Hello! Welcome one and all to a brand new story I have got planned! To my returning readers, this is completely different to my usual works, mainly, this is not Sword Art Online! Also, you'll notice some familiar names as the main cast of this fic. Sue me, I've grown attached to the names that I've been writing about for a long time already!
To the new readers, I hope I absorb your eyes long enough to grab your interest!
Onto the story itself. Yu-Gi-Oh! is a franchise I've been trying to get into writing about for a long time, longer than SAO even! As a kid, I LOVED the 5Ds series! I already loved the idea of deadly card games, but we got deadly card games on motorcycles! I play locally at a club in South West England, and always have fun, whether I'm winning or losing (Losing more than winning, lol).
One thing to be sure of is that I will not be making any original cards! Every card you see here, as well as the YGO 5Ds series are property of Konami and 4Kids. I only own my OCs!
Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds Battle Forces!
Chapter 1: It Begins!
Title Song: Hyperdrive - Yu-Gi-Oh 5Ds opening (By Cass Dillon)
"Come on Emma! We'll be late for school!" These words were called through the small apartment before a raven-haired, green-eyed young girl, aged thirteen, came through from the other room, wheeling herself along in a wheelchair, she was dressed in a red blazer over a white shirt and pleated school skirt, a pair of black leggings and shoes, a brown backpack was in her lap. She looked up to her brother, who smiled, he had the same hair colour as her, and his eyes were a bright blue. "All set?" He asked, he was wearing a blue blazer, white shirt, black pants and boots. Both their outfits had 'DA' on a breast pocket, which was the logo of the school they went to.
"Yep, got my deck, my books and my wits," Emma replied. "Let's get going, we don't want to have to explain to the Chancellor why we were late again."
Her brother smiled, "Come on then," He chuckled, taking her wheelchair's handles and pushing her out the door, locking it behind him. The two would head down the road to where a bus would take them to school.
Marcus and Emma Cersy lived in a small, three room apartment not far from Neo Domino City's Duel Academy. The two had told their parents that they wanted to learn to be duellists at one of the best schools in Japan, so they had moved here and rented out this flat.
Neo Domino City was one of the most advanced cities in the world. It was a Utopia which had been built near the old Domino City, but an incident that happened a long time ago caused the land to split between the old and the new. Those who were fortunate to be on the new side continue to live in luxury. But the old side, called the Satellite, was all slums, factories and manufacturing plants, and those who lived on that side of the water were all forced to work in hard labour.
Duel Academy was a huge campus, with lots of buildings filled with classrooms and large gymnasiums for both physical sport and for duels. Marcus, at the age of nineteen, was in his second year of the College Grades while Emma, being thirteen, was in the eighth grade of middle school.
Getting off the bus, the two stood around, waiting for Emma's classmate to show up and take her to the middle school building. "Where is she…?" Marcus asked.
"Patty!" Emma waved to a dark-skinned girl with fair blonde hair, who ran over. This was Emma's friend and classmate, and they often went out together when not at school with many of their other colleagues.
"I can take her from here Marcus," She said, taking Emma's wheelchair handles.
"Ok, I'll see you later then," Marcus nodded, grabbing his backpack and heading off to the college building.
Duel Academy was a great place to learn about Duel Monsters, in the classrooms, they taught about the different card types, gave end games to solve and even gave scenarios that made the students think about how they might get over the opponent. However, everyone's favourite subject, no matter what grade they were in, was Duel P.E, where you would duel opponents from your class, or sometimes from others, whether in the same grade or not.
"Ok everyone, it's time for Duel P.E," Marcus' teacher, Doctor Marina Crowler, was a kind woman with blonde hair. She often gave her students advice when they needed it, whether it was life advice or duelling advice. "I need you all to pair up, one boy to a girl, use whatever you want for your deck, as long as it doesn't contain anything on the current banlist."
Marcus leaned against the wall, when it came to this, he liked waiting for there to be only a couple of stragglers, then would choose from the remainder. His eyes spotted three candidates, two of which he knew what they played.
The first was Sora Takenouchi, she used a Blackwing Deck, including the popular Synchro Monster Blackwing Armor Master. No, her deck is annoying.
The second was an ex of his, Rika Nonaka, who ran a Zombie deck, featuring a particular card that he hated, Zombie World. I am not facing that card ever again. No way.
The last one was Kari Kamiya, she was a newcomer to his class, and he had no idea what type of deck she ran. But whatever it was probably was better than the other two options.
Decided, he walked over, "Hey, Kari, you need a partner too?" He asked.
