she grabs one of them and spins her seat so she's facing the teen again.
"Take the elevator upstairs." the woman says as she points to the elevators "And the guard there will assist you when you arrive."
Taiwa takes the key from the receptionist and nods thanking her. He turns around and heads for the elevator. He pushes the button opening the chrome doors of the elevator before walking in. The doors close as Taiwa pushes the button to his floor. As the elevator moves up Taiwa puts his headphones back in his ears, sighing deeply.
'What a trip.' Taiwa thinks to himself as he looks at his reflection in the chrome doors 'But for some reason I feel this visit will change my life.'
The elevator doors open suddenly breaking Taiwa out of his thoughts. He steps out and looks around for the guard he was told of.
"Hello?" Taiwa yells looking around for anyone.
The halls of this floor are poorly lit and vacant which lead to a wide open space that resembles a parking lot. Not seeing the guard around, he begins to walk down the corridor. He looks down at the key in his hand with a plastic tag with the number 35 marked on it. After a few seconds of walking and navigating he finally finds the hall where the giant locker holding his stuff is located.
'Sooo, my locker should be around this corner.' Taiwa thinks to himself as he walks.
All of a sudden Taiwa stops in the middle of the parking lot like he was frozen with fear.
'There's someone or something around this corner.'
Taiwa slowly pokes his head around the corner being cautious of the unknown that may appear. Once he sees the close is clear he walks forward.
'Huh, must have been my imagination.'
Taiwa confidently paces toward his locker. As he draws closer his eyes widen as he notices a slit in the door to his locker. The door was unlocked and was cracked open. His eyes widen with shock at this discovery.
'I think someone is inside…Concentrate…'
Taiwa closes his eyes and stays perfectly still until he hears the faint rustling going on inside his locker. His eyes quickly reappear as he turns the knob throwing the door open.
"What the-."
A blur sweeps by the corner of Taiwa's eyes causing the teenager to rotate his head in its direction. He lays his eyes on a man, donned in a black cloak, running down the lot; a shadow without a body.
"Hey, hold it!"
Taiwa runs quickly inside his dark locker. The grumbling start of an engine rings as two luminous eyes pierce through the darkness. A motor bike speeds out with Taiwa on board. He navigates his way through the lot until he finally catches up with the shadow. The apparition turns back to see its pursuer. The shadow finally comes to a stop as it runs itself into a dead end.
"I've got you now!"
Taiwa slows up and flashes his high beams toward the dead end. The shadow stands there shielding its eyes like it was in pain.
"Who are you? Why were you in my locker?" Taiwa interrogates.
The cloaked figure doesn't answer. Taiwa's eyes squint as he tries to peer inside the black hole that the hood was engulfing, but sees nothing…just a void. The figure slowly brings its arm down. Using its right hand, it rolls up the left sleeve revealing a duel disc that seemed to have appeared out of nowhere. The figure pulls out a deck and inserts it inside the contraption, activating it.
"Hmm, you want to duel huh…" Taiwa says smirking as he pushes a button on his bike causing a duel disc to latch onto his left arm.
Taiwa climbs off his bike and flaps up the back of his jacket revealing two cases. He digs into one, plucking out a deck of cards.
"If that's what you want then fine, I'm game." Taiwa inserts the deck, activating the duel disc, "And once I defeat you I expect all my questions to be answered."
"If you don't mind I'll go first." a groggy voice says to Taiwa's surprise.
"Huh, so you do talk, ok then go ahead."
Both duelists draw their first five cards causing a light on both combatants' duel discs to show "4000 LP"
The cloaked man draws his first card.
"First I'll summon my Shadow Knight in attack mode." The shadow says as he lays down the monster card.
Suddenly a knight with black armor appears from the hologram generator on the duel disc. (1400 Atk)
"Then I'll set one card face down, and end my turn."
"Ok it's my go, I draw." Taiwa draws a card from his deck and glances at it. "I'll summon my Echo-Lancer Reverbera to the field."
Taiwa lays down the card as a mechanical android woman appears. (1600 atk)
"Attack with reverberating rush."
