Yu-Gi-Oh

No Limits

Turn 1- And so it begins

By Kevin Jones

Prologue

Long ago, while mankind was still just learning how to walk, Sorcerers played games of great and terrible power, but these "Shadow Games" erupted into a war that threatened to destroy the entire world until one final climactic battle separated the world of man and the world of shadow forever, but nothing quite lasts forever.

Present Day: October, 1 2040

The day has started like any other. I've woken up to the sound of my alarm clock and with my head still in the pillow I'm reaching over and… boom! Right against the wall, damn it, throwing it hasn't made it stop the ringing.

I got up slowly and just sat there for a few minutes as I continued the slow process of waking up, I'm not a morning person.

I looked up, expecting to hear my roommate complaining that I tried to kill him with an alarm clock, again, only to remember that I have no roommate, not anymore anyways.

Dewint academy is one of the richest schools in the world. Now to put that into perspective we are in New York City. Even though there's a Satellite Sector it still isn't cheap to live here, especially to be in a big campus with the East River in one direction and Manhattan in the other.

Plus the whole museum in the front of office should help you figure out how spoiled we are. Although it is kind of cool to have some of what's left of the old New York City here, you know, the one before World War 3 blew the city to smithereens and rebuilding it including putting about half the city's left over population in the ruins of what's left while the rich people get to live on top of the new city, getting to completely forget about the rest of it and this dinosaur of a school is no different.

I shouldn't be surprised because everything in this school is ridiculously old, including our Principal.

Honestly the only interesting thing here is the 2033 winning Duel Disk and deck which has its rightful place hanging over the stage in the auditorium; unfortunately it wasn't long after that when the school decided to cut its Duel Monsters program, why you may ask, because Dewint Academy is the closest thing to, assuming it actually is, hell itself.

If by this point your thinking I've got a frown on my face your right. I've also got short jet black hair that's flat on the top and sticks out forward; this is not intentional, I've spent the better part of my life time trying to figure out why it's like that. I've also got dark brown eyes, I'm thin, and I have a large scar on the left side of my neck; why you may ask, well that's my business.

Believe it or not though I'm not the first student that comes to mind when people think of this school; I'm not rich, I don't have any previous generations who came here and I'm only here via "someone Else's charity," as most people like to put it, and most of the people here never let me forget it.

Now that I've cleaned myself up, in a shower room that's way to clean for a Boarding School, I've got to put on my stupid uniform.

It consists of a dress shirt, jacket with the school emblem on it, which is basically a circle with a gold fancy looking Club, like on a playing card, pants which must be ironed, shoes must be clean, tie must be real so everyone looks exactly the same with not a single difference, after all appearance is everything.

The dorm rooms are average. Each one comes with 1 to 2 beds, dresser, a closet and a desk; some of the older rooms have a small crawl space in the back of the closet. Sometimes you'll find little things like old pictures, notes, a smuggled in can of beer, all from previous generations of course but I found something special in mine, something very special.

I also have my deck placed in my Wrist Dealer which I keep tucked under my jacket sleeve as well as my Duel Disk in my back pack.

Now for the most important part of the morning, making it to breakfast; not Breakfast itself, making it to breakfast and believe me-

"Good morning Honey!"

Oh crap. "What do you want Millay?"

This is Millay, A.K.A Satan, she's head master Dewint's Granddaughter, so she usually gets whatever she wants. Plus if the big shot family doesn't work she can usually get what she wants with a toss of the shoulder length blond hair, a bat of the the deep blue eyes, and a large rack with a slender body doesn't hurt either.

"Don't talk to me like that."

"Then don't talk to me."

"Behave, that's all I'm asking for you to do is to be on your best behavior during the assembly today."

"What assembly?"

"You don't know?"

"Does it sound like I know."
"For your information we're having a guest speaker this afternoon, all students are obligated to attend."

"I'll make sure to skip it."
"You might want to reconsider once I tell you who it is."

"Let me guess, some old fart from forever ago who's going to tell us how much this school changed his life.

"Actually, and you'll like this, it's Scott Truman."

Wait a minute, there, there's no way. I'm standing here about to fall over and she's saying it completely calm, as if was natural. Clearly her plan worked and she's got me in her web.

