Sdrive: Ok, here we go, a fic I've wanted to start for a little while now, don't worry, a new chapter of Masters will be appearing shortly. Just gotta finish a few details before it's done. Ok, here we go.
Disclaimer: If I had a dollor for everyone of these I did, I'd be a lot richer than I was.
P.S. If you know the opening theme music of Battle City, it will be easier to see the visions in you mind.
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Doors open up leading into the Sky Top Duel Arena. The silouette of 5 duelists with the latest Duel Disk system on their arm are in the door way. "You're Move" is echoed throughout the background as each of the duelists duel disks open up and they insert their decks inside.
Scene's of duels flash through the front with the favorite monsters of each of the Sky Top Duelists. A Black Magician, A Red Eyes Black Dragon, a Raging Flame Sprite, a Thousand Eyes Restrict, and a Blue Eyes White Draogn appear in the middle of the Sky Top Arena. A bunch of images flash within seconds as Yugioh, Sky Top Duels, echos in the background.
Images of of the blue haired Kayose, white haired Sarosu, and black haired Lin, fade in and out, all with a devious smile on their face. They summon Dark Necrofear, Machine King, and Revival Jam, as the monsters begin to battle against a Luster Dragon, a Twin Headed Fire Dragon, and a Black Magician Girl.
Image changes over to a brown haired boy with a grey hat on his head and determined green eyes with the Black Magician on his side of the field, and a purple haired girl with blue eyes and a Wing Weaver on her side of the field, facing off against each other as the image spins around them.
Large moving beats sound as the Sorceror of Black Magic appears, his staff in his hand, the Red Eyes Darkness Dragon, preparing it's attack, and a Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragon roaring loudly pass by as each image appears within a different scene.
"It's time to duel," is echoed out as each duelist raises a card and places it on their Duel Disk.
A boy with brown hair and brown color eyes wearing a black trentch coat and tan, cargo pants stands with his arms crossed as an Image of the Red Eyes Black Dragon is right behind him. A close up shows a determined look on his face.
A girl with red hair, green eyes wearing a yellow t-shirt and blue jeans is in a fighting position in the back of a dark alley way with an image of the Raging Flame Spriteshown behind her. A close up of her face shows an energetic smile on her face.
A boy with black hair and brown eyes, of asian descent, stands wearing a plain white t-shirt with black pants on as he faces off with Lin. A hologram of the Thousand Eyes Restrict is on his side of the field. A close up shows his face without any fear.
A boy with brown hair, wearing a black hoody with a dragon on the front summons a Blue Eyes White Dragon. A close up image shows his face ready to take on anyone.
The boy with brown hair, hidden by his grey hat, green eyes, red jacket and blue jeans stands in front of the others as they look up at the Sky Top Duel Dome raised up in the sky. The Image changes to a see them all on a boat looking towards an island. The Brown Haired boy pulls a card from the Duel Disk and raises it. Black Magician appears on his left, Red Eyes Black Dragon appears on his right. Thousand Eyes Restrict appears on the left above the Black Magician while a Raging Flame Sprite appears on the right above the Red Eyes. A Blue Eyes White Dragon appears right behind him as, "Sky Top Duelists" echos in the back ground.
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The sun started to shine over the horizon turning the sky a brilliant red as sunlight slowly crept across the city of Domino. A brown haired boy was woken from his sleep as the light came in through his window. He slowly sat up rubbing his eyes with his hand. With no enthusiasm at all, he went into the bathroom for no other purpose than nature called. As he considered whether or not he should go back to bed or actually get up to go to school he began to brush his teeth. Once finished his autopilot set in and he walked out of his room and down the hall. He turned right into his small grey kitchen. He opened the refrigerator and sighed. He closed the door when he realized that closing his eyes and then re-opening wouldn't put food in the fridge. "I have to go shopping," he said to himself.
He returned to his room a white little square that could have been either a sleeping quarters, or a prison, he was never quite sure which it was. It had a small wood dressor that had a mirror built into it on the right of his room. He looked at his messy bed, the sheets all over the place from another night of tossing and turning. He considered making the bed, but laziness kicked in and instead looked to the left of his bed at his small nightstand. On top of it was the key to his appartment, 5 dollars with three pennies on top of the money. His Dueling Deck was sitting in between the key and the money, an alarm clock sitting on the right. In back of his deck was a photograph.
He walked towards the photograph and picked it up. In it was a picture of him, his mom was on his left and his step-dad was on his right. They were in a park with the sun off to the right. They were smiling and the boy had his arms around his mom and step-dad's shoulders. He sat down on the bed and just stared at the picture. After about a minute of looking at it he sighed and placed the photo back where it was.
