Yu-Gi-Oh: Shattered Reality
A fanfic by Test-0
Chapter 1: Cheap plot devices, only a dollar each!
The camera tilts down from a snowy gray clouded sky, slowly showing off a long stretched four lane road, cars and trucks of all kinda racing past a lone person walking on the sidewalk. The camera now follows along side the person, who is wearing a green coat, with standard markings of company logos that made it, and a green hood that covers his face completely. The view switches to the front of the person, revealing it to be a young man, about 18, with long hair sticking out of the sides of the hood. His eyes are blue, with a hint of green along the sides of his iris. He is obviously thinking of something very deeply...
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"Well, here I go again. Gonna try and beat her at Yu-Gi-Oh Cards...", He thinks to himself as he looks up from the sidewalk, watching for other people so he doesn't walk into them. He sighs, "...like I could ever be as good as Deanna. She's almost unbeatable, and is ranked sixth at the weekly tournaments. Considering we both started making our decks at the same time, we shouldn't be so far apart in rank. But I can't enter a tournament, not when I know she's gonna be in it. *sigh* Oh well, at least I have someone to challenge all the time to test my skills.", he smiles to himself as he glances up around again, just in time to move out of the way of someone he could have walked into a few seconds later. He glances back down at the sidewalk to his gloved hands and old, but sturdy, shoes. "I really should figure out a way to wear the new boots without scratching my legs to hell. Oi.", he mumbles to himself. He looks up again, only to see a large red swirl of energy fly straight at him. He skids to a halt, slipping on some ice and in slow motion watches as the swirly thing 'jump' at him, engulfing him.
His eyes slam shut, and for a split second, he feels like he's falling, only to have his eyes jarred open as he crashes into the hard ground. He groans as the air is knocked out of him, and blurry sees what looks like a bus heading straight toward him. Just before the bus can run him down, though, he's grabbed by someone and pulled out of harms way. He shakes his head a bit and hears whoever pulled him from the street ask him, "Are you ok?". Still out of air from the 'fall' he can only shake his head yes, saying weakly, "...ow..."
His savior breaths a sigh, and says, "Good, for a second there, I almost didn't think I would grab you in time.", He just nods, his wind coming back to him. He looks around a bit and notices nothing around him is familiar. Or for that fact, no snow and ice at all. While a second ago he was on a cold snowy sidewalk, he is now laying down in a much wider sidewalk, people walking past him like nothing in the world is different, especially a young man wearing winter clothing in a place which the temperature is above freezing. He blinks a few times and says, "...ummm... what happened?", as he looks to his savior, freezing as he instantly recognizes who it is. "Well, you fell out of thin air onto the street, and then you were almost hit by a BUS."
He blinked a few more times and then thought to himself, "Uhhh.... isn't that Tristan from the Yu-Gi-Oh cartoon...? Yes... yes it is... Uhhh.... karp. I must be in an alternate dimension! Ahhhhhhhh!!!", he then says out loud, "...wait, that's a good thing...", he then notices a weird look from Tristan, "...yeah... being SAVED from being hit by a bus...", he says, nodding as if that's a good cover. Sadly it works. "Oh, well, yeah, it is good."
He chuckles to himself a bit and then says, "Well, uhh, thanks Tristan.", Tristan nods, "Don't mention it. ...wait, how did you know my name...?", he eeps and then says, "...uhhh... well, you see... it says it right... here.", he then points randomly somewhere. Tristan looks to where he pointed and then says, "...oh, yeah right. I must have written it there.", and smiles. He blinks, and looks to where he's point and sure enough, there's the name. He looks to the camera and shrugs. Tristan thinks a bit and then says, "So, uhh, you gonna sit on the ground for any longer? I don't even know who you are. Oh yeah. What's your name?". He stands up and brushes himself off, "My name? My name is...", he thinks to himself, "...should I actually say my real name or make something up? Well, what could I make up on such short notice? Ah ha!", "...is Dos. Korin Dos."
Tristan ahs, and then asks, "Like Hogen Dos?", "...no relation.", and he face palms.
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"Let me get this straight, you were walking to a card shop to play cards when you got attacked by a red thing and appeared here.", Tristan asked Korin as they walked to the cardshop. "Yep. I bet if you hadn't seen me appear out of thin air, you wouldn't believe me. Heh heh."
Tristan smiles and says, "Well, me and my friends have seen quite a few things out of the ordinary lately, so this kind of story wouldn't surprise me very much. I have a friend that could help you out.", Korin thinks to himself, "He must be thinking Yugi. Sure he's the main character in this series, but would he have any idea why I'm here? ...wait a second, he just might!", he then looks to Tristan, "I'm guessing he's at the card shop were going to now, right?", Tristan nods, "How'd you guess?", Korin smiles and says, "Luck.", and thinks to himself, "...and one hell of a plot device."
As they walked past all the people and buildings, Korin couldn't help but wonder about what's happening back where he came from. Is he just dreaming? If not, then is time still running normal? Is Deanna still waiting at the card shop? He inwardly sighs and then rustles through his coat pockets. He checks his bottom two pockets and finds some wrappers from candy and his gloves, which he decided to put in there after he started to follow Tristan, and his scarf in the other pocket, just in case it got any colder. He looks up a bit to see Tristan looking at him, "Just checking my things." Tristan just nods and keeps walking. He looks back into his pockets, this time his 'upper' pockets, on either side of his chest. In the one, he finds his extra cards in a standard deck box. He pops the box open, and looks in at the first card, the wrecked up Wicked Worm Beast his dad found him. Not a very good card, but it happens to have come from a good source, so he kept it. He pulls out the card, and then notices it's different. In fact, it looks like the cards from the cartoon, and not at all like the card his father found him. He checked the back of the card, and looked for the standard logos that every Yu-Gi-Oh card has, only to find nothing but the standard backing, with no logos at all. "Oh, your a duelist?", he looks up to see Tristan looking at his card, "Uh, yeah. I guess you can say that...", he looks back down at the card and puts it back into the case, "Before I was brought here, I was heading to a card shop to play Y... duel monsters against a friend of mine, Deanna. She's the sixth best in the area we were in, so I would almost always loose, except when my luck came to me and helped me get the right card at just the right time.", Tristan ah's and then says, "Sounds to me like the heart of the cards. My friend has an ability to pull just the right cards at just the right times too. His grandfather taught him how to use this power. He might teach you too, that is, unless we can get you home sooner then later.", he chuckles and Korin smiles, "Sounds good.", and then puts his extras back. He then opens the other pocket, and looks inside. He spots his other extras box, containing his newer cards, as well as his cards from his deck after he removed some. The box it's self was nothing more then the standard beginners deck with Yugi on the front. He blinks, and then realizes it's still the same, and hasn't changed like the cards. At least he had some proof that he isn't just nuts, well, other then Tristan. Under the box was his deck. He bypasses the starter deck box, not wanting Tristan to see it just yet, and brings out his deck. Unlike everyone else, the box he carries his deck in was custom made by his own self, using the first two card board backings from the first two booster packs he bought at the store. He then covered the entire box with duct tape so it could keep out water and protect the cards inside. The final touch was the broken shoelace from Deanna's shoe. He smiles as he remembers the day that she was tying her shoe and the lace broke. He just reached into his jean pocket and handed her a new lace. He had that lace for a few years, keeping it in his pocket just in case he ever needed it. In exchange for the new lace, he took the old one, and less then a few weeks later he had attached the lace to the box he was making, and used it to keep his deck box closed. The box it's self wasn't really special looking to anyone else, but to Korin, it was his deck box, and only one person had it.
