Duel Monsters Maximum: Dragoon Island Tournament Saga

Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh, but I do own the characters that you don't recognize, which should be all of them, at least in this chapter.

A/N: Hello, I am Nanashi Minimino, creator of Duel Monsters Maximum. Now this story has its own set of dueling rules that aren't too unique, but unique enough that you should know. First off, tributes will be none for level four or lower monsters, 1 for level five or six monsters, 2 for level seven or eight, and 3 tributes for monsters level nine or higher. Second, while the rules for normal, field, continuous and ritual magic cards are the same (you can only activate them on your turn) trap cards do not require a one turn set first. Third, monsters may be summoned in attack or defense mode, but flip effects are still flip effects (they still require the monster being flipped). This next rule is really a reinforcement kind of thing, since most people I duel don't seem to know, you can activate quickplay magic cards from your hand. Well, that's about it for the rule changes! Now go on and read, and don't forget to drop your opinion off in a review, I'll be looking forward to it! Bye!


Chapter 1: Chores on Tourney day

Shisei Aragashi was never late. He prided himself in the fact that he was always early, especially when there was something important to him on the line, and today was the big day. Tournament day. And today, was one of the days he would be late.

Shisei himself was a modest 5' 6'' boy who had dirty blond hair and a skinny figure. He wore glasses that, he himself, thought to be a bit of a fashion statement. The glasses covered his blue eye color slightly. Now he wore the traditional Japanese school uniform with his black laptop case with the laptop in it on his back. A dueling deck holder was clearly visible on his form, the brown back of the duel monster cards able to be seen through the clear red of it.

'Where are you Kou, damn, I was hoping that I could get to the tournament, whoop the other duelist with my best friend Kouichi Nandao watching and cheering for me, and then get home without any huge scenes or anything… I guess I was dreaming.'" he sighed as he looked at the intersection of the back alley Tokyo street.

"KOU! I'M GONNA KILL YOU!" he yelled at the top of his lungs. Turning towards the other boy's house, the blond stomped straight through the streets to meet up with his best friend.


Kouichi Nandao was focused on the sword in front of him, as he swung his blade swifter and swifter, he made sure to miss the bamboo that most would think he was aiming at. The boy stabbed the air straight above the bamboo… Or that was his intention any way, unfortunately, the loud yell of a young man that the boy knew yelled and made him lower his stab motion, so it hit straight through the large slab of wood.

Kouichi was a strong, muscular, 6'0'' boy who could when the hearts of many women if he tried, he had the beautiful violet eyes that women would fall for. But most thought him weird. He had a nice blue hair color and… oddly enough, large canine teeth that stuck a little way beyond his bottom lip (Another turn off for women).

The yell that was heard by the blue haired boy was coming from a certain blond…

"KOUICHI NANDAO, YOU STOOD ME UP!" Shisei, a very angry blond strode up on the street and glared at the dumbfounded boy by said name. "What, were you just going to leave me hanging! Huh!" he continued his onslaught on the boy with a few very unflattering words to the ear.

"Ummm… Sei, what in the world are you so angry about, did I do something wrong?" Kou questioned the other boy nervously. This caused Sei to twitch in annoyance.

'The nerve of him, how dare he just completely forget about me and the tournament!"' Shisei thought to himself. "Yeah you did something wrong, you idiot!" he said, though this time in a considerably calmer voice.
"Like what?" Kou asked his angry best friend. He was obviously completely oblivious to the fact that he was supposed to meet the other boy at all.

Sighing, Shisei decided to go over it slowly. "Okay, you know I play a card game that's very popular, right?" he questioned. It wasn't that Kou was a complete idiot, he just wasn't very considerate.

"Yeah, I think I remember hearing you say something about that." he nodded his head as the memory flowed back to him. He sat down on the stairs of his house and leaned on the blade he still carried. The blade was one of distinct pride to the boy. He was proud that he was the best swordfighter that the world would ever see (at least in his own opinion, and he hoped Sei's). It was a shiny silver and long and thin, but only slightly curved at it's end. The hilt of the blade had a dragon with exactly 7 heads and was blue.

