Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V: The HERO of Pendulum
Chapter 2: The Three With Four Souls
Hey, hey, hey ficcers! I'm posting a little early since, this is a new fic and I want people to have more than one chapter to read while they wait for met to write more. I plan on having this story to be more or less separated into two seperate parts (but both parts will be inside the same fic) with the first part being a more happy and part, then we'll get into the real story in the second part. Moving on, I apologize in advance if I get the names, speech patterns, or behaviors of some of the characters, I only watched part of the dub, and it has been awhile since I watched the sub, so I'm not sure how accurate I'll be. To respond to a review from Darwin-18: Yes, you are correct, but in the dub his name is Declan, which is how I will be saying his name. With that out of the way, on with the fic...
"When I said 'drop me in' I didn't mean literally!" Shouted Nemo as he frantically flailed as he fell through the air towards the stadium.
"Nemo." Came a voice. Nemo's eyes widened as he looked for the source of the voice. Then an Astral projection of one of his monsters, Elemental HERO Neos, appeared. Nemo's eyes widened at the sight of his monster. "Save your surprise for later, I need you to Summon me, quickly!" Instructed the Level seven monster.
Nemo's expression turned serious as he nodded. Then with a flick of his wrist, he activated the disk, and the spot meant for placing cards appeared, like all disks, the center was black, but Nemo's was surrounded with an orange highlight. That wasn't the only different, each duel disk was shaped different, depending on its dimension of origin, but Nemo's didn't match any of them, instead it took on a shape similar to that of a lightning bolt, a very blocky, orange and black lightning bolt, but a lightning bolt regardless. Suddenly a card stuck out of the deck slot in Nemo's disk. He pulled it out and saw that it was Neos.
"I Summon Elemental HERO Neos!" Shouted Nemo, placing the card in the appropriate location on his duel disk, then the blue-eyed alien HERO appeared from out of thin air and flew next to Nemo. Then he grabbed onto his duelist and slowed their decent as he began flying him to the ground at a much safer speed as compared to his previous plummeting.
Meanwhile, with Yuya and Co.
"Because I'm ready, to swing into action!" Called Yuya as he ran towards his father, with his duel disk at the ready. But then a large boom caused him to stop, and everyone to look up. In the sky there was a portal similar to the ones that connected the four dimensions. "A dimension portal!?" Exclaimed Yuya in surprise.
"But who's coming through?" Wondered Zuzu. Declan pulled out a pair of binoculars from… somewhere… and looked through them.
"I don't know, but whoever it is, is falling, and falling fast." Said Declan. Yuya could hear a few gasps around him.
"Yuya." Said Yuto, appearing in his astral form next to Yuya. Yuya turned to look at his XYZ counterpart. "I sense something about whoever it is up there, something that may or may not bode well for us." Said the XYZ user.
"What do you mean?" Asked Yuya.
"We mean he's like us Yuya." Said Yuri appearing on the other side of Yuya.
"He can hear the souls of his cards." Said Yugo, also appearing.
Their gaze all returned to the falling boy. Then there was a flash of light the came from the person, and all of a sudden he was being carried down by a strange monster that none of them recognized.
"Did he just…" Said Sylvio in surprise.
"Summon a monster with a physical body, yes, Gong believes that he did." Said Gong. Soon the monster and the boy he was carrying. The monster let him the boy down, who appeared a little shaken up.
"Thanks Neos." Wheezed the fire-haired person.
Then then monster pixelated and disappeared. Declan walked up to the newcomer.
"Who are you, and which dimension are you from?" Asked the man, not taking the time to be pleasant.
The boy looked up at him with an emotionless expression. "My name is Nemo, as for my dimension of origin… that' where it gets tricky." Replied Nemo.
Declan's eyes narrowed. "What do you mean?" He asked sternly.
"I don't come from any of the four dimensions, I'm from somewhere else entirely, and for reasons I'd rather not divulge, I was sent here." Responded Nemo.
"That's not much of a reliable response." Pointed at Sora. Nemo's lips pressed into a thin line as he looked at the blue haired boy.
"Yeah, well that's the one I'm using, got a problem pineapple head?" Said Nemo in an agitated tone. The nickname left Sora sputtering angrily. Nemo rolled his eyes and waited for him to finish.
