Im Just Saiyan

Chapter 2: The Legend, Awakened

It was a sunny morning in Domino City and I was just itching to get into a duel. I could barely contain my excitement at participating in the tournament, though my inhibitions for entering did help. Currently, I was not paying attention to the hordes of duelists swarming around the plaza, waiting for the competition to start. I was instead captivated by the clear card in my hand.

"Hmm. This clear card was in the same package as the duel disk." I muttered to myself and the Pharaoh at the same time. Sometimes I don't even know when I'm talking to him or just myself. "It looks like its's part of a map, but where's the rest of it?"

"Huh, it must be another new twist Kaiba threw into his tournament…" I looked around to realize that while I was thinking to myself, I had already walked over to the center clock of the main plaza.

"Yugi!" I looked over to my right to see who was calling me. Waving to me while jogging over was an old friend of mine from the Duelist Kingdom Tournament, Mai Valentine. Mai is a strong duelist that specializes in Harpy Lady Cards. She has long blond hair, spiked in a fashion that almost makes me think she's a long-lost relative of Joey some times. Though I never would tell Joey that, let's just say that they don't always get along like the best of friends.

"Hey Mai!" I replied while waving back at her. I almost forgot how tall she was now that I have to look up just to see her face when I'm next to her.

"Pretty big turnout, huh?" She replied, in her own happy go lucky fashion. "All losers." She deduced in an instant by just glancing around at the crowds around us.

"Well, there are a lot of duelists I've never seen before." I said while trying hard not to agree with her harsh and yet partially true comment.

"OH, this is so exciting! I wonder whose butt I should kick first in this tournament." She rubbed her chin thoughtfully while pondering her question, a smirk plastered across her face as bright as day.

Slowly more and more duelists arrived on the scene. Some old foes from Duelist Kingdom like Rex, Weevil, and Mako Tsunami. I was still searching around for Joey, worried that he would be late for the tournament, when I spotted a strange man. He was about Joey's height with dark skin, a white cloak/cape that had long shoulder-pads under the fabric, a purple undershirt, and black baggy pants. He wore matching black boots and had short, yet spikey hair that seemed to defy gravity. "Oh, and ours doesn't?" The pharaoh remarked sarcastically after hearing my thoughts.

I decided to try and start a conversation with this guy, noticing that he was wearing a duel disk like all of us, so he must have been a duelist. "Umm, HI! I see from your duel disk that you're going to enter the tournament too huh. I'm also entering. My name is Yu-"

"Yugi Moto. Winner of the Duelist Kingdome Tournament, and current holder of the title "King of Games." He interrupted in a seemingly all-knowing and deep-ish voice.

"Oh, well yeah. I guess everybody's heard about that by now." I replied sheepishly.

"Word to the wise, Moto. Don't try to duel me if you want to make it to the finals." He said in a matter of fact tone. "If you want an example, wait and watch my first duel during this tournament and you'll see why."

"Umm, ok. I think. I'll keep that in min-"

"Greetings duelists. Welcome to Battle City." Someone's voice boomed. It seemed to be Kaiba talking, but I couldn't seem to see him anywhere. It was like his voice was coming from everywhere at once.

"Where is his voice coming from?" I heard Mai ask no one in particular. We were all looking around frantically to locate the voice. Everyone except the mystery guy next to me.

He did not even try to look around for his voice it seemed. He was still leaned against the clock pole in the center with his arms crossed over his chest and his eyes closed. As if he was expecting me to ask him if he knew where it was coming from, which I was, he pointed upwards seconds before the giant, looming shadow of Kaiba's blimp drifted overhead.

I decided to abandon the guy and ran up to the top of one of the buildings, just in time to see Kaiba's giant face staring at me as the Giant-Screen on the blimp passed in front of me. "Whoa! It's Kaiba!" I exclaimed, captivated by his huge head seemingly being displayed above the entire city.