" Okay, so basically, last week, I said I would go see the sword fighting tourney, and you said you'd see the Duel Monsters tournament." Shisei paused in his speech to take a breather. After taking a deep breath, he continued. "With me so far?" he questioned, with Kou, you always had to ask things like this.

"Oh! Right, that was supposed to be…. OH MY GOD!" he looked at Shisei incredulously, as it dawned on him. Shisei nodded to let him know he was right about his assumption on the blond boy's anger earlier. "I have to do Ginta's laundry!" Kou finished, as he got up off the stairs.

"Well, Sei, it was nice talking to you but I have to go," he was up and going toward the door, and then he turned back with a valiant look on his face. "I must depart, dear friend, lest I lose my honor! So fare well!" and with that he ran up the wall, onto the roof of his own everyday Japanese house and flipped around out of sight.

Poor Shisei just stared incredulously at the roof of the house, where his best friend had been moments before. Then snapping himself out of it, he ran in the direction of the blue haired boy, straight to the Laundromat.


Shisei arrived in time to see Kou arguing with a bunch of old ladies. "Pleeeaaaasee! I really need to get my clothes done now!" he begged, giving way to the argument that Shisei had walked in on.

"Well, well, well, look how low you can get to do that snob Ginta a favor, yet you won't even remember my only request!" Shisei looked down at Kou in disgust. Then he sighed d at the look of question in Kou's eyes and helped the boy up. The old women, who were still watching thought this adorable.

Shisei twitched at that and sighed once again. "Come on, let's find an empty spot and use that." he said to Kou.

"Sound's good to me!" Kou smiled and began to twist his head around to look for a spot. "HEY! There's one over there!" Kou rushed straight toward the spot, trying to reach it before he someone else… To late, a boy began to unload his clothes in the machine just as he reached it.

With flames in his eyes, Kou glared down at the boy. " Just what do you think your doing, kid!" Kou continued to glare down at the child, who just looked up at him dumbly. "What do you mean, I'm about to wash my clothes. Geez, what is you problem!" the boy rolled his eyes as Kou began to twitch uncontrollably.

"Kou, just let the kid have this one, we'll wait until another one clears up, okay!" Sei asked his best friend as he put a hand on his shoulder to soothe the annoyance of the boy.

"But you don't understand Sei!" Kou started. "I have to get them done today, " he made the valiant face and his voice immediately deepened, "lest I lose my honor!" his face went back to normal, as well as his voice. "So we have to get the clothes done… NOW!" Turning back to the boy, he said. "So what's it gonna be, either you give me that machine, or I take it from you!" he threatened. The child didn't seem afraid at all.

"Okay, so we'll decide it in a duel! Deal?" he questioned, removing his deck from a deck holder that was attached to his belt.

"A what?" Kou asked. Shisei slammed a hand against a his forehead, still unable to believe that Kou couldn't remember one of the most important games around nowadays. He then just sighed and took out his laptop case. Opening it, he began to remove the spare duel monsters cards he carried everywhere from it, as well as his laptop. I may have sounded cruel, but Shisei was going to use the laptop to record and play the duel over and over again, to get revenge on Kou for forgetting his own duel.

"A duel, you know, with duel monster cards?" the boy rolled his eyes again at how oblivious Kou was. Then when Kou still didn't know, the boy sighed and told him to forget it when…

"No, he'll accept, after all, he needs the washer, he make his deck from some of my spares." Shisei insisted. He smiled evilly as Kou took the cards.

"I may have never heard of this game, but I won't lose any challenge." he stated. He began to look through the cards, selecting the "pretty" ones. Meanwhile, the boy began to look cute and get a table with his cuteness from the old women. "I don't know any thing about the game, but I will not let you beat me, kid, and hey, since you even like the little cards, I'll throw in a card of mine." he said. Shisei looked up abruptly from setting up the camera with a look of fear in his eyes.

"WHAT!" he asked. After all, it wasn't everyday that his friend missed his tournament and decided to bet a card from the game that he didn't know anything about, and a card that wasn't his as well.

"You don't mind, do you Sei?" Kou questioned and without waiting for a response, he jumped up with his deck of "pretty cards and got ready for the duel.

" Okay, we'll duel with 8000 life points, considering only top duelist like Yugi Moto and Joey (Jono) Wheeler duel with the 4000." they shuffled the decks, Kou just did so because he knew that in card games, you usually shuffle your cards.