He got up and got dressed into the school uniform and his black shoes. He went to his bed post and took down a seat belt from an old car. He put it around his waist and clipped it. "My ol' home-made belt," he said looking down at it. He picked up his deck and placed it into the Deck Box that he had equipped to the seat belt. He also took off his grey hat and his red jacket that was hanging from the wooden sphere that was on top of the bed post. He placed his hat on his head and put his jacket on. He grabbed the money on the night stand placed it into the pocket of his jacket. He grabbed his key and walked down the hall. He opened his door and shut it behind him. He locked it and then hurridly turned around, trying to get out before Ricardo saw him. He failed.
The man was of spanish decent, he had 5 O'clock shadow, greying hair, wearing a faded brown shirt and tan pants. "Yo, Taki, where's my rent money? It's the first of the month."
"My name is Kai, and you know I don't have it Ricardo," Kai said.
"Well, you aren't going to be living here much longer if you can't pay the rent. You got any money on you?"
Kai pulled out his 5 dollars, "All I have is the 5 dollars for..." Before he could finish his sentance Ricardo grabbed it away from him. "Hey, I was going to use that for my lunch today," Kai said.
"And now it's going to the rent. With this, you got another night to get me some money before I kick you out."
"But, I need this place, I have no other place to stay, and you know I can't get any money until next week."
"I missed the part where that's my problem. Why don't you go sell your stupid cards, then you'll have some money."
"Sell my Duel Monsters cards?" Kai said quietly.
"Get outta here," Ricardo said as he pointed to the stairs. "Bring me my money," he said as Kai slowly walked towards the stairs.
Kai walked out the door of the apartment building and stood outside looking up at the sky. He sighed and started walking towards the school. He walked in silence until he heard someone calling his name. "Kai, hey Kai wait up." Kai turned around to see a red haired girl wearing the pink girls school uniform running up to him. "Kai, I thought you were going to call me last night. What happened?"
Kai stood there sighing, "Ricardo cut my phone line Sprite, I'm sorry, I would have called you."
"Oh, well, it's ok. So, excited for this weekend?" Sprite asked him as they continued to walk towards the school.
"What's to be excited for? I have to sell my cards," Kai said really sullen.
"WHAT?" Sprite cried out. "Why would you do that?"
"Ricardo want's this months rent by tomorrow or else he's kicking me out of the apartment. I have no choice, I need the money."
"What an ass, that's not fair," Sprite said complety appalled. "What about, the Black Magician Girl that your mom got you, just before she..."
"Surviving right now is more important than cards," Kai said as he looked down at the deck box attatched to his belt. He sighed and continued to walk towards the school. Sprite followed right after him. "I'm sure there is an other option, I can help you with the money..."
"No, I need to do this," Kai said quietly. They got to the school and they walked down to the cafeteria where their other friends were sure to be waiting. They got down there and saw Hajime, he was wearing his newly aquired black trentch coat and blue pants. Hajime had thick brown hair, much like Kai's only Kai's was a bit longer than Hajime's due to not being able to get a haircut for months. Kai sat down across from Hajime and sighed. "Let's go," Kai said pulling out his deck. "My last duel."
"Please don't tell me that the countless pownings I've delivered to you have caused you to give up the game," Hajime said annoyed. "If that's the case then you good sir epiclly fail!"
"It's not that," Kai depressed while looking down at the cards he was shuffling.
"Wait, what's wrong?" Hajime asked, realizing that Kai wasn't his usual energetic self.
"Ricardo is going to kick Kai out if he can't pay the rent and so now Kai has to sell his cards in order to get the money to stay in the apartment," Sprite explained looking down at Kai.
"What? That manipulative asshole," Hajime said annoyed. "You know he despises this game, that's why he wants you to sell them."
"How'd you know he sugessted that?" Kai asked looking up at Hajime.
"You would never willingly think of selling your cards unless someone planted that Idea into your head to do so. And we all know how much Ricardo hates Duel Monsters, thats why whenever we have parties we either hang out at Sprite's or Nine's house."
"Speaking of which, where is Nine?" Sprite asked.
"Someone devoured my soul!" Nine shouted while grabbing on to Sprite's shoulders and shaking her. Sprite screamed, grabbed his arm, and swung him over her shoulder, pounding him into the floor. She looked down to see a tall brown haired boy. His hair was short and thin and his blue eyes looked as if they had just been poked out with a spear.
"NINE!" Sprite shouted at the boy on the floor, "what the hell did you think you were doing scaring me like that?"
"Well sorry, I thought you liked jokes," Nine said as Sprite helped him up. "Ow, that really hurt."
"Well that's what you get," Sprite said crossing her arms. "So, what happened to your eyes? They look horrible.
"I stayed up studing for a chemistry test, I got maybe two hours of sleep tops."
