So this is my first attempt on a story for the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX fandom.
After Jaden had defeated Yubel in the end of season 3, everyone who had been trapped in the duel-spirit dimension or had been sent to the stars was able to return to the Duel Academy. All of them except for one, Alexis. For some reason she was sent to another dimension than the one she had come from. This is the story of her way home.
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Finally I'm able to go home. This was what Alexis thought, but fate was about to play a trick on her again.
A bright light flooded her mind, which should have brought her home, but instead everything had become black, she was surrounded by nothing but blackness until she heard a voice. "Excuse me Miss, but this is our final destination, you have to leave now, Miss."
She felt a touch on her upper arm close to her shoulder and then she heard the voice again. "Hello Miss, I'm really sorry but you have to leave now."
Suddenly Alexis realized that the reason for the blackness around her was that her eyes were closed. She slowly opened her and saw a man in front of her; she blinked a few times until she took a closer look at the man, who was wearing some kind of uniform, then she looked her environment and everything made sense.
She was in the subway and must have fallen asleep. "Miss this is station Kaiba Dome the final destination of this line, you have to leave the subway here. Also it seems like this is your destination." The employer of the subway sad while pointing at the Duel Disk on her arm.
"Of course, I'm sorry for the trouble." She spoke quickly and confused.
When she stood up she realized that she wasn't wearing her Obelisk Blue uniform, instead she was wearing knee-length jeans shorts and a white T-shirt with pictures of Slifer the Sky Dragon, Obelisk the Tormentor and The Winged Dragon of Ra on it. Also the Duel Disk on her arm wasn't the one from the Duel Academy, the duel disk she wore was an older model made shortly after the Battle City tournament.
But even if it wasn't the clothes she had worn when she had went into the world of duel spirits, it still were her clothes and if she remembered right this was the same outfit she wore during her Entrance Exam for Duel Academy.
What the hell had happened to me?
As she left the subway she felt an unfamiliar weight on her shoulders since she had woken up. She reached behind her back and felt a backpack; quickly she pulled the backpack off and examined it. Already after a few seconds it was obvious that it was her own backpack, it was light blue with her name on it in red characters. Alexis opened to see what was inside, the back pack contained: a bottle of sparkling water, a sandwich, a few wasabi rice crackers, some sweets and a copy of her Theoretical Entrance Exam for the Duel Academy (she passed with 94%) together with an invitation for the Practical Entrance Exam.
On the invitation were a date and a time written, she took a look at her watch and was shocked, her Entrance Exam would be in an hour.
But how can that be? I'm already a student at the Duel Academy. Did… did I travel back in time because of the events in the duel spirit dimension.
By that time she made the last step out of the subway station and was hit by an even bigger shock. She felt like she suddenly had become part of Pride and Prejudice. During a student exchange she had been in London once and now all the buildings of Domino City she saw looked extremely similar to the Victorian buildings she had seen during sightseeing. Also the clothes that the people looked like clothes she only knew from history books, the only thing that made everything bizarre was that there were cars on the streets and everywhere were electrical billboards.
Modern technology and Victorian architecture; where am I?
No matter how much she tried she could find an explanation for her situation. Alexis walked up the traffic light and crossed the street as soon as it became green to enter the Kaiba Dome. The place was absolutely crowded with attendants for the practical exam, relatives of attendants, students of higher year transitional stages and officials of the Duel Academy.
Alexis walked through the foyer towards the set up reception and became even more confused when she realized that all of the people around her were strangers, she didn't saw a single familiar face. At the reception she gave an employer the copy of her Theoretical Exam and the invitation. The employee transferred the results into a PC and gave her another sheet. "Your Practical Exam will start approximately at 4 PM at Duel Field 3. Give this sheet to the examiner before the duel starts and please don't be late. Good luck."
Alexis thanked the man and made her way to Duel Field 3. Exactly like the last time. But still she only saw unfamiliar faces which stared at her, most likely because her outfit differenced a lot from the outfit of the other people around her. She found a free chair near next to Duel Field 3 and sat down. The duel that was currently held seemed rather boring, the Duel Academy examiner used monsters with a very high DEF and the attendant, a rather thin boy, used a very basic water deck. She assumed he would try to summon Ocean Dragon Lord – Neo-Daedalus to win the duel.