"Alright Declan," Said Sora angrily a he faced the gray haired man while pointing at Nemo, "let me at him, I'll knock this flame head back to wherever he came from!"
Nemo clapped his hands together. "A duel? That sounds like a wonderful idea, tell you what, if pineapple here wins," Said Nemo, ignoring the angry ranting of Sora, "you can do whatever you want to me, but if I win, you have to believe me, at least for now, I'll give my entire backstory later when I'm in a more comfortable, not in front of a large audience." Before Declan or Sora could respond, Yuya cut in.
"We agree to your terms." Said the tomato haired boy.
Nemo grinned at the sight of Yuya. "Well hello there Yuya, you too Yuto, Yugo, and...Yuri" Said Nemo, looking at each counterpart as he said their names, though he said Yuri's name in a tone that was less friendly than with the others. "
Wait… you can see us?" Asked Yugo in surprise.
"Hear you too." Replied Nemo. Everyone around them, besides Zuzu and her counterparts were staring at Yuya and Nemo in confusion.
"Er, anyone else confused here?" Asked Aster pointing at the two.
"I think this, Nemo, person has the power to communicate with the other three souls that dwell within Yuya." Said Shay.
"I can communicate with Zuzu's counterparts as well." Said Nemo, turning to look at the Fusion and the XYZ users. Then he looked at Zuzu, who had her counterparts floating around her as well. "Greetings Zuzu Boyle, Celina, Rin, Lulu." Greeted Nemo again looking at each counterpart as he said they're names.
"Can we please get to our duel!?" Demanded Sora.
"Sure thing pineapple!" Called Nemo once again sending Sora into an angry rant.
"Why do you keep calling him that?" Asked Yuya.
"'Cause that hair of his looks like a pineapple, he's not the only one, you're a tomato." Commented Nemo. Yuya heard Yugo begin to laugh, he whipped his head around and saw that Yuto and Yuri also had smirks on their faces. "I wouldn't laugh banana bangs, and you should ditch the smirk eggplant hair, you too cabbage boy." Said Nemo, then it was Yuya's turn to bite back a laugh at the expressions on his counterparts' faces.
"Duel, now!" Demanded Sora.
"Alright, alright." Said Nemo waving a hand at Sora as he walked towards him and the others all exited the field.. The two activated their duel disks.
"Field Spell: Sweets Island." Came a robotic voice, then the field changed into the same one from Yuya's and Sora's duel.
"Duelists locked in battle!" Said Sora starting the chant. "
Kicking the earth and dancing in the air alongside their monsters!" Said Nemo.
"They storm through this field!" Said Sora.
"Behold! This is the newest and greatest evolution of Dueling! ACTION-," Said Nemo, then at the same time they shouted, "Duel!"
Turn 1: Nemo: LP:4000, Hand:5 Sora: LP:4000, Hand:5.
"I'm going first, so hold your horses." Said Sora. He examined his hand. Deciding to hold of on the flashiness for now, he chose the three cards he would use. "I set a monster in Defense position, then set two face downs, I end my turn." Said Sora calmly.
Turn 2: Nemo: LP:4000, Hand:6 Sora: LP:4000, Hand:2.
"My turn, I draw!" Said Nemo as he drew a card. He had 5 monsters and 1 Spell. "I play the Spell Card: One Day of Peace." Said Nemo. "This card let's each player draw one card." He Explained. Sora blinked in surprise, then both duelists drew their cards. "I end my turn." Said Nemo plainly.
Sora almost swallowed the sucker in his mouth. "Wha-!? You play one card, which gives the opponent an extra card, then don't do anything else?" Demanded Sora angrily.
"Yup." Said Nemo with a smirk.
Sora gritted his teeth. "You'd better not being underestimating me, my turn, draw!" Said Sora, drawing his card.
Turn 3: Nemo: LP:4000, Hand:6 Sora: LP:4000, Hand:4.
