Disclaimer: I do not own the yu gi oh characters. I only own Lein.
I'm going to do my best to keep this as in character as I can and bring my oc in as a believable character in the universe, I've only watched halfway through battle city(maybe more but don't remember) so this is going to take place in a magical realm that happened after battle city, actual events from battle city(well probably the most important ones) excluded.
This will eventually have KaibaxOc and maybe some other pairings between the canon characters, we'll see what happens. Well enjoy.
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"Lein!" The rough voice, shouts up, the cold tone ever present in the words as the owner of it gazes upon the scene before him with glacial eyes. The one he's speaking to is standing on the raised platform, the duel disk glowing faintly on his right arm, a fan of three or four cards in that hand. "Lein, back out of the duel now!"
"It's a shadow game, you can't just walk away!" Another voice, this one deep and worried speaks up, belonging to the tri haired teen that had tailed the taller brunette to the gymnasium. Red violet eyes scrutinizing the setup, both duelists, the elegant one he'd come to understand was related to the brunette's adopted family, and an unknown figure in a dark cloak. Reminiscent of the battle city relic hunters but not quite the same, he wore no hood, reveling a pale face framed by equally light, silver hair.
This was someone neither teen had ever seen before, the face was new, and the owner of it, hardly regarded their presence. His attention turned to the delicate looking male on the platform opposite of him, below them was a large pool, the deepest part being at least fifteen feet. He hadn't picked this one as his victim, but fate was never fond of coincidences, and it had brought him his intended target. It was only a shame he couldn't back out, or he'd face the same fate his opponent was about to, the duel had dragged on, life points had been chipped and cut away, leaving himself with at least one thousand strong, but his opponent with three hundred, this was almost over, no, he couldn't get cocky, fate was fickle as her sister luck. This could always end the next turn, it all depended on the card his so far, poker faced challenger, drew next.
At the sound of his name, the one on the platform shifted, glancing down from his perch atop the unstable platform, he first saw Yugi, the boy who'd greeted him cheerfully when they'd first met. He'd liked him from the get go and had made it a point to say he was happy his cousin had found a good friend. Much to said cousin's distaste and venomous disagreement, this was who his gaze fell on next, the brunette that stood there, his icy façade barely even cracked at his predicament. That was so like Seto, the only person who ever brought anything out of him was his little brother, but that was fine, since they were kid's he'd known Seto as the shy one. Later on he'd seen him grow colder, but the first image was always that of a shy little boy just barely adopted into his uncle's family. Looking down at his hand, it was his turn, his quiet opponent seemed to have the patience of a saint, gauging his life points, while slim fingers slid a card from the top of his deck. Nothing that would pull him ahead, he slid it into his hand, surveying the cards already there. Strands of hair fell into his face though he didn't dare move them away for fear of falling of the poorly constructed platform. From this height, hitting the water unprepared would daze him, not only that but he'd lose, and as his opponent had stated before, if he lost, Seto was next on his list. He didn't understand what the man had wanted but when he'd threatened Seto's wellbeing, he had had stepped up to take his cousin's place in the duel.
"Lein! Yugi's right, back out!" They were shouting again, he was shouting, he had to make the one on the platform back out of this. For once he was on the same opinion as the loser's leader, he didn't like it but he didn't like the situation more, Lein wasn't a professional duelist and the only reason he'd picked it up was so he'd have something to do with him when he visited. Even if it ended in many humiliating defeats, he'd always smiled through it and challenged him again and again. Finally he'd just given up being annoyed and sat about with both his aggravating cousin and his little brother, showing them cards, and inadvertently teaching them how to play the game.
They were shouting again, he knew Seto meant well but, he couldn't back down, no, if he did then it'd be the brunette on this platform next, falling into the traps that he had, he didn't often think of his cousin as weak, no, he was possibly the strongest duelist he'd come to know, but he still couldn't take the chance of him falling into danger. Still regarding his cards he knew one he could play but the cost of it wouldn't be pleasant…His hand moved, touching the top of the card he lifted it up, staring at the picture of the two beautiful monsters embracing, the dagger in the background, with a sigh he flicked light colored eyes up to his opponent. "I didn't really want to duel you, I didn't want to be here…" His attention fell to the two bystanders. "I didn't want you to see this." He frowned, looking away quickly.
"You've chosen your fate?" the male called out, speaking for the first time since the actual duel began, his voice a deep, smooth rumbling. Greeted with silence after the small speech, he focused on the other's eyes, determination flared in the violet depths and he felt a grin settle on his lips. "Then play your card. Lets see where the flow ebbs…"
Seto growled, he wasn't one to get worked up, unless Mokuba was involved, but this, well his cousin had somehow wormed his way into a part of seto's life that he couldn't just ignore. "Lein, you fool. You ca—" He was cut off by a flash of movement, a palm suddenly thrust in front of him, following it down the length of the arm and to the owner he narrowed his eyes into an icy glare.
