This is the first story that I write of Vrains and the second that I write, I hope you like it. Thanks to Hereicome and And the Sky for helping me in the translation.
A small 6-year-old girl was running through the snow while being chased by men and two furious dogs. "Yuritzi keep running, do not stop for a minute." said a female voice that was inside a duel disk that was circular and silver. The girl had already arrived near a river, she was tired but those who chased her were already close to finding her.
"There is no place to escape, we only have one option." The girl could only look down the ravine with fear; She knew that her movements had to be cautious and she had to do it fast. The girl just held her hands together and closed her eyes to pray.
"Please mama protect me." The girl exclaimed what she thought would be her last words; she could only look down as she dropped into the frozen lake "
"Yuritzi!" shouted a figure that was inside the same duel disk.
This creature was a small being made of gray light that was attached to a dueling disk, it was next to the ledge in a room. The girl in the bed which was next to the ledge had woken up with force as she breathed forcefully. She watched the figure on the mantelpiece and sighed in relief.
"You had another nightmare, right?" The figure asked, the girl who was dressed in simple two-piece gray pyjamas, could only nod to confirm this to figure.
"It's the recurring nightmare, Zero-Q."
"The beating of your heart was quite fast when you were asleep; it was the same as when you have your anxiety attacks." The AI reported, the girl just wiped the sweat off. "Thanks Q."
The girl stood up, she had long white hair with a fringe that covered the left one of her two red eyes. Her arms were bandaged with white bandages, the girl entered the bathroom to wash her face and then look in the mirror. "Zero-Q, you already have investigated the Knights of Hanoi that we tracked?" The girl asked, the AI's eyes glowing with intensity until at last she was able to respond.
"They not moved from the place and they have no intention to do so." Zero used her eyes to show different panels of the routines of different individuals."It's the closest we've come to discovering the modus operandi of the Knights."
"Then we were right, they only recruit criminals and lazy idlers." The girl said while getting undressed to get into the bathtub. "Just in case, what time is it?"
"It's about time you have to go to school." The Ai said, the girl just rolled her eyes to sigh in anguish that even Zero-Q noticed. "I know it's hard for you to interact but it's the best you can do until we discover the whereabouts of the children."
"I know, but we have not been able to find anyone in the two months we've been here and our only clue is Playmaker." The girl responded while taking the final touches in the bathtub."Besides, it's hard to find it."
"After his duel against the Knights of Hanoi a few weeks ago, Playmaker released an unusual energy frequency." Zero-Q expressed which caught the attention of the teenager who was dressing in a white shirt and a blue tie, plus from a black jacket with blue and pants.
"Do you know about the Link monster he use?
"Yes, according to rumours on the internet it is a unique type and it's not seen often. It's like yours cyberse but without the fact that your cards were made for you and you're the only one who uses them. I have also seen that many people write that he is a hero for facing Knights." Yuritzi ignored Zero-Q's words as she prepared her green backpack for school"
"Soon we will have to meet him in one of our fights against the Knights." The girl took the duel disk and prepared to go out the door but before she breathed deeply.
"Remember to eat something Yuritzi, before you go to school." Zero-Q said that caused Yuritzi to sigh.
"I forgot I had to buy food yesterday Q ..." Zero-Q just put her hand on her face while the girl bit her lip. "Try to buy some food on the way back to school."
A man dressed in white and with silver hair was expected in what was a cyberspace. He was smiling until a screen showed behind him, he noticed it immediately."It's good to see you, Master Revolver."
"It's good to see you, Master Revolver"Spectre, has Poison finished making the data?" said the person on the screen who was wearing a mask. The man in the white suit just rolled his eyes and put his hands on his shoulder to massage his neck.
"He's still working on the virus with Faust, he's been working on it for a week and the modifications you asked for to improve the performance of the Cracking Dragons. But we do not know to-" Spectre was interrupted by a new person that materialized, this was a man equally dressed in white but wearing a gas mask on his face and a backpack on his back that connected from a cable to a glove that was in his left hand.
