OK, here, we have the start of my total overhaul of what used to be King's Legacy, which is now renamed Signer Legacy. I decided to go into a lot more detail and give some insight to the characters, and introduce them all in different ways. Not to mention I had to adapt to certain things like the changes that happened when the season changed. Either way, it should be good, so I hope you enjoy it.

Chapter 1: First Day of School

Aki was in her living room, packing a backpack full of some essentials. Lunch box, basic textbooks on standard Spell cards, Trap cards, everything a fresh student at Duel Academia would need. When she was done at last, she walked over to the stairs.

"Yuten! It's time for school!" She called. "Your father already started his D-Wheel! You need to hurry up!"

"Coming, mom!" a voice said from upstairs. Aki backed up and held out the now-full backpack as a red and white blur passed by and took it from her. "ThanksmomIloveyouseeyoulater!!!"

Yusei Fudo was waiting outside on his signature D-Wheel, checking it to make sure that all systems were ready to go as a young boy ran up, suddenly running into the D-Wheel and falling on his butt. The boy sat up, rubbing his behind.

"Ow..." he said. "That hurt..." He was about eight years old, with slightly long red hair that fell down onto his back, bearing orange highlights similar to his father's. His outer coat was a red and white jacket that his parents believed him to find incredibly hard to go anywhere without, while underneath it was the traditional Duel Academia boy's uniform, consisting of a blue over shirt with shorts.

Yusei smiled warmly. "That's what you get for not watching where you're going, Yuten." He told the child. "Now, are you ready to go?" he asked, holding up a helmet.

"Of course I am!" Yuten replied. "I wouldn't want to be late on the first day at Duel Academia." Yuten put on the helmet and got on as quickly as he could, holding onto his father's back.

Aki walked out of the house, looking at the father-son pair and smiling as they rode off. "Good luck, son."

About an hour later, the pair pulled up in front of the large Academia. Yuten proceeded to get off the D-Wheel as carefully as he could, receiving a pat on the head from his father the moment his helmet came off.

"Do you have everything you need?" Yusei asked. The boy nodded. "Your lunch?" Another nod was given. "Your Deck?"

Yuten started to nod as he reached behind him, suddenly getting a worried look on his face. "Uh... I can't find it!" he shouted, causing all the other students to look at him.

Yusei smiled and pointed to the now-frantic boy's front pocket. "I think you left it right there." He said. Yuten put his hand in the pocket and pulled out a deck of Duel Monsters cards.

"There it is!" Yuten said as he put the cards in the case that rested on his belt. "I don't know what I'd do if I lost it..."

"Then make sure you don't." his father replied. "Well, I'll pick you up after school. See you later!"

Yuten watched as his father rode off. Once Yusei was out of sight, the boy turned around, scanning the crowd of students for someone he might recognize. "Didn't Al and John say they'd be in the same class as me?" he wondered aloud. "Where are they?"

An answer came to him in the form of a boot to the head, knocking him down to the ground. Standing over the child was a young girl with light-blue hair and the girl's Academia uniform. "You can be such an idiot, sometimes, Yuten." she said. "I swear, making a scene like that on your first day?"

"It wasn't a scene, Al." Yuten replied. "Besides, what would you do if you lost the Deck that your family helped you make?"

"I'd ask them to help me make another one. Do you have any idea how many cards mom and Rua have at their disposal?" she looked at Yuten as he got up with a childish smirk on her face.

The two of them stared at one another as sparks flew between them. After a while, Yuten turned around, looking at the crowd again.

"Now what are you doing?" Al asked.

"Looking for John." Yuten told her. "I haven't seen him since our last Duel, and I was wondering where he's been.

At that moment, a large yellow van pulled up. It looked as if it was rather beat-up. Out of the van came another young boy with familiar-looking black hair with the Duel Academia boy's uniform followed by a woman wearing a blue-striped shirt, an orange vest, and swirly-looking glasses.

Yuten looked at the boy. "So this is the dramatic entrance of the 'great' John Atlas?" he joked, trying to hold in his laughter.

John ignored the comment as his mother started hugging him furiously.

"Oh! I can't believe my little Johnny is starting at Duel Academia today! You're finally growing into a man like your father!" Carly shouted, almost suffocating the boy.

John Atlas struggled to get out of his mother's grip. "Mom! I can't go to school if you don't let me go!" He shouted.