"I'll go first." the boy stated, he began to draw his five as Kou stared, completely lost on how to start the game. The boy, though, had just got a nice combo and he was anxious to try it out, so he didn't see the blue haired boy's lost look. He drew the sixth card and looked to see that the other boy did nothing. "What in the world are you waiting for, draw your five card hand." he yelled at Kou.

"Okay, okay, I told you I don't have the slightest clue how to play this weird looking game." he responded, drawing five cards. After he drew, he was lost again. So he decided to ask Shisei. "Hey Sei, how do you, umm… Win?" he asked his friend, hopeful in the fact that Shisei would help him.

"HEY!" the boy yelled angrily as Sei jumped at the chance to help him. He wanted to annoy Kou with his loss , but not at the cost of one of his precious cards. "No backseat dueling, or I'll automatically win the card of my choice from this loser's deck." he finished. 'Man this is gonna be easy, this idiot doesn't even know how to duel"' the kid thought evilly. He smirked and began his move.

"Okay, I'll play 2 cards face down in the magic and trap card zone." he set the cards down on the table that they had managed to secure from the old hags. "Then I'll set this card in my monster card zone." he set yet another card down on his side of the playing field. "Your move, oh to tell the type of card, look at the borders." he stated. "Normal monster cards are yellow bordered, magic (spell) cards are green, and the purple cards are traps." he smiled, happy in the fact that he hadn't even mentioned how to activate the cards or play them.

"So the card zones are… what exactly?" Kou questioned. The boy sighed and got ready to explain again.

"Basically, the Magic and Trap card zones are for the green and purple bordered cards. And that is the zone closest to you." he stated, motioning to the other boy's magic and trap area. "And the monster card zone is right above that, you can set or summon a monster." he continued, confident that no matter how much information he gave Kou, he would remain completely lost. "Continuing, a set monster is in defense mode, regardless of what you want, and a summoned monster can be played in attack or defense mode." he finished.

"Okay, now I know what to do, I… summon Axe Raider (1700/1150)." unsure of how to put the card, he copied the other boy's movement, and put it in face up defense position. "Go." he responded. Sei slapped a hand against his forehead as he saw the combo.

'He has Ceasefire, Chosen One, Zoa, and Big Bang Shot, that could have been and instant LP reduction unless something foiled it.'" he sighed and continued to watch the duel, though he no longer felt like tape recording it.

The boy smiled at how easy this was. "Okay, now I'm going to tan your hide, amateur" he emphasized the word to annoy Kou. "I draw first." he took a card from the top of his deck and put it in his hand. "Ooh, now your in for it!' he smiled mischievously as he slapped a magic card down on the table. "This magic card is called fissure, it has the ability to instantly destroy the weakest monster on the opponent's field," he smiled proudly at his speech, only to twitch in annoyance when Kou looked at him with a stupid expression. "in other words, you lose that card." he stabbed his finger down n the card in great annoyance and slid it in front of Kou's deck.

"Hey, where are you putting that, in my deck?" Kou asked, completely oblivious to the card graveyard.

The boy sighed as he realized he needed to do some more explaining. "No your graveyard." he knew that Kou would be lost, but he still wished he wouldn't. "Okay, let me explain." he started. "In Duel Monsters, each player has a graveyard, a deck, a field and a hand that's all their own." he began to think of how best to explain it and then he went on." Okay, so the deck and graveyard's are limitless, but you have to have at least a forty card deck. With me?" he questioned. For once, Kou was actually listening, this shocked Sei and the boy. "Now then, the hands that each player has, can be used to increase their chances of winning, by either getting a monster summoned, destroyed, or removed from play. They can do other things too, but this is about a destroyed monster, like Axe Raider." he took a deep breathe and continued. "When a magic or trap card is played, it goes to the graveyard, unless it has an infinite, or continuous symbol on it. When a monster battles and loses because of a magic or trap effect or because of another monster killing it, it goes to the graveyard." he once again took a breath. "So that is where I put your monster, got it?" he finished.

Kou had somehow managed to take all that in. "Okay, now is it my move?" he asked the young boy.

