ok, im really REALLY bored so I decided to try my hand at Yu-Gi-Oh fanfiction. although, this wont take place in the anime timeline. it'll be featured in our world with all the good stuff like none of the "only-4-Blue-Eyes-White-Dragons" crap stuff, no, the cards are, as they seem, unlimited but rare cards are VERY hard to come by.

Oh yes, this fanfic will be adapted from the new season of Yu-Gi-Oh airing in Japan at the moment: Yu-Gi-Oh GX. it's a real updraft from what we see later on in the series. And there will be Duel-Disks in this fanfic as well. Seeing as the Duel Disks from GX will be a bother to describe, just take the Disks as the ones from the Battle City Tournament.

This'll include many O.C.'s including Hyou and a few of my friends.

Disclaimer: I own nothing of Yu-Gi-Oh other than my Ultimate Sacrifice deck and my O.C.'s. And if you want the Deck Configuration for my Ultimate Sacrifice Deck, well, YOURE OUTTA LUCK, lol.

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Rare and Powerful Against Common and Weak, The Battle of

Chapter 1:

The Weak Shall Inherit the Earth, Pt. 1: Moving down on the Ladder

Hyou's P.O.V.

"Aw shit! I lost again..." I slammed my fists onto the ground of the dueling arena. I held back bitter remarks I would like to throw into the face of my opponent and long-time-rival, Jai Imperial. He just stood there with his smugly superior look, hands folded behind his head, radiating confidence and heat from his overblown ego. It was a really embarrasing defeat...

Flashback-

Hyou's Side of the Field (S.F.): 1 Dark Paladin Atk:2900/Def:2400 Atk Mode (A.M.), 1 Red-Eyes Black Dragon Atk:2400/Def:2000 (A.M.)

Life Points: 500/8000

Jai's S.F. : 1 Giant Soldier of Stone Atk:1300/Def:2000 Defense Mode (D.M.), 2 Face down cards in Magic/Trap Zone (M.T.Z.)

Life Points: 1400/8000

"Alright, I've finally got you cornered, Imperial! You're stuck with just a Giant Soldier of Stone and two face down cards. I've got my Red-Eyes Black Dragon and the Dark Paladin in play. Whatever you've got face down won't help you! Now I move to attack, Red-Eyes attacks the Stone Soldier and my Paladin closes in on your Life Points (L.P.)!"

The first attack was successful, after that, it became a fiasco. "I activate the Trap, Negate Attack! This trap stops your Paladin's attack for one turn."

"What! Fine...I end my turn. It's your move."

"Before you end your turn, I activate another Trap, Back Up Soldier! This lets me choose 3 monsters with 1500 or less A.P.s and move them to my hand as long as I have 5 or more monsters in my Graveyard. I choose two Watapons and Ground Attacker Bugroth and thanks to Watapon's special ability, I can move them to the field as soon as I draw them due to a Magic or Trap Card."

"What! But that's not fair! You can easily summon your more powerful monsters now! This is my duel, you can't upstage me! My Paladin has 500 additional A.P. for every dragon on the field, thanks to his special ability, there's no way you could take me down!"

But he just gave his annoyingly superior smirk and let his cards speak for him, "My move. You know, you're right about me not being able to stop your Dark Paladin, but you and I never said anything about your Red-Eyes! So I sacrifice the two Watapons in order to summon the Blue-Eyes White Dragon!"

Blue-Eyes White Dragon Atk:3000/Def:2500

"Although my dragon might give your Paladin another 500 A.P., he can easily wipe out your Red-Eyes and take the last chunk from your L.P.! Now I attack the Red-Eyes!"

The watching crowd of students starting gasping and cheering as the attack knocked me off my feet and into the wall.

End Flashback

As the crowd moved to Jai to congratulate him, I just lay with my face on the floor, bitterly weeping for losing for the umpteenth time. I didn't bother moving or thinking about anything so I missed the footsteps moving in my direction.

I was oblivious until a hand found its way onto my shoulder. I stopped crying for a while and followed the arm up to a girl about my age with light blue hair and brown eyes. She was wearing the girls' Duel Academy uniform and a little ornamental butterfly clip in her waist length hair.

She smiled at me for a second and offered me a hankerchief. I sat there, dumbfounded, and slowly took the offered token and silently dabbed at my eyes with it.

"Thanks...what was your name again? Sorry, I really suck with names."

That girl just smiled that small smile of hers again, "My name is Haruka, Fujiwara, Haruka. I sit about 2 seats to your left in Card Combination class. Don't let that loss get you down, even though you've lost for the who-knows-how-many-times." She smiled one more time and silently, wordlessly, left the Duel Arena. That girl had an embarrasing way of helping you...

