AN: Alright, Hassleberry is going to be Harry's best friend in this story to replace Syrus in the 'main duo' like Harry did to Jaden. Now I just want people's opinions on a couple more points.
I'm planning on letting Jaden join during season 2 (second year) but should I make his role like that of Hassleberry's in the original Anime?
The pairing is now down to Camula (the vampire woman who was a Shadow Rider as both she and Harry can understand being hunted and being the last of your kind [wizard and vampire]) and Alexis. I'm planning on making this a single pairing story but if it changes both will be used.
Instead of Jaden getting Neos and Neo-spacians I'm thinking of inventing a few XYZ and fusion Gravekeeper cards for Harry. How does that sound?
Finally, any suggestions on how to play out the whole 'supreme king' deal with Harry in the mix as I have a few ideas but I would like a few more to make the best decision.
AN2: Like in 'A True Slifer Red' the duels will be with the deck I have IRL shuffled and I actually draw and play the 'duel' while watching it in the Anime. The Duel in this one is my deck against the one Hassleberry had in the first episode he aired in…well mostly, I do sometimes change a card or two but I try to stay as close to the actual duel as possible. If you want a complete run-down of Harry's, current, deck then it will be in an AN at the end of the story.
Death's Gravekeeper
Chapter 2
-Harry-
"So tell me," Bastion said as they stood on the roof of the small hotel that they were staying in, the helicopter that was supposed to take them to Duelist Kingdom having taken some damage before their scheduled departure which delayed them while repairs were done "how on earth did Maximillian Pegasus become your godfather?".
Chuckling he pulled his deck out of his new yellow blazer and shuffled it about before stopping and flipping over his Visionary, the spirit within the card thrumming with glee after the duel earlier. When the delay had been announced they were given out their blazers at the Arena along with their PDAs before being shuttled down to the hotel. "It was a bit of an accident to be honest," he said with a mirthful grin as he went back to shuffling "you've heard stories about my family and their actions during Battle City right?".
"I heard a few rumors," Bastion admitted "but I try not to put too much stock in idle gossip.".
"You heard my Uncles were bat-shit insane and tried harnessing the power of the gods." He said with a shrug "And it's true. My Uncle Marik had a split personality while Uncle Odion had sworn his life to serving Marik. Anyway, when I was about…six I think my Mom and my Uncles were cleaning out an old storage room of one of our properties when they found one of the copies of Ra my Uncle Marik had made. They decided to take it over to Pegasus and scheduled a flight to Domino City after calling Pegasus to arrange things. When we were in the airport waiting to board our flight to Japan I met the man who gave me Anubis. My parents were at the counter and I was a few feet away from them when the guy approached me. I almost ran away before he said he was an old friend of my parents, said his name was Shadi, gave me Anubis, and walked off. My family were surprised to see me holding a duel monster card when they walked over and looked downright shocked when they found out who it was as they thought Shadi was dead.".
"They thought he was dead?" Bastion interrupted, the Brit blinking in surprise "What gave them that idea?".
"Shadi was one of those 'mysterious wanderers' who disappears into random deserts and tombs from time to time," he said with a shrug "they hadn't heard from him in about seven or eight years so they figured, no more Shadi.". 'That and the freaking Pharaoh was gone' he added mentally before shaking himself back into focus and continuing "Anyway, we arrived at Domino City and met with Pegasus at the hotel we were staying at. While my parents took our luggage up to our rooms I stayed with Pegasus and he asked me about the card I was holding and I explained it to him. He seemed surprised like my parents had been before he decided to give me a gift which were the Gravekeeper cards he had created and always kept with him but hadn't found the right duelist to use them, much like with the Crystal Beast cards that got an owner a few years ago. When my parents came back they found me and Pegasus laughing happily as we went over the different cards and talked about other ones to add, even trying to think up new cards although mine weren't all that good…I was freaking six at the time."
"So he just took a liking to you and became your godfather that way?" Bastion asked in surprise "That's not exactly…normal.".
"Eh," he said with a shrug "who needs normal anyway?".