"No way! Now my Giant Soldier of Stone will directly attack your LP, but before that, I will use reinforcements to increase its attack by 500 points (1800/2000) for…" the kid paused, he could be honest and say one turn, but then he would lose his edgeways. "the rest of the match." he smiled evilly at his little trick. Shisei looked up at the cheater and glared at him as he began damage calculation.

Kou-6200 Boy-8000

Once the kid had finished with his calculations on the paper they were using to take score, he ended his turn.

"Okay, so now, I guess I'll draw." Kou took a card from his deck's top and added it to his hand. ' Okay, those numbers at the bottom must be attack, but now they both have 500 extra attack points, how am I supposed to beat that?'" Kou thought to himself, he wanted to win this duel to impress Sei but now he was out of options. "I'll play, umm this in facedown defense position." he set the card. "End turn"

"Alright, I'll set a magic/trap facedown, and attack with Giant Soldier of stone (1800/2000)!" Kou flipped his card over to reveal Witch of the Black Forest (1100/1200).

"Alright, now I get a card, right?" he reread the card and turned to Shisei, who nodded in approval of a slightly improved move. "So I'll take this baby and shuffle the deck." Sei made sure it had the right description (defense of 1500 or less) and let Kou add it to his hand he smirked, proud that Sei had given him a look of approval for a change.

"Alright, go." the kid said. 'Hmm so he read the card, better end this before he gets into the real hard stuff area, I still don't know how to do chains."' the boy looked at his hand and knew exactly how to slow his opponent's roll.

"Well now that's good." Kou said after he drew his next card. "Alright, now I'll summon, Zoa (2600/1900) in attack mo-" he was cut short by the child duelist's protest's.

"Hey, you have to tribute, send to the graveyard of your own free will, 2 monsters to summon that thing." he looked at the monster that was on the card and instantly knew that that was the card he wanted when he won. "Hey, I'll take that card, when I win, I mean." he smiled at Shisei's outraged look.

"Deal, and I'll take a card if I win, one that I like, I mean." he winked at Sei, which only made Shisei feel worse. "Anyways, if I can't play that monster, then this'll have to do." he set a card facedown in the monster card zone.

"This duel is over. I'll play Change of Heart" he slid the Magic card down and grabbed the only monster on his opponent's field. "Ooh, well what do you know, the might Beta the Magnet Warrior(1700/1600), okay, I'll obliterate you with your own monster." He laughed and called his attack. "Now then, both of the monster shall directly attack your life points!"

Kou-2700

Boy-8000

"Ouch, that hurt." Kou looked nervously at the cards in his hands and began to try think of any way out of this.

"I'm not even done yet," the boy stated matter of factly. "now I'll sacrifice our monsters to summon my rarest and most powerful card." he paused, most likely for dramatic effect. "The mighty Sword hunter (2450/1700) and his attack increases when he destroys one of your monsters. So I wouldn't play one." he laughed again, and set down another magic card. "Now I'll play my quick attack magic card, it allows be to attack right now!" he called his attack and subtracted the damage.

Kou-250

Boy-8000

Kou stared incredulously at just how bad he was losing. ' Oh well, at least now I know for sure what's attack and defense."' he thought. 'Not like it helps though."' he sighed and drew. "My turn, and…" he looked at the card like it was a holy savior. "Alright, I'll set a monster, two magic or traps and end my turn." he sighed. ' If I win this, it'll be a miracle.

Shisei looked at Kou and his sparkling violet eyes in amazement. 'His resolve has changed completely… He's really trying to win!"' he thought in silence.

"Okey-dokey, my move, set this." the boy drew and set a magic/trap card. "And destroy your feeble monster." He smiled, only to frown as Kou activated his two face down cards. "Not so fast!" Kou yelled, the entire Laundromat jumped, he then covered his mouth and whispered: "Not so fast!" as he flipped the cards. "First off I play Ceasefire, flipping all facedown monsters face up, and you lose 500 life points for each effect monster, which is 2." he smiled at his move and watched the boy subtract 1000 from his own life point score.

"Oh well, I still destroyed your monster!" the boy smiled at his accomplishment, then paled as he saw the next card that was played by the new duelist.

