Welp, here we go.

Welcome ladies and gentleman, to the official start to the prequel of Yu-Gi-Oh! Dyax, an upcoming original work that I have had in my head for sometime. I'm not going to lie, I'm finding Arc-V's ending to be utter garbage. No sugar-coating, it's just garbage. Crap. And a series of expletives that I won't say to spare my more sensitive readers.

Those who read A Doktor's Test, I'm warning you now, several ideas at the time of the fic's creation were not finalized. While the general events that happened in that story will occur at an equivalent point here, several things (Like the flashback epilogue), will be changed.

So how will this story go you may ask? Simple, I'm expanding the last days of the Original Dimension to start with, introducing characters and scenarios that will be of more importance later in this story. After that, I'm adapting the climax of Arc-V, and then, we'll be moving on to...different arcs, for lack of a better term.

So, without further ado, let the Road to Dyax commence!

I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V, those rights go to Konami and Nihon Ad Systems.


"The creation of Supreme King Dragon Zarc was an utter nightmare…Normal weapons could not hope to touch him…the only thing that could fight him was a duelist. The military collaborated with whatever duelists they could find on short notice. But, it was a failure. None of them were strong enough to fight him…"

Fire had consumed Crescent City. Once the center of the creation of the newest upgrade to the card battle game known as Duel Monsters, the once-thriving metropolis had been reduced to rubble, ironically enough, by that very same upgrade.

The enormous purple, green, and golden dragon, with long spiky wings and appendages emerging from its body, Supreme King Dragon Zarc, had once been a normal human. A human named Zarc who owned what were reputed to be the strongest dragons of the summoning techniques. Fusion, Synchro, Xyz, as well as a main deck representative, this duelist rose to the top of the dueling world after a year of intense battles.

That year had been the year that the Real Solid Vision System, after several secretive dry and trial runs, was fully implemented into the Dueling Networks, the systems that supported the programs and functions of Duel Disks worldwide. Of course, unlike regular or AR Solid Vision, which could be used anywhere, Real Solid Vision was restricted to stadiums and dueling arenas, so any attempts to access it outside of these areas were met with failure.

The Global Dueling Circuit was a world-wide event, with the purpose of serving as the event that would put Real Solid Vision on the map. Duelists from whatever country could afford the upgrade to their tournament stadiums engaged in white-hot battles that proved to be far more interactive and engaging than anything that had been created before. Even the previous innovations to the game got in on it. Riding Duels, already a popular event, became even more so once the Real Solid Vision System was applied to it. There were also talks with the creator of the Real Solid Vision System from Heartland, the city that had introduced AR Solid Vision, of potentially combining the two technologies together once the Circuit had run its course.

But halfway into the Circuit's run, trouble had started. Injuries were being reported during certain duels. These weren't uncommon in the past. Jack Atlas and many other Riding Duelists, for instance, had suffered multiple injuries throughout their careers, and AR duels were criticized for their potential distractions, as there had been cases of duelists not watching where they were going and either falling off a tall edge, or running into the streets with gruesome results.

In the past, such events had been dealt with swiftly, with new safety measures being implemented to decrease the occurrence of accidents such as these.

But, when the first injury was caused in Crescent City, the public response was…different. Very different. A duelist had suffered a shoulder injury from shrapnel in one of his duels, an accident that, in normal circumstances, would have proved that there were bugs in the system that needed to be ironed out.

But then, a group of rowdy, and rather shady men, the kind who would go into a bar, and get drunk, or enter a strip club and whistle as they ogled the women, began whooping and cheering. It proved to be infectious, and slowly, more and more people began to praise the duelist who had caused the accident. Said duelist had been considered a rising star to begin with, and this ended up being the clinch to his newfound fame.

Of course, there was still backlash. Several people criticized just how risky the Real Solid Vision was, pointing out its dangers to duelists and bystanders if the proper safety measures were not put into place.

Unfortunately, the companies and sponsors for the system at the time held the same mindset as Ford did when they created the Pinto. It would be cheaper not to implement a precautionary safety feature, especially with how complex the technology was.

The naysayers soon fell into the minority as dueling became less of a sport and more like the Roman Gladiator Games. Violent duels started becoming the norm, and even worse, the general public was starting to get into it. A wave of bloodlust seemed to grip the world concerning Duel Monsters. People wanted to be more like the duelists on T.V. and the Internet. In particular, they wanted to be like, him.

They idolized the duelist who had set this chain of destruction into motion, whose personal duels remained the most violent of all. When interviewed, he said:

"I give the people what they want. They want violence, so I give them as much as I'm able to, if not beyond that, to go beyond their expectations."

Suffice to say, several veteran duelists of previous Dueling leagues retired in disgust, finding the new atmosphere to be abhorrent. Thomas Arclight, one of the most famed duelists around, had this to say about the duelists of the present-day.

"I've always been one to give fan-service. I've always been one to please the crowds…But, after certain experiences in my life, I've learned the difference between simply pleasing the crowd and engaging in harm…After seeing how today's duels have been going, I'm asking duelists all over the world, PLEASE don't do this. You're causing more harm than good. Literally. Innocent people are being injured all for the sake of enjoyment. It. Isn't. Worth it."

Suffice to say, Thomas Arclight's popularity plummeted severely.

At the end of the Global Dueling Circuit, it could easily be said to have been a success. Real Solid Vision was praised as one of the greatest technological achievements in existence, and a breakthrough for Hard Light Technology in general. The Pro-dueling leagues were more popular than ever, if not for the most moral of reasons, and at the center of all of that was the creator of the Real Solid Vision system, Leo Akaba, and the champion who had popularized it, Zarc.

The very same Zarc who was now laying waste to Crescent City, and threatening to destroy everything.

What had happened? What had gone so wrong?

To answer that question...let us turn back the clock, and watch how this horrible omen engulfed the world.


The prologue I'm afraid, is mainly exposition. We'll get a lot more detail and scenes in the next chapter.

I'm juggling Garage Kids and College work however, so an update will take a while I'm afraid!

-Epsilon Tarantula-