A/N: It feels so good to be getting your stories alerting my phone again, I promise I WON'T let this disaster happen again. Now moving on, seeing as how I've been gone for a while I've decided to reward you all for your patience with a new story, yes an actual story…with CHAPTERS, no more one-shots for a while. So here's one for all of you Yu-Gi-Oh! fans out there, mainly the Zexal fans if there's any left; or any to begin with (lol). Not going to lie, it's an okay show and it's only going to get better over time, trust me. Before we begin I'm letting you know now that the cards will have their TCG effects, the characters will have their English names except for some who haven't gotten dubbed yet, I will still be using anime cards as well and not making up my own and finally this story will take place after the Barian Invasion where Kite (yes, Kite) defeated Misael. I own nothing appearing in this story, not the cards or the characters. Enjoy!

Light of Victory

Chapter 1

Kite: 900 Duelist: 1500

"Well, well, well," taunted the challenging duelist, "the once-Number hunter, Kite Tenjo, son of the notorious Dr. Faker is now backed up to a corner with his life points down very low and NOTHING on his field, meanwhile I control this duel now!" Kite breathed heavily, how did it come to this? He's never been in this position before, but he wasn't going to let fear get the best of him. He thought about how he got himself in this duel.

Kite was now living a peaceful life with his family and new friends. They defeated the Barians and returned them all back into humans. The problem there was his dueling. Yuma stated that he is a strong duelist and could overcome any obstacle any opponent put him through but now he can't even fight back. Lately his duels have started becoming near-losses and he started doubting his skills. He didn't mind losing duels, everyone had to lose sometimes but it was losing EASILY that bothered him. During his old Numbers hunting days, winning used to be his main priority and losing was no option. Even against the Barians he knew that losing the duel would means losing a lot more. His victory over Misael was his biggest one yet because he proved that he was the real Galaxy-Eyes Master. But when things started to calm down, winning didn't seem like that big of an accomplishment anymore. But now it looked like it wouldn't be an achievement either. He considered his victories weak because he was solely depending on lucky draws.

Word started getting around that Kite might be losing his edge and duelists started lining up to make names for themselves. Kite was embarrassed and very frustrated with himself and his deck because he kept getting challenges from duelists who wanted to prove to Kite that they can hold their own. This one was no different, because of their difference in life points, the duelist became very cocky. What Kite saw as a friendly duel turned into and expose' on the Galaxy-Eyes Master's predictable loss.

Kite looked at his field, empty, and his opponent's had Evolzar Solda. He then looked at his hand, the only card that could help him and it was the only one there: Galaxy-Eyes Photon Dragon. "I can't summon him," he thought to himself, "and even if I do, that dragonic-dinosaur will destroy it, there MUST be a way around it." The duelist looked at Kite's fierce face, the blue D-Gazer-like tattoo and all showed that this duel was officially over and only one of them was walking out victorious.

"It's my move and I draw!" Kite looked at his hand, never wishing for luck to be on his side once again so badly as he looked at the card he drew. "It's over!" he yelled to the confused duelist, "I activate the spell Photon Trade! This card allows me to discard a Photon monster so I could draw two more cards!"

"Draw all the cards you want!" yelled Kite's opponent, "it won't be enough to get rid of my Evolzar Solda, don't tell me you forgot? He can't be destroyed by your card effects. And if by some shred of a lucky chance you manage to, you STILL won't get out your Galaxy-Eyes 'cause Solda will destroy it the second he hits the field!"

"You talk too much," Kite said sarcastically and he looked at the cards he gave up his almighty dragon for, and they were just enough to win him the duel. "Now," the blond duelist claimed, "I summon Photon Pirate!" A blue luminated mechanical pirate appeared with a cutlass in his mechanical hand. The other duelist laughed, "he only has 1000 attack points? You really ARE losin' your edge, you'll pretty much do anything just to defend yourself. Well don't worry Kite, I'll be very quick and leave you and your easily-evitable loss to wallow in humiliation." "I'm not done," he told him coldly, "I know he's weaker than Solda, that's why I'm activating the spell card Desperate Scrape!" Kite's opponent looked on as Kite proceeded to explain the spell's effect, "at the cost of 800 of my life points I can lower the attack power on one of your monsters in half." Kite LP (900-100) Both duelists watched as Evolzar Solda's attack points dropped down to 1300. "This can't be!" complained Solda's owner, "well at least your toy pirate is still weaker."

"Right now he is but just wait 'cause I activate Photon Pirate's special effect: by removing a Photon monster from my graveyard from the game, Pirate will gain 1000 extra attack points." Photon Pirate gained his attack points and grew a little bigger.

"You may be getting rid of my Solda but that still won't be enough to defeat me 'cause come next turn it's over."

"That's why I'm activating Pirate's effect TWICE!"

"WHAT?!"

The mechanical pirate grew again with a total of 3000 attack points and began to position itself for battle. "Photon Pirate," Kite shouted, "finish him off!" "Oh no…OH NOOOOO!" yelled the Evol duelist as he saw the mechanical pirate race towards the blue Evol dragon and cut it in half with the cutlass, reducing his life points to 0 in the process. (Evol Duelist (1500-0).

Orbital 7, who surprisingly had been unusually quiet for the entire duel, transformed into his glider form and grabbed the victorious duelist, leaving the Evol player lying on his back with the loss replaying over and over before his eyes. Kite glanced back to him, "that could've been me."

The two arrived at what was once the Heartland Tower, now just a home for the Tenjo family. Orbital 7 and Kite were silent until they reached the hallways. "Ma-Master Kite-"

"Stop, Orbital," kite told him, "I'm tired and I don't feel like saying anything else." The robot understood and he rolled away, "maybe I shoulda' st-stayed quiet." Kite walked past Hart's room, he quickly peeked in to check on him. The younger Tenjo brother was sound asleep. Knowing full well that he was no longer under the control of anyone and that he was safe brought some relief to his conscience.

Kite made his way to his room and removed his black overcoat, gloves and shirt. He was about to get ready to go to sleep until he started feeling dizzy. "GAHH!" a pain shot right in Kite's heart making him collapse. He was still conscious enough to drag himself to the restroom. "Not again! This CAN'T be from the Photon Transformation," he said to himself painfully, "I thought I took care of that!"

Once he got to the restroom he grabbed the sink and pulled himself up. Looking at the mirror he saw that he was alright and the pain seemed to have faded away. "Wonder what that was, probably nothing," he said. He proceeded to wash his face to clear himself of the events that just happened and relaxed, "I'll work on my deck tomorrow." Before he turned to his left to get to his bed the pain in his heart resumed. He winced at the pain and almost collapsed until he glanced at his reflection again.

There he saw in horror what the cause of his heart feeling like it would explode was. He saw it crystal clear in purple glowing light before he collapsed and was out cold.

The number 107.

To Be Continued…

If I can get some good reviews then I'll continue this story, if not then I'll just try something else. I hope you all enjoyed it, until next time!