Instead of watching the duel she decided to eat some of her food and to check her own deck. She was relived as she saw that her deck still contained exactly the cards it should.
After Alexis was done with her food the boy made exactly the play she had predicted. He summoned Ocean Dragon Lord – Neo-Daedalus, used its effect, attacked directly and won the duel. The examiner nodded approving, he wrote something on the sheet for the Practical Exam and gave it back to the boy, and a big smile appeared on the boy's face as he ran off into another direction.
Alexis waited a few more minutes and then approached the Duel Field; she gave the examiner her sheet and positioned herself on her side of the Duel Field.
"Are you ready Ms. Rhodes?"
"Yes." she answered still confused by the whole situation but determined to win her duel.
The examiner exchanged the deck in his Duel Disk. "Alright let's start then. I go first!"
Alexis Rhodes vs. Duel Academy examiner
"I summon one monster in face-down defence position and set two cards, this ends my turn." proclaimed the examiner.
Alexis drew her sixth card. "I summon Blade Skater in attack position (ATK: 1400) and attack your face down monster." The grey and violet ice dancer rushed forward and attacked the face down monster.
"Excellent." the examiner smirked, the face down monster was Nimble Momonga (DEF: 100). "Because you destroyed my Nimble Momonga I get 1000 LP(Examiner LP: 5000), then I can Special Summon any number of "Nimble Momongas" from my Deck in face-down Defence Position."
Two more Nimble Momonga appeared face-down on the field.
"I set two cards and end my turn." said Alexis not happy with her first turn.
"It's time to raise the difficulty of this duel. I sacrifice my two copies of Nimble Momonga and tribute summon Guardian Angel Joan in attack position (ATK: 2800). Next I enter the battle phase and attack your monster." said the examiner experienced.
A beam of white light came from the angel's hands blasting through Blade Skater. (Alexis LP: 2600) "Thanks to the effect of my monster I get the attack points of your monster as LP. (Examiner LP: 6400)" the examiner said with a smile. "Now I end my turn."
Alexis drew a card and a smile appeared on her face. "I activate Pot of Greed, now I can draw two more cards." She took a small moment to think about her hand. "Next I activate The Warrior Returning Alive, because of its effect I can add on warrior monster in my grave to my hand and I choose Blade Skater. And now one of my favourite cards, I use Polymerization, I send Blade skater and Etoile Cyber from my hand to the grave to fusion summon Cyber Blader in attack position (ATK: 2100). Eventually I use the equip spell Fusion Weapon to give Cyber Blader a nice ATK boost (ATK: 3600). Attack his monster!"
Because of Fusion Weapon one of Cyber Blader's arms had become a blaster and it shot a red beam of energy at Guardian Angel Joan.
"Trap card activated Enchanted Javelin, now I get the ATK of your monster as LP (Examiner LP: 10000)" interrupted the examiner.
"It won't save your monster though." (Examiner LP: 9200) "I end my turn." said Alexis with only one card remaining in her hand.
The examiner drew a card and gritted his teeth. "I set one monster in face-down position and end my turn."
Alexis looked at the cards in her hand. "For now I'm content with just attacking your monster."
With a blast of red energy Cyber Blader destroyed the face-down monster, Fire Princess (DEF: 1500).
"That's all I do for now, I end my turn." proclaimed Alexis.
The examiner drew a new card and smiled a bit. "I activate Cards of Sanctity, now we both draw until we hold six cards in our hand. As next step I activate Heavy Strom to destroy all spell and trap cards on the field (Cyber Blader ATK: 2100). Now I summon Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands, because of its effect I add the ritual spell Shinato's Ark to my hand and I'm going to use it right now. I use Manju of the Ten Thousand Hands from my field and Marie the Fallen One from my hand to ritual summon Shinato, King of a Higher Plane. Then I attack your monster."
A beam of light came from the blue skinned seraphim crushing into Cyber Blader. (Alexis LP: 1400)
"Thanks to its effect Cyber Blader can't be destroyed in battle."
