The Truth Behind Golden Doors
Yuksel's POV
I looked around the whole place. This city was more advanced than anything I have seen in any anime or video game. There was something mysterious about this place; I can feel it but just can't put my finger on what it was. And also, I was in a spiritual form currently.
"Are you by any chances familiar with this place?" I asked the dark me or as I liked to call him, Yami, who was now using our body.
He shook his head. "Not at all." He then looked at me. "But I'm happy about the effect it has on us. I mean, finally being able to use your body feels amazing."
"You are rubbing it into my face, aren't you?" Yami didn't answer and instead moved behind the other Hema, or as I call her due to the black hair, Yin. He wrapped both his hands around her waist and then kissed her cheek.
"Long time no see, Hema; my imouto-chan." He said with a smile and Yin leaned on him; putting her right hand over his head.
"Same for you, Yuksel onii-sama."
I turned towards my sister and threw my hands to my sides for a hug; she in response just rolled her eyes and floated a bit further away from me, as she was also in a spiritual form.
"Don't even think about it." Why must she always act so hard to get?
"I would ask how you have been while I wasn't around but we both know that it wouldn't be appropriate." Yami said as he broke his reunion hug with Yin.
"I'm just happy that we are now back together." Yin said with a trail of sadness in her voice. "But I miss Ryuuji and Sophie."
"Don't." Yami stopped her. "I can't forgive Ryuuji for bringing in that little girl into our rivalry and risking her life like that. I will never be able to forget him for what he did."
"Maybe it wouldn't have happened if we didn't take her in." This time, both I and my sister glared at our doppelgangers equally hard. So that feeling that made me want to adopt Oni was in fact their doing! Not that I'm complaining; the little girl is my precious princess, but honestly…
"You did what!?" my sister shouted, furious. "So when both I and my brother chose to take her in it was in fact you two manipulating our feelings just to get what you wanted!?"
"Lisa, please." Yin walked to her and put a hand on her shoulder. "We didn't manipulate you. We never did and never will."
"Even if those bodies are ours, it's you guys who use them now." Yami added and looked to me. "We would never try to take over your minds for our own gain nor would do anything that wouldn't hurt you in any way. After all, if we do that it's like hurting ourselves in our own body…"
"And every time when we are able to show up it's only because the emotions you feel at that time coincides with the ones we feel at that moment." Yin explained.
Yami looked at me with a serious expression on his face. "Every time you get consumed by anger, the reason isn't because I'm forcing it on you but because that's the same feeling we share. Our shared feelings allow for both me and my sister to share part of the control over our bodies with you guys but every time we do this the power of those emotions doubles making both the host and the other soul inhabiting the body to lose their sanity."
"That sounds crazy." I admitted as everyone else nodded in agreement to this statement.
"Hurry up~!" a feminine voice said out of nowhere.
"It seems there has been a time-space distortion that affected this dimension as well." A high pitched male voice replied.
"If it's evil that finally found a way to get here then everyone get behind my shield and let me handle it." A forceful female voice commanded.
"Let's first see what it is and then take the appropriate measures." A calm male voice finished.
And with that, four figures surrounded by green light teleported right in front of us and I'm going to describe their appearances from the one on the left to the one on the right.
The first was a young man with grey eyes, blue hair and a golden monocle over his left eye. He wore a dark, aquamarine suit adorned with gold trimming and had a red shirt underneath. He had long white gloves with golden symbols on them and white boots that reached his knees.
The second was a woman with long blonde hair and pale-blue eyes. Her clothing consisted of a black, skin-tight bodysuit with a short, slender, white outfit that didn't cover the chest area as well as the stomach. She wore a white wrap skirt with gold trimming and white knee-length armored boots with golden decorations in the form of small wings at the side of each footwear. The woman had white gloves as well, with the right one reaching right under the shoulder while the left was armor that reached only to the forearm, with a big golden shoulder plate protecting the rest. The most noticeable thing about this 'warrior' was the giant saber which was one head bigger than its own wielder.