She jumped lightly, since he had approached from behind. "Sure!" She smirked. "About time someone took you down."
"It won't happen," Marcus shot back.
Doctor Crowler smiled, "Alright, if everyone has a partner? Four pairs at a time, Marcus, you and Kari take the closest to us," She said.
Marcus and Kari nodded, putting on their duel disks and sliding in their decks.
"Let's DUEL!" They both called.
M: 4000
K: 4000
"Chivalry will never die, Ladies first!" Marcus smiled to her, causing her to grin.
"You're going to regret that! I draw! I'll start by playing the Field Spell Sanctuary in the Sky! From now on, battles involving Fairy Type monsters reduce all battle damage to zero!"
As she spoke, slipping the card into the correct slot, a magnificent, angelic castle appeared around them. She took another card from her hand, "Next up is the Continuous Spell, Valhalla, Hall of the Fallen! With this, I can special summon one level 4 or lower Fairy type monster from my hand!" A large red gate appeared behind her, and as she moved, the gate began to open, "So, I summon Shining Angel!"
A tall man with tan skin and white wings flew out of the gate and landed in front of her, settling in a defensive stance. (Lvl 4 1400/800). "I end my turn with a face-down."
Marcus smiled, "Not bad, nice spells, a monster with search power and a face-down, my move! Draw!" He looked at his hand, frowning slightly. I don't have a way to get over her Sanctuary and Angel combo, at least, not with these… wait….
"I activate a spell, Dragon Shrine! The effect is this, I can send one dragon type monster from my deck to the grave, and if that monster is a normal type, I can send another. So, by sending Blue-Eyes White Dragon to the grave, I can also send Arkbrave Dragon! Next, time for some offense, I summon Eclipse Wyvern to the field!" A mix of a black and white dragon appeared, on one side, there were red vein-like lines, and on the other, there were blue. (Lvl 4 1600/1000).
"I set two face-downs and end my turn," Marcus said, making said play and passing his turn.
Kari drew, "Back to me-!"
"Hold it Kari! Before you move on, let me show you what Dragon Shrine was for! I activate the ability of Arkbrave Dragon from the graveyard!" Marcus interrupted. "Since he was put there last turn, I can activate this ability which allows me to summon one level 7 or 8 dragon-type monster from my grave, bar from itself!"
Kari had a strong feeling she knew what was coming, "You mean…!" She began.
"Oh yes! Pride and Soul of a legendary duellist. Appear! Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" Everyone knew the dragon that suddenly appeared behind Marcus, why wouldn't they? White scales shone as the large creature landed, it's blue eyes glowing brightly (Lvl 8 3000/2500).
Kari nervously looked up at the famous dragon, then glanced at her card and smirked, "I summon The Agent of Creation: Venus!" A woman in red with matching wings appeared next to her Angel (Lvl 3 1600/0). "I activate her effect, by paying 500 life points, I can summon a Mystical Shine Ball!"
K: 3500
As her LP fell, a glowing crystal ball appeared next to Venus, energy crackling freely around it (Lvl 2 500/500). "I activate the effect again!"
K: 3000
As the second ball appeared, Kari was already in motion, "I activate the spell known as Lightwave Tuning! With this, I can select a level four LIGHT attribute monster on my field and treat it as a tuner monster!" She said, and looked to Shining Angel.
"So Shining Angel will now tune with the two Mystical Shine Balls!" Shining Angel sprang up, turning into a set of four green rings which the Shine Balls flew through, the stars representing their level leaving them and a green pillar of light shone down.
"Holy Knight of the Heavens above, shine your light down and vanquish the forces against you! Synchro Summon! Fly on! Avenging Knight Parshath!" Kari chanted.
The light faded, revealing a beautiful angelic Centaur/Pegasus hybrid, armed with a large sword in one hand and a shield in the other. Two large wings in blue and gold armor stretched out from his equine body while two smaller ones flexed from his humanoid back (Lvl 8 2600/2100)
Marcus whistled at the monster appreciatively, "Now that was a move," He chuckled.
"Wait until you see his effect! Once a turn, I can target one monster you control and change it's battle position, Blue-Eyes, take a knee!" Kari pointed to Marcus' larger dragon, which bent to the will of the effect, curling his wings up around him.
"Time for battle! Avenging Knight Parshath attacks Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" Her Pegasus centaur charged across the field, "And just so you know, when he attacks a monster in defence mode, the difference between his attack and their defence is dealt to you as damage!"
