Time Infinity Knighthood
Chapter 1 : A Hero Within
Girl 1: Quickly! This way so that we can open the portal!
Girl 2: The portal!? You sending him to the real world?
Girl 1: Yes! It's the only way to save my master!
(Sudden explosion causing Girl 2 to fall over and sprain her ankle)
Girl 1: (Gasps) A-Akira!
Girl 2: No! don't stop! Keep going!
Girl 1: (Starts crying) Just don't die!
( Girl 1 runs until she reaches an old ruined gateway and pushes a small button which shoots a thin blue beam of light through the hollow gateway, opening a small, purple portal which would lead her master into a different dimension)
Girl 1: (Wipes a few tears) Master...please...be careful...
(Girl 1 carries her master towards the portal and pushes him through before she was devoured by the sudden burst of fire)
Yuko jolted awake, his body covered in sweat and felt the stinging of the sun beaming in through the garage window. He was panting and waited a few minutes to recuperate before getting up. Yuko looked around him and found that he had slept on the couch, then remembered that he had collapsed on it last night after having worked hard on repairs for his duel runner, which had been broken for nearly 6 months now.
Yuko wiped the sweat of his forehead and got up, then stretched out his body causing his bones to make small crackling sounds. He grinned in doing so and scratched his head while walking towards the mirror, which he had placed over a sink that he had managed to install last week. Yuko stared at his reflection, surprised to find that he didn't look half bad, but seemed tired after having experienced another rough night. He rubbed his eyes to knock out the sleep still buried in them and looked back at the mirror.
A figure of roughly 17 years of age was staring back at him. He had long, pale white hair that ran down the back of his neck and had a few strands of hair that fell down over his chestnut colored eyes
"It about time I get my hair trimmed", he thought to himself, but in all honesty, he had no intention of cutting it after having many bad try outs with his hair a few years back.
Yuko quickly washed his face with some cold water from the taps to help wake him up a little quicker since he was always a slow starter in the morning, then checked his watch (which he hated wearing so he always kept it in his jean pocket).
It was 9:15am. Yuko quickly got dress into a white shirt and his favourite leathery black jacket. He was already wearing his blue jeans and just needed to put on his rainbow coloured sockets (a weird habit of his) before going out.
He assumed that most people in the Satellite were probably still asleep so instead of taking his spare motor bike, he told himself that walking to town would be better so that he could calmly breath in the morning air and get a bit of exercise as well.
Yuko opened his garage door which was in fact the door to his apartment and took a deep breath. It was true that the air was polluted since he was in the Satellite, but he had now gotten used to it and began to walk silently down the Satellite streets, closing his garage door begin him.
He was making his way to take care of some kids near the east of Satellite, which Crow usually did, but presently Crow had gone with his friends to train for another dueling Grand Prix that was starting in 2 weeks. He had asked Yuko to take care of the kids for him and promised to be back soon. Yuko didn't mind, it was a good way to keep me occupied.
He began to think about the dream he had just had as he walked past the ruined buildings. Ever since the bridges had been built, Satellite had become a much happier place, but the state of the buildings were still all the same.
However, what did change was that there had been more and more security police coming in to investigate Satellite. Apparently some duelist criminal from New Domino City was running loose around the Satellite Slums, a typical place where all criminals generally hung out.
Suddenly, Yuko's thoughts were cut off by a duel runner, which raced past him and down towards the slums, pursued by two police security bikes. Yuko froze, the noise of the duel runners having fully awakened him and watched as the three bikes drove out of sight.
"Maybe that was the criminal?" thought Yuko curiously. However, it wasn't really his business therefore Yuko thought it wise to think nothing of it and continued on happily towards his destination.
When he arrived, all the kids came to greet and hug Yuko, nearly causing him to topple over. He then began to hand out a few cards that he had won in a few duels yesterday (which was how he made his money, by betting in duels). He wasn't very proud on how he made his living, but there weren't many jobs to be found in Satellite and he couldn't go to Domino City because the security were a little picky lately about letting people past.
The amount of security had now tripled and all the entrances of Satellite were cut off so to catch that one criminal. Yuko decided to ask the kids about this rouge duelist, which the police were so desperately looking for, but most of the kids didn't know much. All they told Yuko was that he was a bad person that attacked the Arcadia.
