Yu-Gi-Oh GX

See this in my Story Dump fanfiction

A lot of the cards mentioned here will be my own creations, if you want to look them up you should find them on Yu-Gi-Oh card maker, my account name there is Shamira.

A young girl named Akiko is found wandering the streets of Japan with no memory of anything other than her first name, the only things she has are the clothes on her back and a duel monster card that she refuses to part with. Akiko is adopted by the Yukis as Jaden was the one to recognise that she was lost and tell his parents, the two children of the same age quickly become attached to each other, Akiko revels to Jaden the card she owns which is one never heard of before called 'The Muse'. The Muse, who Akiko calls Maria, is a powerful duel spirit who appoints herself as Akiko's protector, like Akiko she also doesn't have any clear memories before being found by Jaden, like Jaden Akiko can see and hear duel spirits but it also seems to temporarily go dormant like Jaden's; Akiko believes Maria to have been her imaginary friend. When Jaden has Yubel the duel monster doesn't try to hurt Akiko but the girl and Maria are both wary of the duel monster, after Jaden sends Yubel to space they both feel that it was the wrong decision but Akiko soon forgets about it.

When Akiko becomes a teen and joins duel academy she is a shy, naïve, daydreamer who is kind to everyone but tends to speak before she thinks and has a hard time with controlling her emotions. Akiko uses a deck comprised of Maiden cards, a card type that is rare and can only be used to their full effect in a deck made around them, which Akiko's is, she has every Maiden card made because every card pack she ever opened contained one of the cards as if they were purposely trying to find her. Akiko has two Maiden decks due to how many Maiden cards she has, but no matter which deck or what the assortment is Maria is always in her deck, though she is rarely brought to the field, since 'The Muse' card is one of a kind and Akiko refuses to let anyone take it she cannot use it in official tournaments but she can use it in none-tournament duels. Akiko duels a lot like Jaden, relying on her cards to come out right to win her duels but she does put more thought to what she does with her cards than Jaden, Akiko is good at duelling but she doesn't have a lot of confidence that she'll win her duels despite her constant wins and Jaden cheering her on.

When Jaden and Akiko go to the duel academy entrance exams both end up late, Akiko is late because the bus she was taking broke down and she has to travel the rest of the way using her rollerblades, both end up duelling Crowler and both win. At the academy both siblings are put is Slifer red despite all girls automatically ending up in Obelisk Blue and their test scores saying they both should be in Ra yellow, chancellor Sheppard starts building a girl's dorm and wash room for Akiko to live in though, until it's complete she's allowed to stay with the Obelisk blue girls. Despite the luxurious Obelisk blue live arrangements and food Akiko still prefers to spend most of her time with Jaden and bunk with him rather than sleep in the blue dorms. While exploring the island Jaden and Akiko run into Marko Loza, a Ra yellow and past friend to them, Marko is a Spanish boy who moved to Japan with his family when he was ten, he duels with a beast deck and specialises in strategy.

Crowler tries to get both Jaden and Akiko expelled numerous times because they humiliated him and he sees them both as slackers, Akiko catches onto the schemes but doesn't know it's Crowler. When Crowler sends the love letters he forges one from Zane for Akiko, she receives it but doesn't believe and so shows it to Alexis who confirms it as a fake since she knows Zane would never send a love letter and the hand writing is wrong. When Crowler hires Titan to take out Jaden he also hires Titan's partner Krosos to take out Akiko, in the duel with Kronos Akiko is at first fooled by the fake shadow games but quickly sees through them due to one of her Maiden's affects, when the real shadow games come along and consume Kronos Akiko is protected by Maria until she wins the game; since she had come to duel academy Akiko had gradually hearing Maria again but after the shadow game she can fully interact with her guardian duel spirit. When they get caught for trespassing in the abandoned dorm Jaden and Akiko are paired up against the Paradox brothers in a tag duel, due to bad bullying experiences from the past Akiko has a slight panic attack from the insults the Paradox brothers throw at her and from how many people are watching her, after a few encouraging words from Jaden and Maria she manages to calm down and win the duel with Jaden.

In the episode with Herrington Rosewood he falls for Akiko instead of Alexis and is jealous of how close she is to Jaden, not realising they're adopted siblings, and so challenges Jaden to a duel to be her fiancé, after Jaden wins he reveals he doesn't know what a fiancé is; Akiko reveals to everyone that she believes Jaden to be so innocent that he doesn't even know what sex is, she tells them that they can drop the most obvious innuendo around him and he wouldn't notice. When the school tournament is approaching Akiko and Marko are chosen alongside Jaden and Bastion as candidates, Akiko and Marko face off and Jaden and Bastion face off, Akiko and Jaden win their duels and then face off against each other, their duel end in a draw but Akiko volunteers to step down as she wouldn't like being the centre of so much attention. In Grave risk Akiko is forced to have her own duel to save the lives of Alexis and Marko while Jaden duels the Gravekeeper for the lives of Banner, Syrus and Chumly, both win and Akiko gains a manacle from her opponent for winning.