And next to this 'angel of destruction' as I'm going to refer to her for now was a large powerful build man with yellow eyes and cyan colored hair tied into a ponytail. He didn't wear any top, with just golden wristbands. As for the clothes the man did had they consisted of dark trousers, shoes with bright golden hue, and you guessed it, a white wrap skirt with gold trimming.
Lastly was a girl who judging by her height was somewhere around our age. She had orange eyes and pink hair with a low below-the-shoulder ponytail. The girl wore a white cloak, a matching costume underneath it with a green stripe in the lower part of her suit made in a chevron pattern and lastly she wore white boots with green stripes that reached a bit under her tights.
"Oh, it's just a bunch of humans." The blue-haired man who was also the one with a high-pitched voice spoke with interest as he placed a hand under his chin. "The effect of the dimension distortion has gotten stronger than before it seems. Kekeke."
"Don't get to close to them, Delag!" the aforementioned 'angel of destruction' ordered as her saber landed between him and us. Yami who was the closest had to jump and dodge in order to not get cut in half.
"Hey!" He protested.
"We still don't know if they are normal humans!" the woman added, then glaring at us.
"Tch." Delag clicked his tongue and turned back to the woman with a bored expression. "Please Solar, do you think they possess the power to bypass a barrier that divides our world from that timeline?"
"No…" Solar mumbled and her weapon flew back to her side. Her eyes landed on us again but this time she seemed calmer. "How were they able to come here then?"
"Dragons…" the other man spoke and Yami's deck started glowing in red, blue, purple and pink lights that then projected something in the sky and then four mighty roars echoed through the entire city as Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta formed behind us.
"Alpha Wing, Beta Spike, Gamma Blast and Delta Claws!" the girl walked in front of the other three. "The lost sons came back home…"
"It can't be…" Yin put a hand over her mouth. Both she and Yami kneeled before the four people. "Great Gods of Harmony!"
Delag turned to the girl. "Is that really what they call us?" the girl nodded and he then sighed in annoyance. "That's why making cults of ourselves was a bad idea..." The man said, gesturing Yami and Yin to get up.
"The threat before us is far too great to be dealt with the mere likes of us." Solar explained. "There is nothing bad if they want to worship us for helping them in those hard times."
The other man then walked to me and my sister with a curious look on his face. "Tell me, are you two from this reality?"
"No." I shook my head. "Is it possible that by any chance you know the reason we have been called here?"
"That I believe is information that you could get nowhere else." He said, gesturing us to join the others.
"Indeed." Delag said, fixing his monocle. "As the ones who looked over all dimensions and timelines we have knowledge and abilities that most others don't…"
"But that's a story which has to be started from the beginning in order to make the most sense." The girl continued and raised her right hand then snapped her fingers. "Time-n-Space!"
Alpha, Beta, Gamma and Delta positioned their selves back and spread their wings, creating a circle around us. Alpha Wing and Beta Spike then started glowing in blue and purple auras respectively as the sky over our heads and the ground below our feet vanished and we then found ourselves in open space.
"The infinite possibility of what even the smallest mathematical variety of data can do." As the man spoke, multiple small spheres formed around our group; some were smaller or bigger than others but all of them showed the images of planet Earth from space.
Delag turned towards me and my sister. "Kukuku! Tell me something you two: do you think you guys know anything about the world you currently exist in? And if yes, then how?"
"We do." My sister answered simply, leaving the explanation to me.
"It may sound weird or even crazy to you guys but in the world we come from all of this is just a TV show, or anime, to be more accurate. Duel disks, holograms, none of those exist in our world."
"A world where all of this is an anime that people watch?!" Yami asked as if I was crazy. "What nonsense are you spilling?!"
"Oh." The girl rolled her eyes. "They are from that place as well."
"It's actually true?" Yin asked.
I raised an eyebrow. "As well? Are we not the only ones?"
Solar sighed. "Not at all, and the world you exist in right now isn't the same one that you watch about from your TV back home. In fact, you are in another timeline that just happened to be very similar to that one."
"What's that supposed to mean?" my sister asked before I could. "Is something as this even possible?"
"It is." Delag assured us. "The world you are in moves the same way as the original one but at the same time it isn't of that one. The existence of the original Yuksel and Hema being the sole prove of it as neither they nor our dragons exist in any of the other timelines."
