Good day ladies and gentlemen who have deigned this story worthy of their attention, my name is Max, one of two co-owners of this account.
Normally Derek would be here as well, but unfortunately his computer is busted, so I'm the only one able to make updates.
This story is going to start roughly 6 months before the first episode, mind you I haven't watched Yugioh 5ds in a while, so I don't remember a lot of things, so if any of you can give me a quick timeline of events up until the arrival of *spoiler, though not really unless you haven't watched any of the series* Earthbound immortals *spoiler end* That would help.
This story has been beta read by my pal Elzur, he doesn't have any stories right now, but when he finishes the one he's planning check it out, I'm it's beta reader and I think it's a good story idea.
Disclaimer; neither me nor Derek own Yugioh 5ds, if we did; I have no clue what would have happened.
Bold= Titles, LP, Card stats and (Retracted)
Italics= Thoughts, when in 1st person view
Underlined Italics= Flashbacks
"speech"
'thoughts' in 3rd person view
Chapter 1
A duel can cure amnesia?
? POV:
Ohh my head. I raised my hand to my head; the blood rushing everywhere was clearly audible to me.
What did I do, run into a wall headfirst?
As my senses returned to me I became aware of the hand shaking my shoulder along with an accompanying voice.
"Hey are you okay? Hello? Wake up!"
With a grunt I sat up and got a look at whoever was talking to me. The person was a kid, she, or at least the kid looked a bit like a girl, was dressed in some scruffy clothes. She had a teal coat on top of an orange shirt, she was also wearing a pair of shorts, all topped off with a yellow beanie.
"Yeah, I think so. Though you don't happen to have any thing to help with this headache, would you?"
"Sorry, but there's nothing like that here."
Resigning myself to the pounding in my skull I turned around to look at my surroundings. The two of us were in a dilapidated street, trash littered the ground everywhere, paint was peeling off walls and the few people around looked to be in the same state as the kid; overall it looks like I've been dumped into the slums.
Deciding that the kid might know something about where I am I got ready to ask him, however he beat me to it.
"By the way, my name's Rally, Rally Dawson. What's yours?"
Startled at the question I quickly composed myself and answered, "Me I'm, I'm; I'm…"
That's not right, why can't I say my name, in that case it was, oh god.
"I don't remember my name."
"What?!"
The kid, Rally, I corrected, began waving her arms around, babbling about how absurd that was and that we need to do something. While she was right about doing something I gave her a firm glare at the idea of hitting myself to fix my memories.
"Wait, is that a duel disk on your arm?"
On that question I decided to finally look at myself, I was wearing blue denim, a white shirt and some pants, the thing that I was wearing of most note was a raven cape that billowed in an unseen wind; not that wind is visible anyways, Other then that was a strange circular device on my arm with a deck of cards in it.
I really need some new threads
Uncertainly I answered "I believe so."
"That's perfect!"
"For what?"
"I heard that if you duel then you will see your true self."
"Do you really expect me to believe any of that?"
"Well we could try the ro-."
"Okay okay" I covered Rally's mouth before this conversation could continue, "Just let me check out my deck, also, can you explain the rules for me."
5 minutes later we had my deck of cards laid down on the ground as Rally explained how to play.
From what I could see my deck comprised mainly of Dragons, as I gazed over one in particular gowever, I got the urge to pick it up.
Red eyes Darkness Metal Dragon X; Level 8, Dragon/Synchro/Effect, att: 3000, def: 2600, 1 dragon tuner+ 1 non tuner monster. This card can not be Special summoned except by Synchro summoning. Once per turn you may Special Summon 1 Dragon type monster from either player's graveyards or from your hand except Red eyes Darkness Metal Dragon. You may only control one Red eyes Darkness Metal Dragon X at a time.
Red eyes Darkness Metal Dragon X huh. You look like an ace in the hole.
-Line-break-powers-Go-
After we were both ready we stood at opposite ends of the street.
"Duel!"
Rally: 4000LP
?: 4000LP
Turn 1
"I'll go first" With that statement Rally drew a card and started our duel
"I summon Genex Controller in attack mode."
"After that I set one card facedown and activate Goblin Thief to take 500 of your Life points for myself."
A cart lead by two goblins suddenly appeared and ran into me and running away with, hey, is that my wallet?
Rally saw my face and quickly spoke up, "It's just a hologram, don't worry. In any case I end my turn."
Rally: 4500 LP
Genex controller, 1400 att/ 1200 def
Hand: 3 cards
1 facedown
?: 3500 LP
Hand: 5 cards
"Well then I draw."
I looked at my hand and made my move, "I summon to the field Luster Dragon and then with its 1900 attack I destroy your Genex Controller"
"Uwah, uh, I activate my Trap, Waboku, with it none of my monsters are destroyed by battle this turn and I take no damage from battles."