Reverbera charges forward at a high speed towards the knight. A vibrating sound is heard while it runs. The mechanical woman speeds past the knight and stops behind it. The knight looks back before looking down. Its metal armor begins to vibrate uncontrollably. The vibrating quickly begins to intensify until the knight explodes.
The cloaked man shields his eyes as the blast throws up dust and debris. The life point counter on his duel disc decreases. (3800 LP)
"I'll set one card face down and end my turn."
An evil laugh is heard coming from the cloaked man. Taiwa's eyes focus on him as he lowers his arm.
"Fool, you played right into my hands." the man says.
"What are you talking about?"
"I activate Shadow Knight's special ability; during the end phase when this monster is destroyed in battle I can send the top three cards from my deck to special summon a level three or lower monster from my hand."
Taiwa's jaw tightens as the cloaked man sends the top three cards from his deck and grabs a card from his hand.
"Come out Shadow Bandit."
Suddenly a black void appears in the ground as a figure donned in black holding a dagger emerges in defense mode. (500 Def)
"Draw…." The man draws his card and chuckles, pleased with the pull "First, I activate the magic card Shadow Switch."
"Shadow Switch?"
"Yes, this magic card switches the position of all the monsters on the field and all I have to do is send the top two cards from my deck to the graveyard."
The cloaked man sends the two cards to the graveyard as a shadow appears from the magic card. It ensnares Reverbera as the monster grunts trying to shake itself loose.
Reverbera is changed to defense mode. (1000 Def)
"Now my Bandit is in attack mode." The bandit stands up (1300 Atk) "Then I summon Shadow Destroyer!"
A giant robot with spiked arms appeared next to the Shadow Bandit. (2000 Atk)
'2000 attack?' Taiwa thinks to himself surprised at the strength of the monster.
"Now my Destroyer, crush Reverbera."
Shadow Destroyer winds its arms back and slams them on top of the machine monster, dissipating it into dust.
Taiwa shields his eyes when all of a sudden his life points drop. (3000 LP)
"What? Why did my life points drop?"
"My Shadow Destroyer's special ability, when it attacks a monster whose defense points are lower than my Destroyer's attack points you lose the difference." The cloaked man explains with a groggy chuckle.
"Fine, then I'll activate my monster's effect, when Reverbera is destroyed as a result of battle, the controller of the monster that destroyed it loses life points equal to the attacking monster's level times 300"
"What?"
"And since your Destroyer is a level four monster, you lose 1200 life points." Taiwa exclaims with a grin on his face.
A glow is seen coming from Taiwa's duel disc. A transparent Reverbera floats behind him.
"Now feel the after shock of my monster!"
As Taiwa says this, Reverbera jumps in the air and lets out a sound wave from the speakers in its hands. The waves strike the cloaked duelist causing him to cover his ears. (2600 LP)
"You think that your little monsters can stop me? My Bandit will ATTACK!"
Shadow Bandit suddenly disappears causing Taiwa to look left and right for it.
'Where did it g-.' Taiwa begins to think when a sharp pain is felt in his back.
Taiwa lets out a painful yell as the bandit is seen behind the duelist. (1700 LP)
Shadow Bandit pulls its dagger out of Taiwa's back and jumps in the air returning to the cloaked duelist's side of the field.
'Why did that hurt me?' Taiwa thinks as he breathes heavily 'This isn't an ordinary duelist' "I reveal my face-down Backup Call, this trap card lets me special summon a monster from my deck equal to or less than the battle damage that I take."
The cloaked duelist stays silent as a card sticks out from Taiwa's deck.
"Come out Ampli-Flyer!"
Taiwa places the card on the duel disc. A mechanical eagle soars from the hologram generator and lets out a screech. (1100 Atk)
"I'm supposed to be afraid of a bird? Please, I end my turn by sending two monsters from my deck to the graveyard to keep Shadow Destroyer on the field." The cloaked duelist mocks as he sends two cards to the graveyard.
'He keeps sending cards to his graveyard, what is he planning?' Taiwa thinks as he draws a card 'Whatever it is I have to try and end this quick' "I summon my Echo-Lancer Treble in attack mode."