Carly stopped for a moment and looked down at the boy. "All right, fine. Make sure you make a lot of friends in your new class! You can't just sit around with Yuten and Al all the time, you know!" she said as she handed John his lunch and his Deck.

"Thank you, mom..." John said, walking toward his friends. "Why couldn't dad have brought me, anyway?"

"Probably because he's too busy being 'The Great Jack Atlas' to be concerned with anyone but himself." Al replied.

Yuten looked at Al with a slight scowl. "Jack isn't that bad. He gives me Dueling advice whenever I ask him, and it's really helped me balance out my Deck."

Al just folded her arms. "I never cared too much for him."

Yuten just gathered his friends together. "Well, we should probably get to the opening ceremony..." The others nodded as they headed off towards the entrance hall.

The entrance hall was huge. A large stage had been created just for this ceremony, and an even bigger Dueling stage had been fashioned in the middle of the room.

It was as soon as Yuten and his friends had walked into the room that the headmaster, Milla Yuki, walked up onto the stage, putting five cards on her Duel Disk, which in turn caused the Monsters known as Elemental Hero Neos and the Neo-Spacians Flare Scarab, Air Hummingbird, Dark Panther, and Aqua Dolphin to materialize behind her. Milla herself was wearing a red Academia trench coat over black pants, all of which fit over a figure reminiscent of her grandmother, Asuka.

"I would like to welcome all of you to our Academia with open arms!" she began. "Your classes will begin this afternoon, after lunch, but for now, I would like to invite two of our new students to show all of us what kind of Duels we may expect from all of you. Who would like to volunteer to Duel?"

Yuten and John jumped up simultaneously due to an Al-induced smack.

"Ah, you two, in the back!" Milla said, noticing the two young Duelists. "Would you like to Duel?"

Yuten and John looked back at Al and looked at each other, nodding and smirking.

"This gives us a chance to fix up our record..." John started.

"And I'll get to see your face when you lose..." Yuten replied.

The two young Duelists sprang forward towards the Dueling stage, pulling out their Academia-issue Duel Disks and taking stances and readying their Decks.

"Whoa, wait a minute, children!" Milla exclaimed, walking up to the boys. "You at least have to introduce yourselves to the rest of your classmates!"

John closed his eyes and smiled, walking over to the edge of the stage and pointing out at the crowd. "There can only be one prince of the Dueling Kingdom! And that's me! John Atlas!" He finally said, watching the crowd grow silent. John waited for some kind of reply, but heard nothing. Eventually, he walked back to his side of the stage in a slump.

"I'll go next, then." Yuten started, walking to the middle of the stage. "My name is Yuten Fudo, and it'll be a pleasure being your classmates this next few years!" he said as the crowd started chatting.

He heard things like "I've heard that name before...", "Isn't he the son of the Fortune Cup winner?", and "That's the son of Aki!" coming from the crowd as they suddenly started to burst into applause.

Yuten looked over at John with a superior look on his face as he walked back to his side of the arena.

Milla stepped in between the two young boys, raising a hand. "Now, may the first Duel of the year..." she began as she lowered her hand in a slicing action. "BEGIN!"

YUTEN--VS.--JOHN

4000------4000

Yuten suddenly drew his sixth card. "I'll go first this time!" He said, looking over his hand. "And I'll start with the Spell Card called Double Summon, letting me perform an extra Normal Summon during my turn!" He placed the card on his Duel Disk, causing it to appear as solid vision in front of him. "Now, I'll use the effect of the Gilasaurus in my hand, Special Summoning him instead of Normal Summoning!" the boy placed yet another card on his Duel Disk, making the dinosaur appear fiercely on his right. (Gilasaurus: 1400 ATK, LV 3) "Now, I'll bring out a couple good Monsters... First comes Rose, Warrior of Revenge! And then my Spear Dragon!" Placing the other Monsters where he so desired, the female warrior and the dragon appeared simultaneously in front of him. (Rose, Warrior of Revenge: 1600 ATK, LV 4) (Spear Dragon: 1900 ATK, LV 4) "Next, I'll set one card facedown, ending my turn!" He placed the card on his Disk, revealing the back of the card on the Field in front of him as he looked at his setup, widening his eyes in realization. Aw, man, I could have done a Synchro Summon that turn!