"I flip my face-down monster face-up to reveal my Fluffal Cat (Level: 1 Type: Fairy Attribute: Earth ATK: 700 DEF: 300)." Said Sora, revealing the purple winged cat. "Next I summon Fluffal Mouse (Level: 1 Type: Fairy Attribute: Earth ATK: 100 DEF: 100)." Said Sora, placing another card on his duel disk, causing the winged mouse to appear. "Due to its effect, I can Summon up to two copies of it from my Deck, let's do that." Said the blue haired boy, two cards ejected from his Deck, which he grabbed and placed on the field, summoning two copies of his mouse. "Next I activate Polymerization!" Said Sora, as he activated the Fusion Spell, "I'll fuse Fluffal Cat on my field with the Edge Imp Sabres in my hand." The two chosen monsters floated into the air, then merged together into a spiral. "Claws of the demon and fangs of the beast, become one and reveal to us your new form!" Chanted Sora. "Fusion Summon!" Shouted Sora as he linked his fingers and put them in front of his chest, "Frightfur Tiger (Level: 6 Type: Fiend Attribute: Dark ATK: 1900 DEF: 1200)! " Nemo looked up at the blue tiger with scissor blades jutting from his stomach with an unimpressed expression. Sora growled at Nemo's apathy. "Due to Fluffal Cat's effect, if he's used for a Fusion Summon, I can target 1 Polymerization in my Graveyard and add it to my hand." Said the blue boy. A card came out of his Graveyard, which he added to his hand. "Next I activate the effect of Edge Imp Sabres, by placing a card from my hand on top of my Deck, I can Special Summon this card." Explained Sora. He placed a card in his hand back to his Deck, then he put Edge Imp Sabres (Level: 3 Type: Fiend Attribute: Dark ATK: 1200 DEF: 800) on his field. "Now I'll play Polymerization once again, this time fusing Edge Imp Sabres with my trio of Fluffal Mouses." Said Sora, activating his card, then causing all four monsters to go into a spiraling vortex. "Claws of the demon and fangs of the beasts, become one and reveal to us your new form!" Chanted Sora. "Fusion Summon!" Shouted Sora as he linked his fingers and put them in front of his chest, "Frightfur Wolf (Level: 6 Type: Fiend Attribute: Dark ATK: 2000 DEF: 1500)!" Then the blue wolf of nightmares appeared from the vortex. "Due to Frightfur Tiger's effect, all Frightfur Monsters gain 300 ATK times the number of Frightfur or Fluffal Monsters I control." Explained Sora, meaning that both of his monsters ATK grew by 600. "Battle Phase: My Monsters attack you directly, and due to Frightfur Wolf's effect, he can attack as many times as the number of monsters that were used to Summon him, sorry Nemo, but looks like this duel is over!" Shouted Sora, as his monsters charged toward Nemo. The fire-haired boy then began wandering off in a random direction in search of an Action Card.
"Is he crazy? If he moves that slow he'll be through!" Exclaimed Yuya.
Then Zuzu giggled next to him.
"Zuzu? What's so funny?" Asked Yuya.
"One Day of Peace is a very rare and powerful card, a duelist can only use one in their Deck, and it had another effect." Explained the pink haired girl. Nemo then broke out into a run as he hiked up the side of one of the candy rooves, he made it up just as the monsters crashed into him. Sora smirked and some of the audience gasped, worried that Nemo had been seriously hurt. But they were both surprised and relieved to see that not only was Nemo unharmed, but he had found an Action Card and his LP were untouched.
"H-how are you unharmed!? That was almost 13000 points of damage!" Demanded Sora. Nemo finally ditched the apathy in place of a smirk.
"One Day of Peace's other effect is that neither player can take damage until the end of the opponent's next turn." Said Nemo.
Sora glared at his opponent angrily. "I end my turn." Said Sora. Nemo's grin broadened.
"My turn then, I draw!" Said the flame haired duelist.
Turn 4: Nemo: LP:4000, Hand:8 Sora: LP:4000, Hand:0.
Then things got strange. When he drew his card, Nemo's white scarf began to brilliantly glow in a bright yellow light, which then spread around the rest of Nemo's body. Nemo's eyes widened in surprise, then he closed them and stretched has arms out to the side and let the light envelop him. Then his Extra Deck flew out of his duel disk. All fifteen cards floated around him in a circle, then they two began to glow, then they changed, as did the cards in Nemo's hand and Deck. Then the glowing subsided and Nemo opened his eyes and gazed at his hand, which caused his eyes to widen in surprise once more.