A purple and black colored mechanical lion appears on the field. (1500 Atk) Suddenly wires appear from Ampli-Flyer and attach to the back of Treble.
"What is this?" the cloaked duelist asks confused.
"When my Ampli-Flyer is face up on the field all Echo-Lancer monster's get a 500 attack point boost." Taiwa explains as electricity is pumped from the wires into Treble, who lets out a roar (2000 Atk) "Treble attack that Bandit."
Treble cocks its head back and unleashes a mighty roar letting out a very high pitch sound wave that collides with the Shadow Bandit. The cloaked duelist covers his ears once again as his life points decrease. (1900 LP)
"Since you destroyed my Bandit I can activate its special ability, we both get to discard two monsters from our hands to the graveyard."
Taiwa grimaces as each duelist takes a card from their hands and discards it.
"I end my turn by placing two face downs."
"I draw!" the cloaked duelist draws his card and stares at it.
Suddenly the duelist begins to let out a villainous laugh that causes Taiwa to wonder what he drew.
"I release my Shadow Destroyer to bring out my Shadow Ghoul!"
The destroyer becomes engulfed in darkness until its form changes into that of a ghastly creature. (1600 Atk)
'Shadow Ghoul? So that was his plan' Taiwa thinks as he looks on nervously.
"My Ghoul gains 100 attack points for every monster in my graveyard, and I count ten"
The attack points of the Ghoul slowly increase till it hits 2600.
"Shadow Ghoul, destroy Treble with shadow claw!" the cloaked duelist commands as Shadow Ghoul's nails grow longer.
Shadow Ghoul's arms extend and slash at Treble, destroying it. Taiwa's life points go down as his monster goes to the graveyard. (1100 LP)
"You just activated Treble's ability, the monster that battles with it is changed into defense position at the end of the battle phase." Taiwa says in relief.
"Well not if I activate the quick play spell card, Shadow Negation." The cloaked duelist responds by activating the card from his hand "This card lets me negate the monster effect of any monster at the cost of three monsters from my deck."
Shadow Ghoul roars as three more cards are sent from the deck to the grave yard. (2900 Atk)
"Yes my Shadow Ghoul, feed off the life of the others." The cloaked duelist laughs maniacally "Go ahead Taiwa, draw your last pathetic card."
A serious look comes over Taiwa's face as he places his hand on his deck ready to draw. He closes his eyes.
'Answer my call my friends… come through.' Taiwa says to himself as he draws his card.
He opens his eyes to look then turns to his opponent.
"Unlike you, I respect the cards in my deck and not use them as sacrifices for one monster, each card is important to the victory." Taiwa says as he points to his opponent "I'll show you what I mean with this!"
"You LIE!" the cloaked duelist says nervously.
"Does this look like a lie? I summon the tuner monster Echo-Lancer Resonance."
A mechanical android, similar to Reverbera but a male version, appears. (1400 Atk) The cloaked duelist looks on silently but suddenly bursts out with a laugh.
"You expect that thing to take down my monster?"
"By itself no, but together my monsters can take down anything." Taiwa responds as he pushes a button on the duel disc activating a card already on the field. "I activate the magic card Chord, with this I can special summon an Echo-Lancer monster from my graveyard with the same level as another on the field."
"What?"
"And since Resonance is a level three monster, I can summon Reverbera from my graveyard"
A light appears on the ground in front of Taiwa as Reverbera ascends onto the field. (1600 Atk)
"Now, I tune my level three Resonance to my level three Reverbera."
Resonance suddenly disappears into three glowing spheres that begin to surround Reverbera.
"The sound of the wicked threaten the innocent. Silence it with your hand of death."
The spheres turn into rings that pass over Reverbera again and again until its form begins to change.
"Synchro Summon! Appear now Echo-Lancer Master Mute!" Taiwa yells as Reverbera completes its transformation. (2400 Atk)
The new monster begins to descend from the sky. It is wearing a black hooded cloak that covers its face, and is wielding a scythe. When its feet touch the floor crimson eyes and a crimson X where the mouth should be is seen through the darkness of the hood.