"Mr. Revolver, Spectre, I am pleased to see you."
"Mr. Poison likewise, it's a pleasure to see you." Revolver exclaimed.
"We should not waste time; I think it's time to tell us how your progress has been with the experiment?"
"Faust has already given the final touches to the virus, while I perfected the deck of the Cracking Dragons."A light of energy formed in Poison's hand that took the shape of a card." This is the first of many cards that will benefit us in future battles."
"Spectre can give the card to one of my designated guinea pigs and a sample of my new experimental virus." Poison tossed the card and green orb to Spectre who welcomed it and disappeared.
"Another thing, Master Revolver, will you allow me to analyze the datastorm?"
"For what purpose?" Revolver responded.
"I want to see if it would benefit us in our fight against Playmaker. I know your father would be interested to know outside opinions about this." Poison exclaimed, Revolver thought about it for a minute and then accepted.
"You can do it but I want a report of everything." Poison affirmed by bowing. "Another thing Master Revolver, our advances to find the other victims of the incident have not gone well. We have had problems locating them."
"I already told you to forget that, they are not a goal we should worry about." Revolver exclaimed, Poison only nodded and then disappeared.
It was a dark night while it was snowing in a distant forest in Germany, there were two figures with coats. One was a woman with dark skin and bald with a duel disk, while the second figure was a little girl who was hyperventilating.
"Destroy her last life points my creature!" A humanoid feline creature used its claws, who were commanded by the woman to destroy a spherical creature that possessed two enormous antennas on top of the creature that split the monster in two, it created a big explosion that sent the girl on the other side.
"Get up Yuritzi and keep fighting." The woman exclaimed. The girl tried to get up but could not, her hands and knees trembled more, the only thing she could do was cry. Zero-Q emerged from her duel disc worried about how she was doing.
"Yuritzi, please rest. If you do nothing- " The Ai was stopped by the woman who ordered her to be silent.
"Zero-Q let her learn from her mistake, she'll will never became a hunter if she still thinks like a child." The woman declared. The AI could only apologize while the girl was still on the floor.
"Remember that tonight you have to hunt your food for losing." The woman exclaimed while throwing a rifle and a knife to the ground. Yuritzi, with tears in her eyes, looked at the woman so that she could respond. "1: If you do not, you will stay on an empty stomach all night. 2: You will not have enough nutrients in your body and 3: You will die of hunger."
The girl, even with tears in her eyes, watched as the woman retreated, the girl turned her gaze to the objects the woman had given her, she went to take them and get up.
"Try to get up slowly Yuritzi." The girl nodded her head and then wiped away her tears.
Yuritzi was asleep on a bench in the park after spending all day at school, she was holding a half-eaten hotdog and she was hyperventilating while she slept. A man in an orange clock who had a hotdog stand noticed this and tried to wake her up by holding the girl by the shoulders.
"Hey, are you okay?" Yuritzi opened her eyes and watched the man only to strike him in the stomach seconds later with her leg. The man was on the floor while rubbing his belly. "I was just trying to help you ... excuse me if I scared you, my name is Kusanagi."
Yuritzi took his hand to help him get up; she bowed to apologize which Kusanagi accepted. "Apparently you sleep wherever?" Kusanagi exclaimed, the girl just nodded at her question. "And you do not talk much, either?" The girl nodded with her head again but her ever serious expression, Kusanagi noticed this and the hotdog that she had not finished. "I had seen you order like 5 Hotdogs before, it's amazing that a girl like you ate all those."
Yuritzi used her fingers to indicate the true amount of Hotdogs, she had 7 fingers pointed causing Kusanagi to be surprised.
"Whoah, all those?" The girl ate the rest, not caring if it was cold and then nodding. Kusanagi observed that girl was hyperventilating, at that very moment there was a noise that came from Yuritzi and it was her stomach that roared with hunger.