"I'm going to choose not to answer that." Bastion said with a sigh before the Brit looked down with confusion "It seems that there's an altercation between some of our classmates by the pool.".
"What the," he said as he looked down and saw what Bastion was talking about before groaning and running towards the staircase "come on Bastion!" he called out "We need to go make sure it doesn't become a problem and get us thrown out of the Hotel.".
Getting over to the pool quickly he walked over and saw a bunch of his fellow Ra Yellows, clearly led by a muscle bound giant who had torn the sleeves off the yellow blazer and wore a dinosaur themed dew rag, had dinosaur fang ear piercings, and wore a bone necklace while dreadlocks flowed out the back of the dew rag. The yellow group were arguing with a trio of girls that, he assumed, were Obelisk Blues judging by the Obelisk symbol on their bikinis as they were apparently trying to get into the pool but the yellows were trying to bar them entry.
"Hey!" he yelled as the two arguing groups turned towards him, "What the hell is going on here?".
"Stand down Civilian!" the musclebound Ra called out "This here is the turf of Troop Tyranno!"
"Yeah!" the lackeys behind the big guy called out in unison causing the girls to glare.
"We were just trying to get into the pool when these muscle heads tried telling us off!" the lead girl, a rather attractive one with long dirty blonde hair, exclaimed angrily.
"Seriously?" he asked the Ra in irritation "You're trying to pick a fight before we even get to the Academy? How about this, I'll duel you. I win, you let the girls swim while you and your little posse here stop trying stunts like this one. You win and I'll leave but the girls can deal with you if they want to.".
"Humph," the big guy said with a grin "a declaration of war is it? I accept. Sargent Hassleberry's the name.".
"Hadrian Ishtar," he said with a snort as he put his deck into the duel disk and activated the auto shuffle, "now. Are you ready to duel?".
"You better believe it." Hassleberry said with a wide grin as his opponent put their own deck into the duel disk while walking to the other side of the pool, the expanse of water acting as a 'field' while the girls and Bastion stayed on his side and the others Ra's he saw went over to Hassleberry's side.
"Then I'll go first," he called out as he drew his cards and fought down his smirk before setting his Gravekeeper's Nobleman "and I'll set one card face down before ending my turn.".
"Trench warfare time," Hassleberry said with a glare "here goes. Gilasaurus, front and center!".
"Well it could be worse." One of the girls said with a wince as the dinosaur appeared over the water and roared, a crowd drawing over from the sight of the duel holograms.
"And now it's about to get a whole lot worse." Hassleberry continued as the girl let out a small 'oops' "You see, that right there was a special summon which, in laymen's terms, means I can summon another monster. So, Gilasaurus, you are dismissed. Dark Dricerotops, report to the field in attack mode.".
"Oh shit," he muttered "a piercer card.".
"I see you know your opponent," Hassleberry said with a grin "but that won't save you. Dark Dricerotops, attack his face down!". With a scream his Nobleman was shattered as he growled and mentally thanked the monster for his aide, the spirit within the card saying that he was welcome.
"It looks like Muscle boy is done for now," the pretty girl with the dirty blonde hair said with a grin "if that last duel was any indication.".
"What is she talking about?" one of the lackeys asked in confusion.
"Oh that's right," one of the other girls said with a nod "they left as a group after their duels and never saw Harry's…this is gonna be fun.".
"Well to put it simply Captain," he said with a grin, ignoring his opponent yelling out the correct rank, "when my Nobleman is destroyed I can summon a different Gravekeeper from my deck in face down defense position as long as it isn't another Nobleman.".
As he spoke he sifted through his deck until he found visionary and set the mighty beast, "That may be," Hassleberry spoke up "but you still take fourteen hundred points of damage thanks to my Dark Dricerotops' piercing ability!". Wincing he saw his life points drop down to twenty six hundred as he stared once more at his hand, "Your move civilian!" Hassleberry called out.
"Thanks," he said with a grin as he drew and tried not to frown at his trap 'blasting the ruins' that, while powerful, he wouldn't be able to use for a good while "I'll start by setting one face down and flipping up my set monster, the Gravekeeper's Visionary!". Like before an aura of golden light shot from the field as his monster arose on its stone throne, a floating ghostly sphere that represented his Nobleman bouncing happily above the throne.
