I based this on the Kaiba's Virtual Land game, but I added many new
differences. Be sure to check out Duel City Tournament Elimination Round
Part II, continues from the first Duel City Tournament fic where Yugi and
friends compete in a tournament similar to Battle City Tournament, with
some foes returning, and new foes appears at the same time
Also, check out my original fics at fictionpress.net, look for The Black Game in Manga column (rated PG-13), and see other fics too.
I also have a star wars fic called the Freedom Fighters Saga, taken place around fifty years after episode 6, I think you might like that fic
*****
War Saga
Chapter 01
Enter the Virtual World
In the school, Yugi sits in his desk playing a solitary like game that came from another country that he got from his grandfathers store.
As Yugi plays, his two friends Joey and Tristan enters the classroom in a hurry like manner, with Joey carrying a package.
"Huh?" Yugi said as he spun around in a surprise.
"Hey Yugi," Tristan waves, as Joey hides the package behind his back
"Hey guys," Yugi went, "what you got behind your back Joey?"
Joey gives a big smile, "it's a present."
"A present?" Yugi asks.
Joey tosses the package onto Yugi's desk, messing up Yugi's game. As soon as the package hits the desk, Joey yells out, "happy birthday Yug."
"Ah, thanks guys," Yugi went, "but my birthday was two months ago."
"It's a figure of speech," Tristan explains.
Joey impatiently says, "yeah, now just open the package already."
"Well, okay," Yugi said as he opens the package. "Huh? What's this?"
Yugi holds up the package, admiring the box. It has a Dark Magician and a few different monsters from the card game on it. It looks like a PC game. When Yugi looks in the back, he sees that it comes with a few different devices, and can be played on the Internet as an online game, like Everquest.
"They made an online game of Duel Monsters?" Yugi asks.
"Yep," Tristan answers. "Kaibas Virtual Land inspired Industrial Illusions to make that game, with Kaibas help of course."
Yugi reads a label on the back of the box aloud, "developed by Industrial Illusions Corporation and Kaiba Corporation International. Guarantee to be the best online role-playing game ever made since Everquest."
"There's a device in that box that you can load all of your cards into," Joey explains. "It's kind of like a role-playing game version of duel monsters."
"So it is like Everquest but for duel monsters?" Yugi asks.
"Uh, yeah," Joey didn't know what Yugi was talking about.
"Great, I'll check it out tonight," Yugi went. "But what about you guys?"
"We already got our own," Tristan went.
"And since I don't have access to the Internet," Joey explains, "I'll over at Tristans house. By the way, is Tea here?"
"No, she's sick today," Yugi explains. "I'll tell her about this later."
"Great, thanks man," Joey went, "here's her game."
*****
Yugi put Tea's version of the game that Joey and Tristan gave to him on a shelf to hold off for now while both he and his grandfather sets up the program on the computer.
While Yugi sets the program up, his grandfather explains anything that sounds interesting and may be important.
"According this rule," Yugi's grandfather went, "all duelists start at the first level, with only 2000 life points. You need at least 1000 experience points in order to gain a new level, which can increase your life points. Each duelist must always gain a minimum of 1000 experience points at each level in order to grow to the next level. Of how much experience points you gain, depends on your encounters you meet. Also, the maximum level a duelist can rise to is 20, where at that level duelists life points will be at 8000."
"Wow, that's a little different," Yugi said, as he uploads the program.
"It also says that each monster has its own life points, which it's defense power can resist opposing attackers damages." Grandpa continues to explain. "Most monsters even have their own special abilities, but not monster controlled by duelists. This only occurs when a duelists doesn't enter a duel."
"Well that bites," Yugi said. The program still hasn't finished uploading. "How about dueling?"
The grandfather searches through the manual until he found the rule, "there are different ways. The first way is when a duelist challenges another duelist, and you play by the official rules, except you use whatever life points you currently have. Another way is the same way as Kaibas game in the Virtual Land, except for what I've explained earlier."
"Wow, it's going to be tough if you're going up against an opponent with an even higher level," Yugi realizes. "Especially if you've suffered damages to your life points already."
"That's not all," the grandfather immediately went, "there's another rule you should know, very important. You can only use each card only once an hour. Once you use a card, you cannot use that same card for a whole hour. It can be played either from your deck or from your trunk reserve, where you keep your cards when they're not in a deck."
"What?" Yugi spun around, seeing if he heard his grandfather right. "If that's the rule, then this game maybe more difficult then I thought."
