Welcome to Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's: One Last Stand
(A/N: Thank you for clicking the link to my fanfic "One Last Stand"; If you didn't mean to; read anyway)
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[Set after the events of the WRGP, but before the Team 5D's dinner; this is the story of the final tourament every member of Team 5D's will compete in. The One Last Stand tournament, hence the name of the fic. Old Enemies could make a return, new enemies could wait around the corner and friends can become enemies themselves. It's all possible in the One Last Stand Tournament. Each chapter is basically an episode (In principle), so if the episode is a multi-part, I'll end the chapter with (...to be continued...) It's really just that simple. Please note I may take multiple liberties with the canon (Meaning I'm changing some shit to work for me) in order to get my storyline across. Read and Review please, I take any sort of review into account. I would also gratiously accept any offers of OC's to participate in the tournament. See the endnote of any chapter for details]
Episode #1: Invitations.
Yusei Fudo was never one for parties, and by this virtue he made every attempt to avoid this one. Unfortunately for him, his Team 5D's partners wouldn't let him refuse, and so he was here, out of his element, in a heavily social environment. Yusei looked over at Akiza, she seemed to be enjoying herself a lot more than he was, though a few months earlier, she wouldn't have been caught dead at a gathering such as this one.
Yusei turned his eyes to his drink, idly swirling the straw around the edge of the glass. He looked up when he heard the chair opposite his depress, indicating the seat was just taken.
"Not enjoying yourself I see," Yusei's tablemate said to him.
The man looked about nineteen, had shoulder length bone white hair and wore strikingly casual attire. The clothing choice struck Yusei the most. This party was meant to be a formal occasion, yet here this guy sat, wearing a T-Shirt and Jeans, as though it was a normal dress style for an occasion of this formality.
"Not particularly," Yusei responded, sounding distant. "I'm Yusei Fudo by the way,"
"So you're the famous Yusei Fudo I have heard so much about," The man says.
"Yes, I'm the only Yusei Fudo that I know of to be famous," Yusei answers. "Now who are you?"
"My name is Josh, Josh Eli," The man; Josh; responds.
"Pleasure," Yusei says; though Josh had already stood up and left the party.
-(A/N: The Hyphen (-) Is used to display a scene change within the story. Underscores (_) Will be used to display a lapse in time without a scene change, if the scene requires me to do so)
Josh Eli, much like Yusei, did not enjoy parties. This was the reason he had worn his casual attire to the formal gathering. Josh held his forearm over the handlebars of his duel runner (A/N:D-Wheel) and his duel disk clamped onto the metallic wristband he was wearing. The disk was nothing special, a standard Kaiba Corp. Mass production model. Though it had been recoloured black.
Josh noticed that envelopes had been placed upon most of the vehicles parked at the gathering, each addressed to the master duelist owning said vehicle. Josh picked up the letter from the seat of his Runner and opened it.
Attention Duelists!
You're reading this letter because you're amongst the elite.
The greatest duelists in Neo Domino City.
You are formally and cordially invited to compete in
the One Last Stand Ground Duelling tournament;
set to take place in one weeks time.
A package containing all the details you require
about the tournament has already been sent
out to each of you. You will converge at the
center of Neo Domino City's Tops District at
noon in one week on the fifteenth of June.
Thank you for your time
~Z
Josh smirked. A tournament, exactly what he required to showcase his abilities to the world. He knew that tournaments of this calibre didn't come around often, not since the times of dueling legends Yugi Moto and Seto Kaiba. Josh idolised Kaiba, at one point going so far as to make an era appropriate copy of his deck. Though Josh Eli was habitually skeptical as to the nature of this tournament. Several questions flowed through his head. Who was this "Z" who had engineered the tournament? Why did he choose to raise the invitation offer via notes poted whilst everyone was in a formal gathering? What did he want from the elite duelists?
"I suppose I should head back inside," Josh sighed, before reattatching his duel disk to his runner and entering the mansion that played host to the party once again.
Yusei had been attempting to enjoy himself since Josh had left, he wasn't doing a very good job of it however. Yusei gave up any hope of enjoying himself and returned to that table at which he had previously sat. To his surprise, Josh was also sitting there.
"Hello again Yusei," Josh said politely, not turning to look at the man he was addressing; instead leaving a continuing gaze upon the masses currently populating the floor of the grand hall where the party was primarily located.
"Josh," Yusei said, returning the greeting. "Where'd you go before?"
"Outside," Josh replies simply."By the way, do you know who's hosting this thing?"
"No idea, why?" Yusei responds.
'Well, there's these notes on every single runner and car out there, inviting us to partake in a duel tournament, and these invitations are signed by a guy called 'Z'" Josh answers.
"Z?" Yusei questions.
"That's who the invite is from, yes," Josh responds, trying to focus in on a defined area of the floor.
