Previously on Yugioh Dark Shadows

"Now it's time to end this duel! Cyber Dragon Infinity attack Saito directly! Infinity Burst!"

Saito quickly said "Not so fast Jamie! I'm activating the trap card Cyber Offering! With this card I can stop your attack and reduce all damage to 0 until my next turn. All I have to do is remove a Cyber monster from my graveyard. So I'll remove my Cyber Dragon Core and stop your attack!"

Jamie said "That WOULD HAVE BEEN a good move if not for Cyber Dragon Infinity's special ability. By removing one OLU I can negate and destroy your trap card. Sorry Saito this is the end of the duel!"

As Saito's LP hit 0, Jamie felt ecstatic. He'd just won a pro duel in his debut to the Circuit no less. He felt as if he could be on top of the world right now.

There was a stunned silence for a moment and the MC suddenly shouted "And there you have it folks! Jamie has won this duel! I think we need to keep an eye on this new guy he's showing us promising things!"

There was a thunderous round of applause and chants of "Jamie! Jamie! Jamie!"

Jamie turned around and waved to the crowd feeling the happiest he had felt in a long time – even more happier than when he graduated from the Dojo. This was the best day in his life.


Episode 2: Origin of the Three Brothers

As he walked into a side room Jamie could still hear the roar of the crowd and the chants of his name. He felt elated to have won his first duel. Suddenly he realised who was in the room. Yugi Muto and his wife Tea Gardner stood alongside their son Blizzard. To the right of Yugi were Joey Wheeler and his wife Mai Valentine with their daughter Sarah. Behind them stood Tristan Taylor a long-time friend of his and Yugi's. Right at the back of the room trying to look uninterested were two brothers. One of them tall wearing a long white coat with the initials "KC" emblazoned upon it – this was Seto Kaiba. The other boy was relatively small and wore an orange body warmer – this was Mokuba Kaiba.

To the left of them were Jaden Yuki and his fiancée Alexis Rhodes. Jaden was talking excitedly about the duel to Alexis's brother Atticus. To the side of Atticus was a muscly guy wearing a yellow jacket talking to another guy who was also wearing a yellow jacket. These two were Tyranno Hassleberry and Bastion Misawa. Standing behind them were two brothers – but you wouldn't be able to tell they were if you didn't know. One was tall with dark long hair sporting a dark, black overcoat. He was Zane Truesdale to the left his brother who was very short and wore a blue jacket, this was Syrus Truesdale.

To the right of this group were a group of people known as team 5D's. This group was led by a boy who had black and yellow hair with a strange mark under his eye. He wore a blue jacket with amber gems on the shoulders, he was Yusei Fudo. To the left were his wife Akiza Izinski and their son Keiji Fudo. Beside them were two people deep in conversation one with bright orange hair that was spiked up and another with long blonde hair wearing a white coat, these two were Crow Hogan and Jack Atlas. To the side of them were two small children – these were the twins Leo and Luna.

And of course walking in with him was his own brother and sister Yuma and Kari. To the left of the 5D's group were a small group of people. This group consisted of Kite Tenjo, Reginald Kastle (Shark), Ryo Kastle, Tori Meadows, Bronk Stone, Caswell Francis, Cathy Katherine and Flip.

As Jamie saw all these people one by one he felt a certain amount of gratitude – even for Kaiba who he never really got on with. One by one they all turned and saw him and congratulated him on his recent win.

"We're all proud of you." Yugi said.

"What are you guys all doing here?" Jamie asked.

"You didn't think we was going to miss your first pro duel now did you bro?" Jaden said with a huge grin.

"Thank-you all, this means so much to me." Jamie said with a wide smile, feeling even happier his friends had come to watch him.

"One day you'll be able to give Yugi a run for his money and challenge him for his title." Joey joked.

However Yugi was considering this very carefully "Joey may be right." he said seriously.

Jamie regarded this for a moment and said "You can't be serious Yug; I'm not even in the same league as you."

Yugi just looked at him and said "You have the potential to become a great duellist Jamie. Don't ever forget that and don't ever stop believing in yourself."

Jamie just smiled at him to get that kind of compliment from the King of Games was even better than winning the duel itself. However not everyone was smiling, it was like a dark veil had just been dropped onto the room as everyone started to look serious.

"Now that the congratulations are out of the way, there's something we need to talk to you and Yuma about," Yusei said.

Jamie considered them all for a moment and realised that something had been going on. "What's up guys?" he asked with uncertainty.

"You need to come with us you two, we have someone who wants to meet you – and it's really important," Jaden said.