"What the heck is that thing?!" one of the lackeys asked in shock.
"My most powerful Gravekeeper," he said with a grin "he gains two hundred attack points for every Gravekeeper in my graveyard but I'll end my turn by setting one monster face down.
"Hmm," Hassleberry muttered "this Civilian has some skill…" before he had to listen to a large monologue from his opponent, going on about trying to get into Obelisk but not realizing that he needed to go to the Duel Prep school, how the muscle bound giant had met with the lackeys during one of the written tests and they had formed his own personal 'battalion' and how the guy was trying to live up to his father's reputation. How they tried to guard their 'turf' to show that they would never stand down.
"Enough with the monologue!" one of the bikini clad girls called out "Back to the duel!".
"Oh crap," Hassleberry muttered wide eyed "was I thinking out loud again?" as the lackeys nodded in agreement. "Well it's my move!" Hassleberry called out before grinning at the new card "And I now have a field advantage. I play the field spell Jurassic World!".
"Isn't that a movie?" one of the girls behind him asked in confusion as his opponent almost fell into the pool from shock at the question as a Jurassic jungle appeared around them.
"It's a spell card!" Hassleberry yelled out "And while it's on the field, every one of my dinosaurs and winged beasts gain three hundred attack and defense points, and they become immune to traps, and if they get attacked while in attack mode they can chose to dig into the trenches and switch into defense mode.".
"How many effects does that bloody card have?" Bastion asked in shock as Hassleberry laughed and the lackeys cheered.
"Now," Hassleberry continued eagerly "Archeonys! Report for duty! In attack mode of course. And with his special ability of being able to attack your life points directly and my field spell giving him a little boost you can say goodbye to a good chunk of your life points.". Growling he saw his life point meter drop down to two thousand, "I'll place one card face down and defer to you.".
"My move," he growled as he drew before grinning widely "and things are looking up for me. First I'll flip up my face down monster to reveal my Gravekeeper's Guard!". As he spoke the rather rotund Gravekeeper appeared with a scowl as it pointed its staff at Dark Dricerotops and forced it back into Hassleberry's hand.
"Sam Hill!" Hassleberry yelled out "What just happened?".
"That's his Guard's special ability," the pretty blonde said with a grin "when it's flipped face up then Harry can return one of your monsters to your hand.".
"And now I'll sacrifice my guard to raise Visionary's attack points up to twenty four hundred and simultaneously bring out my Horus the Black Flame Dragon Level six!" he yelled as the mighty creature burst forth in a wave of fire.
"My word," Bastion said in awe "a level monster.".
"Yep," he said with a grin, "now Horus, attack his Archeonys!".
"Not so fast," Hassleberry called out "I activate Block Attack and use it on your Dragon!".
"Nice try but it won't work," he said with a grin "in his level six form, Horus can't be affected by any spell cards.".
"What?!" Hassleberry exclaimed in shock as the spell card shattered and Horus continued its attack, "I use my field spell to switch Archeonys to defense mode!" Hassleberry called out desperately.
"It's still destroyed though," he said with a grin "and now I'll have my Visionary attack you directly for twenty four hundred points of damage!". With a yell Hassleberry was knocked back a step as Visionary blasted two beams of violet magic at the dino duelist whose life points dropped down to sixteen hundred. "And with that I'll end my turn but, since Horus destroyed a monster this turn he gets to evolve so, say goodbye to level six and hello to level eight!".
Growling Hassleberry drew a card before smirking "I'll summon out a second Archeonys before doing a little evolution of my own! With my spell card, Modified Ultra evolution!".
"I activate Horus' ability," he called out as Hassleberry gulped "so long as my dragon is face up on the field I can choose to negate any spell card I want during either of our turns. Like with Visionary, he's one of the six heavy hitters of this deck.".
"I can see that." Hassleberry said nervously as Horus roared proudly, spewing out a torrent of black flames. "I…end my turn.".