"I see that you are hungry, you want more?" The girl nodded again but this time more excited. "You know, a friend of mine also goes to the same school as you. I think maybe you've ever seen him, his name is Yusaku Fujiki"
"Yuritzi looked confused and then denied with her fingers. "I hope to introduce you sometime. You can sit by one of the tables in front of my stalls which is there." Kusanagi pointed to a truck near the middle of the park.
Yuritzi looked but she heard a voice from her duel disk, she knew what it was. The girl apologized again then begun to leave the site while Kusanagi looked confused. Kusanagi looked bewildered by what had happened."Did I say something bad?"
Yuritzi ran to find a closed place; she was able to find a public bathroom and quickly entered the women's bathroom. She made sure there was no one in, she closed the door and locked it so no one else could enter."One of the knights began to move in Link Vrains." said Zero-Q who was coming out of the girl's duel disk." "Where is it Zero-Q?
"He is meeting with someone near one of Link Vrains' most popular spots but his avatar is different from the one normally used by knights. It's basically a huge teddy bear but you can find it."
The girl took her duel disk and put it on her forearm. She took her deck and inserted it into her duel disk. "Hunting mode!" The girl said as a bright glow transported her to a new world.
Yuritzi landed on a rooftop dressed in a new outfit, it was a white suit of armour that had shoulder pads and white and purple knee pads. On her head was a helmet that had triangular viewfinder in the centre of it.
"We are close to the target, Lightning Hunter." The AI said, meanwhile Lightning Hunter observed the location which was a square where other people with different avatars met. Hunter could detect the knight with his fake teddy bear avatar.
"Let's just hope the prey is not a weird guy."
"Don't worry; it will not be the same as what happened last time, i check his internet history this time." Zero-Q said. Even though Lightning had a helmet, she laughed at the AI's assertions.
"I'll get the drone ready." With her hands Yuritzi materialized a small triangular drone which she took. "Be our ears."The drone became invisible and flew out of the hands of the hunter to fly over the area where the Knight of Hanoi was.
The huge bear was walking on the zone, he looked around the area and watched the large number of people, he waited until he saw a man dressed in a black casual suit that had no face besides having a fedora on his head. He approached the subject; both shared a look until one of them broke the silence. "Please tell me you were forced to use that ridiculous avatar?" The man in the fedora asked.
"I had no choice, I had to be discreet." The man with the bear avatar exclaimed.
"As you wish, they sent me to deliver this to you from one of the superiors." The man took out the card Poison had given to Spectre and handed it to him.
"All right. But I have a question, why didn't the person I contacted come?"
"Well he sent me because he had to make sure this was not a trap." The man in the suit exclaimed, this only made the other doubt."So you're just an intermediary?"
"Exactly my friend and you can say that maybe I'm a licking boots but I think I'm a winner in my own way." The man stated as he put both hands behind his neck and smiled.
" They didn't leave you anything else?" The small drone was recording in the area if it was detected while Lightning Hunter could observe the conversation from her duel disk
"Oh yeah, he said to give you this too." The man pulled out an orb of green energy levitating over his hand. "He said to try it on you since I met you."
"Try on me? What do you mean-" Before he could finish speaking the faceless man pushed the orb to his chest.
"It's nothing personal friend, I'm just doing my job." The Knight fell screaming to the ground while his avatar changed to his real form of Hanoi which consisted of a white suit and a raincoat just as white with touches of green plus a gray mask on his face that had yellow markings. All the other users who were nearby watched the scene, some started to run.
"What do you think is happening to him?" Zero-Q asked, Hunter was just as confused as the AI and did not know what response to give to her as she watched the man writhe in pain.
"I don't know, but we have to wait before taking action." The man stopped shaking and screaming and begun to start getting up from the floor, his eyes began to shine while he was smiling. The man in the suit noticed this and approached him.
"Are you prepared friend? Because I want you to find Playmaker and bring his AI." The man nodded with a smile on his face and then activated his duel disk and took a card from his deck causing a worm-shaped black dragon to emerge. The knight mounted on this to fly away. "And another happy customer, I hope they pay me faster this time."