When the Shadow riders come there are nine spirit keys instead of seven, the extra two going to Akiko and Marco. One Shadow rider is a little girl who wishes to stay young forever and turns her victims into dolls for her to play with and duels with a deck based around dolls and toys, she duels against Marco first and the Ra looses after a very close duel which he only loses due to the Shadow rider playing dirty, Akiko then goes up against her and manages to win despite the Shadow rider trying to play dirty again because of her manacle stopping her; the shadow rider then becomes a doll who has the spirit of the girl inside it, Akiko decides to keep the doll out of her kindness. Kronos returns as a Shadow rider along with Titan, she (who is tempted to duel by Kronos for information about her past) and Alexis have a tag-team duel against them and win despite Kronos playing a card stopping Akiko summoning light attribute monsters, which is what most of her Maidens are. On duel monsters spirit day Akiko dresses up as one of her Maidens and forces Jaden to wear a different costume to the random one he wanted to wear due to a bet she one against him where the winner got to decide the costumes, the costume he's forced to wear is a knight that matches up with her Maiden deck, like Dark Magician Girl Maria is able to become solid for the night due to the amount of energy so she is able to walk around the campus with everyone else. When Amnael shows up he manages to separate Akiko from the others and beats her in their duel, so her spirit key is taken as well, but like Chazz she also wakes up inside the book that Amnael seals the souls of those he's beaten, fortunately Jaden wins and they're all set free.

In their second year the new girl's dorm has already been completed and is of a noticeable higher standard that the rest of Slifer red, Akiko moves in and Alexis joins her when Crowler tries to get her to be a singer. Akiko is also able to see and communicate with the rest of the monsters in her deck. (this next part is my own idea) Not long after that a film director appears at duel academy, Crowler having invited him to shoot part of his movie there while also looking for new talent in the students, Jaden and Akiko's friends notice that both have disappeared when the director arrived, both show up again for class but are then spotted by the director who recognises them as his 'little starlets'; Jaden and Akiko reluctantly explain that both of them used to be child actors and did a few movies with the director before being advised by an older child actor to quit before they took the rout of what happens to most child stars, they listen to the advice and left. The director wants the two to come back to being actors as they were two of the few good ones but they refuse, the director and his assistant then duel both of them and if they loose they have to star in the film he's currently making, the two win and the director reluctantly leaves; the duel had only been witnessed by Jaden and Akiko's friends and the film crew, so everyone keeps quiet about it so Crowler won't find out.

When the Jaden looses to Aster and can't see his cards Akiko is left to defend the Slifers and the rest of the school when Jaden runs off, being the kind and caring person that she is she tries to cook for the Slifer dorm but the high demand due to how many live in Slifer (whether they actually belong to the red dorm or not) and the fact that Akiko is very picky with what she eats herself means she struggles until the Hassleberry beats the headmaster of the Ra dorm and he volunteers to make the food. Being so close to Jaden Sartorius sends some of the members of the society of light to duel Akiko but she wins each duel, he then tries to duel her himself but she simply says no to duelling him and Maria protects her from his power. During the GX tournament both Jaden and Akiko can't find anyone to duel due to every being scared that they'll loose to them, while Jaden isn't happy about this Akiko doesn't mind because she doesn't care about the tournament, she ends up giving her medal away to another duellist because he's had his medal stolen. While Jaden and his friends face off against Sartorius to save the world Akiko and Marco join Chazz in duelling the members of the society of light in order to snap them out of their brainwashing.

In their third year after the transfer student and Viper join the school everyone is given their biobands, not trusting Viper Akiko quickly disables the bioband thanks to her connection to Maria but keeps it on as to not arouse suspicion, because of her bioband being inactive she is safe from the energy drain which she isn't aware of at the time. When Duel academy gets sent to the alternate dimension Akiko is the only one who can duel without risk of turning into a duel ghoul, she tries to remove the other's biobands but fails each time for unknown reasons, because she can't become a duel ghoul Akiko is the main front against any threats because she can summon her monsters without risk, despite this she can still become tired or injured if his by an attack. While in the alternate dimension Maria has once again become real and doesn't have to return to her card, since she's still a duel spirit Maria can fight by herself but Akiko gives her guardian spirit a duel disk and her extra deck for when Maria will need to duel. After the duel between Yubel and Jaden and Jesse the academy is sent home but Jesse still disappears.

When Jaden and the others go to the other world Akiko and Marco go along as well, when Jaden defeats the mad king at the cost of his friends Syrus, Jim, Axel and Marco leave which allows the Supreme King to take over his mind, Akiko stays with Jaden and ends up as Haou's prisoner. While imprisoned at Haou's fortress Akiko summons Maria and gives her all of her Maiden cards and tells her to form a resistance against Haou, Maria is reluctant to leave but Akiko believes that despite being the Supreme King Haou won't send her to the stars because he would have done it already, Maria then leaves despite wanting to stay to protect Akiko. Using his power Haou turns Akiko into the Black General, his loyal bodyguard and top general, Akiko still remembers everything but her new unwavering loyalty makes her follow Haou's every order and willing to kill; some of Akiko's original personality still remains so she spares people when she thinks no one is looking and directs them in the direction of Maria and she chooses to fight with a sword rather than duel with the deck given to her by Haou. At the same time Maria uses the Maiden deck to create a temporary sanctuary for those trying to escape Haou's wrath, using a field spell card she creates a temple as the sanctuary and summons the Maidens to act as warriors against Haou's armies and to help those injured and sick. Syrus, Axel, Zane and Aster all end up at Maria's sanctuary where they plan their rebellion, while running through the fortress they encounter Akiko just before they can reach Haou, Akiko manages to reveal that if she's left to duel what she perceives as the biggest threat to Haou she can let the others past to get to Haou because she'll be to busy to stop them, so Maria ends up staying to duel Akiko while the other go to defeat Haou, Akiko and Maria fight using their swords rather than duelling because neither wants Akiko to duel against her own cards. After Axel defeats Haou Akiko is released from his hold and returns to normal, Maria then hands her back her Maiden cards, like Jaden Akiko feels guilty for her actions under the control of Haou but manages to realise that it wasn't her fault and she still tried to help despite being controlled after a talk with Maria and her Maidens. When Jaden fights Yubel and everyone is sent back home Akiko is also sent back but unlike the others knows Jaden will return.