Team Zero: Crystals

Disclaimer-I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh. I do own: Team Zero, Reku, Ronin, Akina, Sachiko, all original card ideas, etc.

Note: This is the sequel to my Team Zero: Duelists story. It is highly recommended that you start off reading that story. Even though it is not my best work, it still provides the back ground to this story.

Chapter 1: Boiling Blood

Several months have passed since the events of the world tournament. Team Zero was now known pretty well as good duelists and were constantly dueling any and everybody. Even so, they weren't the best and they knew it. That was just a high level intermediate tournament. Now if they got invited to a Kaiba corp. or a Industrial Illusion tournament then they could prove their skills.

Unfortunately, neither corporations were planning a tournament in the near future. They would just have to get by on little duels in their home town.


In an alleyway in town a scream could be heard. A boy, brown hair, blue shirt, fell to his knees. His life point score reached zero. Across from him, a robed man stood, a medallion around his neck glowing. The mans duel disk deactivated.

"Well, boy, you lost so hand over your soul." The robed man said as the boy fell over limp, soulless. From a roof top, a man crouched over was watching the entire incident.


It was late, 11 o'clock or so when Reku dropped Akina off at her house. Their relation ship had grown a lot since the tournament. They were officially boyfriend and girlfriend. This seemed strange to Reku because he hadn't expected getting a girlfriend from dueling to save their soul.

Driving home, Reku drove over the bridge. Kicking back, pleased that he had spent hours with Akina before. His radio was turned on and up. He was wearing a new attire. He had a black jacket on that he almost never took off anymore, a grey undershirt with a barbed wire insignia across the bottom and dark blue pants.

Looking in his rear view mirror, Reku saw police light flashing and heard the sirens wailing. He pulled over to the side, hopeing that they weren't going to pull him over. Surprisingly they didn't, they just raced passed. They were followed closely by an ambulance.

"Must have had a wreck somewhere." Reku shrugged and pulled back onto the road.

Driving along he could see the ambulance and the cops stopped by and alleyway. He could see them loading a lifeless body onto the ambulance. Reku wouldn't have minded much but he was that the guy had a duel disk on his arm, and it was still activated.

"Did he lose his soul?" Reku thought to himself before he noticed at the end of the street, a hooded man starting at him. The man turned and ran away down the street. Reku made a sharp turn and took chase.

Reku's truck was much faster than the man so it didn't take long for Reku to catch up with the man. The man mad a quick dodge and jumped through a broken window of a warehouse.

Stopping his truck, Reku jumped out. He reached behind his seat and pulled out his duel disk. Strapping it on his arm as he ran, he chased the man through the warehouse.

Coming to a stop, the robed man turned around in the middle of the warehouse. A sharp blue duel disk strapped to his arm.

"Hello, Reku Yamashita." The man said as he removed his hood. He had short spiky blue hair and dark blue eyes.

"How do you know me?" Reku said coming up across from him.

"Chaos has informed us all about you and Team Zero." The man said as his duel disk snapped into place.

"Chaos! So he is still around." Reku's duel disk snapped into place also. "Still stealing peoples souls?"

"Yep." The man nodded as he shuffled his deck up and placed it back in the slot.

"Too bad you won't be stealing anymore souls." Reku, also placing his shuffled deck back into his duel disk, said. "I will stop you."

"Please, you is so, so,...rude. Call me Blood Boiler."

"Fine, Blood Boiler, lets duel so I can stop your rain of terror." Reku said as he slid five cards off his deck.

"Okay, but let me go first." Blood Boiler said as he drew six cards off his own deck.

Reku-4000 LP
Blood Boiler-4000 LP

"All right boy, I summon my Giant Solider of Stone (1300/2000) in defense mode and one card face down. Go boy, if you think you are up to it." A large rock monster appeared crouching down crossing its arms. A hologram of a card appeared behind it.

"My move. Draw!" Reku pulled the card off his deck and looked at it. Grinning he placed it on his duel disk. "I activate my magic card Holy Fire. As long as it remains face up on the field at the end of my turn, if I have no monsters on my field, I get to pull a fire monster, that is also a pryo monster, from my deck and special summon it. Next I play my Flare Ninja (1500/1200) in attack mode!"

A ninja covered in red and black clothing appeared on the field. Right beside it in a flash of light a red and black armored samurai appeared.

"When Flare Ninja is on the field, I get to summon Flare Samurai (1500/1200) to the field from my deck or hand." Reku said as he shuffled his deck and slipped it back into the slot. "Now, the second effect of Holy Fire activates. If I sacrifice it and one Pryo monster with a fire attribute I get to destroy one monster on the field regardless of position. So goodbye Flare Samurai and goodbye Giant Solider of Stone!"

In a burst of fire, both the Flare Samurai and the Giant Soldier of Stone burned up and exploded into data pieces.

"Flare Ninja, Direct attack!" Jumping up, the ninja threw a small grey ball onto the ground. A cloud of smoke erupted from the ball shadowing the entire field in smoke. Out of the smoke burst the ninja who was now wielding a dagger. One slice across Blood Boiler's body and it retreated to Reku's field.

Reku-4000 LP
Blood Boiler-2500 LP

As the dust settled, Reku could see a card flip up on his opponents field. "I activate, Monster Steel Tunnel! I get to pull a monster of 1500 attack or less from my deck and summon it to the field." Searching his deck he pulled out a monster. "I summon Blood Hunter (1500/1000)!" A man who was dressed in dark leather appeared on the field. In his hand he held a duel barrel machine that was strapped to a large tank on his back.

"What does he do?" Reku asked at the new and strange monster.

