/ Story of Ka'an
/ Author: The Cowboy of Oklahoma
/ Pt3: Duel Monsters
/ word count: 824
I fell through my Rift, landing in another dimension. A golden chain with a dark crystal now hangs around my neck. This houses the darkness inside, holding it at bay from my psyche. One final gift from her. Opening my senses to this dimension, there were few powered beings here, but there was still some form of power everywhere. I kept hidden in the wilderness, treetops and bushes wherever possible, learning things about this dimension, little by little. Apparently I have found myself on another Earth.
Some of the power I felt was coming from some sort of card game these humans played, 'Duel Monsters.' Such small, and flimsy things these cards, but I felt centuries of power behind them. Slowly, I began collecting these cards myself, they...intrigue me. I began learning how to play, and building my own deck. I'll admit not the best, but they didn't just roll over. I took to 'dueling' the occasional passerby, random people. I lost an awful lot, but I started getting better, making minor adjustments here and there to my deck.
I could not be an evil anymore, nor did I want to have a dark presence in this world, so my cards reflected these feelings. I have taken the appearance of a man of this world. By reducing my power output greatly, and allowing the natural energies of whatever world I'm on flow through me, I can change or camouflage my appearance. About 5'8, brown hair and eyes, a common appearance, as to not to draw attention to myself, calling myself Cowboy. Something about those hats, I don't look half bad in one.
Strange, I feel a ripple in the energies around me. Nothing menacing or malevolent, but it seems to be calling out. I decide to follow this feeling for some ways out across the countryside, until I come across a sign that reads, 'Neo Domino City.' I continue to walk along, and suddenly I'm near a mansion by the sea, well, its outer gates anyways. I feel that pulsing grow more intense, until I was right on top of it. There was a powerful sensation, a light enveloped around me, I could have almost sworn an explosion had occurred. Everything went white, all my senses of anything around me vanished.
Then I saw it, a creature began coming closer to me. 1, 2, 3...6?! 6 golden wings beating a steady rhythm as the creature apparently flew straight towards me. It opened its maw and just as I began to hear something, a vibration started to shake me at my core. A moment later, I was standing in the same spot as before. No markings anywhere of any disturbance had happened, no people were running about, and no one was looking in my direction. Looking down at my hand, a card had appeared, Prime Material Dragon. This monster, it...it was exactly what I needed! This card does nothing but protect its fellow monsters from harm and its master from certain damage that is not regularly blocked. I added it to my deck immediately, and it fit perfectly with my strategum. Even countering some I've lost to before.
Some time passes by like water in a river, nothing out of the ordinary, the darkness tries to slither out its influence put the pendant reigns it back in. Something's happened, I did not expect this to ever happen to me again. I have fallen in love with a female of these humans. Akiza Izinski, wielder of the mighty Black Rose Dragon. She's rather forthcoming, however I was not ready for such a relationship, but I was ever so lonely. She reminded me of her in some ways. I gave in to her desires. I could not hold back all that was built up, the tension from millennia of evil, the finding of her who was hidden deep inside myself. All of it was released all in a single moment of ecstasy.
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She's an exceptional duelist, few could match her strategies, her ferocity, however my deck was her anti-equation. Out of many others, I was one of the first to give her a taste of defeat. She was unique like me, coming from another time, having powers, and much older than she appeared. She did not cower from her abilities, though she was prone to the occasional outburst. I have not felt this way about another since Her, I cannot even speak her name regularly. Now I have found another.
We built a life together, coming to live on an island where children learned how to play this game as experts, Duel Academy. I finally decided to ask her to marry me, but we had a falling out. We separated for a time, as I have seen couples do in this world. This would never have happened on my home world, once mated, we mate for life.