Riding the Waves
A/N: Hi everyone, DisneyAnimefan94 bringing you my first Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal fanfiction.
So this is my first Zexal story so please go easy. Just a slight warning though, this one will lack duels but will mention them and this story might be a little short. So without future ado here is my first chapter of my story.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal only the story and its OC
Chapter 1: Ryan takes a Stand
In a city in ruins a young boy is searching though looking for survivors. He suddenly see's two familiar figures with their duel disks activated. The boy smiles and starts running towards them, but before he could a giant figure suddenly appears before them. The giant was huge with wisteria tone skin and his hair was cat-shaped with a pink glowing gem on his right shoulder. The giant then suddenly grabs the two figures as the call out for the boy's name.
"Hey leave them alone!" the boy cries out as the giant just chuckles as his eyes started to glow.
"Oh, don't worry," the giant said "I have plans for your two friends here, but you might not remember them for who they truly are." Then the giant extended his hand as a ball of energy began forming out of its hand. "Farewell." The giant suddenly released the energy ball floating right towards the boy.
3rd Person POV
I woke up screaming as I saw myself sweating like a grease monkey. That nightmare again. I thought to myself. I haven't had that dream since… since the accident. I soon found myself wanting to go back to sleep when I suddenly heard a knock at my door.
"Ryan," said the voice from the other side of the door "Get up and have breakfast, it's almost time for us to go to school."
"Okay Shark." I responded as I slowly crawled out of bed. I went over to my closet and pulled out my school uniform. I walked over to the bathroom and took a quick shower. After putting my uniform on I grabbed a hair band and tied my long brown hair in a ponytail before putting it on. That's right, long hair. When I was younger my hair use to be a lot shorter but as I got older so, I started to grow it out so I could look cool, my brother Shark wanted me to cut it but I insisted to keep it like this seeing his hair was in the shape of octopus tentacles. I went down stairs to see my brother already finishing up his oatmeal.
"Hurry up and finish Ryan, we're already late." He said as he stood up from the table to wash is bowl. I quickly but carefully ate my breakfast and followed suit of my brother. We soon went to the garage where we then got on Shark's motorcycle and rode off to Heartland Academy. When we arrived Shark's friends or more like goons to me were waiting for him.
Hey, Shark," one of the guys said "how's it cracking." Then he looked at me and made of face of disapproval "Shark, I'm still surprised you still have that pipsqueak around, you should've dumped him a long time ago." Before I could retaliate the bell for the first class began to ring.
"Hey Ryan, I have to get to class. Meet me after duel period at the plaza area okay?" my brother instructed me.
"Ok." I responded. Sadly my brother and I have separate class. We're in the same year but with us both have different teachers. After a long grueling day of school it was time for Duel Period. I loved duel period especially when it was dueling with some of my friends. The best thing about dueling was two things; one was augmented reality duels and xyz monsters. These two new pieces of duel monsters was created twenty years ago by a man named Dr. Fudo. He created both the A.R.D. and Xyz monsters after he and his friends dueled to save the world. But anyway back to my day. After a good few duels, it was soon time to meet up with Shark. As I went to our meeting spot I soon saw him dueling someone.
"Oh, no, not again." I groaned as I ran over. I always dreaded this every time Shark duels. When we were both younger we took dueling both for fun but now, he only duels for other people's decks. He even threatened me once if I get in his way, he would take away the deck he helped me build. When I got there I saw two other kids there. One had red and black spiked hair. I quickly identified him as Yuma Tsukumo the 'cupcake' of our school meaning whoever dueled him, would beat him in one or two rounds. Next to him was a green haired girl who I also identified was the ever lovely Tori Meadows. The one who Shark was just finished dueling was a kid named Bronk Stone. From what I learned the three have been best friends since pre-school.
"Alright Bronk," said Shark as he extended his hand. "You remember our deal, hand over your deck." That's it! I had enough of this! It was bad enough to see Shark do this the first time, but seeing him taking people's decks duel after duel was far enough!
"Shark, that's enough!" I shouted as he, his friends and Yuma and his friends glanced over at me.
"Keep to yourself pipsqueak!" said one of Shark's friends "Or do you want Shark to take your deck as well?" I looked down at my deck box and took a deep breath.
"That's fine," I said with Yuma and his friends looking at me with surprise. "Shark can take away my deck but Bronk gets to keep his." Shark just smirked at this as he walked towards me.