"Oh you'll see. Draw!" Pulling the card of his deck he slid it into his hand and pulled another card out. "I play the equipment magic card Blood Hunter's Upgrade! It only works on blood hunter but it increases it's attack by 500 (2000/1000)!" A small grey box attached itself to the bottom of the gun the Blood Hunter was holding. "Now, attack Flare Ninja!"

On barrel on the gun shot out a ray of yellow light. It smacked into the Ninja, blowing it apart instantly.

Reku-3500 LP
Blood Boiler-3000 LP

(Blood Hunter 2300/1000) Blood Boiler chuckled to himself as a dumbfounded Reku looked at the monster as it sucked up a pool of blood that was left by Reku's Flare Ninja.

"What happened." Reku spit out.

"Oh, Blood hunter, when it destroys a monster, gains an additional 300 attack. And with that Upgrade he got, now when he destroys a monster, I gain 500 Life Points."

"Okay, so your monster is cheap. Is it my turn yet?"

"Nope, not quite." Blood Boiler grabbed the medallion around his neck and held it out. The eye of Ra started to glow brightly as a thick purple fog covered the playing field. "Now that I have invoked the shadow realm, I have upped the stakes."

"I know all about the shadow realm." Reku snapped at Blood Boiler as he pulled the card off the top of his deck.


Across town, Ronin was sitting on his back porch. He was looking up at the stars. He now wearing a black and light brown swirled shirt and black pants.

"Wow, what a peaceful night. Almost too quiet." Ronin reached into his pocket and reveled his cell phone. Hitting an auto dial button he put it against his ear and listen to the phone ring.

("Hello.")

"Ah, Hello Ms. Yamashita. Is Reku around."

("No Ronin, sorry. He went out with Akina, he should be back soon. Do you want me to have him call you back?")

"No, Tell him I will talk to him tomorrow at school."

("Okay, Bye.")

"Goodbye." Ronin turned off his cell phone and stuck it into his pocket. "Ever since Reku and Akina started going out, my life has been boring. Girls." Ronin sighed. "Damn it, I am jealous." Ronin jumped of his chair then flew out into the yard landing on his feet. He walked to the end of his back yard and climbed up into a large oak tree that was there. One of the branches made a perfect chair that looked up at the stars. He used to come up here all the time as a kid. He still came up here to think every now and again. He was lost in the stars when he heard his cell phone ring. Pulling it out he answered it.

"Hello."

("Hi Ronin. This is Akina.")

"Oh, good evening Akina." Ronin said rolling his eyes.

("I was wondering if Reku was over there.")

"No, isn't he with you?"

("No, he dropped me off at home and then left to go home. But I called his house and his mother didn't know where he was.")

Ronin sat straight up in the tree listening to this. "Do you think that he is in trouble?"

("I don't know, what if he got into an accident!")

"I'll go looking for him!" Ronin said as he jumped out of the tree.

("Please swing by and pick me up.")

"All right, see you in a few." Hanging up his phone, Ronin charged around the front of his house and got into his black car. Speeding away towards Akina's house, he kept a stern look out for Reku's vehicle.


Looking at his cards, Reku didn't know exactly what else he could do but defend himself until he came up with a plan. "I place one monster in defense and two cards face down. End turn."

Drawing slowly, Blood Boiler smiled wickedly at his opponent. "Looks like you lost your nerve." Looking at the card he drew he slid it into his hand instantly. "Now attack defensive card!" Shooting another blast of energy the downed card blew up instantly and the shards were sucked up into the vacuum.

Reku-3500 LP
Blood Boiler-3500 LP

(Blood Hunter 2600/1000) "And now it is your turn." Blood Boiler motioned to Reku.

"Fine." The black haired boy said as he grabbed the top card off his deck. Flipping it over he saw just what he wanted to see. "I got it." Reku mocked as he waved the card around. "I pulled Jinzo!"

"So?" Blood Boiler looked confused at the comment. "What will he do?"

"Lots, once I play my down card, Hole in the Plan! Since Jinzo is two stars above four I remove my Flare Ninja and Samurai from the game to summon him." Sliding the said cards in the out of play slot Reku slapped Jinzo on his duel disk. A large green robot appeared on the field. It crossed its arms and scowled at Reku's opponent.

"Now what? He is too weak."

"Not once I equip him with my other down card, Scroll of Bewitchment. I change him to a fire monster. I'll set one more card face down and my turn is done."

"Fine," Blood Boiler slid another card off his deck. He didn't even attempt to look at it. He pointed to Jinzo. "Attack that monster now!"

"Reckless move I reveal my down quick play magic card, Sacred Blue Flame! It works only on a fire monster increasing its attack by 500 for this turn (2900/1500)."

"NO! My monster." Shooting out a ray of energy, Jinzo batted it away and shot back a black energy ball that completely destroyed the leather clad warrior. "Fine, I set one monster in defense and my turn is done.

Sliding the card off the deck Reku smiled, "No, you are done. I activate my magic card Raigeki magic card to destroy your monster." A lightning flash and the down card burned up. "Next I summon my Alpino the Mech Warrior (1600/1500) in attack mode!" A grey warrior appeared on the field duel wielding swords. It was covered with a large metal suit of armor with a large metal plate that jutted upwards out of his head. It was shaped in a wave pattern with a hole in the middle of it.

"I lost!" Blood Boiler started to back up slowly as he knew what was coming.

"Yep, Double attack my monsters!" Both monsters charged across the field and slammed into Blood Boiler. He screamed as his duel disked beeped.

Reku-3500 LP
Blood Boiler-0 LP

XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
And there is chapter one of my new Crystal saga. Review please. Oh and I am going to start something new here, besides the new chapter and duel formats, with your review if you want to send in the name of a card that I have created. I will list it's information here. Any card that has confused you, send it in with your review.
XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX