This story is if Yugioh were as important in this world as it is in the TV show. Now I am making a few changes to our world, for example no Yugioh story is complete without holographic duel monsters and duel disks so our world will have that. Also almost every season of Yugioh has some mention of duel spirits so I'll have them, too. Another thing is that if Yugioh were that important in our world it would've been around a lot longer and certain cards would've come out sooner, but I'm sure that won't come up in this one. I'll also be giving a different name to the inventor of the game because I don't think the real inventor would appreciate being made as kooky Pegasus. But other than these things I'm not changing much. Now I'd like to point out before we get started that I do not own Yugioh the TV show or the card game. There will be no OC cards in this fic.

Our main character is Chris Duel a red headed, green eyed duelist who usually wears a white t-shirt with a red vest over it and a pair of blue jeans and a black pair of shoes. He uses a Slifer Red duel disk (Looks like Jaden's from Yugioh GX Season 4 [The one that didn't get to America]). He carries his deck in his vest pocket though it's almost always in his hand. He's a very optimistic kid and tries to lighten the mood when he can. He never lets anyone pick on his friends, and if one's in trouble he always steps up to help. He has a knack for getting people mad at him for the smallest things and he's made a lot of rival through this habit.

Episode 1: Just another Day (Part 1)

Monday

Hi I'm Chris Duel and this is my story. Of course you might not like my story; I mean I'm just a 13 year old kid living in a small city in Alabama (to keep the story going we'll call it Card City). Anyway I guess I'll start my story off on the first day of my second semester in 7th grade.

I sat in the hallway of the high school going over my cards when I heard someone coming up behind me.

I turned to see my friend Terra Deck. Well friend is not strong enough a word, she was kinda like the older sister I never had. She was 15 and one of the best duelist in her grade, topped out at Rank 4 last year. She was a lovely blonde haired girl, with said hair in a ponytail most of the time, and today she wore a blue shirt and matching knee length skirt.

"Hey Terra," I said, "How's it going."

"Fine," she said as she sat down next to me, "going over your cards again, Chris?"

"Yeah," I said, "I've been doing that a lot since my brother disappeared last year, haven't I?"

My brother, Stefan Duel, was your average 17 year old with brown hair who was most often seen in a grey t-shirt with a black vest over it and a black pair of jeans to match it.

He was the school's official Rank 2. He'd earned that title year after year, but last year the inventor of the game, Taka Kitagawa, had visited the school the night of graduation to award a scholarship to his duel academy and Stefan challenged him in front of all of the graduating seniors. He lost and left home later that night. No one has seen him since.

"Yeah," she said, "does anyone know where he went?"

"No," I said, "but he said he was training, and I know he'll come back once he's done, and he'll get that jerk of a card maker, Taka Kitagawa."

"Why was Stefan dueling the inventor of the game in the first place?" asked Terra.

"I don't know," I said, "but Taka is supposed to be the best duelist in the world and it was a little insane for him to even attempt it."

Terra pulled out her deck and found two of her favorite cards, "I'll never forget how he gave me these."

She turned the cards so I could see them.

It was a Silent Magician LV's 4&8,and two of the few things my brother had left lying around before he just disappeared.

"You know Terra; if it weren't for those cards you and I wouldn't have met." I said.

Terra thought about it, and I was right.

The way she got that card was that she'd challenged Stefan to a duel and had lost due to him summoning that very Silent Magician LV8 along with his The A. Forces spellcard, with four Warrior-Type monsters that he'd gathered on the field, and attacking her. Then she spent the next two days just about begging for a rematch, but I took Stefan's place in order to show her what she had done wrong. I won the duel with my Utopia and she was just about to give up dueling when Stefan gave her the cards. She was so excited she wanted to duel me again right then and there.

Terra laughed at the memory.

Just then the bell rang.

"Guess I'll see you later Terra." I said as I stood up.

"Yeah see ya." she said as she stood up and walked to her own class.

I walked down the hall to my class but I was met by the irritating laughter of Rodney Vega.

"Hey there loser." said Rodney.

Rodney was one year older than I was. He had brown hair and wore a black long-sleeved t-shirt and black jeans. He was my oldest enemy.

"Loser," I said, "like I haven't heard that a hundred times before."

Rodney had an annoying grin on his face as he blocked my entrance into the class.

"You should really get to class," said Rodney, "or you're gonna be late."

"I'll go in, when you move out of the way." I said.

"Why don't you make me?" said Rodney.

"How about I do?" I said through gritted teeth.

"Why don't you get out of his way Rodney," said a voice behind me, "before he duels you right here, right now and kicks your butt in one turn."

I turned to see my oldest friend and rival Jack Page. Jack was 14 and had straight black hair with blonde highlights. He was wearing his usual attire of a purple short sleeved button up shirt that was unbuttoned with a black t-shirt under it and a pair of black jeans. He used a Thunder Deck.

"Well if it isn't big bad Jack Page to the rescue." said Rodney, "last I checked rivals are supposed to hate each other."

"Well now we know you can read." I said.

Rodney gritted his teeth.

"Just because we're rivals doesn't mean I don't respect him," said Jack, "now let him in."

Just then the bell rang and Rodney moved out of the way.

I clenched my fist and entered.

"Chris is late!" shouted Rodney.

"Duh," I said, "the class isn't blind."

Then I heard the annoying laugh of one Donny Johnson. Donny was my second oldest rival. He had scraggily brown hair. He wore a red t-shirt and a pair of khaki shorts.

"Looks like you started this year off like you did last year, Chris." said Donny.

"Shut up Don." I said as I took my seat.

I looked around to see who I was sitting next to this semester.

I groaned when I saw Allen Jones.

"Hey I'm not too thrilled to see you either." said Alan.

Alan had brown hair that was almost black and wore a pair of glasses. He had on a grey shirt with purple horizontal stripes and he had on a pair black jeans. He was a new rival I'd made over the summer.

Thing is, all I did was accidentally bump into him at the mall and he got mad and challenged me to a duel. He won and I went to shake his hand, he smacked my hand away and said I was a waste of his time.

When I ran into him again, we had a rematch and I won but he still treated me like thrash and said that now I was only worth "half" his time.

Just then the teacher came in and everyone was quiet especially the boys because the teacher was Ms. Angelica Kimberly. She was a lovely woman with long golden brown hair that reached the small of her back.

"It's good to see you all," she said, "I hope your second semester will be eventful and I hope you all learn as much as possible."

She opened a drawer on her desk and pulled out a box.

"Now I know you are all aware of the Duel Token policy by now so I'll just point out the basics again, you get four tokens and when you duel during PE you'll bet a number of them. The winner gets the tokens, but when you run out of tokens you can't duel at school until next week unless you can get a friend to lone you a few. Of course the Tokens don't roll over from semester to semester and must be returned to by the end of each semester." said Ms. Kimberly as she passed each student and let them each take four tokens.

"Chris'll be out by the end of the day, then." said Rodney.

Several kids in the class laughed at the comment but Ms. Kimberly stopped them.

"I sincerely doubt anyone will lose all of their tokens today."

If only she knew how wrong she was.

It was finally PE and the teacher, Coach Black, explained the Duel Token policy again and then set us free in the gym to duel until we lost it all.

I decided just to watch the duels that day to check out the competition for my brother's title of second best in school, since tryouts for the Duel Pyramid came up at the end of the year.

I wasn't surprised to see Jack doing the same thing. He and I were both in the running to get my bro's title.

Donny was of course killing with his Six Samurai Deck, and Alan was taking out almost everyone who challenged him with his Infernity Deck.

Well it was a few minutes into the period when realized I'd lost track of Jack. And everyone was gathered around a duel at the center of the gym.

I walked up and went through the crowd to see that Jack was on his knees and Rodney was laughing at him and tossing four Duel Tokens up and down in his hand.

"What the heck is going on here?" I asked.

"Jack just lost four duels in a row," said Alan, "what do you think happened?"

"Jack," I said, "you lost four duels to Rodney?"

"I don't know how," he said, "I had him."
Then something caught my eye.

"I know how he won," I said, "he cheated."

Everyone gasped.

