Duelists of Dark and Light
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Thoughts
"speaking"
Ch. 1:
This is Domino. A small island surrounded by shark invested waters and a large forest grows on the island, a village is located near the shores of the island where the only form of tranceportation is. The island is in the far north with warm days but cold nights. There's fishing, hunting, great sunsets and good climbing trees. The only problems we have or the pests. While most places have an average mouse, mosquito, or even wolves. Domino...Has a bigger problem.
A teenager of the age of 17 pulled open her large wooden door and looked out only to slam it shut again as a Blackland Fire Dragon spewed flame all over the door.
Shadow Beasts.
"Crap!" She cursed and grabbed her coat. She then ran outside through the back door to see spells already flying in all directions. Dragon monsters roared and shot their breath attacks back at the humans.
My name is Shelen. Don't ask what it means or where I got the name. I only know my mother gave it to me before she and my father died. All of us have unusual names. Some are funny, others just discusting. Only the lucky ones have normal names. But back to the Shadow Beasts. No one knows where they came from or why they attack us, all we know is that by the time this generation was born, we had already learned how to defeat the monsters. By using spells cards.
Weird right? Well we'll see who's laughing when you get eaten. Anyway, we learned magic at birth and used it to defend ourselves against the monsters. But lately we do more than hold them back. Excpessially one person in paricular.
She ran but then tripped and fell. A male duelist had his Duel Disk on his arm at the ready. He glared down at her for a moment then gave a brief smile.
"Morning!" He said then ran off. Shelen scrambled to her feet and continued through the village. People shouted for her to get back inside, to get out of the way, and to go home. She ignored them. Suddenly another Blackland swooped low, spewing a trail of flame right where Shelen would have been if someone hadn't grabbed her.
"Shelen!" Came the cold voice of the man holding her arm, "What is she doing out? What are you doing out here? Never mind, get inside!" The man pushed her lightly forward. She nodded and hurried off again.
That's Seto Kaiba. CEO and leader of the entire orginization. They say his little brother was killed by a Blue-Eyes and that Seto killed that Blue-Eyes in cold blood with only 1 spell. Do I believe it? Yes, yes I do.
"What do we have tonight?" Kaiba asked, his cold blue eyes never leaving the battle.
"Blacklands, Dinos, red-eyes, oh and someone said they saw a Blue-Eyes as well!" A man standing next to the younger said.
"Has HE shown up yet?"
"Not yet, sir." The older man said, his shades hiding his expression which remained stony and his hair was pointed at the tip which added to his odd look. An explosion hit behind them and a piece of the charred building hit the CEO's white sleevless trench coat.
"Good." Kaiba said and brushed the smoldering hot wood off the coat with little effort and as though it were nothing.
...
Shelen burst through the doors to the forge. She was greeted by an old man.
"Oh ho! Nice of you to join the party!" The man said with a chuckle, "Thought you might have been carried off!"
"What? Me? No way, I'm waaay too advanced for their taste!" She laughed and set up a rather large looking weapon onto a few pegs.
"Well they need toothpicks don't they?" The man chuckled again.
The old guy with attitude and wrinkles is Shimon. I've been his apprentice since I was little. Well, littler.
Shelen rushed to the drop off window and grabbed a bunch of the different style Duel Disks and used weapons. She then hurried to the stone basin piled high with blazing coals. She set the items onto the coals and began to pump the billows. Shimon was handing out the new cards.
Confused? Well, see Shimon's specialty in magic is manipulation. The weopons we make are trned into cards to make dueling with them easier.
Shelen rushed back to the window and set the already fixed items onto the drop-off counter. She was about to return to working when she heard someone say;
"FIRE!"
Then six teens rushed over to the Well and filled their buckets.
Oh, that's fire duty. There's the Pschopaths Bakura and Marik-Two of the teens, one with long white hair the other with long sunbleached, began to fight over one bucket-The ever-so-Charming, Jazz-A girl with cherry red hair was holding a bucket, she was pretty but had a record of being a real flirt-The shy but very brainy Kyla-A timmid looking brunette was hurrying to put out a fire next-The crazy but party-crazy, Crystal-Another brunette with magenta at the ends of her hair was putting out another fire-And...Daren.
Shelen gazed at the last of the group, a tall handsom brunette teen with forest green eyes. He was smiling in a way that made every girl in the village swoon. Every girl but Shelen. She didn't care about his looks or his actions, she cared about his inner self. He wasn't the right one for her was all.
Their job is so much cooler than mine...
Shelen glanced around to see if Shimon was looking then she tried to hoist herself up to climb through the window and get a closer look.
"Oh no you don't!"
A hand grabbed her by the back of the shirt and placed her firmly on the ground.
Hey, he works in the forge, he's gotta be at least a little strong!
"Oh come on! Let me out! Please?" She pleaded, "I need to make my mark!"
"Oh, you've made plenty of marks, all in the wrong places." Shimon pointed out, poking the girl in the chest.
"Two minutes! I kill a dragon, my life gets way better, heck I may even get a date!" Shelen had her life after becoming a hero all planned out. Fall in love, become a master Duelist, and stop getting glared at.
"Look, you can't do a summoning spell," Shimon began to count with one hand and used his index finger to make his point by pushing the other hands fingers down with each listing, "You can't do a simple healing spell," He held up a card that said binding spell, "You can barely do a binding spell!"
A man grabbed the card and placed it in his duel disk and used his free hand to shoot the spell. It hit a dragon and the beast went down.
"Ok, but THIS," She held up a contraption that was the real version of the card, "Will do that for me."