"The possibilities of those timelines are endless." The girl said, throwing her arms at the sides. "The difference could be from very small to enormous. For example, there is a timeline in which Sakaki Yuya has a twin named Sakaki Yukari; timelines in which other people from worlds similar to yours get dragged in for one or another reason, and timelines where the four dimensional dragons brought destruction to the dimensions."
"There are even timelines where Ritual has its own dimension." Delag laughed.
"Wow…" Yami and Yin expressed their astonishment.
"But… how do you guys know all this?" I asked. "Even if you are gods, having such knowledge seems a bit…"
"Grelyson," Delag raised a finger, "the place we were at just moments ago, and in whose borders we exist is in fact a city that drifts in the space outside of those previously mentioned timelines. We aren't a part of any of those timelines but are instead beings that exist outside of them all."
"Due to this we normally don't interact with any of those worlds and just pass by." Solar explained to us. "Using Grelyson just to be up to date with what happened in each one of those timelines."
"You could say that we, Theodore, Solar, Delag and Lucien are just seers that don't interfere with what destiny has predicted." The man, Theodore told us and at the mention of the name Lucien the girl's eyes widened; there is a reason to that, being that this sounds more like a male name…
"Wait," I paused then pointed towards Lucien. "Are you saying that she is actually a he?"
"Kukuku." Delag laughed then playfully hit Solar on the shoulder plate to which she just rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Looks like he is again using that form to troll the guests."
Lucien sighed. "And I almost succeeded." Saying this, his form changed to than of a boy, though there wasn't that much of a difference except his hair was now shorter and his build being manlier.
"Hehehe, our true bodies and voices can't be understood by human likes so due to this it's pretty much up to your own imagination how we look. That's of course unless Lucien uses his ability to change the image generated by your brain." Delag laughed as he patted the boy on the head.
Theodore made a fake cough. "Let's return to the topic at hand, shall we?" The other 'Gods' nodded in agreement as he continued. "Though as we already said, interaction with any timeline is a big no for us most of the time. There is a very important reason why we came to yours." Alpha and Beta stopped glowing and we returned to Grelyson. "There is a danger lurking in your worlds that is trying to destroy us."
"Is it even possible for something that has enough power and knowledge about timelines like you do to even exist?" my sister asked, unconvinced.
"We aren't the only beings that exist in Grelyson and Grelyson isn't the only thing that exists outside those timelines." Delag explained as he removed his monocle. "There are other places like this one out there; other beings like us and even darkness born from the residual negative energy of other timelines."
"The only reason why we are still alive now is because of those towers." Solar pointed to the floating buildings that surrounded the city. "They create a barrier that stops anything from coming in unless we allow it but it also has one grave weakness; it can't stop anything from teleporting in if it's not coming from within this realm."
"Which in simple words means that we are helpless against anything that comes from those timelines."
"That still doesn't explain why we were teleported to this reality!" my sister protested, while I was floating in a sitting position listening with interest.
Lucien raised a hand. "Everything in due time, dear. Now where were we? Ah, right! As we already mentioned, most of those timelines have the so called Dimensional Dragons. Those things hid enormous power in themselves and have something that makes them a likely target for the darkness to strike them." Lucien paused for a moment, adding to the already high level of suspense. He smirked and continued. "They are easy to be corrupted. We all have watched them going berserk in many other timelines without this strange darkness existing there. The destruction and phenomenons' which resulted from those creatures just being close to each other in other timelines were frightening. Due to this, in order to protect ourselves if the darkness even took control over the dragons we started a project of creating our own creatures that would be the opposite of them."
"So the four dragons, Alpha Wing, Beta Spike, Gamma Blast and Delta Claws have been born." Delag finished. "The only thing out there with power capable enough to take down the Dimensional Dragons if needed. After their creation we put each of them in its respective dimension but…"
"But…?" I repeated.
"But in the end, due to having the personalities of five year olds, the only thing those four ever did was a mess after a mess!" Delag yelled at the monsters, to which they all roared back at him. "Oh really? Do you want me to tell them what you did in the west hallway when you were still wyverns?!" the dragons went silent and I wasn't going to ask about what happened.
