Yaaaaawwwnn.
Still half asleep, the 17 year old boy slowly got out of bed, progress being made at a snail's pace. Oli was many things, but a fast rise and shine was not one of them.
But finally, the end of the grand adventure was reached; he was out of bed.
Looking around his room, everything was as it should. His Pc, his couch, his drawers, the big swirling portal and the window. Good, everything perfectly normal.
He looked at the clock, reading 8:30. Eh, still an hour before he had to go. The massively complicated machine that was his body was beginning to power up again, allowing him to go the bathroom, take a morning shower to remove the morning haze and get clothes on. The standard; black socks, normal jeans, white t-shirt and his favorite WoW Horde hoodie. He made his way to the kitchen to make some breakfast. At the same time, he also prepared lunch because the tournament would last 6 hours. And 6 hours with the only food you got being breakfest was not a good idea.
His parents were already gone, poor souls had some very important work this weekend, forcing them to break the sacred ritual of weekend and go to work on a saturday. What about his little brothers? Hmmm, Oh yeah, they were having a sleepover with a friend of theirs. He was completely alone in the house, no problem.
Returning to his room, wearing his black and white shoes, with the lunch in a plastic bag, he placed it in his backpack right beside his giant water bottle and took out his cards. His fully functional Raidraptor deck greeted him. Scrolling through them to double check if they were all ready, he placed them back in his deck case and back in the backpack.
Maybe this time he would get 1st place in the little tournament. He was so very close last time, but, against all odds, his opponent managed to topdeck a Kaiju and tribute it over his material-less Satellite Cannon Falcon, allowing his Metalfoes Orichalch to attack for game.
But this time, this time he would win. Win and get the prize of 5 free tournament packs and-
The slight pull of wind from the portal stroked his semi long dark brown hair, effectively interrupting his train of thought. Could he not turn down the pull on it? It would make it much easier to-
...Portal?
"What the f0ck?"
Any person would say that when an interdimensional portal suddenly appears in their room. Shaking off his initial shock and regaining his composure, he walked closer, intent on inspecting this sudden break in reality. He placed a hand in his chin, it consisted of mainly blue colors, followed by some red and orange. What the actual hell was this and why was it suddenly in his room? He was pretty sure that there was no giant vortex when he went to bed last night.
The dangers of having an object unknown to man in his room and what possible damage it could do to him and his house was drowned by the curiosity of where this thing could lead. If it actually led anywhere.
Well he certainly would have something cool to tell his friends. He took some steps back, assuming that it would not suck him in before he could tell anyone about it.
Seeming to know exactly what he was thinking, the portal's pull increased tenfold.
"Shite" he said, turning around to make a run for it. But just as everyone else who had tried to run from being sucked into a portal; it didn't work.
He eventually fell, landing hard on his stomach, desperately looking around for anything to grab. In the last seconds before being pulled in, he managed to grab his backpack resting against his drawers.
"Son of a biiiiiiiii-"
And poof, he was gone from this plane of existence.
.
The first thing he saw was the ground heading dangerously towards him. No surprise there.
He screamingly landed on the cold surface, miraculously he was mostly unharmed with the exceptions of some bruises.
Rubbing his side, she slowly picked himself up. "Aw, for f0cks sakes" she swore, brushing the dirt off his clothes.
The pain fading slightly, he looked around him. "Okay, where the hell am i?" he asked to no one in particular.
Total destruction would be a good way to describe this place. Everything around him was completely destroyed. Wreckage of devastated grey buildings surrounded him from all sides, making it look like he was in the middle of World War 2. Although this place, even with it being utterly destroyed, looked nothing like any place on earth, confirming his suspicions of being on another world entirely. But could the portal at least have dropped him somewhere that didn't scream terror and despair?
The sky was not any better. A giant shroud of grey had been cast over the remains of this city, blocking out the sun and effectively adding to this place's depressing theme. This is what the aftermath of a total genocide would look like. And, great just great, now he was stuck here. The portal did not seem to want to return any time soon.
"Fan-freaking-tastic" he growled, standing up. Taking another look around, he confirmed that he was the only one around. Not a big surprise. Picking up his backpack, he swung it around his shoulder, picked a random direction and disembarked.
.
"Jesus, how big is this city?" he said, frustration dominating his voice.
Having walked the good part of an hour, he had sadly found no change of scenery. Crushed building, crumbled buildings, destroyed buildings, he had seen it all.
What was he supposed to do exactly? Was this one of those fantasy stories where a random guy got teleported into another world where he was 'The Chosen One' and was supposed to save the world from some sort of evil, using some all magical power that he always had but never knew about?
Most likely.
Well, right now his main priority was to find a way home, just like anyone else would do, stranded in an unknown environment.