"It's time to put your dueling skills to the test. " He boomed mockingly. "I hope none of you entered my tournament looking for friendly competition, because Battle City's going to be an all-out WAR." He continued to explain the many rules of the tournament. How the clear cards that everyone received are in fact parts of a map to the finals. But you need 5 of them to finish it; that's where the dueling comes in. In each of the duels, we would have to bet our rarest card and at least 1 clear card, or as he called them "Locator Cards". In this tournament, I couldn't afford to even lose once if I was to win this. Oh well, I wasn't planning to anyway.

I turned back and started walking back towards the roof stairs. "Well, time to face my destiny." I said while clenching my fist in apprehension.

"WHERE ARE YA, YA CREEP!" I heard a familiar voice yell from the streets as I was going to descend. There would be no mistaking that yell after it had been directed at me for so long. I had finally found my best friend, Joey Wheeler. By the way he was stomping and pushing around in the crowd below, he was angry and looking for someone.

"What's he doing?!" I looked on in shock as I saw him march over to a man in a dark purple cloak that was sipping tea at the nearby store's table.

"Hey freak! I knew I'd find ya." He said in an angry tone. The man closed his laptop and started talking to Joey, but I was to busy trying to get over there to listen good.

When I had finally gotten close enough, I tried to call to the frantically pointing and yelling Joey. "Joey, what's going on! What are you yelling about!" I called, finally getting his attention. I had finally made my way over to him, and what I saw shocked me.

"That's one of the goons that swiped my 'Red Eyes'." He exclaimed while still pointing his finger like a mad man.

"What, that man in the purple cape. He's dressed just like Bandit Keith was." I thought to myself and the Pharaoh. "Can he be the one that's after my Millennium Puzzle?"

"They call themselves "Rare Hunters"; which to me translates to Cape-Wearing, Card Taking, and Freakazoids! And this one owes me a rematch so I can win back my 'Red Eyes Black Dragon'" Joey was obviously mad at this man, but he was showing no sign of wanting to even speak with Joey. We were starting to draw the attention of the people around us and I even saw the man in the white cape start to approach us quickly from the corner of my eye.

The man shut the laptop he was on and stood up from his table while glaring at me. "I already told you, Wheeler, you have nothing else of use to me. "But perhaps your friend would be interested in being my first victim. It would be my pleasure to hunt the Duelist Kingdom champion, and snare his 'Dark Magician'." A smirk was plastered over his beady face as his glare seemed to pierce me soul. "So I challenge Yugi Moto to a duel" Now it was his turn to point, not at Joey, but me!

Suddenly, I saw his smirk disappear and be replaced with confusion as he seemed to look behind me. I felt a hand grip my shoulder from behind as I turned around to see the guy with the white cape standing over and behind me. He looked me dead in the eyes and said a single word, "No." I was of course confused, as was Joey and the Rare Hunter. I was perfectly fine with dueling this man to get Joey's card back. "It's ok. You don't need to waste your time with this weakling. I'll duel him to show the example I promised earlier, and for your friend. I promise you, I won't lose." I was still shocked, but strangely enough, I wasn't afraid that he would lose. I was perfectly fine with this and believed him as much as I would if it was Joey saying this. I nodded.

The Rare Hunter was still confused and started yelling. "Hey, butt out of this you nobody. My business is with Moto over there; not some weirdly dressed nobody. I bet you don't even have any rare car…. What, what is this." He had opened up his computer mid-rant to, what I guess was to, check out the man's score rating and rarest card on the database. "You, just who are you? There's no data on your deck at all in this database. And yet you still have an almost perfect rating…" He stared in shock at the guy, but his expression of disbelief soon turned into one of glee. "Well, it doesn't matter. You managed to convince me into dueling you. Not only will I get valuable information on your deck; I will also win your rarest card and a locator card to boot."

"So do you accept my challenge in Yugi's stead?" He said in a deep and calm voice, his eyes unblinking and unwavering from the Rare Hunter.