Rather, searching for a visible speck of floor. That description is likely to be more valid in relation the the current situation. For Josh and Yusei this was depressingly so. Both continued to wish they were elsewhere at the current time.
"So Josh, give me details for this tournament," Yusei says.
"OK, so we're all invited to compete; yada yada; Z's sent us each a package with the required stuff; yada yada; the thing starts at noon on the fifteenth in the centre of Tops," Josh replies.
"OK, thanks," Yusei responds.
"You gonna compete?" Josh asks.
"Yeah, I guess so," Yusei answers bluntly. "You?"
"Possibly, I bet to high holy wars on mars that not everyone here will though, and it's likely that we'll have a fair few people competing who DIDN'T come to this thing," Josh replies.
At that point Akiza walked up to the two males, barely squeezing through the sheer wall of humanity covering the grand hall. She took the third of the four seats at the table, this one being diagonally across from both Josh and Yusei. Josh had once again commenced his mental challenge of finding the floor of the hall amongst the sea of people. Josh suddenly shook his head somewhat violently, altering the positioning of his hair to a more adequate parting.
"Hey Yusei, what's up?" Akiza says.
"Nothing really, Akiza, I'm bored," Yusei responds.
"Wait," Josh says, his head snapping up to look at Yusei and Akiza. "Did you just say Akiza?"
"Yeah, why?" Yusei responds.
"Akiza Izinski by any chance?" Josh continues.
"Yeah..." Yusei says, his voice becoming somewhat concerned.
"Wait, Josh Eli right?" Akiza asks, interrupting Yusei's train of thought.
"That would be correct," Josh replies.
"Oh my god, I haven't seen you in three years!" Akiza exclaims.
"Has it really been that long?" Josh asks.
"You two know each other?" Yusei asks.
"Something like that," Josh replies.
"Josh and I were in the same class at the Duel Academy," Akiza explains to Yusei.
"Oh," Yusei says, making sense of the situation.
"Anyways, as I was about to say Yusei, this tournament seems incredibly suspicious to me. Especially after that incident with the Ark Cradle," Josh says.
"You know about the Ark Cradle?" Yusei asks.
"I do, I was pretty much two blocks away from the thing," Josh replies.
"What tournament?" Akiza asks, confusion crossing her face.
"Oh that's right, you don't know yet do you Akiza?" Josh asks. "Theres gonna be a tournament next week, starting at noon on the fifteenth in the centre of Tops,"
"I'm guessing you'll be competing Yusei?" Akiza says.
"I will, as will Josh, and I bet Crow and Jack will too," Yusei replies.
"By the way, do either of you know when this thing will finish?" Josh asks.
"No, I think this party is meant to go until everyone gets bored and leaves," Akiza replies.
"That'll take a while," Yusei responds sadly.
"In that case, I'm out of here, nice meeting you Yusei," Josh says. "It was great to see you again Akiza,"
"You too," Yusei and Akiza say simultaneously as Josh leaves.
Yusei, Akiza, Crow, Jack, Leo and Luna left the party a good two hours after Josh did. Yusei made his joy at leaving no secret; as the group walked towards their transportation methods he wore a large grin. When the group got to their vehicles, they each had a letter identical to the one Josh found on his Runner. Yusei and Akiza knew what they would be and they swiftly opened them and read through the invitation.
"Looks like we've been invited to a tournament," Jack says.
"Way to state the obvious Jack," Crow remarks. "I'm in for sure,"
"Same here, I've known about this tournament for a couple of hours now, another guy at the party told me," Yusei says.
"I'm going to compete as well," Akiza says.
"Well since everyone else is, I guess I should too," Jack says. "It wouldn't be a tournament without the modern day Seto Kaiba,"
"Jack, if you're the modern day Kaiba then Yusei must be the modern day Yugi Muto, since he's beaten you time after time," Crow laughs.
Crow, Jack and Yusei climb aboard their respective Runners and Akiza, Leo and Luna get into the car Akiza's father had got to take them to and from the party, as the twins had no other means of getting there.
`This may just be a tournament to the others, but I have a bad feeling this isn't just a fun little game` Yusei thinks as the group drives away from the mansion.
(A/N: There you go! RxR please, I needa know if I can't write at all. Anyways, I need OCs. Around 10 or so of them. I also need decklists for said characters. anyways, the format.
Name:
Age:
Gender:
Hair Colour:
Eye Colour:
Good/Bad:
Clothing:
Duel Disk(If possible link me an image or state the name of one from the Stardust Accelerator; Reverse of Arcadia or Over the Nexus duel disk list):
Decklist(Max. 60 cards + up to 15 Fusion/Synchro. NO XYZ):
Small backstory:
set out the application like that please. Cheers
%IODB)