I sighed to myself, 'She's right though, I made a vow to my friend that I'd rise through the ranks in this Academy and give him the Duel of his lifetime, the One he's been waiting for, I'll be the One!' I made to grasp the hankerchief but stopped when I felt something inside of it. When I opened up the hankerchief, I found a card inside.

"Huh...The Winged Kuriboh...what did she stick this in here for?"

That was when I noticed the note attached to the back of the card. Go back to basics! Don't give up! Big things come in little packages!

"What does she mean by giving me a note with three old sayings? Go back to basics?"

I stared down at the Winged Kuriboh card in my hand once more, scrutinizing it. 'Back to basics, back to basics...back to basics...does she mean for me to rethink my strategies? No, it won't be as shallow as that...Oh you have GOT to be kidding me! She wants me to use weaker cards!'

"WHAT THE HELL!"

That got everyone's attention off of Jai for a minute as they all turned to me. Even Jai seemed stunned for a second. But it was only for a second.

"What? The fact that you lost is just, now, sinking in?"

Everyone in the room just started to laugh along with Jai but I payed it no heed. Head lowered in thought, I slowly walked towards the League 3 dormitory rooms.

'Weaker cards...what's so special about weak cards? I've spent most of my time searching out the strongest and rarest cards I could get my hands on. I've never paid much attention to the common cards. I guess it's time to break out the Deckmaker and see what Haruka was talking about...or meant, either one.'

I took out my room key and entered my dark room. Like all of the League 3 dorms, this one was dilapidated and mediocre, just barely considered inhabitable. League 2 dorms were middle-class rooms and League 1 had the best of everything. I flipped the light switch on and watched the light bulb flicker for a second and stabalize. I walked over to my desk and cleared it of all the stuff about rare cards I had been able to find. I stopped for a while to look at my wishlist for when, 'Or if' I thought with a grimace, I graduated to League 1 status. Most people said it's impossible for people other than geniuses to make it to League 1. I guess that's why there are only 3 people in League 1.

But that was also why I had to get to League 1, if anyone ever made it to League 1, the headmaster himself would assist in creating a deck of your choice. I had my eyes set on making the Ultimate Dragon Deck including the Blue Eyes Shining Dragon. I knew it'd be a far shot, but I was determined. But for now, "This can wait for later. Time to dust off the Deckmaker."

I meant that literally, I hadn't so much as looked at my Deckmaker in two years and it collected a fair amount of dust. I spread out the contents of my deck into rows and columns and opened the Deckmaker box. Slowly, I began to sort through the variety of cards I had collected. I spotted a couple of uncommon cards and these were mostly commons and incredibly weak.

"Exactly what the doctor ordered." I smiled a little as I thought of Haruka, she was the first person in the entire academy to look on me with kindness, everyone else shunned me from the beginning or grew to dislike me gradually. But Haruka was nice to me from the beginning and she still is.

With even more determination than ever, I began to sort out various "weak" cards and slowly began to make my new deck.

Four hours passed, it is now 2 o' clock A.M. and yet I'm still sifting through cards, determined to go through the entire deckmaker to find a few more usefuls. What started out as a baker's dozen of cards soon became a 59 card pile, I was just one card short of a whole. I put down the cards for a moment to yawn and stretch my arms when the hankerchief fell out of my arm pocket I had put it in. I stared at it for a minute and realized what the perfect card to put in as my final would be. I took the Winged Kuriboh out of my deck holder and placed it on top of the 59 card pile making it 60, making it complete. I gave a small smile, similar to that of Haruka. I straightened out the deck and slipped it into my deck case and got ready for bed.

"Well, come noon today, we'll see if Haruka's advice was on the dot!" It would have been funny to doubt Haruka, but right now it seemed silly because I just remembered that Haruka happened to be a League 1 Duelist.

With my arms raised high in the air and the look of disbelief on my face, I fell backwards onto my bed and immediately began snoring.

'It will be a long way to the top, but I'm willing to make that journey. I'll make you proud, I'll definitely be the best, Number One!'

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well, there ya go, my first attempt at a yu-gi-oh fanfiction. I must say, I'm rather pleased with how I wrote this. I'm just hoping I can go far with this.

well, chapter two; Hyou will try out his new deck on an unsuspecting victim and his reputation will slowly begin to raise itself from the mud it's been dragged through for 2 years. "Watch out, I'm coming back with a vengeance!"