As he pulls out his deck box, he immediately notices that it's changed. It was no longer just a duct tape covered box, but a silverish metal box. The only oddity about the box was the shoelace sticking out of the side flap, right where it would normally be. The lace was strung right around the box just like he always did, only where it should have been taped, it now looks like the metal is merged with the lace. Tristan stops and looks at the box, "Amazing. I've never seen anything like that. What is it?", Korin looks up, still a little surprised himself, "It's my deck box.", and looks back down at it. Tristan whistles and says, "Wow. That's nice. Where did you get it?", "I made it myself, actually, only it didn't look this good till after the red thing attacked me.", they both gauk at the box a bit more and then Tristan says, "Well, umm, were here.".
Korin looks over to the store and then does a double take as he realizes what shop he's standing in front of, "...Yugi's grandfathers store...", he mumbles under his breath. Tristan looks to him and asks, "What?", "Nothing... just thinking.", he shakes his head. Tristan walks over to the door and opens it up. He looks inside and waves to some unseen people saying, Hi guys. Sorry I'm late. But I have a good reason.", and then looks back to Korin, "Well? You coming in?"
Korin looked up at the store, and then back to the door. Was he actually gonna meet Yugi inside? He already met Tristan, but the main character in a cartoon he liked watching? He shook his head, and walked over to the door and walked in right after Tristan, looking back out at the sunny sidewalk one last time while he held the door from closing before he walked into the shop, his deck box still in hand.
As he entered the store, his eyes shifted around, looking at all the duel monsters stuff. His eyes finally landed at what he was hoping for, the black luster soldier vs. harpy's pet dragon poster. He remembered how in like the second or so episode, Yugi and Joey went to Yugi's grandfather to get him to teach Joey how to play duel monsters better. When they went into the shop, there was grandfather putting up the poster. Like some kind of omen, the same battle that was shown on the poster happened in the duelist kingdom finals. The same battle that got Korin's attention and wanting to be a duelist as well. He looks to Tristan who was explaining to his friends why he was late. He moved his arms around while talking, as if animating the quick save that he had preformed just ten or so mins ago. Just as Korin had thought, the whole 'gang' was here. Joey, Tea, Yugi, and even his grandfather were all there, watching Tristan twist such a short story into such an epic. He looked around at the store, which housed a lot of different duel monsters merchandise. There were other games too, but the store it's self was mostly filled with duel monsters stuff. Korin pondered to himself as he looked over the cases, and then noted his own reflection in the glass. He looked almost the same as he did before, but at the same time he looked... different. As if something about him was different. He thought to himself, "I look... younger. Kinda.", he reached up to his face, and then past it, taking off his head band that he hadn't taken off before, his hair dropping to the sides of his head and down to his shoulders. He opened his pocket and put the headband in the same pocket as his gloves, and then looked to his case. The silverish tone, and slight bumpiness of it made it look like it was made long ago, the only thing ruining the image was the lace that was wrapped around the case keeping it closed. "I wonder...", he thought to himself, and was about to open his deck when Tristan called him over.
"This is Korin, the guy I saved. Apparently he isn't from around here.", he points to Korin, who just nods to them, "Hello." Tristan introduced Korin to Joey, Yugi, Tea, and finally Grandpa. Korin smiled at each one, trying to keep himself from cracking. "Well...", he thought to himself, "...at least it's the english translated names."
Tristan smiled and started telling his friends about how Korin had apparently appeared from somewhere else, how a red thingy attacked him and dropped him in front of a bus. He then pointed out his deck box, "He's also a duelist." Yugi suddenly looked wide eyed at the mention of the word duelist, "You're a duelist? Wow, that's great, we can have a duel.", and he smiled. Korin chuckled a bit, "You would most likely win. I'm guessing your still the best ever, right?", Yugi nodded, "So you know about me?", "Well, kinda."
Korin looked over the faces of Tristan, Joey, Yugi, Tea and Grandpa, and then decided now would be a good time to tell them about his world. "Ok, well, this is going to sound weird, but I think I've been brought here from another dimension.", Yugi turns his head to the side a bit and then asks, "Uhh... ok. Tristan did say you dropped out of thin air, but what makes you think that you're in a different dimension and not just in a different part of the world?" Korin smiles, and then says, "Well, you see, the reason why is that where I'm from, you don't exist as real people, but as people in a comic series names Yu-Gi-Oh. That comic book series became a cartoon, and then a card game.", he notes his case.
Joey blinked and then said, "You've got to be kidding. That is the most insane thing I've ever heard! Eh Yugi?", he looks to Yugi who just keeps looking at Korin, "Well, it is... different. Do you have any way of proving this?"
Korin nods, and reaches into his pocket where his newer extras are, and pulls out the box. Everyone looks at the box astounded at it. He hands the box to Yugi, who looks over the box, not even heeding the Hyozanryu inside, "Well... that's... the first time I've ever... uhh...", he doesn't finish and just keeps looking at the box. "I have one more thing that could convince you.", he said as he opens up his deck box, takes his deck, and hands it over to Yugi's Grandfather, who starts to look over the cards, "My deck is kinda large, 100 cards, but it works if my luck plays right, which it mostly does."
