""Yuma, come here." Mirai Tsukumo, Yuma Tsukumo´s mother, had called his son. he was starting to like the Cards' game, and he liked to be with his dad, practicing. even if he never won.

"yes, mom?"

"there´s something i want to give you." Mirai said. from one of her pockets, she drew three cards and some kind of key. "you remember the story about a boy with the card´s spirits?"

"yeah! i always liked how he could trust in his cards to have an idea of how to win the duel!" Yuma exclaimed.

"well, these cards are special, because they contain the souls of the most powerful spirits." she said, as she gave the four objects to Yuma. "with them, you will be able to remember us, even if we aren´t near you. and yet... when you use them, we will be near you."

"wow..." Yuma said, looking at the three cards. "thanks, mom!"

"no problem. remember, we will always be with you."

Yuma woke up, Astral looking at him with concern.

"hello, Astral." he said, his face showed sadness.

"Yuma. i don´t know some emotions of yours, but are you ok? you don´t show your usual Kattobingu."

"Astral... i´m ok, i... just had a dream about my parents."

"the dream with the cards again?" her sister, Akari Tsukumo said, showing herself in front of the door.

"yes... why would i be dreaming of that every night?"

"you dreamt about the Emperor Key before knowing me, maybe those dreams must mean you should see those cards." Astral sugested.

"i don´t know, Astral... i don´t even have those cards-"

"Yuma? what kind of cards are these?" Akari asked, seeing at three cards in his desk. Yuma and Astral turned to see, and saw three cards. the cards Yuma saw in his dream.

"those cards... are the ones in my dream!"

"really? and how did you have them?"

"i-i don´t know!"

"these cards... i´ve never seen them." Astral said.

"can i take a look at them?" Akari asked. Yuma nodded, and she took the cards. "Puella Magi Madoka... Heartcatch Cure Marine... Ojamajo Doremi... i´ve heard of them... but not as cards."

"huh?"

"in my investigations, i´ve stumbled against some weird things and legends. also Mom told me about them." Akari explained the Duelist/Duelists. "these cards have the faces of three legends of our world: the Witches, the Puella Magi, and the Pretty Cure."

"hmm... interesting..." Yuma said. when he touched the cards, however, a light came from them, and the Emperor Key.

"what´s happening?!" Akari asked, in shock.

"i... I don´t know!" Yuma exclaimed.

"you don´t- AAAHH! WHAT´S THAT THING BEHIND YOU?!" Akari pointed to Astral.

"you can see him?!"

"interesting... those cards are making me visible to your sister." Astral declared.

"that doesn´t matter now! what are those cards doing?!" Yuma exclaimed. in fact, the cards started glowing more intensely, until finally it compassed the three beings in the room.

when the light dimissed, the three saw... something weird.

"oww... that card is really small!" a light blue haired girl said, standing in front of Yuma.

"you said it... i´m the world´s unluckiest Witch!" a red haired girl, with hair buns exclaimed. at the word "Witch", the pink pigtailed girl screamed, and held a bow to the head to the red haired girl.

"AAH! WITCH!"

"WHAT IN THE WORLD?!"

"calm down, Madoka!" the light blue haired girl said. "how many times i have to tell you that Doremi isn´t one of those witches?!"

"oh... sorry, Marine-san." Madoka said. "and to you too, Doremi-san."

"don´t worry, i´ve acostumbrated to this." Doremi said. "and i told you, not to call me -san." then, thay turned to see the two humans and the astral being. Yuma and Akari were shocked, and Astral was watching at the three girls with concern.

finally, the human Duelist was the first to shook his shock. "what are you?!"

"don´t you know?" Marine said. "we are Duel Spirits!"

"Duel Spirits?" Akari asked. then Astral saw the bodies of the three girls.

"Yuma. look at her bodies."

"eh?" the two Tsukumo looked at the girls, and saw...

that thier bodies were translucid.

"gho-ghosts!" Akari shouted.

"ghosts! where?!" Marine asked, as she was looking trough the whole room, looking for phantoms. eventually, her eyes posed over Astral. "AHHH! GHOST!"

"i´m not a ghost. i´m Astral, from the Astral world." Astral said, without a tone of annoyance in his face or his voice.

"whatever! you aren´t even human!" Marine exclaimed.

"Marine..." Doremi said, showing her translucid hand. Marine sweatdropped.

"oh... of course... neither us..."

"a-anyway, we aren´t ghosts." Madoka said. "we are Duel Spirits... maybe the last ones alive in this world."

"huh? why?" Akari asked.

"the Duel Spirits live in this world when someone trusts in the cards." Doremi said, her voice tone more sad. "now... almost everyone has forgotten about us."

"but... you are alive. how it´s it possible?" Astral asked.

"we are special Duel Spirits, in the fact that we are Magical Spirits!" Marine exclaimed. "we have magical powers!" as she said, Doremi and Madoka were looking Yuma´s deck.

"Gagaga...Gogogo...Achachara... you like Syllabes, don´t you?" Doremi asked.

"well, they are my monsters, and i like to fight with them." Yuma said. then, Madoka posed her view over Yuma´s Extra Desk.

"Baby Tragon... wow, what a Band... Number? what are those?"

"Numbers? oh, they are..." Yuma said, but Astral interrumped him.

"they are fragments of my mind, turned cards. they can corrupt people, and they are the reason Yuma and me hunt them."

"that´s why... you duel?" Akari asked.

"yeah... that, and i like dueling." Yuma said.

"Hope...Dragon...Terror-Byte...Volcasaurus...Freezerdon...Crimson Shadow...Shock Ruler...Lucky Stripe... Machu Mach... Atalante... Dark Mist." Madoka read the cards. Astral and Yuma grimaced when the Puella Magi mentioned the last card.

"until now, we have 50 numbers, and a Chaos number." Astral said, remembering the Chaos 39: Hope Ray.

"Chaos?"

"a more powerful version of the Numbers." Astral explained.

"and... what is all about you are Magical Spirits?" Akari asked.

"oh,is because, when we were real, we used to be magical girls!" Marine explained. then she looked at Doremi and Madoka, and concluded "with diferent magic, and different terms."

"that´s why Madoka almost arrowed me when i said i was a Witch." Doremi continued.

"i understand." the reporter said. "i heard from mom and dad that the Puella Magi used to fight against wicked creatures, called witches. or it was demons?"

"both, in fact." Madoka said.

"i see." Astral said."but i´ve never seen cards like you."

"neither did us with the Numbers." Madoka said.

"well-oh no! i´m late, i´m late!" Yuma exclaimed. it was true. he was going late to his school.

"come on Trash, Trash!" Obomi, the trash robot, who lived wth the Tsukumo appeared, and gave him his duel meal.

"thanks, Obomi! and i'm not trash!" Yuma said. then he turned to see the girls and Astral, and said "see you later, and after i return from class, we continue talking!"

without response, Yuma left his room-attic, with Astral and the Spirits following him, leaving a confused Akari alone in the attic, with a robot.

"Yuma... what will happen now?"

Hey, Mark Here! lately i've been watchin ZEXAL, and i like it! the XYZ Summons, the Numbers, almost everything! so, i made this story. now, this is just the prologue, so the real story will be very good!

and, now, i'm out! Kattobingu Daze, Ore!