I narrowed my eyes and scanned the rest of my hand, in the end I set a card and ended my turn.
Turn 3
Rally: 4500 LP
Genex Controller, 1400/1200
Hand: 3
?: 3500 LP
Luster Dragon, 1900/1600
1 facedown
Hand: 4
"Okay I draw, ah!"
Rally looked like the cat who caught the canary.
"I summon out Blue Thunder T-45 in attack mode."
Derek scoffed, "Hate to break it to you kid, but that card only has 1700 attack."
"Maybe, but watch my spell come into effect, Banner of Courage! Now when I attack my monsters gain 200 attack."
I widened my eyes fractionally, That means he can destroy Luster, okay it's no big deal, I can survive 1600 damage.
Rally thrust her hand forward and commanded Blue Thunder to attack Luster Dragon resulting in both their destructions in an explosion.
As the smoke cleared away another monster stood on Rally's side of the field.
I took a step back, "Where'd he come from?"
"When my Blue Thunder destroys a monster I get a Thunder Option Token with 1500 attack."
"But that means-"
"That's right, two direct attacks."
Both robots launched their attacks at me and I winced slightly at my situation.
"That's all for my turn" With that came my last chance to win.
Turn 5
Rally: 4500LP
Genex Controller 1400/1200
Thunder Option Token 1500/0
Hand: 2
?: 200LP
1 facedown
Hand 4
"Draw!"
I could feel the smirk overcoming my face.
"I summon to the field my Decoy Dragon"
"Wait, but that has way too few points to beat either of my cards."
"That's why I tribute him and Special summon Red-eyes Darkness Dragon!"
There it is, the shock and awe in his face, Wait why does it look familiar
"DEREK!"
Huh, I quickly look around, Derek? Wait a minute that's me.
"Derek"
"Huh?" Rally jumped at my sudden change in tone
"That's my name, Derek."
"That's great, you remember, you remember."
"Yeah, but I plan to have two celebrations."
"What?"
"My memories and your defeat." Rally began inching back at the look in my eyes.
"I activate Lightning Vortex, and discard one card to destroy your monsters."
"This isn't good."
"For you, but for me it's great. With my Dragon's effect I special summon from my hand Mirage Dragon; plus I activate Call of the Haunted to re-summon my Luster Dragon!"
Rally stared up at the three behemoths in front of him in terror.
"GO! FINAL TURN! TRIPLE DIRECT ATTACK!"
With that Rally's Life points dropped to 0 and I won.
-It's—time—to—break—the—line-
After our duel Rally and I discussed what to do next.
"Well it's obvious right; I'll take you to visit my friends."
Shaking my head I tried to explain once again how that was a bad idea, we've been revolving around the same issue and Rally just wasn't listening to me, Finally I threw my hands up in defeat,
"Fine, lead the way Miss Dawson."
"Um, I'm a boy."
Hearing that I had to resist the urge to do a double take, sh-he looked just like a girl, "I'm not even going to question that."
Roughly 15 minutes later we were descending into an abandoned subway; there we met a group of men.
The first was a stern faced man who wore a grey jacket over a green shirt along with some jeans and trainers; he was also wearing a blue bandanna. Rally introduced him as Blitz.
The second was a skinny, bespectacled, blue-haired man, he wore a green sweater vest whose shade was similar to asparagus, under it was a white collared shirt, he of course had a pair of pants and some sneakers. Rally introduced him as Nervin.
The last man was significantly larger than the others, he was built to be like a tank, which ironically was his name, he wore a Dark brown, sleeveless coat over a greyish shirt and naturally he wore pants and shoes.
Tension was ripe in the air as the others didn't trust me very much, but on Rally's insistence we were waiting for somebody named Yusei. After what felt like hours we heard footsteps and a man came into view.
He had a serious face that looked like it had rarely ever seen a smile; he had tan skin and a fairly average build. He wore a long sleeved blue jacket over a black shirt that had a strange red symbol visible on it; he also was wearing a pair of gloves as well as his own duel disk. For his lower body he was wearing black jeans with amber kneepads and a pair of boots.
Yusei Fudo had arrived.
Whew now that was tiring, I said in my Pokemon fic that battles were hard to write, but duels are way harder.
In any case this is my first chapter complete, now for a few points of note
Red eyes Darkness Metal Dragon X is a custom made card, Derek needed a synchro dragon and he grew attached to Red eyes Darkness Metal Dragon, so like how Arcanite Magician has a synchro and a fusion, requiring the synchro, Darkness Metal has a synchro and a normal card.
I really have not kept up with the series so any help in what the event line-up is would be helpful, especially the time between Jack's betrayal and episode 1 of the anime.
Next chapter will be on the second OC, so you will need to wait until chapter 3 for the results of this meeting.
Please, please, please help me out in constructing Derek's deck, Dragon decks are not my forte, I specialise in swarm decks mainly, as well as one other type.