"You can't prove that." said Rodney rolling his eyes like I was just trying to find something to blame on him.

"Oh really?" I said as I grabbed his wrist.

"Let go you loser." shouted the bully.

I pulled up his sleeve to reveal a rubber band around his wrist holding several cards.

"Can't win so you cheat?" I said, "Rodney, that's low even for you, now either give Jack his tokens back or I'll go get Coach Black."

"Yo who taught you this game," asked Rodney, "because if you haven't noticed the point is to win?"

"Yeah," I said, "but without cheating, and for your information my brother taught me to duel. Now I'll see you in about one minute after I go get Coach Black."

I turned to leave when Rodney said something that froze me in my tracks.

"You know I heard he cried."

I clenched my fist, "What was that?"

"You know your brother must be some kind of idiot to think he could beat Taka." said Rodney.

My fist clenched tighter.

"Maybe that's why he ran away," said Rodney "couldn't take the fact he was so stupid."

My fist was now so tight that my knuckles had turned white. I turned around and activated my duel disk.

"Let's get one thing straight Rodney," I said, "you can insult me all you want, but you insult my brother and you've got a duel on your hands."

Rodney activated his own duel disk which was an Obelisk Blue disk.

"How many tokens are you putting up?" he asked.

"All of them," I said, "But you have to put up your own and Jack's, plus no cheating.

Rodney pulled off the rubber band.

"Deal," he said, "I won't need to cheat to beat you."

Jack placed his hand on my shoulder.

"Chris," he said, "you won't stand a chance. Rodney placed third best out of his entire class last year."

"Oh, let him do it Jack," said Allen, "it'll be nice to see him mope because he can't duel for a whole week."

Donny snickered.

"I won't lose," I said, "because my brother wouldn't lose to an amateur duelist like Rodney and neither will I."

"Just get on with the duel!" shouted Rodney.

"LET'S DUEL!"

Chris: 4000

Rodney: 4000

"You can have the first move Rodney." I said.

"Gladly," he said as he drew a card, "and I'll summon Dark Lucius LV4 (1000/300)in attack mode."

A grey, armor covered fiend with blue hair appeared.

"Next I'll play a facedown and end my turn." Rodney said as he finished his turn.

I smiled as I drew a card, "You should've done more with your move."

Rodney became confused.

"I summon Indomitable Fighter Lei Lei (2300/0) in attack mode." I said as a battle scarred cat-man appeared on my field, "I'll end my turn with a facedown as well."

"What," called Allen, "too scared to attack?"

"No," I said, "just watching and learning."

Rodney drew, "I summon The Gross Ghost of Fled Dreams (1300/1800) in attack mode."

The ghost-like fiend appeared before me.

"This must be your long lost sister," I said with a laugh, "I can see the resemblance."

Rodney growled, "I end my turn."

I drew a card.

"It's time I turned things up!" I shouted, "I first summon Axe Dragonute (2000/1200)," a black and purple dragon wielding a huge axe appeared before me, "now I overlay my two monsters to summon the last card my brother gave me before he left. I Xyz Summon, Gem-Knight Pearl (2600/1900)."

The two monsters on my field turned into orbs of light that entered a swirling vortex that had opened on my field.

Out of it arose a warrior-like being in white armor that was made of pearl. Two orbs circled the Rock-Type.

"Big deal," said Rodney, "I still have my face down."

"Not anymore," I said, "go Xyz Effect." My facedown flipped face-up and Pearl started to glow, "Now I can pick one card on the field and destroy it. So say bye, bye to that facedown."

Rodney's facedown shattered.

"Not my Sakuretsu Armor." said Rodney.

"Now Pearl," I said, "attack! Destroy his ghost."

Pearl ran at the ghostly fiend and destroyed her.

Chris: 4000

Rodney: 2700

"Good move Chris." said a voice.

"Thanks Jack." I said assuming he'd been the one to speak.

"Thanks for what?" asked Jack.

"Didn't you just say 'good move Chris'?" I turned and asked.

Jack shook his head.

"Not him," said the voice, "me, your monster."

I turned to see my Gem-Knight looking at me.

I gasped, had my monster really just talked to me?