"Yes, yes I do; this database says your name is Griever is it?" He said with a haughty laugh. "I accept!"

"And do you swear that, when you lose, you will return Joey Wheeler his 'Red Eyes Black Dragon' Card?" He said, still remembering Joey's predicament.

"Yes, I will. I promise on your life. Hehehe."

"Then… IT'S TIME TO DUEL!" Griever yelled, capturing the attention of the remaining people that were not already staring at this exchange. He stretched his duel disk arm forward and launched out 2 probes from it. They shined hologram projectors and created the field for which they would begin their battle.

SOME WHERE IN THE KAIBA CORP. BUILDING

Detecting activation of duel disk battle system. Competitors Griever and Rare Hunter. Beaming Duel Status to Kaiba Corp. Mainframe.

Inside the building, a computer was spouting off the data, or in Griever's case "lack of data", of the competitors as Seto Kaiba and Mokuba watched the events unfold from the screen in front of them. "Wow, the first duel of the tournament and we already have a Rare Hunter." Mokuba exclaimed in shock. "I don't know who he's dueling though."

"Humph. Probably some backwater nobody; they don't matter" Kaiba said in a matter of fact tone. He simply did not care for anyone dueling if it was not Yugi or a Rare Hunter with an Egyptian God Card.

"Nobody is right. Seto, check this out! Apparently we have no data on the Hunter's opponent. Only a name and rating." Mokuba once again shouted in his ear.

"What, impossible! Not even one card from his deck; and this Griever person has the same rating as me. The only other person with that should be Yugi Moto!" Kaiba yelled in indignation. He was the best duelist around, so there was no way he would allow another person to one-up him like Yugi had done.

"Hey check it out. Yugi and Joey are there too. It looks like they're as interested in this guy's duel as you are, big brother."

"Well, well, well. It seems this competition just keeps getting more and more interesting. It seems only appropriate that Yugi be involved with the first duel of my tournament."

BACK AT THE CITY CENTER

Well, this duel looks like it's going to be a good one. I hope this Griever-guy knows what he's getting into.

"LET'S DUEL!" The two caped men yelled at each other, one clothed in black and the other in white.

"I draw first." I looked over Griever's shoulder to see what kind of cards he had, but I didn't recognize any of them. There was one with a picture of a man in orange, with black spikey hair that caught my attention though. "Well. It seems this duel is already over, Rare Hunter. With this hand, I will seal your fate."

"Don't sound so sure, Griever. You don't know the depths of my strategy. I could beat you without even attacking once for this entir-"

"So you're playing an 'Exodia' deck." Griever interrupted with a childish expression of questioning on his face.

"WHAT! How could you possibly have guessed my strategy so easily!?" The Rare Hunter cried out in wonder and amazement.

"Well it was pretty easy after you blabbed how you were going to 'beat me without even attacking'. Unless you have a bunch of spell cards that damage me directly, which may I remind you are banned in this tournament, you could only accomplish that by using 'Exodia-The Forbidden One'." He deduced, making it seem almost stupid that I didn't realize it too. "Now that we have that out of the way, I will make my first move now."

"Heh. If you think knowing my strategy will help you win, then by all means take your first shot." He taunted while spreading his arms out wide.

"The thing about my deck is… you are never prepared. With the power of the ancient monkey race, long extinct from the power of a tyrant, BEHOLD THE LEGEND OF THE SAIYANS! I Summon the monster card 'Son Goku'(LVL 4-ATK 1900/DEF 1900) in face up attack position!" The monster card that I had seen before was now revealed to everyone. It was a man in an orange fighting gi with the Japanese symbol for 'Gó' on his back and right chest. He had black spikey hair that seemed to protrude out in every direction.

"What is that card. There's no data on it at all. I've never seen one before. What type is it even?" The questions everyone around us was asking seemed to come at us all at once.

"The type of this card is 'Saiyan' and there are none like it. I made sure that I am the only one who even has them." Griever answered to everyone at the same time.