"Heh, impressive, but your synchro monster doesn't compare to my Shadow Ghoul." The cloaked duelist says as the ghoul lets out a roar.
Taiwa just stands there with a serious face looking at his opponents and his monster.
"Master Mute…Silent Sphere."
Master Mute lifts its arm as a mechanical skeletal hand appears from the sleeves of the cloak. It points its index finger to its X mouth as the crimson eyes grow brighter. The entire duel field is quickly engulfed in a dark dome. The cloaked duelist looks left and right. The traffic that was heard outside is now a dead silence.
'What's going on?' the cloaked duelist says in his head.
'Master Mute's special ability, as long as this card is face up on the field every monster effect is negated, except for Master Mute of course.' Taiwa says through a psychic-like link with the duelist.
The cloaked duelist looks surprised at Taiwa as he hears him in his head. He then turns to see his monster. As it is shrinking it loses attack points. (1600 Atk)
'And now this is the end for you, I reveal my last face down Voice from the Afterlife.' Taiwa says as he pushes another button on the duel disc 'This trap lets me remove an Echo-Lancer monster from play to increase another Echo-Lancer on the field by the removed monster's attack…and I choose Reverbera.'
Master Mute grabs its scythe with both hands as its attack increases (4000 Atk)
'Go Master Mute; destroy Shadow Ghoul with Silent Slaying.'
Master Mute flies through the air and swipes at the ghoul slashing it into pieces. The impact of the destruction causes a back lash that hits the cloaked duelist causing him to fall on his knees. (0 LP)
Taiwa takes a deep breath as the holograms disappears leaving the two duelists alone.
"Now, it's time for you to answer some questions." Taiwa says as he walks over to his opponent.
An evil laugh is heard coming from the cloaked duelist. Hearing this, Taiwa stops a few feet from him.
"Just as I expected from you…Taiwa Wakari."
"Wait, how do you know my name?"
"No need to worry about that, everything will come to light soon enough." the cloaked duelist says, "We'll meet again…"
Taiwa becoming annoyed goes to grab him when the dark cloak that the duelist was wearing slithers off of him like a snake.
"What the…"
The cloak merges with the surrounding shadows as it makes its get away.
'What was all of that about?'
A groan is heard from underneath Taiwa. He looks down to a man wearing a uniform that reads "Customs Security".
'Oh so that's where the security guy was.' Taiwa says to himself as he kneels down to help the man.
The man opens his eyes to see Taiwa there.
"Wh—who are you?"
'He doesn't remember anything…oh well it's for the best'
Taiwa helps the man up then explains who he is and lies about what happened. The security guard buys the story and goes downstairs. Taiwa hops on his D-Wheel and puts on his helmet. He revs the engine and heads off to his friend's house.
'I can't get what that guy said to me back there out of my head.' Taiwa thinks as he rides through the streets of Neo-Domino City. 'I just hope this party can get my mind off of it till I figure something out.'
Taiwa turns on a street and parks his D-Wheel by the side of a building. He takes the envelope where the letter from Yusha was in and checks the return address.
'Yup, I'm at the right place.'
Taiwa gets off his D-Wheel, takes his helmet off and sets the security. He walks inside the building and walks up a flight of stairs to a door. Taiwa knocks on the door and calls out.
"Hey, Yusha it's me Taiwa…"
After a few more knocks and still a no answer Taiwa grabs the knob.
"Yusha di-." Taiwa stops what he is saying when he realizes that the door is unlocked.
He slowly pushes the door open as he peeks inside to see a dark apartment. He steps in cautiously checking the place out. The place looks ransacked with everything turned over.
'What the hell is going on?'
"TAIWA WAKARI!" a voice calls out over a megaphone outside.
Taiwa quickly turns his head towards the window and seeing blue and red lights slowly steps to it. To his surprise a squad of security cars and personnel are parked outside the building.
"TAIWA WAKARI YOU ARE UNDER ARREST FOR THE DISAPPEARANCE OF YUSHA TATSUJIN."