Hey guys! Idol here! So I'm rewriting this fic to make it better and clear up the plot a bit. I'm not going to answer the reviews from Arc-God because the subjects they were addressing probably won't appear in this fic. And Arc-God will be part of this fic; I won't diverge into two fics. So the first chapter is way different from the first chapter in the old version, so please enjoy reading it and let me know what you think! And please, CONSTRUCTIVE CRITICISM! NO FLAMES!

Please leave reviews, they keep me motivated!

Song Recommendation: Renai Circulation

Artist Recommendation: Soraru

Anime Recommendation: Inazuma Eleven (I'm not sure if I recommended this yet or not but I don't care)

Bye for now!

- Idol

Prologue

A boy with tomato-like hair wiped some sweat off his chin as he scanned his surroundings. There was lava everywhere, but that's what you would expect from the Volcano Section of the giant Action Field that had encompassed the city.

You see, Yuya was competing in the Junior Youth Maiami City Championships, and for the semifinals, the Leo Corp. had turned Maiami City into a giant Action Field. The Field had four sections: the Volcano Section, the Glacier Section, the Ruins Section, and the Jungle section. Yuya was currently in the Volcano section searching for the pendulum cards that were scattered around the city. Once you had two Pendulum cards, you could duel with others.

You wouldn't guess it at first, but Yuya was the inventor of Pendulum cards. In a match against Strong Ishijima, the opponent from whom Yuya's father had "fled," Yuya was about to lose, but before he knew it, he had won. Apparently, he had invented pendulum summoning during that time, but to his surprise, he didn't remember a thing!

Oh well.

Yuya shook himself out of the memory and started running again, in search for his second pendulum card, when suddenly there was a huge rumble.

And when I say a huge rumble, I mean a HUGE rumble.

Yuya nearly fell in a puddle of lava in surprise, but even after a few seconds, the ground just kept shaking. If anything, it got harder. What is this, an earthquake? Yuya thought as he gripped onto the rock next to him.

And just as suddenly as it came, the shaking stopped.

Yuya looked up in surprise, only to see the most horrifying sight of his life.

There was a crack in the sky.

There was a crack in the fricking sky, and Yuya knew for a fact that Chicken Little didn't exist.

The crack got longer and started glowing golden. The crack suddenly parted in the middle, creating a small hole that kept getting wider and wider. Through the hole was a vantablack vacuum.

That's when Yuya realized with a start that he was floating.

He jerked and tried pulling himself down, but he was rising at a rapid rate, the ground beneath him shrinking fast. To his horror, when he looked up, he saw that he was getting closer to the hole in the sky.

He looked around and saw Yuzu floating up as well. Yuya's eyes widened and he tried to "swim" across the air to get to his pink-haired friend, but to no avail. Yuzu had also spotted the tomato-haired boy and couldn't move towards him. And they were moving upwards so fast it hurt to breathe, let alone talk.

Is this Reiji's doing?

No...this is too drastic for that!

But why are Yuzu and I the only ones affected?

These were Yuya's last thoughts before the pure, soulless black finally met him.

Chapter 1

"Excuse me? Helloooo?"

"GAAH!" I woke up hearing a childish voice yell into my ear. I looked around frantically, looking for the source until my eyes landed on a kid next to me.

He was really short for a fifth-grader (I can tell a person's grade from their eyes, I don't know how myself, but this guy was tricky) and he had spiky blue hair held up by a headband. His eyes were big and chocolate brown and he wore regular sports attire. He stood up and stretched a hand, grinning widely. "Need some help?"

"Uh, yeah, that would be great." I accepted the hand and allowed myself to be pulled to his feet. But as soon as I got to his feet, I stumbled again. What the...my body feels different. Lighter. Like I don't have as much mass…

Wait.

"Uh, how tall are you?" I asked.

His eyes widened by a fraction and I immediately realized what I said my face flushing red. "No! That's not what I meant-I-"

"If you have to know, 130 centimeters…" He mumbled while looking the other way.

I barely held back a gasp (and stifled a laugh, I mean, this guy is short) as I realized that I was only a few inches taller than he was. Back home I was 158 centimeters tall, but I was evidently not now.

How does one lose mass?

How does getting sucked in a black hole make you shorter?

How am I even alive?

"Uh, excuse me?"

"What?" I looked at the blue-haired kid and realized I must have looked really weird. "Sorry, I must have spaced out."

"Yeah, you sure did," He laughed. I chuckled along as well. "So, I never got your name."

"Ah!" I remembered that we had forgotten a very important part of introducing ourselves.

"The name's Yuya Sakaki."

"Yuya, huh? I'm Valt Aoi! Let's be friends!" He shot me a blinding grin and held out a hand, which I shook. "My mom's bakery is right around the corner! Wanna come over?"

"Sure, I guess." With that, we started walking to his family bakery. But one thing struck me as odd- he didn't know who I was. I thought nearly everyone knew my name because of my father disappearing (and no I'm not trying to be cocky cuz it's just the truth) and it was getting pretty annoying. But Valt didn't. I get sucked into a black hole after an earthquake, the sky cracks, I get shorter, and I'm apparently unknown. Well, just because one person doesn't know me doesn't mean that nobody does, but it's pretty safe to assume so.

What the actual frick is going on?

"We're here!" I snapped back into the present as Valt announced our entrance. We took off our shoes and entered the big bakery, Valt shouting "I'm home!"