Jamie and Yuma looked at each other confusingly but both of them said "Okay, lead the way."

Kaiba, Yugi, Jaden, Yusei, Yuma and Jamie left the room and left the others behind.

"Are they all not coming?" Jamie asked.

"No," Yugi said "This meeting is just for exclusive people only, they will all be filled in soon but for now it's a need to know basis – and they don't need to know yet"

They walked down a corridor and up two flights of steps and entered into a circular room. Sitting in a chair behind a desk was a man.

"This is Dr. Skylar," Kaiba said introducing the man "He researches duel mythology and past events surrounding said mythology"

Dr. Skylar was a tall man but was lean. His blue eyes shone with excitement and his long blue hair flowed freely around him.

"So this is the duelist I've been hearing all about?" asked Dr. Skylar excitedly "Very good, very good."

Jamie wasn't sure what to make of Dr. Skylar at first he thought he was a bit…off. However he listened intently, after all Jaden had said this was really important.

"Now that I have you all here I can tell you the full story. Kaiba, Yugi, Jaden and Yusei already know a bit about this but not the full thing. I had to tell them so they could bring you to me as well," Dr. Skylar said, "Long ago there was a terrible and evil force that threatened our world. This force was known as Zorc the Dark One. He fought the agents of good for the fate of the world but ultimately was destroyed. Not long after that a new power rose in the form of three brothers. These brothers were known as Dread, Fear and Shadow. Like Zorc before them they sought to destroy the world and remake it. They nearly succeeded in doing so. They brought the world to its knees, terror broke out across the earth and when all hope seemed lost an astounding event occurred. Five legendary duellists rose up to combat The Brothers. However they didn't fight alone. Unbeknown to everyone at the time the Legendary Gods of Olympus were overlooking the world. When they decided that the threat had become too powerful they intervened and helped the Legendary Duellists to defeat the brothers. They were not destroyed however, merely imprisoned in The Abyss – a dark world filled with evil monsters and terrible power. To this day no-one knows where The Brothers got their power from although there has been wide speculation about it. Lately things have been occurring – things that happened all those years ago."

Jamie regarded this story for a few minutes he thought he had heard something like this before but couldn't place his finger on when or who had told him. He then suddenly realised what Dr. Skylar had concluded with. "You said things had been occurring lately, things that had happened before? Does that mean these Brothers are back?" he asked nervously.

Dr Skylar shook his head, "We don't know Jamie, there isn't enough proof to 100% say that they are, but it's becoming increasingly likely that's the case. The Gods of Olympus have long since disappeared from our world. Nobody knows where they are or if they even exist. If The Brothers are back then we need the Gods help again. You need to find them – all of you and let them know what is happening. I realise that it isn't much to go on but you need to try your hardest. If they are back then it spells doom for the world unless we can defeat, or even destroy, them again."

They were all stunned. Half an hour ago they were celebrating Jamie's victory and now they were faced with the possibility that the world could be destroyed? How did things turn so quickly? Jamie could tell Dr. Skylar wasn't lying though, he really believed that there was every possibility that Dread, Fear and Shadow could of returned.

"Be careful out there," Dr. Skylar said with a grave voice, "The forces of darkness WILL try and stop you."

"You mean there's more of them out there?" Kaiba asked.

"Yes, they are the generals of The Brothers. They are known as The Shadow Captains and there's 5 of them. I don't know their identities but if The Brothers are back then The Shadow Captains will be too – and they are dangerous. They have evolved over time and learnt the new way of duelling and from what I hear they are very skilled duellists matching in power to the likes of Marik Ishtar and Nightshroud."

Yugi and Jaden flinched at hearing this. Yugi had faced off against Mark in the Battle City finals to save the world and knew of his power. Jaden had faced off against Nightshroud for similar reasons and again knew how powerful he was.

"We need to stop them," Jaden said, "If they have that much power they are dangerous not just to us, but to everyone."

Everyone else shook their heads in agreement. Everyone in that room knew one thing – they had been given a mission to do and they intended to carry out that mission to the best of their abilities.

"Any ideas where to start Dr. Skylar?" Yusei asked.

Dr. Skylar looked at Yusei for a moment and then said, "Start by visiting Professor Hawkins, Yugi knows who he is so he can take you there. Ask him if he knows anything about the Gods and if he knows where you should start looking for them. As I said be careful though, as soon as The Shadow Captains get wind of you looking for the Gods they will try and stop you. I wish you all the best of luck, you may go now."