"Do you like the surprise Nemo?" Asked a voice from behind Nemo. Nemo turned around to see astral projections of three people behind him.
"Augh!" Shouted Nemo in surprise, causing him to tumble off of the small house and land with a thud.
He groaned as he rubbed the back of his head and looked at the ghosts, then he noticed something, they all had the same face as him. The first one had hair that looked similar to Yuma Tsukumo's but was purple and dark blue instead of pink and black, and did not have the large spikes protruding from the sides of his head, only the two large ones above his forehead. He wore a black long-sleeved undershirt with a short sleeved purple shirt that was altered so that some of the material went over his legs, and there was some missing from the bottom middle in a way that lined up with what over his legs, making a kind of W with the hem of his shirt. (think of Yuri's purple over shirt, but without the hole in the middle.) He also wore light blue pants, he wore gray and yellow boots (again, think Yuri's boots) that went over some of his pants, he had lime green eyes, he had a jacket that looked similar in pattern to Yuya's and was worn the same way as well, but it was aqua green where Yuya's was white, red where it was yellow, and white where it was red.
The next one bore a resemblance to Yugo, wearing a white jacket with yellow borders and blue stripes on the sleeves, along with a white jumpsuit that has gray, yellow, and blue stripes that meet in the center in a chevron pattern, white gloves, shoulder, elbow and knee pads. On his feet he wore black and white boots. His hair all went back on its own except for two gray bangs that covered small parts of his equally gray eyes. Most of his hair was dark blue except for two segments of gray near the back of his head that were mostly covered by his blue hair, three spikes, one going up and to the left, one going up and to the left, and the third going straight up and back, he also had two gray spikes on each side of the lower part of the back of his head. Strapped to his forehead were a pair of goggles with dark gray straps, a red rim, and orange lenses.
The third one bore some resemblance to Yuto, if you used your imagination that is. His first notable feature was the large gray-lined black cloak he wore, which went down to his knees in length, the inside of his cloak was white, but still had gray lining. He wore a red T-shirt and black pants that were slightly wider at the bottom so that it covered parts of his slightly pointy gray shoes, he kept his cloak in place with a purple tie, and had a similar tie that wrapped around his waist twice, functioning as a belt. His hair, unlike the others, did not defy gravity, most of it was black, went back and down to his shoulders, except for three long, red bangs that covered his left eye, the two on the sides went down to about his mouth, and the middle one rested just above his chin. His eyes had the same red hue that his hair did.
"Wh-who are you?" Asked Nemo. The three looked at each other, then back at Nemo.
"Well, I'm Eiji." Said the first one. "
My name is Maro." Said the second one.
"And my name is Ogai." Said the third.
"And together, we make you." Said Eiji.
Nemo raised an eyebrow. "And what is that supposed to mean?" He asked.
Ogai looked like he was about to respond, but they were cut of.
"NEMO!" Shouted Sora making Nemo jump in surprise. "Stop sitting there and take your turn!" Shouted the young fusion user.
"We'll talk later, our first priority is winning this duel." Said Maro.
Nemo nodded his head. Then with a smile he got to his feet and looked at Sora. "Sorry, Sora, but don't worry, because the fun is just getting started!" Shouted Nemo.
Ok, I'm aware that almost all of you know that I stole Yuya's English Sub catchphrase, but I'm going off of the English Dub, where his catchphrases are "It's showtime!" and "Swing into action!" so technically I'm not stealing, but I needed catchphrase, but I was drawing blanks when it came to ideas for a catchphrase. In the next chapter Nemo's true deck will be revealed, and it will be a brand new(ish) archetype. I can definitely say that the hardest part of writing this story for me will most likely be the duels, because of all of the keeping track of what's where and what can still be drawn and what will happen if I do this and so on and so forth, I've tried making deck list for the characters but that only works so well, and I can't memorize all the card effects so I constantly need to reference and just AAAAARGH! (sighs) Anyway… I think that's all I need to say so Imma gonna go. So until next time fic fans, Nemon0416 is outta here!