"Kaiba, he's dueling for you, telling him to give up is just insulting his decision." Yugi spoke, though it was more Atem than it was the meak, friendship oriented boy Seto had come to know. Fixing eyes on the platform, he hadn't gotten a chance to know this boy, and to find out Seto had, had family outside his deceased adopted father and mokuba had surprised him. Probably more than it really should have, of course the late Kaiba-san had other family, just no heirs.
Seto glared hard, then turned his attention to the duel at hand, something about fate was said, and then he caught sight of the determined look in Lein's eyes, puzzled.
"The card I choose, Star Crossed Lovers…" He laid the card on the field, activating the spell from his hand, a set of blue eyes widened alongside a pair of confused red-violet ones. "The effect of this card allows me to attack my opponent directly when I have a 'Tragic Maiden' card in my hand. I discard that card and then use the effect." He smoothly relieved his left hand of the specified monster, sending it to the graveyard and watching as the light from the spell struck his opponent, with this, Seto was safe, no matter the cost, he'd gladly pay it.
The silver haired male raised his hand as the light crashed down on him, thousands of needles, that's what it felt like, penetrating his body at once, opening his eyes he saw the card still on the field, one of the monsters laying on the ground, the other kneeled beside it, lifting a dagger up the monster struck itself down. Another flash of light, brighter this time, rebounded to his opponent. "What?"
"Didn't you know, star crossed lovers, they die together." Lein sighed, folding his hand of cards and resting them back in his deck, tensing and closing his eyes at the backlash attack, tearing away the three hundred points he had left instead of the one thousand it would normally take. He barely had a chance to grin at his victory before the world spun and the edge of his vision blackened, confusion registered in his mind before his eyes closed. The sense of feeling himself leave his own body surrounded him and then he was falling.
It was instantaneous, when the card was played, Seto had shouted at him to stop, Yugi beside him seemed confused at first, the oppenent's life points were zero that meant victory went to Kaiba right? But then the card was still on the field, a double edge sword it seemed. He saw the effect of the shadow game, the mind crushing, the soul imprisoned in its own body. Sets of foot steps behind him, he looked back in time to see his friends piling into the large room at the same time a black blur left his side, all eyes followed as the brunette reached the edge of the pool, jumping into it. Lein had fallen, the water had splashed, he was in the pool, panic rose up and yugi was next to the edge of the pool, seeing a brown head of hair break surface, one arm securely under the body of the unconscious teen. He offered his hand out to help the Kaiba's back onto solid ground, a voice from above making him look up.
"It was a fool's move, but then, fate has no coincidences…this round was lost to both of us, it was a noble fight." The silver haired male spoke to them all, taking a step back he leapt from the platform, causing Jounouchi and Honda to tense, they didn't want to have to rescue another person. But as quickly as he was descending to the ground his form faltered, beginning to disappear, and with him the rickety platforms the duelists had been using, not even a ripple in the water remaining from them. Only Seto and the unconscious teen.
"C'mon, you can explain later what just happened." Jounouchi commented, kneeling at the edge of the pool to help pull in the brunette Kaiba and his cousin. Seto refused to be pulled out first, offering the dark hair teen up and then dragging himself up and out of the edge of the water, chest heaving from the battle he'd had to fight against the resistant water. His eyes glanced from one to the other, taking in all the people there, the second rate duelist club, led by one yugi mutuo. Pushing down his pride for the moment he swung his legs out of the water and stood, stumbling back from the rush of vertigo before trudging forward, his world slowly settling down from its spinning. "Do any of you have a phone?" He questioned, meeting startled blue eyes as the girl, Anzu, he really shouldn't remember, offered hers up. He quickly dialed his little brother, only telling him he needed a car, big enough to transport a group, and he needed it fast. Offering the machine back to her, he shoved his way in between the two muscle heads in the group, kneeling close to his cousin. He was sure he'd gotten to him in time before too much water entered his lungs, he looked like he was breathing at least and water did seem to have been expelled at some point but now he was so still, the only movement being the shallow rise and fall of Lein's chest. He didn't like it, not one bit, feeling eyes on him he glanced up, coming into direct contact with red violet, Yugi or Atem, it didn't matter which it was. All he knew was the look he received did nothing to ease him and he suddenly felt cold.
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Thats it for the first part, the prologue? Anyway I would much much appreciate reviews, if you liked it let me know. Constructive criticism please no flaming.