Grandpa nods as he looks over the cards, stopping every once in a while to further look at certain cards. He looks up to Korin and asks, "Where did you get these cards?", Korin smiles, "Well, the bulk of the deck was trading, but some of the cards were just from the two starter decks." He watches Grandpa ponder what Korin meant and then continue to rifle through the cards, only to stop in amazement at the one card Korin knew he would stop at. Everyone looked over to Grandpa, who just stood there, looking at the card, "It... can't be...", everyone looks at the card and then back to Korin in amazement, who just says, "Where I'm from it is a powerful card, but not unbeatable. In fact, lots of people have three of them somewhere, either in their deck or their extras. I just happen to have only one in my deck, and none elsewhere.", he notes as he walks over and smiles over the one card that proves his point, "Yes, that is my Blue Eyes White Dragon."
Everyone just looked at the impossible card for a while before Joey finally spoke up, "Well, ahh, how do we know this card is real? It... could be a fake." Korin nods, "Well, yeah, I'm guessing at least a handful of people have seen this specific card well enough to copy it. But what about this card...", Korin takes the rest of the cards, and looks through them, and then shows a blue ritual card to Yugi, "The only person I know of that's seen this specific card would be you Yugi."
Yugi blinks as he looks to Korin and then down to the card. He immediately gasps and looks back up at Korin, "Relinquished!?", Korin nods, "Unlike the Blue Eyes, this card is considered a parallel rare, as it needs this card to summon it...", he lifts the Black illusion ritual magic card. Yugi nods, "I think this is proof enough that you aren't from this dimension.", Joey looks the card in Yugi's hand, "Isn't that the name of the card that you said Pegasus used on you?", Yugi nods, "I almost couldn't beat it...", he shakes his head as he remembers the battle. Korin nods, "Actually, the reason why I decided to become a duelist is because of your battle against Mai in that same tournament. Specifically when you preformed the Black luster ritual. In fact, my deck is ritual based.", he smiles as he hands the rest of the deck to Yugi, "Here, check it out. It's big for a deck, but it's worked for me well.", Yugi nods as he looks through the cards like Grandpa did.
Grandpa looks to Korin and then asks, "How do you manage to win a duel if the chances are you'll just draw cards you can't use? That is, if you actually win them that is...", he smiles. Korin smiles as well, "Well, it's my luck. See, most of the time, I have a lot of luck and some times its good luck, which means that no matter the odds, I can pull a card to help me. It's kinda like the heart of the cards, only it's more luck based then faith.", Grandpa blinks, "You know about the heart of the cards?", Korin nods, "Yeah. It's one of the main things in the series actually.", everyone looks at him, "The cartoon series that is... heh heh..."
Korin stops and thinks for a second, "Oh, before I ruin the future of this place, I should find out exactly where I am in the timeline.", he looks to Yugi, "Ummm... ok, so you've done the duelist kingdom thing, that much I know... hmmm, have you played against a guy who had Joey dressed up as a dog?"
Joey acks, and then says, "What!? Dressed up as a DOG!? Who's gonna make me do that? Is it Kaiba?" Korin sweat drops at Joey, "That's a no then... hee... alright, have you guys gone to a vr world yet?", Yugi nods. "Oh, well then, it makes it easier to gage where I am. Kinda a good thing considering I haven't really seen much after that anyways.", he heh's and then looks to Joey, who's still worked up over the 'dog' thing. He sighs and thinks to himself, "Well, I really screwed that part up. I hope he doesn't do something different later on in the series...", he then mumbles to himself, "...at least I didn't mention the God cards...", Tristan looks to Korin and asks, "God what's?", Korin acks and says, "Nothing. Nothing at all. Hee...", he looks to Yugi and then says, "So, what do you think?"
Yugi ands the deck back and then says, "Well, it's rather amazing. Most of these cards are either hard to get, or not even existent here, at least that I know of. How can people battle when everyone has such powerful cards? Wouldn't the battles end rather quickly?" Korin wells, "In my world, the card game has a different set of rules then here. For instance, players both start with 8000 life points.", everyone looks at him, "No, really. I think the rulebook is in there...", he points to the Yugi box he handed off earlier. Tea, who up to this point hadn't said or done anything other then look at the new arrival, opens the box and carefully pulls out the manual, "This?", Korin nods, "Yep, go ahead, check it out. It should help explain the differences rather well.", she nods, and then opens the book. She looks closely at the book, and then turns the page. She then looks to Korin, "Umm, I can't figure out what it says. I can't read this language.", she hands over the book to Korin, who opens it up and looks inside, "Hm, well, I can read it just fine. It's still in english like before." Tristan looks to Korin, "You can read english?", Korin looks confused and then says, "Well, yeah. It is what language I'm speaking...", more confused faces, "...I'm not speaking in english am I?", everyone shakes their heads, "...wow, that's weird.", he looks back down at the book, "So, just like my cards, I've been changed too.", he sighs, loosing some spirit. Yugi looks to Korin, thinking of some way of helping him. After all, he is from another dimension and has no way he knows of getting home. He might be stuck here for the rest of his life. Joey spots the cloud forming and says, "Hey, cheer up man! Yugi'll find a way for you to get home, right bud?", he looks to Yugi, who nods, saying, "Yeah. We'll get you home soon.", he smiles, but deep within his heart he knows that this kind of thing is out of his way. Not even the spirit in his puzzle could offer any help right now.
Korin looks up and smiles, "Yeah, I guess your right. I mean, stuff like this happens all the time.", he chuckles, getting everyone to smile too. Korin then thinks of something, "Hey, uhh... I just realized I have nowhere to stay, or for that fact any money.", he reaches into his jeans and pulls out what was in them. His keys for the house and bike, his watch, which didn't seem to be telling the right time (like usual), some paper and some coins. Yugi smiles, "You can stay with me and Grandpa!", he looks to his grandfather, "Right?" Grandpa ponders this and then says, "Well, I guess he can stay with us.", and smiles. Yugi yay and bounces up and down. Korin smiled too, thinking to himself, "Wow. Just ten mins and already I'm friends with the main character. This is almost as bad a plot as those self-insertion fanfics.", he looks over to the camera.