It now was Alexis' turn knowing that she had to make some big plays now. "I activate my own ritual spell: Machine Angel Ritual and sacrifice Cyber Blader to ritual summon Cyber Angel Benten in attack position (ATK: 1800). Then I use two equip spell cards: Ritual Weapon and Big Bang Shoot (ATK: 3700). Now I attack your monster."
Benten rushed forward and destroyed Shinato with a powerful slash of its fan. (Examiner LP: 8800)
"Because of Benten's effect you lose LP equal to Shinato's DEF." announced Alexis happy. (Examiner LP: 5800)
"I set two cards and eventually end my turn."
"Well you managed to destroy my strongest monster, but I get 200 LP back because of Marie the Fallen One's effect. (Examiner LP. 6000) I set one monster in face-down defence position and set one more card, this ends my turn."
Alexis drew feeling that she had this duel in the bag. "Fine time to do some more damage Benten attack his monster." It was The Forgiving Maiden (DEF: 2000). "Because of Big Bang Shoot you take piercing damage (Examiner LP: 4300) and you lose LP equal to your monster's DEF because of Benten's effect. (Examiner LP: 2300) I end my turn."
The examiner drew his card. "This will be the turn that decides this duel. I activate Dark Hole to destroy all monsters on the field."
"Trap card activated Angel's Blast, now I can negate and destroy Dark Hole." interrupted Alexis.
The examiner pushed the cards in his hand back into his deck. "Congratulations you passed your exam, I'm out of options against your board, be proud you beat the strongest deck the examiners are allowed to use."
Winner (by submission): Alexis Rhodes
"Thank you very much." Alexis made a small bow and took her Practical Exam sheet with a big smile.
After her successful duel she went to the visitor ranks where she had to, wait until the last Entrance Exam was over. As she waited for the end of the duels she realized more and more that none of her friends were here: No Mindy and Jasmine, no Bastion, no Syrus and also no other students she knew, but the thing that upset her the most was that there was no Jaden at 6 PM the last duel was over and the Entrance Exam officially ended, but no one came later and had to duel Crowler.
Crowler, I haven't even seen him. God I want to know what happened, I want to go home. Nevertheless I have to find out what is going on and why I'm here.
She decided to make the best out of her situation. Even if she was still upset she got up and walked to the counter where she would get her uniform. In front of the counter was already a long queue, while she waited she didn't notice two pairs of eyes that stared at her intensive.
Two students were watching her from the highest rank of the visitor ranks. It were a boy and a girl, both wore Obelisk Blue, the boy's uniform looked like a military coat the girl's uniform looked like a 19th century dress.
"Do you really think she could be the one we're looking for?" asked the girl while she pushed a strand of her red hair behind her ear.
"I'm not sure but there is something special about her, at least she seems to be an appropriate candidate." answered the boy while he adjusted his long black hair into a ponytail.
"What do you mean?"
"Well I'm not 100% sure, but her aura gives me the feeling that she isn't from here, that she is stranded just like we are."
"So you think she could be the key that helps us to go home." it wasn't a question from the girl.
He turned around and looked the red haired girl deep into the eyes. "Yes sister that is exactly what I think … and hope."
Well, that was the first chapter, I hope you liked it and what are your thoughts about the duel, please let me know.
For the first Arc of this story Alexis will be the only major canon character, so I'll need some OCs for various purposes. I would highly appreciate it I you would submit one, but there are a few rules for the OCs.
1. Because of the rules of I can only accept OCs submitted via PM.
2. Please use this form to submit your OC:
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3. This story is T rated and will stay so, make sure your OC does fit the T rating.
4. Rules for the Deck:
4.1 No Synchros, no XYZ, no Pendulum, no LINK-Monsters
4.2 No OTK or FTK Decks.
4.3 Theme Decks are preferred (e.g.: Six Samurai, Dark World, Darklord, Gladiator Beast, etc)
4.4 No Decks of original major characters of any Yu-Gi-Oh! series.
That's all for now, I see you next time.
sayonara