"How come?"

"Not sure only that he's going to give a lecture on how and why he got an award from The NAACP and then he's going to select one random kid in the audience to duel him."

"One of the top Duelists in the world… is coming here to duel one of us."

"Well it's probably going to be me."

"Why you?"

"Because my Grandpa runs this place," she says this with a lot of pride.
"Fare enough, why do you want to duel him, you barely ever play?"

"True, but think at how much it will boost my popularity here if I can say that I threw down, with one of the best and one of the most handsomest Duelists in the world; plus it'll make a great story to tell our kids."

"When is it?"

"Right after lunch and like I said, be on your best behavior, I don't want you pulling any revenge antics when I get selected. See you later Darling."

Well at least she's leaving, could you all tell how evil she is, if not don't worry; I'm sure all of you will realize what I mean soon enough.

All I've been able to think about all morning is the idea of being able to duel Scott Truman and if so how I could even make a decent match for him, which goes to show just how much I care about my classes, but there is one class I'm willing to let myself get distracted for.

"So instead of just using bruit force, the mighty Spartans used their strong bronze shields to guard themselves from the enemy's blows and used their swift swords and spears to lay fatal damage to their enemy's!"

Professor Moretti, most likely from Italy or at least that's what he sounds like. He isn't too old, but his hair's going grey, he looks like he hasn't been getting a lot of exercise and he has a thick black mustache.

"Though there probably wasn't exactly 300 soldiers the number paled in comparison to how many Persians there were that day!"

He teaches with enthusiasm and rarely sticks to the curriculum, often teaching things that we'd never find in a text book, because of this he's usually on academic probation but I like him, making him the only teacher here I can even stand.

Well the bells ringing but most likely Moretti isn't going to let us, his audience, go. This is normal; the man likes to talk and everybody loves not getting in trouble for missing class time.

"OK, class is dismissed. Now go eat and remember the assembly later."

I'm in no rush; the lunch line tends to go quickly and most like-

"Out of the way freak!"

Oh man, some jerk just knocked me to the ground, and I wasn't even fully out of my seat yet. Plus, when my Wrist Dealer hit the ground all my cards flew out onto the floor.

"Oh my you might want to look into getting that thing fixed."

"Sorry sir I'll clean it all up immediately, just don't tell the principal on me."

Moretti is giggling, which I assume means I'm not in trouble; we're not a loud to have cards on us during class.

"Don't worry you are in no danger from me. It's a fascinating game and probably the only one that in some ways has gotten to all social classes." He has a tendency to say weird stuff like that.

He's pulling a pack of cards out of his pocket.

"If it were me I'd chose you to Duel with in a heartbeat."

"Thank you sir."

"Now everyone please be quiet while Mr. Truman gives his presentation."

As long as every day felt like is how fast lunch went. I ate so quickly I almost gagged, twice. I added the cards Moretti gave me to my deck, knowing full well I'm probably not going to get to duel.

Scott Truman is tall with an Afro. At 24 he's the youngest professional who is currently on the circuit.

He's from this city, Harlem I think, and good chance that's got a lot to do with why he's presenting today.

"I may not have attended some fancy Duel academy but everyone around me was my teacher."

At that statement I hear a little "humph" come from the girl next to me. The girl next to me is wearing one of our uniforms, catch is she looks too young to go this school, about maybe 10 or 11, and the youngest we admit here is 13. The shirt and the skirt look way too big; she has pail white skin with dark red hair that she has up and an expression that looks angry and blank at the same time.

"Now then, I'm in the mood for a Duel and which one of you eager looking students is interested?"

He's scanning the auditorium, slowly and- holy crap he's stopped at my section. I can tell he's made his selection but Millay isn't even in this section.

"You 7 seats in from the 6Th row up," holy crap, he's picked me.

I better make it down, but I wonder what the mystery girl looks like now… well looks like she's got a genuine expression on her face, shock.

It's only taken me a second to make it down to the stage but that second has felt like an eternity.

Scott doesn't seem as tall as I thought he was, of course I'm no short stop myself.