"There's more," the grandfather continues. "According to this rule here, if your life points reaches zero, it's game over, you're dead, you'll have to start all over."
"Harsh rule," Yugi responses to that rule. "This'll take a while to get use too and adapt too."
The program is finally finished loading and is now asking for Yugi to upload all of the cards he want to carry in the game. Yugi decides to upload all the cards he owns. It took over fifteen minutes to upload each of his cards since he could only do it one at a time, and can't upload any copies he has.
The game comes with a virtual goggles that Yugi can wear to see the virtual world. With headphones and speakers so he can communicate with anyone he comes in contact with. It also has a built in scanner so he can think of a movement, and he makes that movement in the game, just like in Kaibas game.
Another item that the program offers is the ability to create his character. With several different ways, duelists can create a character, which can even look like themselves. That's exactly what Yugi did; making a character looks exactly like himself when Yami takes over, in his casual usual clothing but black, also has a red jacket that he can wear like a cape, just like when he was in the Battle City Tournament.
"Okay, I think I'm all set," Yugi said.
"Have fun," Yugis grandfather said as Yugi put his goggles in place on his head.
"Okay, I will," Yugi said as he hit the switch.
*****
After a few seconds, Yugi finds himself in a foreign like world. It looks like a community of the old age almost, kind of like old England before electricity.
"Welcome young duelist," says a strange voice.
Yugi in his black clothing and red jacket, turn around to investigate the voice, seeing a normal person sitting behind a desk.
"Are there any rules you would like to know?" The NPC asks.
Yugi starts to think, "now that I think about it, how do I logout?"
"You must either come to the information booth like this one," the NPC answers. "Or you can find a blue floating crystal, that also rotates, called the Star Crystal. When you log back in, you'll find yourself back exactly where you've logged out off."
"Okay, thanks," Yugi said.
"Are there any rules you would like to know?" The NPC repeats his previous question.
Yugi realizes this game isn't completely as advanced as Kaibas virtual game.
"No thanks," Yugi said as he walks away.
"Stop you cannot leave yet," said the information NPC person
"Why not?" Yugi asks.
"You need to assemble your deck before you can leave this booth," the NPC answers.
"Oh yeah," Yugi went.
Yugi searches through his trunk list, selecting the cards he wants to be included into his deck.
After selecting the cards he wants, he continues on. Looking at his stats screen, he sees that he is level 1 with only 2000 life points.
"Great, everything's okay," Yugi thinks aloud to himself, "now to find Joey and Tristan."
Yugi sets off on his new found journey, to explore the massive online virtual world for duel monsters.
*****
A PC duelists runs through the hallway, towards a door, huffing and puffing as he runs through the doors, seeing his leader in negotiation with his ally
"I just found out that Yugi has entered the game in City Bravo," the PC duelist reports
"That figures," says his boss, revealing himself to be Rex Raptor himself, "I'm guessing Joey Wheeler and the rest of his friends should be in the game too."
"I new sooner or later they will be playing this game," says Rex's ally, revealing himself to be Weevil Underwood.
"It's smart to form an alliance," Rex said, "with both of our forces combined, we can crush Yugi and his friends.
"Yes, with the Bug and Dino Gang combined, Yugi and his friends wont stand a chance." Weevil agrees. "We'll each send one duelist to take care of Yugi, giving him a warm welcome."
"Good idea," Rex agrees, "they'll both work together to crush him. Em, you go."
Em steps out of the shadows with his duel systems equipped, "of course, I always wanted to crush that midget."
"Shippo, you can go too," Weevil commands.
"Of course," Shippo accepts, reorganizing his deck.
*****
Looking through the map of the game after leaving the city, Yugi learns that each city is named after military alphabet code from America. Like the city he came out of was called City Bravo. There are also Alpha, Charley, Zulu, etc. Meaning there are only twenty-six cities.
"With so many cities, which city are the others in?" Yugi thought aloud.
"Somebody help me," he hears a girls voice cries out.
Yugi was startled from hearing the cry, so he runs over to investigate.
Running over a hill, seeing a powerful monster called the Skull Knight is chasing a female character, but whether if it's a PC or NPC, Yugi couldn't be sure
The female character trips, and falls onto the ground, afraid to move as the fusion spellcaster stands above her, reader to strike.
"No," Yugi cries out, opening his trunk reserve and selects. "Go, Magical Hats."