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Korin spent most of the day talking with Yugi and friends, telling them about his world and how the card game works there. After all, he knew almost everything about them, but they had no knowledge of him and his world. After he finished the Yu-Gi-Oh rules, he starts to tell them about his life and about how Deanna was the sixth best there was where he lived. Yugi was the most interested in the parts about dueling, while Tristan and Joey were just interested in what would happen to them in the future. Korin kept telling them that he couldn't change the timeline, as he didn't know what would happen if he did.
"Well, considering you being here is change enough, could you at least tell me who puts me in the dog suit you mentioned?", Korin smiles and then says, "Sorry. I can't tell you what's gonna happen. For one thing, it could change what your going to do at the time and that would change the timeline and considering I don't know what changes here could do where I'm from, I'd like to keep the fabric of space time in one piece for my trip home. Ok?", Joey sighs and says, "I guess I can't really argue with that... well I could, but I have a feeling it wouldn't change your mind anyways.", Korin nods. He then looks over to Tea, who had been quiet for quite some time. He pondered and asks, "Tea, do you have a question? You seem to have a few. Don't worry, I don't bite. Much.", he smiles. She looks down at the floor and then says, "No, that's ok. I, uhh, have to be going right now.", she looks back up, waves to everyone and then leaves. Tristan smiles and puts his arm around Korin, "She 'likes' you.", and nudges him. Korin nods, "I noticed. But it's weird, considering she just met me. Must be the effects of the dimensional thingy. Like the cards and whatnot.", he nods as if it explains it. Yugi smiles and says, "I guess you could be right, but why do you think that instead of she just likes you?", Korin looks to Yugi and then says, "Well, it's nice an all, but it wouldn't normally happen.", he thinks a bit, "Ok, so maybe in most animes it does happen, but I'm not even an anime character... well, I could be one right now, but I just got here and besides, I'm...", Joey smiles a bit, "...already involved? Maybe with this Deanna you keep mentioning... hee hee...", Korin just raises a brow and then asks, "What is it with everyone thinking were together that way. It is possible to be just friends you know.", he crosses his arms. Joey chuckles and says, "Heh, well, whatever. Something's up. Either your involved with someone else, or just some weird dimensional mumbo jumbo."
Korin sighs and then says, "Whatever.", he looks to Yugi, "I was thinking, is there any place I can verify my cards? I mean, they look official, but considering where there from, it wouldn't hurt to officially make sure.", Yugi nods, "We could test them on the dueling platforms at Kaiba land.", Korin blinks a few times and asks Yugi, "...Kaiba land?", Yugi shrugs, "Don't ask me. I didn't name it, I just duel there.", he smiles, "And besides, we can not only test your cards, but you can duel me too.", he smiles. Korin scratches his head a bit, "Uh, ok... but I'll need you to teach me some of the rules from your world. I know mostly what it's about but it would help if I knew them all.", he smiles.
Yugi nods, "Well, yeah, I guess help you with the rules. Personally I think I'd think you knew them all already. But I guess even watching the 'cartoon' can give you them all." Tristan and Joey smile and then look over to the clock. Tristan is the first to speak, "Well, I have to go now. We'll have to meet up tomorrow if you two are gonna duel. I have the feeling it'll be quite the show." Joey nods, "Yeah. I have to go too, but we'll have to meet here tomorrow.", he looks to Korin, "So, should I invite Tea too?", he says with a sly smirk. Korin ignores it and says, "Yes, you should. It would be rude not to.", he nods, arms crossed looking serious. Joey just shakes his head and says, "Yeah, whatever.", he follows Tristan to the door and before leaving he says, "I'll be sure to tell Tea how much you 'like' her too." Korin acks and starts to say something, but he's already gone. He looks to Yugi and asks, "He's kidding... right?", Yugi smiles saying, "Well, with him you never know.", and chuckles a bit.
Korin sighs and smiles, "Right. Well then, what now? By my watch it's... the wrong time.", he smiles and puts his watch back into his pocket. Just as Yugi is about to say something, Korin ponders as he feels something extra in his pocket. He pulls whatever it is out and says, "What the? I didn't have this when I was in my world. Was it in there the whole time?", he ponders, looking at a coin he was holding between his fingers. The coin was a plain silverish gray, with a strange gold shine to it. On one side, it showed three triangles stacked on top of each other like the triforce in the legend of zelda, with a bairly visible circle directly under them. The other side had the same three triangles, only they were pointed away from the circle, making a sun like symbol with the circle. Yugi looks over the coin, "Another mystery? Great, we have enough trouble with one.", he looks to his puzzle, "Hm... it's magical. I can feel it's power with the puzzle... why couldn't I feel this power before?", Korin looks to Yugi, "Well, it was in my pocket and I didn't even know about it until just now. It might react to me, for some reason. Here, you hold it...", he hands over the coin. Yugi looks down at the coin and then says, "Hm, the energy's getting weaker... now it's all gone. It must react to your touch.", he looks back up to Korin and hands over the coin, "You should keep it on you till we figure out what kind of power it has. It might be what brought you here in the first place.", he smiles, "This might be what gets you home." Korin nods as he looks down at the coin, "Yeah... I guess your right.", and he smiles, "Not that being here is a bad thing, but the sooner I can get back, the better.", Yugi nods.
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After the coin discovery, Yugi and Korin decided it would be best to wait till the next day to do anything to test out the coin and whatever it could do. The rest of the day and some of the night, Yugi went over some of the rules that Korin was hazy on and then Korin thought it would be fun to play against Yugi in a duel using the rules of his own world, saving the real duel for the next day. Yugi accepted, and after a short time, had gotten the hang of the game. Although the duel ended in a draw by default, because they had to get some sleep for the next day, it was hard to tell who would have won. Korin had less life, but he also had his Relinquished on the field with one of Yugi's monsters equipped to it. The match was a close one and more then once Yugi was tempted to let the puzzle help, but he decided not to considering it was just for fun. They both shook hands and gave each other a smile, as if they were both long time friends and then both when to their own separate sleep areas.
But, as with all good animes, a darker force, and better plot device, started to move along the town, covering the empty roads, sidewalks, houses and other large buildings as if angrily searching for something...
...or someone.
