Yu-Gi-Oh: Team Zero Duelists

Disclaimer-No I don't own Yu-gi-oh or any characters but the ones I make up by myself. I own the story line so don't steal it. Also this story is mainly to burn off some card ideas that I have so there may be a few cards I made up that I will try to explain them better then others. I had this idea and I have put it down on the paper. Please be kind. It is a work of me and a few other people. Enjoy.

Chapter 1: Under dog emerges, Reku Yamashita

Down the street on his way to the last day of school for this week drove Reku Yamashita. He had a huge smile on his face. Reku loved this time of the year, the large yearly Duel Monsters Tournament was going to be held. Last year he was knock out in the first round but this year was going to be different.

He would say he is an average kid. Short, spiky black hair. He had a dark green T-shirt on and a pair of black pants with the belts were he kept his deck case. Along with his back pack of school work today he brought a box of his extra Duel Monsters cards. Like him and almost all other students, the teachers were duelist and intended to enter this tournament. Just for that the teachers allowed some time in class to prepare decks and duel practice.

The school day went by pretty fast. Even though Reku had been working on his deck for this year's tournament for about a week now he wanted to tweak it just a little bit. Last year he went in with a random through together beat down deck. It had no focus and no structure. This year he figured he would try his new deck.

At lunch he met up with his friend Ron in Endo who is also a duelist but a much better one then Reku. He was about the same height as Reku, just a tad bit shorter. He has longer black hair but it is well kept and isn't too long to look shaggy. He wore a black shirt with a design of a dragon on the back outlined in red. He wore a pair of blue jeans and a belt around his waist with his own deck box. Ronin's deck consisted mainly of water type monsters and it was well constructed with his trump card, Levia-Dragon-Deadalus which he had acquired not too long ago.

"Hey Ronin!" Reku yelled across the lunch room. He ran over to his friend who wasn't eating lunch. Instead he had his deck laid out in front of him card for card. Ronin was working out some kinks in his deck to make it even stronger.

"What's up?" Ronin said without taking his eyes off the cards he had spread out on the table.

"Not much." Reku said sitting down next to him. "Still working on your deck?"

"Yep." Ronin said picking up a card and placing it into a pile of cards next to him. "I've got to change my cards because too many people know card for card what I have in. If I can catch them off guard with new cards I will be fine. How is your beat down deck coming?"

"I don't have a beat down deck." Reku's faced dropped at the comment and a tint of anger could be heard in his voice.

"Come on dude, when ever you build a deck it turns into a random card beat down deck of cards you like to look at." Ronin started gathering up his new deck "I came in the top four last year because my deck has a general direction of cards to work together."

"I know which is why I have been building my new Fire Factory deck."

"Fire Factory?" A female voice came from behind the two boys. There stood the one weakness to the two gentlemen sitting at the table, the two fine ladies of the school.

Akina Oshiro had sandy blond hair with blue, warm eyes. She stood about 5' 7" and she had a great since of humor. She wore a blue shirt and a blue pair of pants. She was sweet and kind plus on top of all that, she was one of the toughest duelist in the school. Sachiko Maeda on the other had was a little bit taller then Akina. She was closer to the boys height of 6 foot. She had lighter sandy blond hair and green eyes. Her clothing was a pair of black pants and a black-silver swirled shirt. Unlike Akina though, she didn't duel, but she always cheered her friend on and she was no stranger to the game.

"Fire Factory?" Akina asked again.

"Uh huh." Reku managed to spit out. "That's my..um new deck structure."

"You still won't beat Akina!" Sachiko threw in.

"Oh yea," Reku glared at Sachiko accepting her challenge.

"Calm down Reku." Akina said putting her hand on his shoulder. It took all his energy to keep from blushing at this. "You know I am always ready to play and I love honorable duels with good friends."

A bell suddenly rung signaling the end of lunch period. The four of them said goodbye and went to their separate classes. The rest of the day went by pretty fast, then comes last period, history. Mr. Murakimi room was a living museum. It was filled with dinosaur bones everywhere along with various text books. Mr. Murakimi favorite time in history was the Mesozoic age and he didn't try to hide it at all.

After doing the little book assignment for his class Reku was finishing up his deck while the other students were finishing. On the other side of the room Ronin was glancing through his deck as well.

Finally after everyone was finished with the assignment, the room filled with the noise of excitement for the tournament. Chatter was everywhere and happy faces showing off their rare cards to each other.

"Done!" Cried Reku from back in his corner of the room. A smile spread across his face as he held up a stack of cards that he called his Fire Factory deck. Many people didn't even care because of Reku's low status on the dueling chart but Mr. Murakimi reached under his desk and grabbed a white device.

"Then you won't mind trying it out here and now." Mr. Murakimi threw the device, which is a duel disk to Reku. A little surprised, he caught the duel disk and looked at Mr. Murakimi who was already standing with his own duel disk on his arm and his deck in the slot. A hum and the disk jumped to life. Everybody's head turned to Reku to see his disk also activated. One quick shuffle and then he placed it in the deck slot.

"Okay, lets play." Reku said, smiling with confidence.

"Fine a test duel!" Mr. Murakimi said drawing five cards.

"Duel!" came from both contestants as life points scores soared up.

Reku-4000 LP
Mr. Murakimi-4000 LP

"I'll go first". Mr. Murakimi drew his sixth card off his deck. Glancing over what he had in his hand he smiled and grabbed a card. "Two headed King Rex (1600/1200) in attack mode!" A giant purple dinosaur with two heads appeared in the cleared area for the dueling ring. It roared and glared down at Reku. "And I'll place one card face down and end my turn." The virtual back of a card appeared on the field.