"Alright then ready to do this," he said.

"I'm always ready for a good Duel."

"I like your attitude kid, what's your name?" "Rhodes Chase Rhodes, now it's time to duel!"

Scott

"Alright then since you have the home field advantage I'll go first.

I summon The Six Samurai-Yariza in attack mode." (ATK: 1000/DEF: 500) From the audience voices can be heard.

"Hey how does this game work again?"

"Well basically once per turn you play a monster card, you then have it attack an opponent's monster card and one player will lose life points based on the difference in ATK points, first player whose life points hit zero loses."

Chase

"Not bad I summon Elemental Hero Voltic in attack mode (ATK: 1000/DEF: 1500) next I play the spell card Heated Heart to increase Voltic's attack power by 500 points (ATK: 1000-1500/DEF: 1500)." "Wait a minute now what did he do?"

"He played a spell card which has the ability to increase his monsters attack points."

"Now Voltic attack Yariza, Voltic Thunder!"

When Voltic attacked, Yariza dodged and prepared to launch an attack of his own only to realize that you can't dodge lightning. (Scott's Life points 4000-3500)

"Next I play one card face down and it's back to you."

Scott

"Clever, I summon The Six Samurai-Zanji in attack mode. (ATK: 1800/DEF: 1300) Now Zanji attack his Voltic, Bright Samurai slash!"

"Not so fast, I reveal a little trap card called Scrap Iron Scarecrow."

The samurai's attack was ended and the tall Samurai and the scarecrow returned to their respective sides of the field waiting for another chance to strike.

"Wait what just happened?"

"He activated a trap card; they basically work by playing them face down during one turn and then activating them another."

Chase

"Now then I switch Elemental Hero Voltic into Defense mode and next I summon Elemental Hero Clayman in Defense Mode (Attack: 800/DEF: 2000) as well."

"Wait a minute what's defense mode?"

"Defense mode is when a monster card is turned sideways, now when the 2 monsters battle you are facing its DEF points and if it's destroyed you usually won't lose life points."

Scott

"You're pretty good but I didn't get where I am by falling for traps and defense now did I. I summon The Six Samurai Yaichi in Attack mode (ATK: 1300/DEF: 800) now I activate his effect allowing me to destroy one spell or trap card you have on the field and I'm going with your Scarecrow, now Samurai Arrow!"

The arrow struck the place where the projector indicated a trap and as it has worked for centuries the arrow killed its prey.

"Next I play the continuous spell Defense loss. Now when a monster you control is destroyed via card effect you'll lose life points equal to the monsters Defense points. Zanji attack his Clayman with Bright Samurai slash!"

"But wait you'll lose life points to!"

"Now I activate the special ability of my Zanji destroying you're Clayman". (3500-3300) (4000-2000)

Kevin

"You are good. I summon Elemental Hero Stratos (ATK: 1800/DEF: 300) in attack mode next I activate his special ability allowing me to destroy you're Defense loss. Next I switch Voltic into attack mode and equip him with the power of Fighting Spirit, now he's going to gain 300 attack points for each monster on your side of the field. (ATK: 1000-1600/DEF: 1500) Now Stratos attack Yaichi with Stratosphere storm!"

"Oh no you don't I activate the effect of my Yaichi now I can destroy Zanji instead." (3300-2800)(ATK: 1600-1300)

"Now Voltic attack Yaichi with Voltic Thunder. Now normally both monster's would be destroyed cause there attack points are the same but by discarding my Fighting Spirit my Voltic is spared, next I'm going to place one card face down and call it a turn."

Scott

"I can't remember the last time I had a duel this exciting, I summon The Six Samurai Nisashi in attack mode (ATK: 1400/DEF: 700), now destroy his Voltic with wind Samurai slash!"

Voltic fired his lightning but it wasn't anywhere near quick enough to hit the Samurai of the wind (2000- 2000) sorry but I've got a little guy in my hand named Kuriboh and he allows me to discard him in order to set the battle damage from that attack to zero." "Not bad I set two card faces down. Let's see what you've got."

Chase

"Come on deck I need a winner."

Suddenly a nice long grin came across Chase's face as he said to himself.