End 1.
Total time: 400 min Total Revisions: 70
Chapter 1: Cheap plot devices, only a dollar each!
The camera tilts down from a snowy gray clouded sky, slowly showing off a long stretched four lane road, cars and trucks of all kinda racing past a lone person walking on the sidewalk. The camera now follows along side the person, who is wearing a green coat, with standard markings of company logos that made it, and a green hood that covers his face completely. The view switches to the front of the person, revealing it to be a young man, about 18, with long hair sticking out of the sides of the hood. His eyes are blue, with a hint of green along the sides of his iris. He is obviously thinking of something very deeply...
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"Well, here I go again. Gonna try and beat her at Yu-Gi-Oh Cards...", He thinks to himself as he looks up from the sidewalk, watching for other people so he doesn't walk into them. He sighs, "...like I could ever be as good as Deanna. She's almost unbeatable, and is ranked sixth at the weekly tournaments. Considering we both started making our decks at the same time, we shouldn't be so far apart in rank. But I can't enter a tournament, not when I know she's gonna be in it. *sigh* Oh well, at least I have someone to challenge all the time to test my skills.", he smiles to himself as he glances up around again, just in time to move out of the way of someone he could have walked into a few seconds later. He glances back down at the sidewalk to his gloved hands and old, but sturdy, shoes. "I really should figure out a way to wear the new boots without scratching my legs to hell. Oi.", he mumbles to himself. He looks up again, only to see a large red swirl of energy fly straight at him. He skids to a halt, slipping on some ice and in slow motion watches as the swirly thing 'jump' at him, engulfing him.
His eyes slam shut, and for a split second, he feels like he's falling, only to have his eyes jarred open as he crashes into the hard ground. He groans as the air is knocked out of him, and blurry sees what looks like a bus heading straight toward him. Just before the bus can run him down, though, he's grabbed by someone and pulled out of harms way. He shakes his head a bit and hears whoever pulled him from the street ask him, "Are you ok?". Still out of air from the 'fall' he can only shake his head yes, saying weakly, "...ow..."
His savior breaths a sigh, and says, "Good, for a second there, I almost didn't think I would grab you in time.", He just nods, his wind coming back to him. He looks around a bit and notices nothing around him is familiar. Or for that fact, no snow and ice at all. While a second ago he was on a cold snowy sidewalk, he is now laying down in a much wider sidewalk, people walking past him like nothing in the world is different, especially a young man wearing winter clothing in a place which the temperature is above freezing. He blinks a few times and says, "...ummm... what happened?", as he looks to his savior, freezing as he instantly recognizes who it is. "Well, you fell out of thin air onto the street, and then you were almost hit by a BUS."
He blinked a few more times and then thought to himself, "Uhhh.... isn't that Tristan from the Yu-Gi-Oh cartoon...? Yes... yes it is... Uhhh.... karp. I must be in an alternate dimension! Ahhhhhhhh!!!", he then says out loud, "...wait, that's a good thing...", he then notices a weird look from Tristan, "...yeah... being SAVED from being hit by a bus...", he says, nodding as if that's a good cover. Sadly it works. "Oh, well, yeah, it is good."
He chuckles to himself a bit and then says, "Well, uhh, thanks Tristan.", Tristan nods, "Don't mention it. ...wait, how did you know my name...?", he eeps and then says, "...uhhh... well, you see... it says it right... here.", he then points randomly somewhere. Tristan looks to where he pointed and then says, "...oh, yeah right. I must have written it there.", and smiles. He blinks, and looks to where he's point and sure enough, there's the name. He looks to the camera and shrugs. Tristan thinks a bit and then says, "So, uhh, you gonna sit on the ground for any longer? I don't even know who you are. Oh yeah. What's your name?". He stands up and brushes himself off, "My name? My name is...", he thinks to himself, "...should I actually say my real name or make something up? Well, what could I make up on such short notice? Ah ha!", "...is Dos. Korin Dos."
Tristan ahs, and then asks, "Like Hogen Dos?", "...no relation.", and he face palms.
* * *
"Let me get this straight, you were walking to a card shop to play cards when you got attacked by a red thing and appeared here.", Tristan asked Korin as they walked to the cardshop. "Yep. I bet if you hadn't seen me appear out of thin air, you wouldn't believe me. Heh heh."
Tristan smiles and says, "Well, me and my friends have seen quite a few things out of the ordinary lately, so this kind of story wouldn't surprise me very much. I have a friend that could help you out.", Korin thinks to himself, "He must be thinking Yugi. Sure he's the main character in this series, but would he have any idea why I'm here? ...wait a second, he just might!", he then looks to Tristan, "I'm guessing he's at the card shop were going to now, right?", Tristan nods, "How'd you guess?", Korin smiles and says, "Luck.", and thinks to himself, "...and one hell of a plot device."
As they walked past all the people and buildings, Korin couldn't help but wonder about what's happening back where he came from. Is he just dreaming? If not, then is time still running normal? Is Deanna still waiting at the card shop? He inwardly sighs and then rustles through his coat pockets. He checks his bottom two pockets and finds some wrappers from candy and his gloves, which he decided to put in there after he started to follow Tristan, and his scarf in the other pocket, just in case it got any colder. He looks up a bit to see Tristan looking at him, "Just checking my things." Tristan just nods and keeps walking. He looks back into his pockets, this time his 'upper' pockets, on either side of his chest. In the one, he finds his extra cards in a standard deck box. He pops the box open, and looks in at the first card, the wrecked up Wicked Worm Beast his dad found him. Not a very good card, but it happens to have come from a good source, so he kept it. He pulls out the card, and then notices it's different. In fact, it looks like the cards from the cartoon, and not at all like the card his father found him. He checked the back of the card, and looked for the standard logos that every Yu-Gi-Oh card has, only to find nothing but the standard backing, with no logos at all. "Oh, your a duelist?", he looks up to see Tristan looking at his card, "Uh, yeah. I guess you can say that...", he looks back down at the card and puts it back into the case, "Before I was brought here, I was heading to a card shop to play Y... duel monsters against a friend of mine, Deanna. She's the sixth best in the area we were in, so I would almost always loose, except when my luck came to me and helped me get the right card at just the right time.", Tristan ah's and then says, "Sounds to me like the heart of the cards. My friend has an ability to pull just the right cards at just the right times too. His grandfather taught him how to use this power. He might teach you too, that is, unless we can get you home sooner then later.", he chuckles and Korin smiles, "Sounds good.", and then puts his extras back. He then opens the other pocket, and looks inside. He spots his other extras box, containing his newer cards, as well as his cards from his deck after he removed some. The box it's self was nothing more then the standard beginners deck with Yugi on the front. He blinks, and then realizes it's still the same, and hasn't changed like the cards. At least he had some proof that he isn't just nuts, well, other then Tristan. Under the box was his deck. He bypasses the starter deck box, not wanting Tristan to see it just yet, and brings out his deck. Unlike everyone else, the box he carries his deck in was custom made by his own self, using the first two card board backings from the first two booster packs he bought at the store. He then covered the entire box with duct tape so it could keep out water and protect the cards inside. The final touch was the broken shoelace from Deanna's shoe. He smiles as he remembers the day that she was tying her shoe and the lace broke. He just reached into his jean pocket and handed her a new lace. He had that lace for a few years, keeping it in his pocket just in case he ever needed it. In exchange for the new lace, he took the old one, and less then a few weeks later he had attached the lace to the box he was making, and used it to keep his deck box closed. The box it's self wasn't really special looking to anyone else, but to Korin, it was his deck box, and only one person had it.