"Stop!" we all looked back to see it was Yuma who yelled that out. "No one is taking anyone's deck today, not while I'm around."
"Oh yeah?" Shark asked as he now faced Yuma. "And just what are you going to do about it?"
"By challenging you to a duel." Yuma said as all of us widen our eyes in surprise at his simple answer. Is he serious? I thought. I mean this was Shark he was talking about. With Yuma facing anyone else in a duel that's one thing, but when it comes to facing Shark it's like standing in a puddle of acid.
"Do you know who you're even challenging?" asked one of Shark's friends.
"Yeah I know who I'm facing." Yuma answered. "I'm facing the biggest bully at Heartland Academy." I know how Yuma feels; in fact I know how everyone at Heartland Academy feels. Whoever crossed paths with my brother they would get beaten by him and got their deck taking away from them and him taunting them. But I know Shark wasn't that big of a jerk. He still cared for me and would never abandoned me, but I would soon find out I would be eating my own words for what happened next. Shark soon looked at Yuma's pendent and smiled evilly. "How about that pendent of yours?" He suggested.
"Huh?" asked Yuma in confusion.
"You're pendent for Bronk's deck." Shark offered as he soon snatched the pendent off his neck as his two friends' stepped in to hold Yuma back.
"Hey give it back!" Yuma shouted as he struggled against the two lackeys.
"Well if you wanted back so much, I guess I can give it back." He then suddenly dropped it on purpose. "Woops, I dropped it. Here, let me get it for you!" He said as he soon raised his foot over it. Before I could think I soon dove in to grab it, but before I could I felt and heard a crack and soon a pain shot through my right hand. Shark put his foot down at the same time I grabbed the pendent. Somehow the pendent still broke in two pieces as I was only able to grabbed one half of it. I soon took hold of my right and as I soon saw blood dripping from my palm due to the sharp edge of the key scared my hand. I looked up to see Shark furious at me as he grabbed me by the collar of my uniform shirt. "You idiot!" he shouted "I thought I told you to butt out."
"Shark, you should take him to the nurse's office." Tori said speaking up as Shark let go of me pushing me to the ground while I was still holding on to my right hand.
"Why should I?" Shark asked "He deserved what happened to him, in fact you guys take him, I don't want anything to do with him anymore." I was hurt as he said this and soon felt tears coming to me. Shark then motioned his two goons to follow as he then stopped and looked back at Yuma still shocked over his now damaged key. "And Yuma, if you still want that duel, meet me at the park this weekend." And with that he and his friends left. I looked down at my right hand as I soon look to see Tori hand me a handkerchief.
"Here, this should stop the bleeding." She said as she took my hand and wrapped it over. "Come on I'll take you to the nurse's office." I soon stood up as walked with her as she then stoped and look back at Yuma and Bronk. "Yuma, Bronk I'll see you two tomorrow." With that she walked me over to the nurse's office. With Duel period that take's place after school some of the school staff including the school nurse stayed behind to either watch us or get some work done and with the nurse's case to make sure we were all okay during our duels. When we arrived the nurse quickly went to work on getting a bandage and wrapping over where Tori's hanky was.
"How did your hand get like this?" she asked me with concern in her voice. Seeing is that I didn't want to snitch on Shark I made up a lie.
"I accidentally got it caught in something sharp." I said as she gave me a look before smiling again.
"Well just stay off the hand for a while and be careful where you put your hand in." she said as there was a knock on the door. "Yes, come in." she answered as I look up to see Shark coming through the door.
"Ryan come on, let's go home." He said as I soon got off and followed him. There was a moment of silence before I broke it.
"So, what made you come back?" I asked.
"Left something behind." He simply said as we continued to his motorbike. The ride home was quite the two of us not speaking to each other. It was even quiet while we were eating dinner and didn't even say goodnight to each other as we got ready for bed. As I got in bed I looked over to see of picture of Shark, me and a girl as I smiled sadly.
"I wish you were here." I said "You don't know how much your brothers need you." I said as I drifted off to sleep.
Well that's it for this chapter. I hope you all enjoyed it. And I hope you all figured out who the figure was who my OC Ryan was seeing in his dream. And now here's a sneak peek into next chapter.
Next time on Riding the Waves, while the duel between Shark and Yuma goes on, something happens to both Shark, Yuma and Ryan. What is a Number Card and why does Shark have one? Why is Ryan suddenly starting to hear voices and who is Astral? Next time on Riding the Waves: Mysterious Discoveries.
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