M: 3900
Kari gave a smirk, "So much for the legendary Blue-Eyes White Dragon!" She taunted.
"Oh don't worry, I have many ways to return the favor," Marcus replied, enigmatically.
"Well, I end my turn there," Kari said.
Marcus assessed the situation, ok, I have Eclipse Wyvern on my field, while she has this powerful looking synchro, backed by Sanctuary in the Sky, I have the more attack points, but that face-down is obviously a gamechanger… He looked at his hand, I don't have much left, my face-down is Call of the Haunted, but I don't want to use it until I know of my win. There's one card in my deck that can help me now, it's time to draw it.
"I… DRAW!" He yelled, and cracked a smirk. "It's over! I activate my spell, Foolish Burial! This card lets me put one monster card from my deck into the grave," He said. "Divine Dragon Lord Felgrand, to the grave you go, but not for long, for I activate the Call of the Haunted trap card!"
"Mighty dragon who rules the skies above, Shine your holy light and make your foes tremble! Revival Summon! Descend! Divine Dragon Lord Felgrand!" He chanted, as a pillar of light appeared behind him, and an earth-shaking roar bellowed around the gym. When the light faded, in it's place was a massive dragon, the same size as Blue-Eyes.
It had gleaming golden scales from the top of it's head to it's tail, and white scales on it's underbelly. Two humungous black wings with golden folds. (Lvl 8 2800/2800)
"Now for his effect!" Marcus smirked, chuckling at Kari's nervous expression. "When my mighty dragon lord is summoned from the graveyard, I can target one monster on your field and in your graveyard and banish it!" He said, then pointed at Avenging Knight Parshath. "Begone!" He smirked, Felgrand let out a roar, his scales lighting up before Avenging Knight Parshath just vanished. "Then he gains attack and defence, equal to the level of your monster multiplied by 100!" (3800/3800).
"Battle! First, Eclipse Wyvern, tear apart her Agent!" His black and white dragon flew forward, slashing through Kari's monster with his claws, Kari gave a yell as her lifepoints fell.
K: 2600
"Now my Lord Felgrand, attack her directly! Holy Shining Burst!" Marcus commanded. The golden dragon roared, rearing his head back before letting out a golden laser that slammed into Kari, who screamed as the attack enveloped her, ending the duel.
K: 0
Marcus chuckled, walking over to Kari, who had fallen onto her butt. "Man, that was a good duel," She sighed, accepting Marcus' hand, who pulled her to her feet.
"What was your face-down? If you didn't activate it, I assume it wouldn't stop me," Marcus asked. Kari took the card out and showed him. It was the trap card Beckoning Light.
"It was useless in the end, lucky draw Marc," Kari punched him lightly on the arm.
"Next time?" Marcus offered.
"Maybe," She smirked.
"Look Director, the boy's skilled, but I see no reason why he'd attract the attention of Neo Domino's Public Security Bureau," Chancellor Eito Shibuya addressed his guest.
"Chancellor, it's just speculation right now, it's just that this dragon is a very rare card," Director Rex Goodwin said, pointing to Divine Dragon Lord Felgrand. "In fact, I haven't seen this card for just over ten years."
"Felgrand's his ace monster, and that's before you look at his extra deck," Shibuya said.
"Does anything stand out in this extra deck?" Goodwin asked.
"Nothing that jumps out at you, he uses Synchro Monsters from level 8 up to level 10," Eito shrugged. "Look, director, you're a good man, you've helped Duel Academy grow hugely since you entered the office, but this is my school. Why are you so interested in one of my students?"
"That's all it is though, interest. I like aspiring duellists who are able to hold their own," Goodwin told him. "I won't take any more of your time, Chancellor. Good day."
Eito watched him leave with an uneasy look, and when the door shut, he frowned. What is it that Goodwin finds so interesting about you? I promise that I'll keep an eye on him. He said, taking out a file that showed Marcus and Emma's photographs. For both of you.
Marcus: So, what do you think?
Emma: We'll have to see what the readers think.
Marcus: True. This idea began when I was playing the very fun game, Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dawn of a New Era! It was there that I came up with the first couple of decks that would make appearances in this fiction.
Emma: Fun fact for you guys, the deck Marcus used here was actually a Synchro variant of his main deck IRL.
Marcus: Oh! That's right! Gold Star to whoever recognises the names that appear in this chapter!
Emma: Uh Marc? The Signers are trying to get in!
Marcus: Oh for the love of...! Ok. See you next chapter!
Both: Next time: A Hero Rises!