As he pulls out his deck box, he immediately notices that it's changed. It was no longer just a duct tape covered box, but a silverish metal box. The only oddity about the box was the shoelace sticking out of the side flap, right where it would normally be. The lace was strung right around the box just like he always did, only where it should have been taped, it now looks like the metal is merged with the lace. Tristan stops and looks at the box, "Amazing. I've never seen anything like that. What is it?", Korin looks up, still a little surprised himself, "It's my deck box.", and looks back down at it. Tristan whistles and says, "Wow. That's nice. Where did you get it?", "I made it myself, actually, only it didn't look this good till after the red thing attacked me.", they both gauk at the box a bit more and then Tristan says, "Well, umm, were here.".
Korin looks over to the store and then does a double take as he realizes what shop he's standing in front of, "...Yugi's grandfathers store...", he mumbles under his breath. Tristan looks to him and asks, "What?", "Nothing... just thinking.", he shakes his head. Tristan walks over to the door and opens it up. He looks inside and waves to some unseen people saying, Hi guys. Sorry I'm late. But I have a good reason.", and then looks back to Korin, "Well? You coming in?"
Korin looked up at the store, and then back to the door. Was he actually gonna meet Yugi inside? He already met Tristan, but the main character in a cartoon he liked watching? He shook his head, and walked over to the door and walked in right after Tristan, looking back out at the sunny sidewalk one last time while he held the door from closing before he walked into the shop, his deck box still in hand.
As he entered the store, his eyes shifted around, looking at all the duel monsters stuff. His eyes finally landed at what he was hoping for, the black luster soldier vs. harpy's pet dragon poster. He remembered how in like the second or so episode, Yugi and Joey went to Yugi's grandfather to get him to teach Joey how to play duel monsters better. When they went into the shop, there was grandfather putting up the poster. Like some kind of omen, the same battle that was shown on the poster happened in the duelist kingdom finals. The same battle that got Korin's attention and wanting to be a duelist as well. He looks to Tristan who was explaining to his friends why he was late. He moved his arms around while talking, as if animating the quick save that he had preformed just ten or so mins ago. Just as Korin had thought, the whole 'gang' was here. Joey, Tea, Yugi, and even his grandfather were all there, watching Tristan twist such a short story into such an epic. He looked around at the store, which housed a lot of different duel monsters merchandise. There were other games too, but the store it's self was mostly filled with duel monsters stuff. Korin pondered to himself as he looked over the cases, and then noted his own reflection in the glass. He looked almost the same as he did before, but at the same time he looked... different. As if something about him was different. He thought to himself, "I look... younger. Kinda.", he reached up to his face, and then past it, taking off his head band that he hadn't taken off before, his hair dropping to the sides of his head and down to his shoulders. He opened his pocket and put the headband in the same pocket as his gloves, and then looked to his case. The silverish tone, and slight bumpiness of it made it look like it was made long ago, the only thing ruining the image was the lace that was wrapped around the case keeping it closed. "I wonder...", he thought to himself, and was about to open his deck when Tristan called him over.
"This is Korin, the guy I saved. Apparently he isn't from around here.", he points to Korin, who just nods to them, "Hello." Tristan introduced Korin to Joey, Yugi, Tea, and finally Grandpa. Korin smiled at each one, trying to keep himself from cracking. "Well...", he thought to himself, "...at least it's the english translated names."
Tristan smiled and started telling his friends about how Korin had apparently appeared from somewhere else, how a red thingy attacked him and dropped him in front of a bus. He then pointed out his deck box, "He's also a duelist." Yugi suddenly looked wide eyed at the mention of the word duelist, "You're a duelist? Wow, that's great, we can have a duel.", and he smiled. Korin chuckled a bit, "You would most likely win. I'm guessing your still the best ever, right?", Yugi nodded, "So you know about me?", "Well, kinda."
Korin looked over the faces of Tristan, Joey, Yugi, Tea and Grandpa, and then decided now would be a good time to tell them about his world. "Ok, well, this is going to sound weird, but I think I've been brought here from another dimension.", Yugi turns his head to the side a bit and then asks, "Uhh... ok. Tristan did say you dropped out of thin air, but what makes you think that you're in a different dimension and not just in a different part of the world?" Korin smiles, and then says, "Well, you see, the reason why is that where I'm from, you don't exist as real people, but as people in a comic series names Yu-Gi-Oh. That comic book series became a cartoon, and then a card game.", he notes his case.
Joey blinked and then said, "You've got to be kidding. That is the most insane thing I've ever heard! Eh Yugi?", he looks to Yugi who just keeps looking at Korin, "Well, it is... different. Do you have any way of proving this?"
Korin nods, and reaches into his pocket where his newer extras are, and pulls out the box. Everyone looks at the box astounded at it. He hands the box to Yugi, who looks over the box, not even heeding the Hyozanryu inside, "Well... that's... the first time I've ever... uhh...", he doesn't finish and just keeps looking at the box. "I have one more thing that could convince you.", he said as he opens up his deck box, takes his deck, and hands it over to Yugi's Grandfather, who starts to look over the cards, "My deck is kinda large, 100 cards, but it works if my luck plays right, which it mostly does."