She pat the machine holding the equipment with a proud smile. The contraption then sprang open and hit a Duelist outside in the head. The guy fell backward with a thump.
"That wasn't supposed to happen." She said bluntly.
"You see? That is what I'm talking about!" Shimon said as he pointed to the window.
"Mild calibration issue-"
"Shelen! If want to get out there to fight the monsters, you need to stop all...This."
He gestured to her whole being, simply.
"Y-You just pointed to all of me." She said.
"That's right! Stop being all of you."
"Oh, I get it."
"Oh, yes."
"You sir, are playing a dangerous game. Keeping this much raw Duelistness(A/N: I'm not even sure that's a word XD) contained? There will be conciquences!" She jabbed a finger in the air to prove her nonexistant point.
"I'll take my chances. Sword. Sharpedned. Now." Shimon handed her a large sword which her knees buckled under the weight of it. She sighed and went over to the shaprening instrument that was a large stone wheel.
One day I'll get out there. 'Cause defeating a Shadow Beast is EVERYTHING around here.
She looked up from her work for a moment, just remembering the beasts that were outside was bad enough.
A Blacklander is sure to get me at least noticed. Duos' are tough, taking down one of those will definitaly get me a boyfriend. Dinos, two heads. Exotic, both breathe flame but it's charged by different energies. Twice the status.
Kaiba stood with some of his men on top of a high tower. A Duel Disk was on his arm.
Then there's the Blue-Eyes white dragon. It approaches as blue mist, like a spirit, then attacks with a violent light energy. Only the best go after them.
"Keep going!" Kaiba ordered his men as they braced for attack, "I'll take care of this."
He pulled some cards from his disk and held them at the ready. He found the right one and fired a hammer spell. The blow from the invisible hammer hit the Blue-Eyes easily. Suddenly though a mighty roar was heard. Everyone looked up to see a huge, long red dragon diving toward them.
"It's him!" One of the villagers cried and ducked.
"It's the Shadow Prince!" Another yelled. The dragon swooped low and a blast of black magic hit the tower Kaiba was on.
The Prince of Shadows. The most feared of the beings we have faced. No one knows where he came from or what he really is, but if he had the power to tame Slifer the Sky Dragon then he was truly a powerful being. He never shows himself, never speeks a word or yells a cry of victory or a spell, and never misses his target. No one has ever been able to defeat him. That's why I will be the first.
"Man the forge, Shelen." Shimon said as he strapped on his Egypt style Duel Disk, "They need me out there."
She stared at him in disbelief.
"Stay. Put. There." He told her, "You know what I mean." He then ran off into the battle.
Shelen didn't wast a second. The moment Shimon was out of sight she grabbed her invention and ran through the duelers. She found a lone hill and set the machine up. She then waited. Just one sight of Slifer she would know what to hit. She scanned the sky and silently prayed she'd be lucky. Sudden;y she saw it, a shimmer in the night sky, like a golden star. Then she saw him coming. Slifer was diving again. She took aim and hoped with ll her heart she'd hit the target.
There was a loud bang and suddenly there was a human sounding cry of pain, anger, and fear. She saw Slifer go down and saw the dragon shimmer and fade as a smaller form was seen. Then the form disappeared into the place of the forest known as Kingdom Come. Because not many lived if they went to that place. It was rare for one to survive.
"Yes. I hit it...YES! I hit HIM! I hit the Shadow Prince!" She cheered and looked around to see anyone had noticed. She then heard a snarl and looked up to see the Blue-Eyes glaring down at her. She gulped.
"I'm screwed..."
Then ran.
...
Some Blackland Fire dragons were distracted with some lone sheep at the moment of Shelen's victory. Kaiba and his men shot a net spell and were holding them down. Suddenly Kaiba heard Shelen scream. He looked up and sighed as he watched the Blue-Eyes was chasing her.
"Do NOT let them escape." Told his men coldly. They nodded and Kaiba ran off to help Shelen.
That girl will be te death of me... He thought.
...
Shelen dodged yet another attack from the Blue-Eyes as it chased her. Snapping and blasting as it went. She knew no one would save her, of course. They all hoped this would happen someday. She hid behind a post and braced herself for the attack. There was a final long blast of medium light energy that only burned the post to where it was barely standing straight and the dragon was about to snap it's jaws shut around Shelen's body when-
A sudden light spell slammed into the beast. It looked up to see Kaiba had jumped down and was glaring at the beast. It skreeched at him and tried to fire another light wave. But nothing but a few sparks came.
"You're all out." Kaiba said and was about to fire another spell. The dragon knew it had been defeated and desperately flew off. Kaiba then turned to the post as the thing suddenly collapsed on itself and crashed to the ground on it's side.
Oh, there's one more thing you should know...
"Hi, Cuz..." Shelen said weakly, laughing slightly out of nervousness with a hand raised in a weary wave.
That was the first chapter. Yes, in this Shelen is Kaiba's distant cousin. I thought it'd make more sense this way. Also who could this 'Prince of Shadows' be?
Shelen: Whoever he is, he's a jerk.
Yami: He can't be THAT bad...
Shelen: He used Shadow Magic on a tower!
Yami: It's in the parody.
Kaze: *sigh* R & R. Luckily I'm not hungry right now so you'll live.
Shelen: Unless if you're a flamer then you will have 2 choices. 1; Have Yami mind crush you. Or 2: Have your heart litterally ripped from your chest, slowly and painfully, by Kaze.
Kaze: Take your pick, flamers.
Shelen: The rest of you, we look forward to your feedback, and yeah, this is another HTTYD parody.