Just then a whip came from nowhere and grabbed the man. The man in the suit was screaming but before he could disconnect the whip, the whip begun to be charged, something was electrifying it.
"What the hell!" He exclaimed as he watched the person who grabbed him, it was Hunter.
"Tell me what you did to him?" Hunter exclaimed while her voice was distorted, she threw him to the ground and stepped on his head with her legs. "I do not know, they just gave me a card and that program."
"Seriously, then why did you introduce that program?"
"Do you work with the Knights?" Hunter was still pressing his head against the floor, the pressure causing the subject to speak.
"No, I'm just an intermediary. Customers only pay me to deliver things and I do not ask any questions."
"You're just a rat!" Hunter exclaimed as she let go.
"I'm just a reasonable man who does his business, sir." The man said. Hunter watched as the dragon destroyed everything in Link Vrains with its flames.
"They told you how to stop it?"
"Unfortunately I told you too much-" Before he could finish, a panel appeared in front of the person and revealed a huge amount of money.
"I think with this I can buy your trust."
"And you do it sir. My name is Face in case you need my services another time." Face held his hand to Hunter and she didn't accept it, she just put his hands in his pockets as she refused to help him up.
"Well, you're not very friendly, let's say. It's easy to stop it, you just have to wait for Playmaker to come to him, and it's the only thing he wants to face, but it will already be destroyed-" Before he could finish, Hunter had already retired. "That's why I do not make contracts with Superheroes."
Hunter ran through the streets of Link Vrains trying to reach the knight. While she was running, she activated a panel that made her body shine with intensity.
"PLAYMAKER !" The knight exclaimed in anger as the flames of his beasts destroyed everything around him including people. "Where are you?! Face me coward!"
"Here I am!" exclaimed a figure among on the rooftops, the man laughed with glee when observing because it was Playmaker.
"Hehehe, I will defeat you in a speed duel with my own hand and claim the AI." A huge stream of purple air passed in front of the two, the knight jumped on it to land on a white hoverboard that materialized, the dragon disappeared.
Playmaker did the same and landed on a gray hoverboard. "I think the hunter disguise is no longer necessary."
"You're right." A bright glow forced the knight to cover himself with his hands, when this ended Hunter's avatar had replaced Playmaker's.
"Damn, where's Playmaker?"
"Do not worry about him, I'm your real opponent." This made the knight angrier, but that did not matter because he still was willing fight.
"I'll finish with you first and then Playmaker."
"Speed Duel!" Both shouted meanwhile a new entity was transported on one of the roofs. He was a person in a black and green bodysuit with a golden stripe going across his body and a gray belt at the waistline. His hair color also changed to yellow and red with pink strips and accents.
"Playmaker someone had already arrived before you." Said a voice that came from his duel disk, the duelist only watched the duel, worrying that it is another civilian putting his life in danger.
Turn 1: Knight Of Hanoi
Knight Of Hanoi LP: 4000 Hand: 4
Lightning Hunter LP: 4000 Hand: 4
" When my opponent does not have monsters on the field I can summon a Hack Worm to the field. "A creature in the shape of a metallic worm arose next to the knight." Then he summoned another in the field.
Hack Worms 400 ATK / 00 DEF / Dark / Level 1 / Cyberse/ Effect X 2.
"He will use the same strategy that the other knight used in their duels against Playmaker." Zero-Q exclaimed within the duel disk, Hunter noted this."What do you think will be his next move, Zero?"
"I'm sure he'll summon Cracking Dragon, please watch out for Hunter." The girl nodded at AI's affirmation.
"Now I will sacrifice my two monsters to summon my Cracking Dragon." Both worms disappeared to make way for the same creature that was used to attack Link Vrains' square. It roared with intensity causing the duelist and the Ai eyes to widen.
Cracking Dragon 3000 ATK / 0 DEF / Dark / Level 8 / Cyberse / Effect
"I leave card face down and finish my turn." The knight exclaimed.