Grandpa nods as he looks over the cards, stopping every once in a while to further look at certain cards. He looks up to Korin and asks, "Where did you get these cards?", Korin smiles, "Well, the bulk of the deck was trading, but some of the cards were just from the two starter decks." He watches Grandpa ponder what Korin meant and then continue to rifle through the cards, only to stop in amazement at the one card Korin knew he would stop at. Everyone looked over to Grandpa, who just stood there, looking at the card, "It... can't be...", everyone looks at the card and then back to Korin in amazement, who just says, "Where I'm from it is a powerful card, but not unbeatable. In fact, lots of people have three of them somewhere, either in their deck or their extras. I just happen to have only one in my deck, and none elsewhere.", he notes as he walks over and smiles over the one card that proves his point, "Yes, that is my Blue Eyes White Dragon."
Everyone just looked at the impossible card for a while before Joey finally spoke up, "Well, ahh, how do we know this card is real? It... could be a fake." Korin nods, "Well, yeah, I'm guessing at least a handful of people have seen this specific card well enough to copy it. But what about this card...", Korin takes the rest of the cards, and looks through them, and then shows a blue ritual card to Yugi, "The only person I know of that's seen this specific card would be you Yugi."
Yugi blinks as he looks to Korin and then down to the card. He immediately gasps and looks back up at Korin, "Relinquished!?", Korin nods, "Unlike the Blue Eyes, this card is considered a parallel rare, as it needs this card to summon it...", he lifts the Black illusion ritual magic card. Yugi nods, "I think this is proof enough that you aren't from this dimension.", Joey looks the card in Yugi's hand, "Isn't that the name of the card that you said Pegasus used on you?", Yugi nods, "I almost couldn't beat it...", he shakes his head as he remembers the battle. Korin nods, "Actually, the reason why I decided to become a duelist is because of your battle against Mai in that same tournament. Specifically when you preformed the Black luster ritual. In fact, my deck is ritual based.", he smiles as he hands the rest of the deck to Yugi, "Here, check it out. It's big for a deck, but it's worked for me well.", Yugi nods as he looks through the cards like Grandpa did.
Grandpa looks to Korin and then asks, "How do you manage to win a duel if the chances are you'll just draw cards you can't use? That is, if you actually win them that is...", he smiles. Korin smiles as well, "Well, it's my luck. See, most of the time, I have a lot of luck and some times its good luck, which means that no matter the odds, I can pull a card to help me. It's kinda like the heart of the cards, only it's more luck based then faith.", Grandpa blinks, "You know about the heart of the cards?", Korin nods, "Yeah. It's one of the main things in the series actually.", everyone looks at him, "The cartoon series that is... heh heh..."
Korin stops and thinks for a second, "Oh, before I ruin the future of this place, I should find out exactly where I am in the timeline.", he looks to Yugi, "Ummm... ok, so you've done the duelist kingdom thing, that much I know... hmmm, have you played against a guy who had Joey dressed up as a dog?"
Joey acks, and then says, "What!? Dressed up as a DOG!? Who's gonna make me do that? Is it Kaiba?" Korin sweat drops at Joey, "That's a no then... hee... alright, have you guys gone to a vr world yet?", Yugi nods. "Oh, well then, it makes it easier to gage where I am. Kinda a good thing considering I haven't really seen much after that anyways.", he heh's and then looks to Joey, who's still worked up over the 'dog' thing. He sighs and thinks to himself, "Well, I really screwed that part up. I hope he doesn't do something different later on in the series...", he then mumbles to himself, "...at least I didn't mention the God cards...", Tristan looks to Korin and asks, "God what's?", Korin acks and says, "Nothing. Nothing at all. Hee...", he looks to Yugi and then says, "So, what do you think?"
Yugi ands the deck back and then says, "Well, it's rather amazing. Most of these cards are either hard to get, or not even existent here, at least that I know of. How can people battle when everyone has such powerful cards? Wouldn't the battles end rather quickly?" Korin wells, "In my world, the card game has a different set of rules then here. For instance, players both start with 8000 life points.", everyone looks at him, "No, really. I think the rulebook is in there...", he points to the Yugi box he handed off earlier. Tea, who up to this point hadn't said or done anything other then look at the new arrival, opens the box and carefully pulls out the manual, "This?", Korin nods, "Yep, go ahead, check it out. It should help explain the differences rather well.", she nods, and then opens the book. She looks closely at the book, and then turns the page. She then looks to Korin, "Umm, I can't figure out what it says. I can't read this language.", she hands over the book to Korin, who opens it up and looks inside, "Hm, well, I can read it just fine. It's still in english like before." Tristan looks to Korin, "You can read english?", Korin looks confused and then says, "Well, yeah. It is what language I'm speaking...", more confused faces, "...I'm not speaking in english am I?", everyone shakes their heads, "...wow, that's weird.", he looks back down at the book, "So, just like my cards, I've been changed too.", he sighs, loosing some spirit. Yugi looks to Korin, thinking of some way of helping him. After all, he is from another dimension and has no way he knows of getting home. He might be stuck here for the rest of his life. Joey spots the cloud forming and says, "Hey, cheer up man! Yugi'll find a way for you to get home, right bud?", he looks to Yugi, who nods, saying, "Yeah. We'll get you home soon.", he smiles, but deep within his heart he knows that this kind of thing is out of his way. Not even the spirit in his puzzle could offer any help right now.
Korin looks up and smiles, "Yeah, I guess your right. I mean, stuff like this happens all the time.", he chuckles, getting everyone to smile too. Korin then thinks of something, "Hey, uhh... I just realized I have nowhere to stay, or for that fact any money.", he reaches into his jeans and pulls out what was in them. His keys for the house and bike, his watch, which didn't seem to be telling the right time (like usual), some paper and some coins. Yugi smiles, "You can stay with me and Grandpa!", he looks to his grandfather, "Right?" Grandpa ponders this and then says, "Well, I guess he can stay with us.", and smiles. Yugi yay and bounces up and down. Korin smiled too, thinking to himself, "Wow. Just ten mins and already I'm friends with the main character. This is almost as bad a plot as those self-insertion fanfics.", he looks over to the camera.