All of a sudden, Yuko heard crying coming from the tent which Crow had set up for his duel runner, and quickly went inside, leaving the other kids puzzled. He immediately found Annie, a small girl of around 10 years of age with long reddish hair. Yuko recognized her from her violet eyes that would usually sparkle gleefully in the sun light, but now they were red and irritated with tears falling from them. She was one of the only duelists out of all the kids Crow took care off, the other being Itsuki who surprisingly hadn't come to challenge Yuko to a duel yet.
"What's wrong", whispered Yuko, while rubbing his hand on her head for comfort.
"It's Itsuki", she blubbered. "He left a note saying that he had gone to catch that criminal which everyone has been talking about. Itzuki thought that if he managed to catch the criminal, he would be more appreciated by everyone and would be considered a hero just like Yusei!"
Yuko sighed. He knew what Itzuki was like and what his deck was capable of (which wasn't very much since Annie would always beat him). If the criminal had gone up against the Arcadia, he assumed that the criminal may possess some sort of psychic powers.
"Annie, I want u to stay here and keep the others from running off", said Yuko, rubbing the tears away from Annie's soft cheeks and smiled reassuringly, "and don't worry, I'll find him".
Yuko went back to his garage (or should I say his home) and got together his gear. He then left towards the Satellite slums, thinking that it was the best place to start looking. Yuko reached down to push a small button on each of his shoes which enabled four wheels to click out from under ( custom made) so to make a pair of roller blades. He rarely used the wheels on his shoes simply because he forgot that he had installed them.
"No matter", he thought and began to speed down the streets, trying to create as many slide mark and dirt clouds as possible on the earthy ground. He even made a few sparks as he turned corners and raced down some small streets, just to impress himself (or in better terms "just for fun"). He was going surprisingly quickly, but continued on without hesitation, enjoyed the wind blowing back his long, white hair. Yuko began to feel lighter, as if a huge burden had been lifted off of him, and smiled cheerfully.
As he turned a corner which lead down hill, Yuko imagined himself soaring in the sky, like a bird, who was free to leave this ruin island to go live in New Domino City. It was his dream. To be able to find a nice peaceful place to stay in Domino City, where it would be safe. He'd be free, to do what he wished and go where he pleased without having to worry about being robbed or attacked by anyone.
Yuko snapped back into reality and decided to make the most of this experience. He decided to try and show off a few stunts and trick whenever he got the occasion, imagining an audience of people watching him and cheering him on like all the fans of Jack Atlas, but when Yuko looked around him, no one would ever be there watching him. He only hoped that one day, he would be able to experience that same thrilling sensation on his old duel runner once again and be the most popular turbo duelist in the world, and maybe have fans too. However, from the lack of skill and pride, Yuko knew that that day would probably never come. Yuko was a Satellite punk and that was it. He wasn't special, he was a nobody.
Yuko soon arrived at his destination, causing some unfriendly heads to turn as he passed by. The slums weren't a very nice place to be, but it was great if you wanted to find scrap metal for your motor bike or duel runner. Yuko had come down to the slums a lot lately, hoping that he would find a CPU chip that actually worked, but unfortunately had no luck.
He first decided to start looking for Itzuki over to the port side of the slums where he found a large group of very unfriendly looking people all huddled together. They were all surrounding something which Yuko couldn't see from a distance.
Was a fight about to break? An argument maybe? Yuko pushed the wheels back into his shoes and strolled over to join the group.
After nudging a few people aside, he could see two people in the middle of a what seemed to be a duel and noticed that the duelist to the left side was clearly winning. The duelist wore a sort of faded red scarf that covered up the bottom half of his face and had a vertical scar that fell just under his left eye. His hair was a dark blue colour, short and spiked up to the point that it actually looked threatening. He also had dark blue eyes, almost black and was wearing a sort of murky brown jacket that almost fell down to touch his big, worn-out boots. Yuko felt a small chilled run down the back of his spine, for not only did that duelist look tall and unfriendly, but there was a sort of malevolent aura about him.
To the other side, Yuko could see no one, which he thought was strange. He moved in closer to the front to find that there was in fact a small boy in a black leathery coat, similar to Yuko's and was almost half the size of his opponent. The boy had fairly normal brown hair that almost went over his eyes and had a few cuts on his arms, jeans and a few more across his cheeks.
Yuko face palmed himself. It was Itzuki.
Yuko: Please Review, Follow or add my story to Favorites! :D
Crow: Um...Yuko, what are you doing?
Yuko: Oh, I'm writing fan fiction.
Crow: Really? What's it about?
Yuko: Our adventure! ^_^
Crow: (sigh) Ohh boy, well then you've got a long way to go...
Yuko: Don't remind me... :P