BACK IN THE KAIBA CORP. BUILDING

"WHAT! There should be no such card that exists like that. I have no data on it!" Kaiba exclaimed after seeing just one move from the mystery duelist.

"Well big brother; it seems this duel just got even more interesting." Mokuba said in an obvious exited voice.

"Let's just see what these new types of cards can due Mokuba. If its powerful enough, I may want to fight against them myself." Kaiba had become captivated by this man's deck just like all of the other duelists.

BACK AT THE CITY CENTER

"I guess I will continue with my turn if everyone is done gasping in surprise." Griever said with a hint of satisfaction. "I place 2 cards faced down on the field and end my turn.''

"Well that was anti-climactic. While I do admit that you surprised me there, You still have no chance at winning." He said in a matter-of-fact tone. "Now I draw… Heh, just what I expected." He said while leering at his hand. "I activate my Graceful Charity card. It allows me to draw 3 cards, and I discard 2 from my hand." He explained while doing exactly that. "Perfect, 'Exodia' cards already. Now all I need is the head and left arm and I will win." He thought to himself. "It was foolish for me to ever think that he could defeat the unstoppable 'Exodia' with his so-called 'Saiyan' cards."

"I don't like what that Rare Hunter is planning, Griever better end this quick before he draws all of his 'Exodia Pieces'." I said to Joey, not taking my eyes off of the duel for a second.

"This certainly is turning into an interesting duel Yugi but I agree; Griever must keep his guard up if he wants to win." The pharaoh said in my mind, while also focusing on the duel.

"Lastly for my turn; I summon, 'Stone Statue of the Aztecs' (ATK 300/DEF 2000) in face-up defense position and end my turn." The Rare Hunter chuckled to himself in pride. "Your monster may be strong, but my 'Stone Statue' is an impenetrable wall. How does it feel to be so close, yet so far away boy."

"I don't know, you tell me." Griever replied back, with a subtle smirk on his face.

"Don't worry, it'll all be over soon, boy."

"Fine then. It's my turn so I'll draw." His hand was a blur as he drew from his disk and placed the card in his hand while picking up another. "Since I have no means of getting past your wall just yet, I summon a monster in face-down defense, and set another card face down and end my turn."
"Humph. A lot of good that did you, boy. I'll play another graceful charity and once again draw 3 and discard 2." His face lit up with glee after this particular move. "Your fate has been sealed boy. I have just drawn my 4th 'Exodia' Piece and I know for a fact that the card I will draw on my next turn shall be the one that I need."

"Well, I guess I'll just have to beat you in one turn." He said back in quiet banter.

"Wha-what. Impossible. I have 4000 life points! In fact, to make sure you have nothing up your sleeve with that face-down monster of yours; I play the magic card 'Soul Exchange'. It lets me tribute one of your own monsters instead of using mine. I sacrifice your face down to summon my 'Gear Golem the Moving Fortress' (ATK 800/DEF 2200)." He cried out, satisfied to see the look of shock on his face… But we were all surprised, minus Griever, to find that the monster had appeared, but Griever's card had only flipped up.

"NO! YOU FOOL!" Griever cried out as his card was revealed. It was a bald short monk dressed in clothes similar to that of 'Son Goku', except he had the symbol for turtle on his back and chest. "You sent my 'Krillin card' to the grave… you have sealed your fate." He said this in a solemn tone as we looked over to see why 'Krillin' had not left the field yet. We instead witnessed the 'Son Goku' card looking happy to see him. They waved at each other and smiled until the 'Gear Golem' that was summoned decided to finally move. Its eye shined red and fired a laser straight into the heart of 'Krillin'. However, it seemed at first that it did nothing, because after raising his arm in front of his face, 'Krillin' looked around to see he was fine. But it was too soon, because the 'Gear Golem' had a red line running from his eye to the chest of the 'Krillin'. He directed his gaze upwards, causing the 'Krillin' to be lifted into the air while screaming.

It was then to everyone's surprise that the 'Son Goku' card began to speak to the 'Gear Golem'. "No please. Don't hurt him! Stop it now!" His cries were falling on deaf ears as it then send what looked like a pulse of energy through the red beam, causing the 'Krillin' to explode.

It screamed in a last ditch effort to get help, "GOKUUUU!" His final cry ringing through everyone's ears as it was replaced by deafening silence. I had never in all of my years of watching holographic duels seen something so violent and lifelike happen to the monsters. Judging by the expression of shock and fear on the Rare Hunter's face, neither had he. Griever on the other hand, simply hanged his head in sorrow.

Suddenly, we all turned our attention to the 'Son Goku' which was now screaming with tears streaming down his face. He had what looked like a blue fire surround him and caused the ground to shake. It was actually making us feel tremors. It was then that Griever decided to speak. "What you people don't understand is that these monsters are not simply cards. They feel, they laugh, and they cry. You carelessly tribute my 'Krillin' Card, not knowing his effect; both card-wise and emotional-wise. Him and my 'Son Goku' card share a friendship deeper than any other found; but by killing him, you awakened a rage stronger than any God, any 'Exodia'. You have awakened the Legendary Super Saiyan."

At this last word, the screams of the 'Son Goku' intensified with him speaking even more. "I…..wont…let you….GET AWAY WITH THIS! HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" His voice peaked in tone and a bright light flashed from the card. When I could finally see again, I looked on to see the same 'Son Goku' card as before, but his shirt had been ripped off from the energy around him and his hair had spiked up in the shape of a flame. He had 3 bangs hanging down on his forehead and his hair and aura had turned golden.

This time it was Griever's turn to speak. "By sending my 'Krillin' card to the graveyard. You activated his effect. When he is sent to the graveyard while there Is a 'Son Goku' on the field, I can transform my 'Son Goku' and special summon in his place his new form. 'Super Saiyan Goku' (ATK 2300/DEF 2300).

At the mention of his name, 'Super Saiyan Goku' turned to glare at the Rare Hunter, who was now sweating and had a look of terror on his face. He once again spoke, but in a more serious and threatening tone that seemed to boom from everywhere at once. "People like you never learn. You're always stepping on others just to meet your own ends… But it ends now." He powered up mid-sentence and his aura pulsated with more power. "You can destroy monsters, buy can never destroy what I am, Friend." He spit out the last word, a malefic smirk on his face.

Finally, the Rare Hunter was able to gain the courage to speak, not to Griever, but to the hologram 'Super Saiyan Goku'. "You… You're no regular monster. Wha-JUST WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU!" He screamed out while pointing at him.

"Don't you get it? It's just like Griever said before." He answered. "I am the hope of the universe." His smirk disappeared. "I am the answer to all living things that cry out for peace." His voice rising; making the Rare Hunter cower in fear. "I am the protector of the innocent. I am the light in the darkness. I am truth…" He suddenly stopped. His aura disappeared as if it was never there… Then he suddenly boomed at the top of his lungs while simultaneously making his aura pulsate, shining brighter than any light that anyone had witnessed before. The ground once more began to shake, but even fiercer this time. Dark clouds formed and blocked out the, seconds before, clear sky. Lightning struck behind the 'Super Saiyan Goku' as he yelled out his words.

"ALLY TO GOOD, NIGHTMARE TO YOU!" And with that statement, he charged.


A/N: Thanks to everyone reading this story for their hopeful support. I'll try to keep consistent with upload times, and I hope you guys stick around. If any of you have questions about the story, card effects, or anything; feel free to ask in your review space and i'll answer them at the end of each chapter. Also, if you havn't already noticed, I have been using the actual character's lines from the show that were not affected by Griever. I'll try to keep this up, along with keeping duel hands the same for opponents to make it stay true to the Yu-Gi-Oh! Anime. Thanks for the support, IT'S TIME TO DUEL!