Unknown-ish. This whole place had an odd sense of familiarity to it. He could have sworn he had seen this place somewhere before, but he was unable to put a finger on it. Meh, he would probably remember it at some point. He had forgotten which way he was heading, having reached dead ends or deep cracks in the ground. He had thought about using the sun to find a direction.
Yeah, good luck with that.
So he just kept walking, the only other sound being the steady breeze, ever so delicately stroking the broken remains of this once proud civilization. What would his family think, he wondered. When they came home to find that he wasn't there. How many times they would try to call him. But with no result as he was pretty sure that they could not reach through space and time to his Iphone in his pocket. How hurt and scared they would be. Their son vanished without a trace.
He dismissed those thoughts from his head. No, he would not continue that thought, what mattered right now was that he kept going. Kept walking until he found something. Anything. Whatever would help him find a way back to his worl-
Like a knife slicing through thin cloth, another sound ceased his thoughts in an instant.
Footsteps. Other footsteps.
They were coming to his right. Just behind the ruins of a small building. Acting quickly, Oli franqingly looked around, desperately searching for a place to hide. Taking his chances on nearby debris, he ran to it, jumped behind it and stood still as every ruin around him. The Footsteps were closer now, hopefully whoever they belonged to had not seen him hide. Normally he rarely ever felt fear, but this day had turned out everything but normal. He felt like a mouse, a tiny mouse behind a chair, hiding from a hungry cat.
But he was no mouse. No, he would not be the prey.
His fear was quickly been devoured by the fires of anger and determination. He was ALWAYS the hunter NEVER the hunted. He was tempted to just jump out and confront whoever or whatever it was. At this point he was ready to fight anything. He dared a peek, to determine what he was up against and work out a plan of attack. More and more of the environment was slowly revealed to his peeking sight. Until it fell upon the one who had made the footsteps.
"No F0cking Way" Oli whispered. He would recognize that guy in a crowd anywhere.
Completely throwing his efforts of hiding to the wind, he fully revealed himself. "Nicklas?"
The blonde's head snapped towards him immediately, a look of shock a confusion painted on his face. "Oli?"
Joyful energy powering up his body, he ran towards his friend, to which he did the same. They embraced in a hug, lasting only for moments before they pulled apart.
"What the hell are you doing here?" Oli asked his friend and duelist rival. His voice consisting of joy, shock and confusion.
"Dude, i could ask you the exact same thing" he replied, mirroring the emotions.
His friend was dressed in a pair of black shoes, brown leggings, red t-shirt and a black and white hoodless hoodie. His blonde hair was curly as always. He also had slight beard on his chin. Typical of 18 year olds.
Scratching his dark brown hair, he gave a nervous chuckle. "Hehe, i have no idea, man. I was about to leave for the tournament and then some portal decide to have some fun with me" he said.
"You got sucked into a portal too?" Nicklas asked, his eye widening a little. "I was just watching some Fairy Tale when a portal popped up and boom, i landed in this hellhole."
Resting his chin of his hand, Oli put on a thoughtful expression. "Portals, huh? Well F0ck you Valve."
Both of united in a laugh, even in this sort of situation, Oli managed to raise the moral a little.
"No but seriously" Nicklas said, his voice turning serious. "Where the hell are we? This is some supernatural BS if you ask me"
"Same. I've walked around this giant graveyard for a while now and found not a single living thing. Only debris and rubble." Oli said, gazing at their surroundings. "Although, as strange as it may sound, i think i've seen this place before"
"Me too. I just can't pinpoint a name of this place" Nicklas agreed. "But hopefully we'll figure it out as we go"
"Yep, but which way are we going? I came from there" Oli pointed behind him. "Where'd you come from?"
"That way" Nicklas pointed to their right.
"Ok, so how about we continue this way" He beckoned straight ahead.
"As good idea as any right now"
"Yep"
.
As the duo had walked a good while and not found anything, they were beginning to feel a little worried, well of course you'd be worried if you were in a situation like that.
Nicklas groaned as he dropped from a giant stone. "So damn thirsty man" he said, rubbing his neck.
Oli head picked up at that. "Thirsty? Why didn't you say so? I've got plenty of water in here" He said, reaching for his backpack.
After digging around a little, he held up a massive water bottle filled to the brink. "Awesome, Oli"
Oli proudly crossed his arms. "Haha, a good hunter is always prepared, my man" he said as Nicklas downed a good chunk of water.
A Satisfied swallow, Nicklas lowered the bottle. "Ah, thanks man" he said, handing the bottle back to Oli.
"Anytime" He said, zipping the bag and placing it on his back again.
And thus, the two disembarked once again.
.
"Hey Nicklas?"
"Yeah?"
"You think it's only us that got stuck here?"
"You think there might be more?"
"Yeah, i mean, it's pretty convenient that the portals got us, considering we know each other very well. They could have just appeared to some other random people, but no, they gotta have chosen us for some reason."
