Disclaimer: Any similarities between this fanfiction and other fanfictions is completely coincidental.
Author's Note: This story is much unlike the TV show. There is no "Duel Monsters" card game, but instead the monsters in the game are wild creatures that live on the world. Currently, I do not plan to use the human characters from the cartoon, either. This is a story to some of the card-only monsters that I like, and what I think would have been a cool background story for them. I know that, when you get technical on things from the show and Egyptian mythology, a few things in here are horribly off. Remember, it's just a fun little story wrote off from the top of my head. I hope you enjoy it, despite a few mistakes. Also, as a last thing to address, this fanfiction could not be possible without one of my friends who goes to a TCG shop. I played againts his Blue-Eyes deck, lost a lot, and got inspired to make the polar opposite of his deck, a Red-Eyes deck. Very quickly, Red-Eyes became my favorite card, and I later decided to write a fanfiction that was inspired out of the fondness.
You know who you are, and if you're reading this right now... thanks.
Trials of Light and Dark
Chapter 1 - The Beginning
On top of a lonely mountain, inside a somewhat large cave, an egg wiggled in its nest as two dark adult dragons looked at each other lovingly, and at the egg in anticipation. After quite a long wait, the egg began to crack, bit by bit, until it crumbled enough for a small, baby black dragon to poke its head out, and stared at its parents for a moment with his almost-glowing red eyes, before continuing to break out of its' shell. The adult dragons simply watched as their newborn freed himself, proud to have such a healthy, strong looking offspring. Once freed, the female lowered her head down to nuzzle and lick her child.
"Those eyes, they are so... unusual, glowing as if there is a fire behind them," the adult male pointed out.
"Yes, they were the first thing that I noticed about him. His eyes are unlike either of ours. Taking this into account, I think I have a fitting name for him." she agreed.
"Oh?" He looked to his wife with a smile, and curiosity in his eyes.
She nodded, and hesitated for a moment before answering, and then softly spoke, half to the baby dragon, and half to her husband.
"Red-Eyes."
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The years went by quickly, and smoothly. Red-Eyes had grown into what would be equivalent to a pre-teeanger. He was filled with curosity, as most young things are, and his heart overflown with love towards Eli, his mother, and Kly, his father, had left during them for his own adventures. Eli had tried her best to teach him to be kind, and, to Red's usual embarrassment, keep him clean and out of trouble; though he had learned much from her, due to the blood in his veins, he had not learned as much as he should have, and there were already signs of aggression and anger. For the time being, these feelings were subtle...
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Days later, Eli had talked to Red-Eyes about someone she thought he should be around with.
"Oh, there is another kid like me!" Red asked excitedly, always being alone aside from his parents. He had seen Mother and Father with their friends, how they socialized, and he wished he could have something like whay they have. Sure, the love of family is grand, but he wanted someone he could fool around with, without getting lectured.
"Yes, very much so like you. He lives close by here, and he's around your age. Would you like to go see him?" Wether Red wanted to or not, Eli planned to make him. She figured this other kid would be a better influence to him than Kly, and maybe even more than herself. Knowing the parents of Red's future friend, and the offspring himself through occasional chatter of how their days went, she knew this was what was for best.
"Yes! Of course I want to! I'm tired of being cooped up in this dusty, old cave!"
She smiled, glad that the situation went easily. Picking up her son in a tight claw grip, she flew off to larger mountain area that was close-by.
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Eli had arrived at her destination, landing infront of what seemed like a huge mansion, blocked off privately by powerful looking metal fences and a gate. It was not natural, and the sight of it sparked Red's curiosity.
"Wow, Mom! How'd this get here? Who or what made it? Why don't we live in something as cool as this?"
Eli shushed her son silent, "Questions may be answered later, but for now I have to do some talking," and with that, the dragoness raised her head, and let out a loud roar. Soon, there were loud steps being heard, coming closer to the gates of the mansion, and with each step a white dragon came into view more clearly. The gates opened with no button pressed, no lever pulled, and finally the white dragon was close enough to talk to, staring at Eli.
"You know that I exist to eradicate your kind, don't you, shadow?" The bigger dragon said this with a slight grin, a few of his deadly teeth showing.
Eli bowed her head, and closed her eyes. She showed no fear in her voice, but rather respect, "Yes, Great One. That is part of the reason I have came here."
With a cocked head, and somewhat confused eyes, he spoke once more, "Hrm, whatever do you mean? Have you came here to end your pitiful life by choice?"
She shook her head, "I would never let my life slip from my fingers without a struggle. Rather, I have come here with a... with a gift."
"A gift?"
"As I said. My wishes do not include to have my son slaughtered, or worse yet, being left alone. My wish is for you to take him in, to raise him as your own, White One."
He scoffed, and looked down at the, in his opinion, little runt of a dragon, "This puny thing? You'd think I'd taint my humble abode with such filth?"
At that, Red-Eyes growled softly, and blew a large stream of flame at the bigger male. Large for his size, anyways. It did nothing, however, and The White One didn't even blink, "Filth! I'm cleaner than you, dirt-face!"
Wiping his face where he had been "attacked", The White One continued on, "And ever so disrespectful."
If Eli was not infront of divine company, she would have probably nipped her child and talk to him, make him promise he'd never do such a thing. But right now, she just wanted to get her son to safety, inside of the mansion. The White One would probably discipline him later, anyways. So, she just kept her head lowered, and her eyes closed, "He's still young, sire. It's not too late to try to help him."
The White One looked down at her lowered head. He raised her with a single extended claw, and upon touch, Eli opened her eyes, and gazed into the almost glowing eyes infront of her. He spoke softly, genuine care finally showing, "You... are sure about doing this? You know what it means, right? He'll be raised to kill you, and your kind."
Red-Eyes cocked his head. He did not know the meaning of such painful, negative words yet, still in the child's ignorance that everyone's happy and lives forever.
"Yes, I do know what it means. But, at the same time, I feel that it opens up possibilities."
The White One simply nodded slowly, "Alright... I will take your son," he looked down to Red-Eyes, who was looking back and foreth to him, and his mother, "and raise him as my own."
"Huh, what? Mom, what's going on? You're not leaving me, are you?" Red-Eyes asked in quick succession, tears starting to fill his eyes, getting ready to spill out.
"Do not worry, son. This is for the best. We will see eachother again, someday. Not today, or tomorrow, but someday," the words burned in Red's heart as he watched his mother fly off, and he screamed out her name for her to stop, but she did not. The White One held him back when he started to run to chase her, willing to make a destined-to-fail attempt to fly after her. Once she was out of his sight, he simply layed his head on the big white hand that had him restrained, and cried.
He stopped crying, and instead gasped when a big tongue licked him on the back of his head. He turned his head, still sniffling, and looked at The White One.
"Don't worry, she'll be fine, and you will be, too. Come on, enough sad moments. Meet my son, inside." He pushed Red-Eyes to his feet, and walked slowly through the gates, turning back to make sure the small black dragon was following him before continuing.
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Author: I hope you enjoyed this beginning chapter. I havn't written in so long, this felt good to type out. Quite obviously, this chapter is just to set up Red's beginning history, and to get him and his (durrr obvious of who it is) future friend together. Tell me what you think. The next chapter will be coming shortly. Oh, and one last thing. I know "The White One" isn't exactly the best name in the world, but it was kind of the first thing to come to mind. Besides, it sounds wise.