Turn 2: Lightning Hunter.
Knight Of Hanoi LP: 4000 Hand: 0
Lightning Hunter LP: 4000 Hand: 4
"Draw, I put a monster on defence and then I put two cards face down and I finish my turn with that." Hunter placed three cards on the gray blade of her duel disk that materialized on her field.
"I hope this is part of your strategy." Zero-Q said. " Hunter I'm starting to feel some strange fluctuations that's emanating from both the knight and the datastorm." Zero-Q said. "Fluctuations?"
"Yes, one comes from the knight and the other from this strange stream of purple air."
"It would be the virus that Face introduced into him I wonder what kind of effects it will have beyond impulsive anger," Hunter said. "And because of this air current, it's the same one that Playmaker fought on before, right?"
"Yes, it's called a datastorm in the network and Dr. Schmidt's database does not have anything about it."
"Then we must be careful."
Turn 3: Knight of Hanoi
Knight Of Hanoi LP: 4000 Hand: 0
Lightning Hunter LP: 4000 Hand: 2
"Draw, your pathetic play will not do you any good. My dragon destroys your set monster" "The dragon fired a volley of energy into Hunter's face-down monster that materialized into the field, a woman wearing a red raincoat and blue pants while having a patch on her face in addition to holding a huge harpoon
Arpon Hunter 300 ATK / 500 DEF / Light / Level 3 / Cyberse / Effect
"It activates the Hunter's effect that allows me to negate the attack and halve your monster's attack points as well as negate its effects." Hunter exclaimed as her creature used its harpoon to hit Cracking Dragon, causing a discharge on the dragon.
Cracking Dragon ATK: 1500
"My dragon!" A green aura was shown over the knight. Hunter and Zero-Q noticed this
"That must be the virus." the AI exclaimed.
"I finish my turn! "The knight shouted.
Turn 4: Lightning Hunter
Knight Of Hanoi LP: 4000 Hand: 1
Lightning Hunter LP: 4000 Hand: 2
"Draw, I'll summon Electrode Hunter to my camp." A hunter in a white raincoat emerged onto the field, he was wearing a hat and boots, the same colour as the raincoat, as well as carrying a rifle in his hands.
Electrode Hunter to 1700 ATK / 1000 DEF / Light / Level 4 / Cyberse / Effect
"When Hunter is summoned to the field I can summon from my deck another Cyberse monster of level 2 or lower, Surge Dron Klein." A small round creature with antennas at each end emerged.
Dron Klein 200 ATK / 500 DEF / Light / Level 2 / Cyberse / Effect
"Now I will activate the effect of Dron Klein which allows me to decrease the attack points of a monster on your field x 200 by the level of the monster!" The small creature charged energy into his body and then directed it to the dragon.
Cracking Dragon ATK: 1500-1600 = 0
Playmaker and the Ai who was in his duel disk noticed the play. "What kind of monsters are those Playmaker?"
"I've never seen them."
"Now i attack your dragon with Electrode Hunter." Electrode used his rifle to fire a bolt of gray energy, pulverizing the dragon and causing the knight to cover with his arms. "When Electrode Hunter destroys a monster in the field I can add a Cyberse monster from my deck to my hand."
Knight Of Hanoi LP: 4000-1700 = 2300
"Now I will attack with Dron Klein." The little drone fired a volley of energy towards the knight causing him to be destabilized on the hoverboard.
Knight Of Hanoi LP: 2300-200 = 2100
"You are next Arpon." The monster shot the harpoon towards the chest of the knight, perforating it and then electrifying him while he was screaming in pain.
Knight Of Hanoi LP: 2100-300 = 1800
"With that I finish my turn." Hunter exclaimed.
"Well done, Hunter." Zero-Q said from the duel disk.
The knight began to laugh in frenzy. "Hehhehe, you really fell into my trap." The knight absorbed the harpoon that was on his chest leaving everyone surprised.