"Welcome back Valt! We're in the kitchen!" A female, motherly voice called out. Valt smiled and led me to the said room.

The kitchen was huge.

Like, our kitchen doesn't begin to compare. I walked in and looked around in awe, because our kitchen was tiny compared to this.

Maybe I'm exaggerating a bit, but the only time I went to a bakery was when I went to get something for Yuzu after she got me a gift. She only got me a gift because I had been beaten up again, but I got her a few cookies anyway.

...wait.

I froze suddenly, making Valt look at me with a confused expression.

Yuzu.

She had been pulled into the black hole with me. She could be hurt, or worse-

How could I have been so callous!?

I turned the opposite way suddenly, startling Valt and making him yelp, and I bolted out of the bakery. I didn't have time to chat; Yuzu was missing and something could have happened!

But just my luck, as I ran out the door, I slammed into someone. Hard.

We both fell backward, landing on our butts and groaning. Valt was close at my heels yelling in surprise. I shook the dizziness out of my head, stood up, and helped the person I bumped into up as well.

He was a little taller than me, but it could have just been his hair. His hair was pretty long, going to his shoulders, and was a milky white. It was kinda messy but neat at the same time. His skin was pale and his eyes were the same color as mine- that is, blood-red. He wore a pink shirt under a black short-sleeve jacket with black slacks underneath.

He accepted the hand I stretched out to him and got up, rubbing his head. I quickly bowed to him once he was up. "I'm so sorry about that! I should really be going-"

"WAIT!" My face kissed the floor again after a certain blue midget tackled me to the ground. Man, he was heavy! "You can't just leave; you just got here!"

"Uh, Valt, who is this again?" The other guy, who was evidently puzzled, pulled Valt off me to let me breathe. I stood up again once Valt had calmed down a bit.

This could be a chance to test out my theory.

"My name is Yuya Sakaki. I take it you've heard of me?" I asked the other male, who looked more lost now.

"...No," He said after a beat of silence. "But I'm Shu Kurenai. I take it you've heard of me?"

"Nope, I just got here." I smiled.

There were suddenly two loud gasps from the corner of the room. I looked behind me to see two kids, a boy, and a girl, staring at me like I was an alien. They looked a lot like Valt, except they were way shorter, and the boy had teal hair with a cap on while the girl had pink hair in pigtails. They each had a tiny fang protruding from their mouth.

"You've never heard of Shu Kurenai? One of the Four Spin Emperors? The legendary Blader who was a finalist in last year's Nationals?" The girl said slowly.

"It's equally surprising you haven't heard of me," I countered. "I created a new summoning method and I'm known as the son of a failed entertainer whom everybody knew. I made it to the Junior Youth Championships and I was in the middle of a Duel when I-" I shut up instantly, realizing I had let out too much information. "Never mind."

"No, finish what you're saying!" Valt whined.

"Valt, if he doesn't want to say it, he doesn't have to," Shu's soothing voice got through to Valt, who decided to pout at me instead of making me say what I was going to.

Internally, I breathed a sigh of relief.

"What's a summoning method?" The short boy spoke up. "And a Duelist?"

"Huh?" I blinked. "Do you not play Duel Monsters?"

"What's Duel Monsters?" They asked simultaneously.

I took a few seconds to process that. Nobody knew I existed because Duel Monsters didn't exist. But I still remembered everything, so maybe-

"Hold on…" I knew I had my deck in a deckholder on the side of my pants- but it was empty. "NANI?"

"Something the matter?" Shu questioned, looking more lost than ever.

"Yeah, I can't find my deck…" I checked the other deck box, and there was something there. Not my deck, but what looked like...a top? It was split into three sections. The top looked a LOT like the face of my ace Monster Odd-Eyes, with the heterochromatic eyes at the center and the horns protruding slightly from the jagged edge of the top. The outer edge was all scales and the inner was a lot of intricate designs. There was a metal part under this top part, and below that, the fulcrum of the top, which was rounded.

Valt's eyes lit up as I brought it to the light, watching the top glint. "You have a Bey! So you're a Blader!"

"...Bey? Blader?" Were those terms related to the top in my hand? He called the top a Bey. What's a Bey?

As in response, the Bey started to glow faintly, shining red. The red light spread from the Bey to my arm and coursed over my whole body before I knew what was happening.

Suddenly I wasn't in the bakery anymore. Valt and Shu had disappeared. I was floating somewhere that was colored in pastel colors. There was nothing- no ground, no sky, nothing. But there were colors all around me, mixing and separating. I had the feeling something was wrong, but I couldn't place my finger on it.

There were little orbs of light floating around me. I tried touching one but it moved away quickly. I tried to follow it, trying to swim midair because I was suspended in the air, but I couldn't move forward. Frustrated, I righted myself, and looked around me again for an escape.

No sign of one.

Suddenly, burning agony.

I gasped and clutched my heart, which was the epicenter of the pain. If anything, it got worse. The pain coursed through my blood like fire, clogging my lungs and making it hard to breathe. My breaths were coming out in short gasps as I tried to hold the pain down. But my efforts were in vain as it just didn't stop.

I silently screamed as the pain got the better of me. No matter how loud I thought I was, no sound reached my ears.

My vision started darkening as the pain took hold. But before I blacked out, a familiar voice called out to me, though I had never heard it before.

Yuya…

Did I end in a cliffhanger? Yes, I did. Did I essentially merge the first two chapters of the original? Yes, yes I did. Does it look like I care? No, no I don't.

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- Idol