The female screams as the Skull Knight makes his attack with his sword. But just as the sword sot out an aura, a hat appears in her place, taking the hit. Then three more hats appears, hiding her in one of them.
Yugi comes running down the hill, trying to remember the monsters stats, and figure out the monsters LP
The monster casts a spell call a De-Spell, removing the remaining three magical hats.
"What?" The female character said, Yugi still couldn't see the females face
Yugi got close enough to challenge the Skull Knight, seeing his stats (ATK: 2650 / DEF: 2250 / LP: 3500).
Yugi thinks to himself, great, he's only fifteen hundred more life points then me.
Yugi looks through his trunk reserve to determine his next card to use, saving the cards he put into his deck. Since the Skull Knight is a spellcaster, that means he could cast spells.
I have it, Yugi thought to himself. He selects three of his cards from his trunk reserve, playing one of them.
"Go Neo the Magic Swordsman with Book of Secret Arts," Yugi summons, as the spellcasting warrior appears (ATK: 2000 / DEF: 1300 / LP: 2000)
The Skull Knight makes his attack on the weaker Neo the Magic Swordsman
"I also play my trap card, Spellbinding Circle," Yugi casts.
The Skull Knights attack is stopped, and the monster is trapped, becoming weaker (ATK: 1850 / DEF: 1450 / LP: 3500).
Neo the Magic Swordsman attacks the trapped Skull Knight in a counterattack, dealing damages.(ATK: 1850 / DEF: 1450 / LP: 2950)
"That didn't deal much damage," Yugi thought aloud.
The Skull Knight casts another spell call the Remove Trap, removing the Spellbinding Circle.
The Skull Knight stats return to normal except its LP (ATK: 2650 / DEF: 2250 / LP: 2950).
The Skull Knight makes it's attack on Neo the Magic Swordsman, Yugi didn't do anything but take the hit as Neo is destroyed (LP: 1350)
With Yugi suffered a lot of damages, Yugi knows it's risky, but he has no choice. He plays another card from his trunk reserve called the Dark Hole
A black hole appears above the Skull Knight, sucking him in, and then disappears, leaving only and the female he saved.
Yugi completely forgot about the female, "oh, are you okay?"
The girl finally shows her face, and Yugi recognizes her immediately, "Serenity?"
"Yugi?" Serenity asks
Just then the sky blackens. As Yugi and Serenity looks around, trying to figure out whats going on, a flash of light appears before their eyes, before the y black out.
Also, check out my original fics at fictionpress.net, look for The Black Game in Manga column (rated PG-13), and see other fics too.
I also have a star wars fic called the Freedom Fighters Saga, taken place around fifty years after episode 6, I think you might like that fic
*****
War Saga
Chapter 01
Enter the Virtual World
In the school, Yugi sits in his desk playing a solitary like game that came from another country that he got from his grandfathers store.
As Yugi plays, his two friends Joey and Tristan enters the classroom in a hurry like manner, with Joey carrying a package.
"Huh?" Yugi said as he spun around in a surprise.
"Hey Yugi," Tristan waves, as Joey hides the package behind his back
"Hey guys," Yugi went, "what you got behind your back Joey?"
Joey gives a big smile, "it's a present."
"A present?" Yugi asks.
Joey tosses the package onto Yugi's desk, messing up Yugi's game. As soon as the package hits the desk, Joey yells out, "happy birthday Yug."
"Ah, thanks guys," Yugi went, "but my birthday was two months ago."
"It's a figure of speech," Tristan explains.
Joey impatiently says, "yeah, now just open the package already."
"Well, okay," Yugi said as he opens the package. "Huh? What's this?"
Yugi holds up the package, admiring the box. It has a Dark Magician and a few different monsters from the card game on it. It looks like a PC game. When Yugi looks in the back, he sees that it comes with a few different devices, and can be played on the Internet as an online game, like Everquest.
"They made an online game of Duel Monsters?" Yugi asks.
"Yep," Tristan answers. "Kaibas Virtual Land inspired Industrial Illusions to make that game, with Kaibas help of course."
Yugi reads a label on the back of the box aloud, "developed by Industrial Illusions Corporation and Kaiba Corporation International. Guarantee to be the best online role-playing game ever made since Everquest."
"There's a device in that box that you can load all of your cards into," Joey explains. "It's kind of like a role-playing game version of duel monsters."
"So it is like Everquest but for duel monsters?" Yugi asks.
"Uh, yeah," Joey didn't know what Yugi was talking about.