As they were filing out the room, Jamie was deep in thought. So these Brothers wanted to destroy the world and remake it? And they were getting their Captains to do the dirty work for them? Well not if I can help it, Jamie thought, they will have to get through me first. My friends and family are the most important thing and I will not stand their lives been risked like this.

Before they got back to the side room Jaden turned and said "Hey guys I have an idea, why don't we have a duel?"

Everyone agreed that a fun duel would lighten the mood and get everyone to relax again.

"It should be a tag duel," Yusei said, "Makes things more interesting and it will help us to work together."

Kaiba sneered at this and said "Look I may be helping you out with the whole world saving thing, but you can count me out of this little duel of yours. I don't work well with others and besides – I don't need the practise."

They all laughed and shrugged their shoulders. "Wait that means we have an odd number now how's this going to work?" Yuma asked.

"Hmm…," Yugi said thoughtfully, "I'll sit out and watch you guys duel, I don't mind honestly."

"Alright then so it's me and Yuma vs. Yusei and Jaden…this should be interesting," Jamie said.

The four of them activated their duel disks and shouted "Duel!" and drew 5 cards.

Jamie and Yuma – 4000; Jaden and Yusei - 4000

"I'll go first," Jamie said drawing his card. He regarded his hand – not the best to start off with but he could work with it. "First off I'm going to set 2 cards face down. Next I'm going to summon Cardcar D in attack mode! Then I activate its special ability. This lets me send Cardcar D to the grave and draw two extra cards but after I do this it becomes the end of my turn." He drew two cards and said, "Over to you Jaden."

Jaden drew his card and smiled "Okay I'm summoning Elemental Hero Sparkman to the field!"

Elemental Hero Sparkman – ATK 1600; DEF 1400; Level 4

"Next I'm activating Polymerization! With this card I can fuse two monsters together to make a new monster! So I'll be fusing Elemental hero Burstinatrix and Elemental Hero Avian to fusion summon Elemental Hero Flare Wingman!"

Elemental Hero Flame Wingman – ATK 2100; DEF 1200; Level 6

"Finally I place two cards face down and end my turn"

"My turn then!" Yuma said as he drew his card, "Alright! I'm summoning Gagaga Magician!"

Gagaga Magician – ATK 1500; DEF 1000; Level 4

"Now because I have a Gagaga monster on the field I can special summon Gagaga Child!"

Gagaga Child – ATK 800; DEF 1200; Level 2

"Now I'm activating Gagaga Child's special ability. Once per turn I can make its level match another of my Gagaga monsters that's on the field and I choose Gagaga Magician!"

Gagaga Child – Level 4

"Now I'm overlaying my Level 4 Gagaga Magician with my Level 4 Gagaga Child. With these two monsters I build the overlay network and XYZ summon Number 39: Utopia!"

Number 39: Utopia – ATK 2500; DEF 2000; Rank 4; OLU – 2

"I place once card face down and end my turn, over to you Yusei"

Yusei drew his card and looked at his hand "Okay I'm activating the spell card One for One. This lets me discard a monster to the graveyard and special one level 1 monster to the field from hand or deck. So by discarding Quillbolt Hedgehog to the graveyard I can special summon Sonic Chick!"

Sonic Chick – ATK – 300; DEF – 300; Level 1

"Next I'm summoning the tuner monster Junk Synchron to the field!"

Junk Synchron – ATK – 1300; DEF 500; Level 3

"Now because I successfully summoned Junk Synchron its special ability kicks in. This lets me summon a level 2 or lower monster from my graveyard, so come on out Quillbolt Hedgehog!"

Quillbolt Hedgehog – ATK – 800; DEF – 800; Level 2

"Now I'm tuning up my Quillbolt Hedgehog with my Junk Synchron! From two will come one and from one will come great power! Watch as they merge their might and combine their courage to Synchro Summon, Junk Warrior!"

Junk Warrior – ATK – 2300; DEF – 1300; Level 5

"That's not all though Junk Warrior has a special ability. When it's Synchro Summoned it gains attack equal to the attack of all level 2 or lower monsters on the field and since Sonic Chick is a level 1 monster Junk Warrior gains her attack!"

Junk Warrior – ATK – 2500

"Now Junk Warrior, attack Jamie directly!"

Jamie smiled and said "Good move, but not good enough! Because you attacked me directly I'm allowed to activate Swordsman of Revealing light's effect from my hand! With this effect I can Special Summon him to the field!"

Swordsman of Revealing Light – ATK – 0; DEF – 2400; Level 8

"Fortunately for you your Junk Warrior has more attack points that my monster or else it would have been destroyed thanks to its second special effect."