"Oh shit!" Kai cried out. "The chem test! I completly forgot about it!"
"From what I hear, that should be the least of your worries," Nine said. "We have to figure out a way for you through this whole buisness with Ricardo so that you don't have to sell your cards."
"But theres nothing I can do. I don't have any money," Kai said.
"We can help you out, we can support you for a while," Nine said.
"No, because then I will have to pay you back eventually. I just have to find a way to get a good deal out of all this." Kai started looking around as if he was looking for someone. "Where's Domid?" he asked.
"He left early to go talk to a teacher," Hajime said. "I'm not sure if he'll be back or not."
"That's not important right now," Nine said, "We have to get together after school today, and the topic of the meeting, 'Help Kai.'"
"Thanks everyone," Kai said smiling slightly.
"I'll contact Domid today when I see him in Topics," Nine said.
"Alright," Kai said. The bell rang signlaling that they all had 5 minutes to get to class or they would have to go sign in late. Hajime and Nine went up the stairs while Kai put his deck back into his deck box. Sprite stood there watching him, waiting for him to get up. "I'll see you this afternoon," Kai said to her. He turned to leave but felt her hand on his shoulder stopping him. He turned around to look at her. "Yes Sprite?"
"We'll help you get through this, I promise," she said as she wrapped her arms around him into a comforting hug.
He hugged her back, "Thanks, you've always been there to support me," Kai said smiling slightly.
"And I always will be," She said. "I have to get going, good luck on your Chem test," she said as she turned around to head up the stairs.
Kai turned around towards the direction that Nine had headed and slowly walked towards his class. He entered the classroom only to just miss the bell from ringing him late. His teacher, looked at him sternly. "Barely making it again Taki-kun?"
Kai gave him a mental middle finger and took his seat. "Well class, I hope you all studied, some of you don't look to happy to be here right now," he said looking right at Kai. "But, we all have overlook any meager problems and just get on with life, starting with this exam. You have the full class block to take it, if you finish, be respectful to the other students by not talking." The teach passed out the test and Nine gave Kai a thumbs up while Kai just rolled his eyes. Kai looked down at his paper and realized instantly that if grades were life points, and if he was a monster, the exam was Exodia and his life points were about to drop to zero.
After chemistry Kai and Nine were walking out of the class together. Kai had managed to explain his feelings towards the test to Nine and Nine just chuckled. "I doubt you did that bad."
"I suck at chemistry," Kai reminded him.
"Then I'm sure you failed and we can chalk it up to a shitty life," Nine said smiling at him getting Kai pissed off at him. "Anyway, we're having the meeting at my house. I'll see you there right after school." Kai nodded and then went down a seperate hallway to get to his next class.
The day seemed to drag forever and something in the back of Kai's mind told him that he wasn't going to end the day well. Suicide was an option, and it was looking damn good by noon. Honestly, how much harder could eternal suffering be for taking his own life compared to the suffering he already had. Still, he had a reason to keep on going. He wouldn't deny it to anyone but his friends, but he was in love with Sprite. He had been almost ever since they met, but his life didn't seem to be playing by the rules and he didn't want to drag her down in the rut. He was sure she had some level of feelings for him as well, but he never brought it up. He'd have to make the first move, and he wasn't ready yet. But as long as he knew it would devistate her if he took his life, he was going to keep going, for just a little while longer.
By the time school ended Kai was exhausted. He just wanted to go lay down on his bed and sleep, but he knew that his friends would become angry at him if he wasn't there since they were trying to help him. Kai walked over to Nine's house and when he got there was invited inside by Nine's mom. She led him to where the others were and he plopped down on the couch next to Dominid.
"Bad day?" Domid asked. Domid had thick black hair that went down to his forehead. He was of Asian decent and Kai had sometimes joked due to the way Dominid wore his hair that he was the missing 6th Beetle.
"Bad past year," Kai said as he rubbed his temples. "Now, I want you all to know that I don't want you all to feel as though you need to do this."
"Well if you didn't suck at life so much we wouldn't have to do this now would we?" Hajime asked him. "But, we've all grown attached to you, more or less," everyone nodded, "and some more than others," they looked at Sprite suspiciously. It was no secret, but until the two either had sex or at least started dating they weren't going to press the subject. "So it's more of a wanting to help you than a needing to help you. Even though you do need serious help. "Now, since we only have until tomorrow, I think what we should do is each put in a bit of money, just enough to give him the rest of the week until we actually think of a better plan."
Kai started sighing and then Sprite looked at him worriedly. "Is something else wrong?"
"I'm a wreck over there, you shouldn't even bother wasting your money, I have absolutly nothing going for me there. There's no food in the fridge, I have dirty clothes all over the place since I don't have any change for the laundry machines. Ricardo shut off my phone and hot water. The only thing your money would go for is him allowing me to stay there for the week, I wouldn't have anything for the other things I need. I have no choice, I have to sell my cards."