"Great, I'll check it out tonight," Yugi went. "But what about you guys?"
"We already got our own," Tristan went.
"And since I don't have access to the Internet," Joey explains, "I'll over at Tristans house. By the way, is Tea here?"
"No, she's sick today," Yugi explains. "I'll tell her about this later."
"Great, thanks man," Joey went, "here's her game."
*****
Yugi put Tea's version of the game that Joey and Tristan gave to him on a shelf to hold off for now while both he and his grandfather sets up the program on the computer.
While Yugi sets the program up, his grandfather explains anything that sounds interesting and may be important.
"According this rule," Yugi's grandfather went, "all duelists start at the first level, with only 2000 life points. You need at least 1000 experience points in order to gain a new level, which can increase your life points. Each duelist must always gain a minimum of 1000 experience points at each level in order to grow to the next level. Of how much experience points you gain, depends on your encounters you meet. Also, the maximum level a duelist can rise to is 20, where at that level duelists life points will be at 8000."
"Wow, that's a little different," Yugi said, as he uploads the program.
"It also says that each monster has its own life points, which it's defense power can resist opposing attackers damages." Grandpa continues to explain. "Most monsters even have their own special abilities, but not monster controlled by duelists. This only occurs when a duelists doesn't enter a duel."
"Well that bites," Yugi said. The program still hasn't finished uploading. "How about dueling?"
The grandfather searches through the manual until he found the rule, "there are different ways. The first way is when a duelist challenges another duelist, and you play by the official rules, except you use whatever life points you currently have. Another way is the same way as Kaibas game in the Virtual Land, except for what I've explained earlier."
"Wow, it's going to be tough if you're going up against an opponent with an even higher level," Yugi realizes. "Especially if you've suffered damages to your life points already."
"That's not all," the grandfather immediately went, "there's another rule you should know, very important. You can only use each card only once an hour. Once you use a card, you cannot use that same card for a whole hour. It can be played either from your deck or from your trunk reserve, where you keep your cards when they're not in a deck."
"What?" Yugi spun around, seeing if he heard his grandfather right. "If that's the rule, then this game maybe more difficult then I thought."
"There's more," the grandfather continues. "According to this rule here, if your life points reaches zero, it's game over, you're dead, you'll have to start all over."
"Harsh rule," Yugi responses to that rule. "This'll take a while to get use too and adapt too."
The program is finally finished loading and is now asking for Yugi to upload all of the cards he want to carry in the game. Yugi decides to upload all the cards he owns. It took over fifteen minutes to upload each of his cards since he could only do it one at a time, and can't upload any copies he has.
The game comes with a virtual goggles that Yugi can wear to see the virtual world. With headphones and speakers so he can communicate with anyone he comes in contact with. It also has a built in scanner so he can think of a movement, and he makes that movement in the game, just like in Kaibas game.
Another item that the program offers is the ability to create his character. With several different ways, duelists can create a character, which can even look like themselves. That's exactly what Yugi did; making a character looks exactly like himself when Yami takes over, in his casual usual clothing but black, also has a red jacket that he can wear like a cape, just like when he was in the Battle City Tournament.
"Okay, I think I'm all set," Yugi said.
"Have fun," Yugis grandfather said as Yugi put his goggles in place on his head.
"Okay, I will," Yugi said as he hit the switch.
*****
After a few seconds, Yugi finds himself in a foreign like world. It looks like a community of the old age almost, kind of like old England before electricity.
"Welcome young duelist," says a strange voice.
Yugi in his black clothing and red jacket, turn around to investigate the voice, seeing a normal person sitting behind a desk.
"Are there any rules you would like to know?" The NPC asks.
Yugi starts to think, "now that I think about it, how do I logout?"
"You must either come to the information booth like this one," the NPC answers. "Or you can find a blue floating crystal, that also rotates, called the Star Crystal. When you log back in, you'll find yourself back exactly where you've logged out off."
"Okay, thanks," Yugi said.
"Are there any rules you would like to know?" The NPC repeats his previous question.
Yugi realizes this game isn't completely as advanced as Kaibas virtual game.
"No thanks," Yugi said as he walks away.
"Stop you cannot leave yet," said the information NPC person
"Why not?" Yugi asks.
"You need to assemble your deck before you can leave this booth," the NPC answers.
"Oh yeah," Yugi went.
Yugi searches through his trunk list, selecting the cards he wants to be included into his deck.
After selecting the cards he wants, he continues on. Looking at his stats screen, he sees that he is level 1 with only 2000 life points.