* * *
Korin spent most of the day talking with Yugi and friends, telling them about his world and how the card game works there. After all, he knew almost everything about them, but they had no knowledge of him and his world. After he finished the Yu-Gi-Oh rules, he starts to tell them about his life and about how Deanna was the sixth best there was where he lived. Yugi was the most interested in the parts about dueling, while Tristan and Joey were just interested in what would happen to them in the future. Korin kept telling them that he couldn't change the timeline, as he didn't know what would happen if he did.
"Well, considering you being here is change enough, could you at least tell me who puts me in the dog suit you mentioned?", Korin smiles and then says, "Sorry. I can't tell you what's gonna happen. For one thing, it could change what your going to do at the time and that would change the timeline and considering I don't know what changes here could do where I'm from, I'd like to keep the fabric of space time in one piece for my trip home. Ok?", Joey sighs and says, "I guess I can't really argue with that... well I could, but I have a feeling it wouldn't change your mind anyways.", Korin nods. He then looks over to Tea, who had been quiet for quite some time. He pondered and asks, "Tea, do you have a question? You seem to have a few. Don't worry, I don't bite. Much.", he smiles. She looks down at the floor and then says, "No, that's ok. I, uhh, have to be going right now.", she looks back up, waves to everyone and then leaves. Tristan smiles and puts his arm around Korin, "She 'likes' you.", and nudges him. Korin nods, "I noticed. But it's weird, considering she just met me. Must be the effects of the dimensional thingy. Like the cards and whatnot.", he nods as if it explains it. Yugi smiles and says, "I guess you could be right, but why do you think that instead of she just likes you?", Korin looks to Yugi and then says, "Well, it's nice an all, but it wouldn't normally happen.", he thinks a bit, "Ok, so maybe in most animes it does happen, but I'm not even an anime character... well, I could be one right now, but I just got here and besides, I'm...", Joey smiles a bit, "...already involved? Maybe with this Deanna you keep mentioning... hee hee...", Korin just raises a brow and then asks, "What is it with everyone thinking were together that way. It is possible to be just friends you know.", he crosses his arms. Joey chuckles and says, "Heh, well, whatever. Something's up. Either your involved with someone else, or just some weird dimensional mumbo jumbo."
Korin sighs and then says, "Whatever.", he looks to Yugi, "I was thinking, is there any place I can verify my cards? I mean, they look official, but considering where there from, it wouldn't hurt to officially make sure.", Yugi nods, "We could test them on the dueling platforms at Kaiba land.", Korin blinks a few times and asks Yugi, "...Kaiba land?", Yugi shrugs, "Don't ask me. I didn't name it, I just duel there.", he smiles, "And besides, we can not only test your cards, but you can duel me too.", he smiles. Korin scratches his head a bit, "Uh, ok... but I'll need you to teach me some of the rules from your world. I know mostly what it's about but it would help if I knew them all.", he smiles.
Yugi nods, "Well, yeah, I guess help you with the rules. Personally I think I'd think you knew them all already. But I guess even watching the 'cartoon' can give you them all." Tristan and Joey smile and then look over to the clock. Tristan is the first to speak, "Well, I have to go now. We'll have to meet up tomorrow if you two are gonna duel. I have the feeling it'll be quite the show." Joey nods, "Yeah. I have to go too, but we'll have to meet here tomorrow.", he looks to Korin, "So, should I invite Tea too?", he says with a sly smirk. Korin ignores it and says, "Yes, you should. It would be rude not to.", he nods, arms crossed looking serious. Joey just shakes his head and says, "Yeah, whatever.", he follows Tristan to the door and before leaving he says, "I'll be sure to tell Tea how much you 'like' her too." Korin acks and starts to say something, but he's already gone. He looks to Yugi and asks, "He's kidding... right?", Yugi smiles saying, "Well, with him you never know.", and chuckles a bit.
Korin sighs and smiles, "Right. Well then, what now? By my watch it's... the wrong time.", he smiles and puts his watch back into his pocket. Just as Yugi is about to say something, Korin ponders as he feels something extra in his pocket. He pulls whatever it is out and says, "What the? I didn't have this when I was in my world. Was it in there the whole time?", he ponders, looking at a coin he was holding between his fingers. The coin was a plain silverish gray, with a strange gold shine to it. On one side, it showed three triangles stacked on top of each other like the triforce in the legend of zelda, with a bairly visible circle directly under them. The other side had the same three triangles, only they were pointed away from the circle, making a sun like symbol with the circle. Yugi looks over the coin, "Another mystery? Great, we have enough trouble with one.", he looks to his puzzle, "Hm... it's magical. I can feel it's power with the puzzle... why couldn't I feel this power before?", Korin looks to Yugi, "Well, it was in my pocket and I didn't even know about it until just now. It might react to me, for some reason. Here, you hold it...", he hands over the coin. Yugi looks down at the coin and then says, "Hm, the energy's getting weaker... now it's all gone. It must react to your touch.", he looks back up to Korin and hands over the coin, "You should keep it on you till we figure out what kind of power it has. It might be what brought you here in the first place.", he smiles, "This might be what gets you home." Korin nods as he looks down at the coin, "Yeah... I guess your right.", and he smiles, "Not that being here is a bad thing, but the sooner I can get back, the better.", Yugi nods.
* * *
After the coin discovery, Yugi and Korin decided it would be best to wait till the next day to do anything to test out the coin and whatever it could do. The rest of the day and some of the night, Yugi went over some of the rules that Korin was hazy on and then Korin thought it would be fun to play against Yugi in a duel using the rules of his own world, saving the real duel for the next day. Yugi accepted, and after a short time, had gotten the hang of the game. Although the duel ended in a draw by default, because they had to get some sleep for the next day, it was hard to tell who would have won. Korin had less life, but he also had his Relinquished on the field with one of Yugi's monsters equipped to it. The match was a close one and more then once Yugi was tempted to let the puzzle help, but he decided not to considering it was just for fun. They both shook hands and gave each other a smile, as if they were both long time friends and then both when to their own separate sleep areas.
But, as with all good animes, a darker force, and better plot device, started to move along the town, covering the empty roads, sidewalks, houses and other large buildings as if angrily searching for something...
...or someone.
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