"Junk warrior attack Swordsman of Revealing Light!" Yusei said.

"Wrong again!" Jamie said with a smile "I activate Light Protection! This protects a Light Attribute monster from been destroyed in battle, and also I take no battle damage from this attack!"

Yusei smiled and said, "I can see why you won your duel Jamie, you're a tough cookie to crack".

Jamie smiled back and said, "You're not so bad yourself, Yusei".

Yusei nodded and said, "I'm placing once card face down and ending my turn."

"My turn then!" Jamie said as he drew a new card, he looked it and smiled "I summon Galaxy Wizard!"

Galaxy Wizard – ATK – 0; DEF – 1800; Level 4

"Next I activate Galaxy Wizard's special effect! Now I can raise its level by 4!"

Galaxy Wizard – Level 8

"Now I'm activating the Spell Card known as Galaxy Expedition! Because I have a Galaxy monster on my field that's Level 5 or above I can Special Summon one Galaxy monster from my deck! So I'm bringing out Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon!"

Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon – ATK – 300; DEF – 2500; Level 8

"But I'm not stopping there! Because I have 2 or more Light Attribute monsters on the field I can Special Summon this guy! Come forth Guardian of Order!"

Guardian of Order – ATK – 2500; DEF – 1200; Level 8

"Now I'm going for a double XYZ summon! First I overlay Level 8 Swordsman of Revealing Light with Level 8 Guardian of Order. With these two monsters I build the overlay network and XYZ summon Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand!"

Divine Dragon Knight Felgrand – ATK – 2800; DEF – 1800; Rank 8; OLU – 2

"And because it was summoned using Swordsman of Revealing Light, the first time that it would be destroyed it's not! Next I'm overlaying Level 8 Galaxy Eyes Photon Dragon with Level 8 Galaxy Wizard! With these two monsters I build the overlay network and XYZ summon Number 62: Galaxy Eyes Prime Photon Dragon!"

Number 62: Galaxy Eyes Prime Photon Dragon – ATK – 4000; DEF – 3000; Rank 8; OLU – 2

"Now I activate Felgrand's special ability. By using one OLU I can negate the effects of one monster but make it so it's unaffected by other card effects this turn! And I'm choosing my own monster Galaxy Eyes Prime Photon Dragon! Now my great beast attack Elemental Hero Flare Wingman!"

Jaden quickly smiled and said "I'm activating the trap card Damage Diet! This cuts all damage I receive in half!"

Jamie and Yuma – 4000; Jaden and Yusei – 3050

"I still have another attack though! Felgrand attack Junk Warrior!" Jamie said. Felgrand swooped down with his sword and cut Junk Warrior in half.

Jamie and Yuma – 4000; Jaden and Yusei – 2750

"I place a card face down and end my turn"

"Back to me then! Draw!" Jaden drew a card and smiled "This is going to be fun! First I'm activating the Field Spell Neo Space! Then I activate Graceful Charity! This lets me draw three cards as long as I discard two!" Jaden drew his three cards and threw two away, "Now I'm activating Monster Reborn! This lets me bring back a monster from the grave so I'm bringing back my old buddy Elemental Hero Neos!"

Elemental Hero Neos – ATK – 2500; DEF – 2000; Level 7

"And because Neo Space is on the field Neos gets a 500 point attack boost!"

Elemental Hero Neos – ATK – 3000

"Next up I'm summoning Neo Spacian Flare Scarab!"

Neo Spacian Flare Scarab – ATK 500; DEF – 500; Level 3

"Flare Scarab gains 400 attack for every spell and trap card on your side of the field and I count 2!"

Neo Spacian Flare Scarab – ATK – 1300

"That won't matter too much though because now I can return Neos and Flare Scarab to the deck in order to bring out a new monster! Go Convert Contact! I summon Elemental Hero Flare Neos!"

Elemental Hero Flare Neos – ATK – 2500; DEF – 2000; Level 7

"Building on Flare scarabs effect, Flare Neos gains 400 attack points for every spell and trap card on the field and I count 5!"

Elemental Flare Neos – ATK – 4500

"Now that's more like it! Go Flare Neos! Attack Number 39: Utopia!"

"Not so fast!" Yuma said grinning, "I'm activating Utopia's special ability! By using one OLU I can negate your attack!"

"I wouldn't be so sure about that!" Jaden said, "By discarding Effect Veiler to the grave I can negate Utopia's special ability! Flare Neos continue your attack!" Flare Neos shot a fireball out of his hand destroyed Utopia in one swift movement.