"Great, everything's okay," Yugi thinks aloud to himself, "now to find Joey and Tristan."
Yugi sets off on his new found journey, to explore the massive online virtual world for duel monsters.
*****
A PC duelists runs through the hallway, towards a door, huffing and puffing as he runs through the doors, seeing his leader in negotiation with his ally
"I just found out that Yugi has entered the game in City Bravo," the PC duelist reports
"That figures," says his boss, revealing himself to be Rex Raptor himself, "I'm guessing Joey Wheeler and the rest of his friends should be in the game too."
"I new sooner or later they will be playing this game," says Rex's ally, revealing himself to be Weevil Underwood.
"It's smart to form an alliance," Rex said, "with both of our forces combined, we can crush Yugi and his friends.
"Yes, with the Bug and Dino Gang combined, Yugi and his friends wont stand a chance." Weevil agrees. "We'll each send one duelist to take care of Yugi, giving him a warm welcome."
"Good idea," Rex agrees, "they'll both work together to crush him. Em, you go."
Em steps out of the shadows with his duel systems equipped, "of course, I always wanted to crush that midget."
"Shippo, you can go too," Weevil commands.
"Of course," Shippo accepts, reorganizing his deck.
*****
Looking through the map of the game after leaving the city, Yugi learns that each city is named after military alphabet code from America. Like the city he came out of was called City Bravo. There are also Alpha, Charley, Zulu, etc. Meaning there are only twenty-six cities.
"With so many cities, which city are the others in?" Yugi thought aloud.
"Somebody help me," he hears a girls voice cries out.
Yugi was startled from hearing the cry, so he runs over to investigate.
Running over a hill, seeing a powerful monster called the Skull Knight is chasing a female character, but whether if it's a PC or NPC, Yugi couldn't be sure
The female character trips, and falls onto the ground, afraid to move as the fusion spellcaster stands above her, reader to strike.
"No," Yugi cries out, opening his trunk reserve and selects. "Go, Magical Hats."
The female screams as the Skull Knight makes his attack with his sword. But just as the sword sot out an aura, a hat appears in her place, taking the hit. Then three more hats appears, hiding her in one of them.
Yugi comes running down the hill, trying to remember the monsters stats, and figure out the monsters LP
The monster casts a spell call a De-Spell, removing the remaining three magical hats.
"What?" The female character said, Yugi still couldn't see the females face
Yugi got close enough to challenge the Skull Knight, seeing his stats (ATK: 2650 / DEF: 2250 / LP: 3500).
Yugi thinks to himself, great, he's only fifteen hundred more life points then me.
Yugi looks through his trunk reserve to determine his next card to use, saving the cards he put into his deck. Since the Skull Knight is a spellcaster, that means he could cast spells.
I have it, Yugi thought to himself. He selects three of his cards from his trunk reserve, playing one of them.
"Go Neo the Magic Swordsman with Book of Secret Arts," Yugi summons, as the spellcasting warrior appears (ATK: 2000 / DEF: 1300 / LP: 2000)
The Skull Knight makes his attack on the weaker Neo the Magic Swordsman
"I also play my trap card, Spellbinding Circle," Yugi casts.
The Skull Knights attack is stopped, and the monster is trapped, becoming weaker (ATK: 1850 / DEF: 1450 / LP: 3500).
Neo the Magic Swordsman attacks the trapped Skull Knight in a counterattack, dealing damages.(ATK: 1850 / DEF: 1450 / LP: 2950)
"That didn't deal much damage," Yugi thought aloud.
The Skull Knight casts another spell call the Remove Trap, removing the Spellbinding Circle.
The Skull Knight stats return to normal except its LP (ATK: 2650 / DEF: 2250 / LP: 2950).
The Skull Knight makes it's attack on Neo the Magic Swordsman, Yugi didn't do anything but take the hit as Neo is destroyed (LP: 1350)
With Yugi suffered a lot of damages, Yugi knows it's risky, but he has no choice. He plays another card from his trunk reserve called the Dark Hole
A black hole appears above the Skull Knight, sucking him in, and then disappears, leaving only and the female he saved.
Yugi completely forgot about the female, "oh, are you okay?"
The girl finally shows her face, and Yugi recognizes her immediately, "Serenity?"
"Yugi?" Serenity asks
Just then the sky blackens. As Yugi and Serenity looks around, trying to figure out whats going on, a flash of light appears before their eyes, before the y black out.