John smirked as he drew his card. "Interesting first move, but let's see if you can handle this!" He suddenly slammed a card onto the now-open Field Card slot. "I activate the Field Spell Card Zombie World!" As the card was played, the field around them suddenly started decaying as rotten trees sprouted out of the ground. As the Monsters on Yuten's Field looked at the new occurrence, their own bodies slowly started to decay. "Now, all Monsters on the Field and in both of our Graveyards become Zombie-Type, and we can't perform Tribute Summons unless it's a Zombie-Type Monster we're bringing out. Now, I think I'll start this turn off right! I'll Summon my Paladin of the Cursed Dragon in Attack Mode!" Once again putting a card on his Duel Disk, a decaying man riding on a small blue undead dragon flew out onto the Field. (Paladin of the Cursed Dragon: 1900 ATK, LV 4) "Next I'll equip him with my Axe of Despair, increasing his Attack Points by a good 1000!" (Paladin of the Cursed Dragon: 2900 ATK) "Next comes my attack. Paladin, destroy his Spear Dragon!"

On command, the Paladin rushed towards the Dragon with his new axe and sliced the creature in half. (Yuten: 3000 LP) "Next," John began. "I'll use Paladin's effect. When he destroys an opponent's Zombie-Type Monster by battle, he gets to bring that Monster back under my command!" With that, the Paladin's dragon gave a roar, forcing Sear Dragon to rise up out of the ground and fly over to serve John. "And now that I have a new Monster out, he can attack as well! Take out his Gilasaurus!" John pointed at the dinosaur, and Spear Dragon was whipped by the Paladin's dragon with its tail, forcing it to charge towards the opponent with blinding speed. As Gilasaurus was pierced, it exploded, and Yuten was showered with some of the debris from the blast. (Yuten: 2500 LP) "I think I'll end my turn there." John said as Spear Dragon took a kneeling position and turned blue.

"My turn, draw!" Yuten exclaimed as he looked out at the crowd. Wow... He thought. Dueling in front of a crowd tends to distract you a little bit, huh? "I think I'll Summon my Decoy Dragon in Attack Mode!" he stated as the deceptively cute dragon took his place in front of him. "Now I'll tune my Level 2 Decoy Dragon with my Level 4 Rose!" At the command, Rose's sword began to shine, turning her into four stars that rose up to become shining rings, while Decoy Dragon flew up into them, turning himself into two more stars.

"The earth cries out for a champion, so you take your lances and enter the fray!" Yuten chanted as the stars came together and a large light began to shine. "Synchro Summon! Guardian of Terra! Gaia Knight, The Force of Earth!" As the light faded, what looked like a mechanical version of Gaia the Fierce Knight was standing next to Yuten, lances at the ready. (Gaia Knight, The Force of Earth: 2600 ATK, LV 6) Yuten looked out to John, smirking with confidence. "Gaia!" He said, pointing towards Spear Dragon. "Destroy Spear Dragon and bring him back to us! Spiral Lancet!" With that, the knight galloped towards the dragon with blinding speed, his arms suddenly twisting with his lances.

"You think it will be that easy?" John replied, pressing a button on his Duel Disk and waving his arm out dramatically. "I activate a Trap Card called Magic Cylinder!" As the card revealed itself, two cylinders appeared in front of Spear Dragon. Gaia charged into one, still galloping fiercely, only to find himself coming out of the other one, right towards Yuten, hitting him with the lances and causing the discouraged boy to drop to his knees. (Yuten: 0 LP)

John walked up to Yuten, looking down at him and offering a hand. "What's wrong with you? You normally do much better than this!"

Yuten looked up with a sad smirk. "I guess I just have a problem with crowds... I even forgot when to play this..." the boy flipped around the card he had set facedown his first turn, revealing his own Magic Cylinder.

"Wow..." John started. "That is bad. Well, that's what we're here for, right?"

Yuten took John's hand and stood up. "Yeah, I guess you're right. After all, our dads can only teach us so much before we have to move on..."

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Al: "Who's that girl following us?"

Yuten: "I don't know, but it seems she's not the only one."

New girl: "My name is Akina... You're the son of Aki, aren't you?"

Al: "Nice to meet you, but I've got something to take care of!"

Next time, on Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's!

The Strong Woman's Pride!

Akina: "Go, Al! Show him what a real Duelist is!"

A/N: OK, yeah, it's short, but it was a Duel between beginners. I had to give them some rookie mistakes (mostly Yuten, despite him being the main character) and give it an unexpected twist. Either way, as the chapters go on, the Duels will get better. Trust me.