"No you don't," Domid said to him. "We can put in a bit more so that you can buy some food."
Kai only shook his head, "No, I can't allow you to do that. I'm surprised I'm letting you give me enough for the week. Going any farther would push me past what I can afford."
"We're not Ricardo, you can pay us back whenever you get the money," Hajime said to Kai. "We aren't going to hound you over it. Well I will, but that's only because I'm such a nice person," he smiled and gave him a thumbs up. Anyway, we're only giving up 15 bucks a person, thats 60 right there. If he let you stay till tomorrow on 5, that means you'll have 35 to get past the week, that leaves you 25 for food. Sure it's not alot, but if you just buy a box of cerel, milk, and random snacks you'll be able to hold on until that check from your dad comes."
"Which will go straight to Ricardo, I won't be able to pay you back."
"We already told you, don't worry about paying us back," Sprite said. "Pay us back whenever you get the chance."
"Yeah man, we're doing it because we are your best friends," Nine said giving him a thumbs up.
"Thanks everyone," Kai said. "Listen, I have to get back to the apartment. I want to make sure I can get him off my back for now." He resentfully took the money from everyone and then got up to walk to the door. Sprite got up with him.
"I'll walk you back to the apartment," she said getting her coat on. Nine, Domid, and Hajime walked out the door with them. "Nine, looks like you got some mail," Sprite said handing it to him.
"Thanks, you guys better get going," Nine said.
"Yeah, see you all tomorrow," Kai said waving. With that they headed off.
Nine, Domid and Hajime stood around looking at the lone peice of mail. It was an nvelope with the words, "Grand Prize Winner," on it. "I wonder if, if this could be from that Duel Monsters Contest I entered 3 months ago?" Nine said. He opened up the mail and a card fell out into his hand. He gasped as everyone else started at awe in it.
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Kai was walking next to Sprite looking down at the money. Sprite noticed that he looked depressed looking at it. "We did it because we wanted to," Sprite said.
"It's not that," Kai said. Sprite looked puzzled so Kai continued. "It's been a year now. So far I've been living off the checks my step-dad sends me, but Ricardo got all nasty and jacked my prices. If I don't do something soon I'll be homeless."
"Don't talk like that, we'll figure something out," Sprite said trying to cheer him up.
They walked in silence for a bit until they got to the apartment and noticed a rather large van out in the front. "I wonder what that's doing there," Kai questioned. Just then he noticed two men in blue uniforms carring out his night stand and Ricardo following them out with a wad of money in his hand. "That's my nightstand!" Kai cried out as he ran over to Ricardo. "What the hell are they doing with my nightstand?" Kai yelled at Ricardo.
"Oh, hello Taki, I just made enough money by selling your things to pay off your debt. Consider it a thanks seeing as how I doubt your cards would have been enough." Ricardo looked at Kai and just snikered.
"You asshole!" Kai screamed, he tried to punch Ricardo but Sprite held him back.
"Kai don't!" she pleaded, "he's not worth it!"
"Let go of me Sprite, he needs to pay for what he's done!"
Ricardo just laughed, "Go ahead, punch me, you're homeless now, I can have you arrested if you try to hit me." Kai just growled while Sprite did the best she could to hold him back. "Tell ya what, I'll give you 5 minutes to get out of my face before I call the police and tell them that there's a homeless kid trying to punch me."
"I'll kill you!" Kai screamed.
Ricardo reached into his pocket and pulled out a cell phone, "5 minutes, 5 seconds, boy, I can't count today."
"Kai, we have to get out of here now!" Sprite said. She pulled him away forcibly as Kai screamed at Ricardo.
"You'll burn in hell for this, know that now!" Kai yelled with all his might.
"Come on, we have to go!" Sprite pleaded. Kai stopped struggling and just glared at Ricardo.
"You'll pay, I know you will," Kai said. He ran into the van where the nightstand was, pulled it open, found his picture, pulled it out and then ran off with Sprite while the movers where yelling at him to come back with it. Kai and Sprite easily out ran them and soon found themselves a good quarter-mile away from the apartment. They stopped to catch their breath when Kai fell onto his knees. "I'm done, I have nothing left," he said.
"Don't worry, we'll figure something out," Sprite said kneeling down next to him. "It will be alright. Don't worry."
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Sdrive: Wow, this lasted longer than I thought, it was just supposed to be like a prolouge but it actually turned into a real chapter. Well, for those of you worried, don't, for it will get things rolling soon. The next Chapter should be out sometime either today, or tomorrow, but most likely tonight. Power to the Hikari's