"That's right, you forgot about my other card didn't you, well I feel sorry for you, because now you lose a monster and another 100 life points, because The Reliable Guardian adds 700 defense points to my monster! And since my face down monster was Wall of illusion (1000/2550), your attack doesn't hurt it, and if I remember right, Sei told me you lose LP when your monster is too weak." he smirked as he saw the wide open attack. The boy glowered as he adjusted the scores and said something about kids getting to big for their britches.

Kou-250

Boy-6900

"Go" the child spat at Kou. Sei breathed a sigh of relief, somehow, Kou had managed to shift the duel to the kid being on the defensive. But the three facedown card were what really worried the blond duelist. 'Come on Kou, don't let me down"' he thought, determined not to speak and make the boy lose the duel.

"Alright, now I dra-" he was cut off as he saw an activated trap, Time Seal. "Okay, now I don't draw. But I can still equip my creature with Big Bang Shot and have it direct attack. So go, Wall of Illusion (1400/1850), direct attack him!" he smirked at the kid and ended his turn after his direct attack.

Kou-250

Boy-5400

"That was pointless, you aren't going to win, so just stop trying." the boy drew he frowned at the card, but set it any ways. ' I will not lose to this amateur, I don't care how young I am!"' he thought fiercely determined to prove his worth. "Make your move, and don't forget that I have three set cards, anyone of them could deal you enough damage to win the game for me." he smirked, he was bluffing big time, but he had no other choice at the moment.

Kou drew. ' Hmm, let's see if luck is on my side."' he thought. "Now I play the card that has the potential to end this duel, Chosen One!" he said enthusiastically. He slapped the card down on the table and then got two of the other cards in his hand to use. "Now you choose a card that I selected from my hand, if the card is a monster, I special summon it, and if it is a magic/trap, I discard both of your options." he smiled and rubbed his hands together eagerly. "So, feeling lucky today!" he set the cards down and prayed that it would work.

The boy, praying for the exact opposite thing, chose the card on his right. "That one." he flipped it to reveal…

"Summon, Zoa (2600/1900), in attack mode, unless you got some trap." he smirked, knowing the answer and then activated the next card of the duel. "Now, activate Monster Reborn, to revive my Beta (1700/1600), then I'll sacrifice Wall of Illusion, to summon Total Defense Shogun (1550/2500), in attack mode. But when he's summoned, excluding special summon, he's switched to defense mode and he can attack in this mode!" he smiled triumphantly.

"Why did you have to do that, you could have won without completely humiliating me by summoning that thing!" the boy said, he looked down sadly.

"I'm not trying to show off, its just… Well this is my favorite card, so I want to end the duel with it on the field." Kou smiled. "Now, my monster's direct attack." he smiled as the boy realized the duel had been a friendly endeavor to Kou.

Kou-250

Boy-0

"FINALLY! I thought I would never get to talk again!" Sei burst out. Then he noticed that the choice of cards to take by the winner of the duel was being made… or had already been made. "HEY! Kou, what did ya' get?" Sei questioned eagerly. Then he twitched as he saw the Sword Hunter card in Kou's hand. Twitching, Sei slapped him on the forehead. "You idiot, that card sucks!" he moaned at all the good cards he could have gotten.

"Yeah, its not as good as some others, but I wanted him to have it, because that, as my favorite card, won't let him forget that he will always have at least one friend." the boy said and looked up at Kou, he flashed the thumbs up, and then left.

"Well now, I bet you thought I'd lose, didn't you? Admit it!" Kou laughed at Sei's annoyed face, and added the card he'd just received to his deck.

"Let's just wash the clothes, okay?" Sei asked his friend.

"Yeah, I lost a dare, so I have to do all of Ginta's chores , or else eat cow poop." he laughed and put a hand behind his head. "So … OH NOOOOOOOOO!" Kou yelled , just realizing the mistake he made.

"What?" Sei asked.

Kou turned slowly toward the boy, twitching in annoyance as his head turned. "I forgot to bring the clothes."

And the only thing that was heard was a loud punch and someone being called an idiot.


Next Time on Duel Monsters Maximum: Getting nearly killed in a car accident may seem shocking enough, but Kou takes his daring even farther by challenging a champion duelist after nearly being run over. Will hewin the strange encounter? Find out next time on Duel Monsters Maximum!