Delag took a deep breath. "As I was saying before losing my composure… Damn! Who even created those things in the first place?" At this, the dragons were already pushing Yami's back with their heads to let them get back in the deck.
"It was you, Delag." Lucien said, sweat dropping; everyone else did the same when hearing the answer.
"Never the less, those failures that call themselves dragons," at Solar's strict words the dragons forcefully hid their selves in Yami's duel disk, "in the end to officially and totally fuck up the very reason we created them in the first place, they all came together in Standard, leaving all other dimensions unprotected."
"I have a question about this." I rose a hand. "How can you all be so sure that this darkness will try to use exactly this timeline to attack you?"
"Because it's already there." Theodore answered worriedly. "Still not having the strength or numbers to make a move, but sooner or later the stronger ones will come as well and all our hope is in the dragons."
"That's why we have been called here…" I realized.
"Maybe." Delag shook his head. "But it's sure that it wasn't any of us that called you here nor put you in their bodies. So I have one final question that would give you the answers you are seeking: do you remember how you guys ended up here?"
"Yes." I nodded. "It was all the doing of one blank card."
"A blank card!" Theodore's eyes widened. "You were called here by First then."
"Our very first prototype for the dragons." Delag said before I could even ask who 'First' is. "A blank card that doesn't want to take a form. Its powers can rival our own ones when it comes to it. I don't know what the reason is but we won't be able to take you back to your own world right now."
"What?!" my sister shouted in protest.
"Sorry for disappointing you, dear," Lucien said in a joking manner, "but due to the darkness invading the borderline that keeps that particular timeline and our space separate and seeing that the dimensional dragons' powers were able to create another space distortion, we had to fix it before any more of this dark power came to their world and in doing so we used up most of our powers, and this time the situation was way worse than ever before."
"So we're going to be trapped with those nuisances?!" Yami shouted.
"Who is the nuisance here?!" my sister yelled back and Yin laughed nervously.
"Till we recover enough power to send them back to their world, yes." Solar nodded. "And remember, it's not just our lives that are at the stak, but the four dimensions and everyone in them as well."
"We won't betray your trust." Yami and Yin bowed to their 'Gods'.
"We know." Theodore waved with his hand and the same light from when Yuto lost devoured the four of us again. The next thing I knew we were back in the park along with Ryuuji and Sophie.
"Why did you stop?" Ryuuji asked us. "You two look like you just saw a ghost." I looked at my hands; they were solid once again then I turned to my sister and she too was back to normal.
"Yuya!" a distant cry came from behind us as I turned to see Yuzu run past us and to Yuya's side. The tomato head was lying unconscious on the ground with Yuto's card in his hand.
"Yuya! What's wrong? What is going on? What happened? Wake up, Yuya!" I could just stare blankly at the two, unable to believe that all this happened in just a few seconds.
"Stop." My sister put a hand on Yuzu's shoulder. "He won't wake up."
"What happened?" Yuzu asked.
"We don't know." I lied as I looked her in the eyes. "We arrived literally seconds before you did. A strange light appeared around here and we thought about investigating it." Yuzu seems to have believed the lie and turned back to Yuya.
"Will you help me?" she asked, almost begging.
"That's what friends are for." I smiled at her. "Don't worry, I'm sure that he is just tired as there aren't any visible injuries." Saying this, I took Yuya from the ground and put one of his hands over my shoulder. Ryuuji did the same with the other. So we two found ourselves carrying the unconscious tomato head while the girls walked in front of us, with Hema and Sophie trying to ensure Yuzu that Yuya is ok.
"You don't need to help us." I mumbled.
"You are wrong." Ryuuji smiled weakly and then looked up at the stars. I did the same. "You might not be aware but there is something bigger than you and me going on somewhere out there. Having a few more friends in those situations is never too bad."
"Yeah." There was no way I couldn't agree with what he said after just hearing about what was truly going on. Not one, not two, but the lives of four dimensions are at stake! "But you are wrong about one thing." I spoke up. Ryuuji looked back at me confused. "I do know what is happening and I want to try and stop it as well."
"Temporal peace then?" he asked in a joking manner. I couldn't help but smile at the sudden change; having to work with the one who I hate the most; talk about irony.
"Temporal peace."
With this, it truly began: our real adventure in this world that's so close to what we knew but at the same time so different from what we ever imagined it to be.
A/N: Hey everyone! Sorry, if I weren't very active recently,but now I'm back from my three-day vacation, or as I like to call it: The Longest Three Days In Hell! With horrible sun burns that hurt even now when I'm writing this, now enough sweets to keep me on my two legs, and a Guest House that I honestly would have burned down if it wasn't a crime to do so, I can't find anything positive to say about those three days away from here. I probably won't even try because looking to say something good about this misadventure of mine is like looking for something good in having a tumor.
Stepping away from the personal matters and finally going into the business part, I want to thank Komori Rias for allowing me to mentions one of his characters; Sakaki Yukari from Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc V Distortion of Dimensions or as I like to say about it: Than one universe in which Yuya has a badass twin sister with friends that are way cooler than her brother's. I will stop talking about it here because first; I don't want to spoil anything for our faithful readers who love stories about OCs and second; even if my Author Notes suggest otherwise, I'm not an advertising agency.
But I'm happy and at the same time amazed to tell everyone that Arc-V has reached over 9 000 views! Seeing how much views I had per chapter before and now, I'm positive that next chapter I may annouce that it reached over 10 000! Thanks you guys, you are really amazing! I could have never expected to get so much views on a story I wrote, it's all thanks to you people!
Finally, reaching the part of the Author Note that is about this story I want to start it off explaining that Timelines will be taken here in context referring to Alternate Universes. And to cruse anyone's thoughts while they are still newborns; The talk about Alternate Universes was a filler, so they most likely won't appear in this story, unless by some miracle I come up with a way to do it, or in the even less likely situation; if someone ask me to make a crossover with their story. But of course the chances for any one of those two to happen appears once in every six full moons, so don't get your hopes up. Even if the situation happen in which some desperate soul will come to me for a crossover, I won't accept anything until reaching the Synchro Arc in my story, because that's where things really become interesting and resourceful.
Boy that was long, but good that we are done now.
Is what you would have wanted me to say, right? But nope and I have more things to write about. Thanks to aibcareer2k, Pikapikaluv and bigmike589 for favoriting and following the story.
Thanks to Zaconator and Zackis for favorites.
What a surprise, there is alse an review?! That's something I didn't expect at all but it makes me very happy to know that this A/N will have something meaningful at the end at least.
Response to aibcareer2k's review: I'm happy that you like my story, but I can't understand what you mean by that I shouldn't use an original summoning method alone? But I have a few ideas what you may mean so I'm going to try and guess it.
If you mean that I shouldn't use it alone by like; having the characters' decks and somewhat the plot as well being focused that method. I'm not going to do it and I can even ensure everyone that original summoning methods will find very limited use. If the votes are for having them in this story in the first place. I'm doing it mostly just to add some spice in both duels and the story in general.
Seeing how three of my guesses merged into one with the upper one, my last option is that you mean that I shouldn't use one original method alone, which I once again don't plan to do. If the votes are for original summoning methods here then I can say that current plans are for three original methods, but the other two that aren't Awaken Summon are just some extra mechanics for the canon ones instead of being something entirely different.
For the second part, right now my plans are for the Synchro counterparts to use custom decks as well. I can't tell you much expect that I think about Yuksel's counterpart to use Accel Synchro as a main wait for going into his stronger Synchro Monsters, just like Crow in Arc-V. As for when they are going to appear, I think somewhere in the middle/end of the Synchro Arc and they are going to become relevant from there on.
And just because I think that some day there will also be a question about the Xyz counterparts, they will probably appear during the Xyz Arc which I plan to turn into a real Arc instead of the 10 and half totally unneeded episodes which have nothing to do with the plot.
With the review out the way, this ShadowFire10 is now free to run off. Goodbye boys and girls, till new meetings!