Jamie and Yuma – 2000; Jaden and Yusei – 2750

"I place one card face down on the field which means Flare Neos gets an extra 400 point boost!"

Elemental Hero Flare Neos – ATK – 4900

"I now end my turn!"

"Draw!" shouted Jamie as he drew a new card, "Okay I'm activating Galaxy Eyes Prime Photons special ability! So by discarding one OLU I can raise its attack equal to the rank of all XYZ monsters on the field times 200! And I count that there are total of 16 ranks! That's an extra 3200 attack points!"

Number 62: Galaxy Eyes Prime Photon Dragon – ATK – 7200

"7200 attack points! That's crazy!" Yusei said with awe.

"I know right?" Jamie said smiling "Now Galaxy Eyes attack Flare Neos! Primal Photon Stream of Destruction!" Galaxy eyes let out a massive stream of energy and cut down Flare Neos.

Jamie and Yuma – 2000; Jaden and Yusei – 450

"Now because it's the end of the Battle Phase, Galaxy Eyes' attack returns to normal"

Number 62: galaxy Eyes Prime Photon Dragon – ATK – 4000

"I place 2 cards face down and end my turn"

Things were not looking good for Yusei and Jaden now, but Yusei was smiling. "I haven't had this much fun duelling in a long time," he said, "It's my turn now! Draw! First I'm summoning Hyper Synchron to the field!"

Hyper Synchron – ATK 1600; DEF – 800; Level 4

"Now I'm playing a Spell Card known as Call of the Warriors! With this I can Special Summon one Level 4 warrior type monster from my deck! And I'm choosing Max Warrior!"

Max Warrior – ATK 1800; DEF – 800; Level 4

"Now I'm tuning my Max Warrior with my Hyper Synchron! Out of two will come one and out of one will come great cosmic might! Take flight, Stardust Dragon!"

Stardust Dragon; ATK – 2500; DEF – 2000; Level 8

"Sorry to interrupt but I have a card for you Yusei, I'm activating the trap card knows as Neos Spiral Force! This doubles one monsters attack points and I'm choosing Stardust Dragon!" Jaden said.

Stardust Dragon – ATK - 5000

"Thanks for the boost Jaden!" Yusei said, giving Jaden thumbs up, "Now Stardust attack Felgrand!" Stardust Dragon started to sweep down and fire a cosmic blast out of its mouth.

"No!" Jamie said "I activate the trap card Dimensional Prison! This banished your Stardust Dragon and stops your attack! See I know that stardust can negate cards that are meant to destroy but Dimensional Prison doesn't destroy!"

Yusei started laughing and said, "You always find a way around things don't you Jamie? That was a good move on your part"

Jamie smiled at him and then turned to Yuma and said "Let's end this bro!"

"I end my turn," Yusei said.

"Draw!" said Yuma, "Okay first I'm activating the Spell Card Heavy Storm! This rids the field of all Spell and Trap cards! Now I'm summoning Gagaga Girl!"

Gagaga Girl – ATK 1000; DEF 800; Level 3

"Let's go Gagaga Girl! Attack Jaden directly and end this duel!"

Jamie and Yuma – 2000; Jaden and Yusei – 0

As their LP hit 0 Jaden and Yusei were smiling.

"That was a fun and exciting duel guys you played well," Yusei said.

"Yeah man that was a blast," Jaden said agreeing with Yusei.

"You both played well it was tough there for a while," Jamie said smiling at them both.

"I totally felt the flow in that duel!" Yuma said excitedly, "We SO need to duel again sometime!"

They all laughed and agreed.


Cards of the day:

Light Protection - When your opponent attacks one of your LIGHT attribute monsters, you can protect it from destruction and take no battle damage.

Call of the Warriors - Search your deck for one Level 4 Warrior type monster and Special Summon it to the field.


Next time on Yugioh: Dark Shadows

Yugi: Everyone, this is Professor Hawkins

Professor Hawkins: Pleased to meet you everyone!

Everyone: Pleased to meet you Professor!

Jamie: Professor what do you know about the Gods of Olympus?

Professor Hawkins: You should sit down...this is going to be a long story...

That and more on the next Episode of Yugioh: Dark Shadows!


Just thought i'd leave a note here saying that I will welcome any advice or tips anyone can give me of making this story better. I feel it needs something more to it but not sure what yet. I need to get a flow going. If you want to help out or add some stuff to the story please feel free to send me a pm and I will give you my email address and we can work something out!

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