"Serge!" the lackeys called out in shock while he grinned and drew.
"Well Hassleberry," he said with a grin "this has been a fun duel but it's over now. I'll start by summoning my Gravekeeper's Ambusher in attack mode! Then, I'll play my Change of Heart Spell card to take control of Archeonys and clear up your side of the field.".
"Good lord," Bastion gasped along with the girls and his opponent "you actually have a copy of that card!".
"That's right," he said with a grin "now. Since Visionary already got a good hit in on you and did so in my last duel I think it's Horus' turn. Horus, end this duel!".
As the duel ended and the holograms left he saw Hassleberry give him a smile and begin walking forward "I got to hand it to ya son. That was one of the most intense-whoa!" before falling into the pool that had been forgotten about due to the Field Spell. "You alright there Hassleberry?" he asked as he reached in and pulled the big guy out.
"Yeah." The musclebound duelist said sounding more than a little depressed, "But I can't figure out why I lost! I dueled you the same way I beat my proctor, the same way I've beaten everyone I've dueled!".
"And there's your problem." He said with a nod "You do the exact same combinations without any change or variation. You need to learn to evolve my friend, to turn from a little lizard into a true Tyranno. While I don't change my deck up much I do have different combos and strategies I use in it and try to change things up at times.".
"I…I need some time to think about this." Hassleberry said with a nod "Troop Tyranno! Move out!" before the big guy and the other Ra's walked back to their rooms.
"Well," he said with a grin as he turned to the girls "the pool is yours.".
"Thanks!" one of the girls behind the dirty blonde said with a wide smile "I'm jasmine and this here is Mindy.".
"Hi!" the other girl behind the blonde said with a wave.
"And I'm Alexis Rhodes," said dirty blonde said with an appreciative smile "that was some impressive dueling out there.".
"Thanks," he said with a sheepish grin "well I'm gonna head to bed, I'm still suffering from jet lag due to the flight over here from Egypt. See you guys tomorrow." Before heading back this room along with Bastion who was in the one next to him.
-Next day-
"So you think Hassleberry will take my advice?" he asked Bastion as they sat down in the helicopter that was to take them to the island.
"Ask him yourself." Bastian said with a smirk while pointing at the giant who was holding a military duffle and grinning at him widely.
"My mind is made up," Hassleberry said with a grin while sliding into the third seat of their row "I'm giving Troop Tyranno some time off for R and R. Harry here showed me that I have a lot to learn and I thought he would be the best to try and learn it from.". As the musclebound giant spoke his fellow Ra grinned and stuck a hand out to shake "Hassleberry reporting for duty!" the giant said happily "This is truly an Honor Sergeant!".
"Thanks," he said with a grin as he took the proffered hand "but you can just call me Harry.".
"Sir yes sir." Hassleberry said with a grin.
AN: Here's Harry's deck:
Monsters:
The End of Anubis
Mystical Knight of Jackal
Mystical Beast of Serket
Guardian Sphinx
Horus the Black Flame Dragon (levels, 4, 6, and 8)
Gravekeeper's Spear Soldier
Gravekeeper's Descendant
Gravekeeper's Commandant
Gravekeeper's Cannonholder (2 copies)
Gravekeeper's Spy (3 copies)
Gravekeeper's Assailant (2 copies)
Gravekeeper's Guard (3 copies)
Gravekeeper's Shaman
Gravekeeper's Chief
Gravekeeper's Watcher
Gravekeeper's Heretic
Gravekeeper's Recruiter
Gravekeeper's Vassal (2 copies)
Gravekeeper's Priestess
Gravekeeper's Curse
Gravekeeper's Ambusher
Gravekeeper's Nobleman
Gravekeeper's Oracle
Gravekeeper's Visionary
Spells:
Temple of the Kings
Mage Power
Hidden Temples of Necrovalley
Double Summon
Gravekeeper's Servant
Necrovalley (3 copies)
Royal Tribute
Pot of Greed
Change of Heart
Traps:
Magic Cylinder
Ordeal of a Traveler
Ceasefire
Mirror Force
Blasting the Ruins
Call of the Haunted