"Now I will activate De-cracking, I can banish a monster that has been destroyed this turn and then summon two monster from my graveyard that is of lower level than the card banished."
Hack Worms 400 ATK / 00 DEF / Dark / Level 1 / Machine / Effect X2
Both Hack Worms emerged back onto knight's field. "Due to this effect I lose 500 life points for each monster summoned." An electric shock went through the knight's body but he felt no harm but instead felt pleasure.
Knight Of Hanoi LP: 1800-1000 = 800
"What will he do with those monsters?" Zero-Q wondered, Hunter just thought about what the next move of the knight would be.
Turn 5:Knight Of Hanoi
Knight Of Hanoi LP: 800 Hand: 1
Lightning Hunter LP: 4000 Hand: 3
"Now I will call a third Hack Worm to the field." Another third worm appeared in his field, filling his main Monter zones.
Hack Worm 400 ATK / 00 DEF / Dark / Level 1 / Machine / Effect
"Heheheheh, time to activate my Skill." The knight shouted while the same aura as before appeared again. "Storm Access." The knight's words surprised Playmaker and his AI who watched the duel.
"It's impossible, how can he?" shouted the Playmaker AI. The data storm began to accumulate on the knight creating a tornado, inside this the knight materialized a card, the same as Poison had done but it was blank.
"Absorption." The card began to absorb energy from the datastorm until finally the card stopped being blank to show the image of a dragon, the knight left the tornado. "Now get ready for my new power. Open circuit of destruction. "The knight fired a bolt of lightning that opened a portal. In this one it had different arrows attached to it.
" Arrow head confirmed, the summoning condtions are three effect monsters." His three worms were converted and passed to three arrows, one in Bottom Left, the other in Bottom and the other in Bottom Right.
"Link summon, emerge, Decracking Dragon!" A new black dragon emerged onto the field that, unlike Cracking, had a huge ring on his waist that possessed four pillars of energy.
Decracking Dragon 3000 ATK / Dark / Arrows: Bottom Left, Bottom, Bottom Right / Machine / Link
"Then I will activate my Spell Card Monster Reborn which allows me to summon a monster from my graveyard, my worm appears again."
Hack Worms 400 ATK / 00 DEF / Dark / Level 1 / Machine / Effect
"After that the effect of Decracking Dragon is activated! When a monster is in a zone my dragon points to, I can destroy it and then cause damage x3 00 points for the level of each monster in your field." The dragon used its pillars of energy and sent a huge discharge of energy that was directed.
Lightning Hunter LP: 4000-2700 = 1300
The duelist almost fell unbalanced on her hoverboard but managed to compose herself but even so the attack was so strong that forced her to have to support her right hand on her leg and the other on her chest. The huntress was hyperventilating, Zero-Q noticed it and knew what was happening.
"Oh no, please do not do that here! Hunter, please, reconsider if you let yourself be defeated now he will destroy you." Zero-Q was screaming, the duelist was not listening because she was suffering from another anxiety attack. Playmaker and AI noticed this.
"It's time to destroy you completely, attack my Dragon and destroy her Drone." The dragon was preparing to attack. Zero-Q was more desperate, she could only scream. "YURITZI!"
OC Cards:
Arpon Hunter:
[300 ATK / 500 DEF / Light / Level 3 / Cyberse / Effect]
Monster effect: When this card is attacked you can deny the attack and then deny the effect of the attacking monster in addition to halving the attack points of the target in half.
Electrode Hunter
[1700 ATK / 1000 DEF / Light / Level 4 / Cyberse / Effect]
Monster Effect: When this card is summoned to the field you can summon a Cyberse monster of level 2 or lower to your field from your deck. If this card comes to destroy a monster of your opponent you can add a Cyberese monsters to your hand.
Drone Klein
[200 ATK / 500 DEF / Light / Level 2 / Machine / Effect]
Monster Effect: Once per turn this card can decrease the attack points of a monster by X200 for the level it has.
The other cards will be added on the next chapter.