"Thank you Professor Moretti. I summon The Tuner Monster Debris Dragon in attack mode! (Level: 4/ATK: 1000/DEF: 2000)

"Wait a minute what's a tuner monster?"

"Watch and you'll find out."

"Now technically my Debris Dragon can't be tuned with a level 4 monster so with my Miniaturize trap card I'm going reduce my Level 4 Elemental Hero Stratos in to a Level 3 Stratos!"

"What does he mean by tuned?"

"Shut up!"

"Now I activate My Debris Dragon's effect allowing me to summon a monster from my graveyard and I'm going with my Kuriboh. (ATK: 300/DEF: 200/Level: 1) Now I Tune my Debris Dragon with my Kuriboh and Stratos!"

"Does that answer your question?"(4+3+1=8)

The 3 monsters flew into the air de-materializing. Debris Dragon turned into 4 elegant green rings which centered themselves on the outlines of Stratos and Kuriboh. When the 2 monsters vanished they revealed 4 small stars that fashioned themselves equally among the rings and with a burst of light.

"I Synchro Summon Stardust Dragon!"

The elegant white Dragon let out a great roar and focused its 2 giant yellow eyes at Nisashi.

"What in the world? There's only supposed to be one of those, so how on earth did you get one?"

"Let's just say I found it in my closet, now Stardust Dragon Cosmic Flare! (2800-300).

"Hey wait a minute shouldn't Scott have only lost the difference between Nisashi and Stardust's ATK points instead of the whole thing?"

"Yeah maybe something's wrong with his disk." Then everyone's questions were answered.

"I activated my trap card tactical retreat; returning my Nisashi to my hand and making your attack direct."

"But now you get to summon it back with double its attack points so long as after your next turn you take it out of play and lose life points equal to its original attack points."

Scott

"You bet, next I re summon The Six Samurai Nisashi with double his attack points (ATK: 1400-2800) next I play Graceful Charity allowing me to draw 3 cards so long as I discard 2. Next I activate my second trap Return of the Six Samurai allowing me to special summon 1 six samurai monster from my graveyard so long as I destroy it at the end of my turn. Now I summon Spirit of The Six Samurai (ATK: 500/DEF: 500) now I can equip him to my Nisashi and increase his ATK and DEF points by 500 points (ATK: 2800-3300/DEF: 1400- 1900). Next I equip Nisashi with Zangetsu which will double his attack points once more! (ATK: 3300-6600/DEF: 1900-3800) Now Nisashi attack Stardust Dragon!"

The 2 monsters began to battle with a whole stadium of people watching.

"It's OK Stardust we tried after all they don't call him number 1 for nothing (2000-0)

Winner: Scott Loser: Chase

The 2 men walked down from their respected platforms and towards each other and extended their hands.

"Excellent match, if I hadn't drawn the right card you would of one."

"I'll remember that for next time."

The 2 began to walk away happy with what had just transpired.

When Scott opened the door to his limbo he found his angry publicist ready to rant.

"You know Scott that was a waste of time, we made no money on this and it's not like he actually stood a chance against you."

Scott laughed and said. "First of all money is for greedy fools like you and second no matter what that score board says he won today, he won something more important than bragging rights." "What's that suppose to mean?"

"We'll all see soon enough."

Scott sat down and closed his eyes happy with his handy work.

I'm on the roof now. It's peaceful here. No Millay to bother me, all I have to is sit and stare at the sunset and think.

"Heros, I don't know what's keeping me from upgrading to a new deck but, here we are. Still Scott Truman, I knew I wouldn't win, but how close I got, amazing.

"Yeah, but it still would of been nice to win."

Who the hell was that? There was no one here when I got up here and I didn't hear the door open, but I could've sworn I just heard a small child's voice.

"Who's there?"

"Well that's a little hard to explain."

"What's that suppose to mean?"

"Just follow me. There are some people who have been waiting years to finally talk to you."

Next time: Turn 2-The Girl who could awaken the shadows

"I took a deep breath and reached in. With a flash of light I felt a pain so powerful I felt like my arm was about to disintegrate. I cried out in pain but those around me new the rules, if I pull my hand out I die."