Reku drew his first six cards. Glancing over what he has he grabbed two cards. "I'll place two cards face down." Two trap/magic cards appeared on the field. Grabbing another card "and place this in attack mode!" A virtual stone wall appeared. It was small and a pool of lava rested at its base. Inside a cave in the wall, two glowing eyes could be seen. "My Thing in the Crater (1000/1200), go."

Murakimi drew the next card off his deck. One look at the card told him what he needed to do. "I play the magic card Cost down!" A virtual image of the card appeared on the field. "It will make all the cards in my hand have two fewer stars after I discard a card, so with one sacrifice." The two headed king rex disappeared from the field, A large black Tyrannosaurus appeared on the field in it's place. "I may summon my Black Tyranno (2600/1800) for only one sacrifice but I'm not done yet, next I activate a my magic card." The face down card on the field flipped up. "Meteor From Black Space!" The picture showed a large meteor hurling towards the earth, It shimmered and then disappeared along with Reku's two face down cards.
"Wait what does it do?"

"It will destroy all face down magic and trap cards on the field and inflict 500 life points of damage to both players for each card destroyed." Mr. Murakimi smiled.

"Ah, nuts."

Reku-3000 LP
Mr. Murakimi-3000 LP

"But Next, Black Tyranno, attack the Thing in the Crater!" With one huge chomp from the tyranno's jaw, the Thing in the Crater was completely gone leaving Reku's field wide open until a rock beast appeared out of nowhere. "Wait, what is that!" Mr. Murakimi stepped back at the sight of the new monster.

"That's my Burning Beast (1500/1000), see when thing in the crater is destroyed I may summon a pyro monster from my hand to the field to take its place."

Reku-1400 LP
Mr. Murakimi-3000 LP

"Draw!" Reku snapped the top card off his deck. "Now I can win this, I sacrifice my Burning Beast for one of my favorite cards."

"Oh, and what is that?" Mr. Murakimi crossed his arms and smiled.

"Well, I'll tell you. The name of my deck is the fire factory deck, you have see the fire but you have yet to see the factory part, and in a factory there are machines. So I sacrifice for my favorite machine monster Jinzo (2400/1200)!" The Burning Beast disappeared from the field to summon a large green humanoid creature.

"No, my traps will be useless!" Mr. Murakimi stepped back but smiled, "too bad he is too weak to stand up to my Black Tyranno!"

"Yes it is to bad." Reku grabbed on of the two cards in his hand. "Activate Molten Destruction!" The center of the field shook and a large volcano appeared out of nowhere. Smoke poured out of the top of the volcano.

"So, that power ups only fire monsters, and Jinzo is a creature of Darkness!"

"True." Grabbing the last card in his hand he slid it into his duel disk. "Activate magic card, Scroll of Bewitchment! This can change Jinzo to a creature of Fire!" A virtual scroll appeared on the field and started to unravel itself, ancient text on the scroll was glowing brightly. It moved behind Jinzo and he roared with power as his type changed to Fire. Being fire now he gained the power from Molten Destruction (2900/800)!

"NO!" Mr. Murakimi yelled at the powered up Machine.

Gasps could be heard around the room. Nobody thought Reku could duel like this. They presumed he was as good as beat when Black Tyranno hit the field.

"Now, Jinzo attack Black Tyranno!" Jinzo cupped his hands together and made a black energy ball. "Cyber Energy Shock attack!" Jinzo launched the ball of energy, hitting Black Tyranno right in the chest. It roared and then broke into data bits.

Reku-1400 LP
Mr. Murakimi- 2700 LP

"And that's my turn." Reku smiled and motioned with his hand for Mr. Murakimi to go.

"Right, draw!" Mr. Murakimi pulled the top card off his deck. "I'll defend and end my turn." A virtual card appeared in the field face down.

"Draw!" Reku drew his card. "The only card that could help me right now!" He flipped it around. "I summon Warrior of the White Flame!" A large warrior appeared on the field. He was slim and muscular holding a thin sword with essence of white flames liking off it. Armor adored all his limbs but his head (2000/0).

"What can he do?" Mr. Murakimi was confused, never having seen this card before.

"He will first gain 500 attack for Molten Destruction (2500/0). Also at each of my standby phases 500 of his attack will be transferred to his defense, but you only have one turn left. Warrior of the White Flame attack defense monster with white flare slash!" The Warrior of White Flame flew across the field and cut up the defense card. "And Now, Jinzo finish him off!" With a roar, Jinzo launched a ball of energy across the field hitting Mr. Murakimi right in the chest.

Reku-1400 LP
Mr. Murakimi-0 LP

The dueling holograms disappeared and a roar of cheering erupted through the class room. No one expected Reku to even come close to beating Mr. Murakimi.

"Good duel." Reku moved to shake his teachers hand. Mr. Murakimi gave a chuckle and extended his hand and shook Reku's.

"Yes, I didn't expect that kind of duel out of you." He rubbed the back of his head with his other hand and smiled. "I should have tried harder. I held back just a little too much and it backfired on me. Next time we duel, I will go all out on you."

Standing in the door, Akina had been leaning against the wall watching the duel. She smiled and walked away.

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And that's it, chapter one. I will continue to type up chapters if you guys like it. Also, this chapter originally was to set up the story and duel formats. NOTE: This and the rest of this story has been redone. I am improving it from its lousy state. I am doing this to eliminate the + drawing system that got in the way of the story. All dialog and duels are the same.
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