"So what you're saying is that more of our friends might be here as well?"
"Exactly. The rest of the gang most likely, like Kevin, Victor or Nico. Hell, maybe even Marcus or Gabriel."
Nicklas pondered about that for a moment. It's true, i was a possibility that people they knew could be here as well.
"I guess you got a point there. But even if they're here too, how are we supposed to-"
He was interrupted by the sound of his shoe hitting something. Both of them looked down to see two strange devices laying at the blonde's foot. Nicklas bend down and picked one of them up. "What the heck is this?"
He let Oli take it from his as he picked up the second one. Oli carefully examined it, turning it around a little. He was like a flat box of sort with a large screen in on one side. "Hmmm, it kinda looks like an ipad." he said, holding a red one.
"It does" his one being blue-ish. "But how do we turn this crap on then?" a frustrated Nicklas asked.
After a minute or so of twisting and turning, Oli discovered something. "Oh hey, there's some drawing underneath it."
On the bottom there were a few symbols. They looked like instructions. The first was a symbol of an arm, the next was a small box placed on top of it, around the middle of the lower arm near the wrist.
Nicklas followed them and placed the pad like device on his left arm. Suddenly two bindings came out from its bottom and attached to his arm. The act startled the both of them, but did sot seem to have any harmful effect, in fact, it felt fine.
He tried wiggling his arm a bit to see if it would fall off, but no, it was firmly attached to him while not feeling too tight or heavy at all.
"So it's an apple watch ipad?" Oli half joked, placing it on his arm and letting it attach.
Both caught up in their strange discovering of apple product rip offs, neither of them noticed the approach of two others.
"Well Well Well, i thought we had cleared out this part of filth, but i guess a few rats slipped under the radar" a voice, dominant with arrogance, said.
The two looked up to see a trio of people approach from behind a crumbled wall.
They were all wearing matching uniform, the only difference being the colors. It consisted of brown shoes, dark jeans, an open buttoned coat which had white in the middle and the rest being their color. Underneath the coat was a simple black shirt.
The one in the front was slightly tall, short trimmed black hair, peach coloured skin and a mocking grin on his face. His coat was dark blue. A tanned girl with long blonde hair stood to his right, her coat being red. And lastly, to his left stood a second girl about the same height as the other, white skin color, short red curls and a freckled face, her coat was yellow. Each of them also had a device on their arms, but theirs looked a lot more advanced.
The blue guy stopped about 3 meters from them. "Well, then which one of you will be utterly defeated first?" he said, narrowing his eyes at them as if they were nothing but practice targets.
Nicklas was the first to recover. "Listen dude" he said, bringing his arms up defensively. "We don't want any trouble. We don't even know where are right now" he tried his best in a calm and negotiational voice.
Blue Guy threw his head back in a fake laughter. "Haha, for Xyz scum to forget their own city after we destroyed it. Oh, that is precious, haha".
A scowl quickly formed on Oli's face. "What did you call us?" he hissed.
Blue Guy clearly took it as an empty threat as his grin remained unaffected. "I dont think i like that attitude of yours, little rat." he said pressing a button on his device. Suddenly two red ropes of energy shot out of it and towards the two. They barely had time to react before the ropes warped themselves around their wrists, at the same time, activating their devices. Blade like boards appeared from the device, setting things up for a game that both friends knew very well.
"Tell you what. I will take you both on, that way, this will be over quickly, i promise." he turned his head to his companions. "Make sure you're watching girls" he said winking at them, causing them both to giggle.
Meanwhile, Nicklas and Oli could hardly believe their eyes. With Blue Guy's action, they now knew exactly what the devices on their arms were. They were Duel Disks. REAL Duel Disks. Which meant…..Which meant!-
"Are you ready to lose, weaklings" Blue Guy taunted.
A moment of silence followed, with them both looking down at the ground as the realization sunk in.
"Given up already? I must say im most disa-"
Chuckling could be heard from the duo, quickly getting louder by the second, their shoulders bouncing up and down. The chuckling reached its peak as they both of them erupted in a full on laughter. An annoyed frown crossed Blue Guy's features. "What's so funny?" he growled.
The laugh died down slow, the duo's heads snapping to their opponent. Blue Guy was slightly taken back by the sight of both their eyes filled with excitement, determination and strength.
"Dude…" Nicklas began, his voice taking on a low and serious tone.
"...You have no idea how f0cked you are right now" Oli finished, his tone was loud and and menacing. "You wanna play?"
In seconds, both had taken out their decks and loaded them in their disks.
"THEN LET'S PLAY" they yelled in unison.
"DUEL!"
And that's chapter one. This is the first time i've written a yugioh fanfic as i imagine that planning a duel on paper is quite difficult. Nonetheless, i will give it a try.
The idea of this fic was not mine. My friend was impressed with my writing skills and requested this story since he and i are both Yugioh players.
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