Authors notes
I would like it to be known that this story has been re-named Yu-Gi-oh! Twilight: 5ds. Why? A deck that uses Light and Dark monsters is called a "Twilight" deck, and this story revolves around the conflict between light and shadow. I thought it was fitting, and it also helped unify this story with Momomo's Story, Real GX, now called Yu-Gi-Oh! Twilight: GX. GX takes place several years after this story, so look Momomo up on deviantART if you want to read it.
To those who don't like the story: Just don't read it!
The crowd was gathered around two children playing a game. Each child had a metal blade of sorts strapped to their arm with monsters; no joke, monsters around them, fighting each other.
The girl with red hair smiled. "I'm finally gonna beat you Silver!"
Silver, whose hair matched his name, smiled nonchalantly "If you think you can, then try. With Stardust Dragon on the field, I can negate destruction effects. While Black-Winged Dragon negates damage. All I need is Junk Dragon to win." He looked at his field. In addition to the two dragons, he had Neo-Spacian Grand Mole, which no one in their right mind would attack. He hadn't even summoned this turn, He didn't want to.
"Alright, I Summon Turbo Synchron!" Akiza said. This made Silver look up. "Really? A Synchron?"
Turbo Synchron
Wind
Machine
lv.1
ATK/100
DEF/500
Akiza smiled. "Turbo Synchron attacks Black-Feather Dragon! Its ability activates, switching your dragon to defense."
As Turbo Synchron rushed at Black-Feather Dragon, it curled its wings around itself, Turbo Synchron bounced off harmlessly, And since Black-Feathers defense was 1600, Akiza would take 1500 damage, and be able to summon a monster with an attack equal to or less than that damage."
"Before the battle finishes, I activate the trap card, Wabuko, which negates all damage."
Behind him, the crowd that had gathered was as confused as he was. "Why? That negates your own monsters effect."
Akiza smiled. "Not true. I took zero damage, so I can summon a monster with an attack of zero. Come forth! Regenerating Rose!"
Turbo Synchron stretched out its arm, and a circle of light appeaed, though which flew a Rose wearing a cape that had four bulbous thorny arms growing from it's stalk and three diminutive legs.
Regenerating Rose
Dark
Plant
lv.7
ATK/0
DEF/1500
When this card is destroyed by battle, special summon two "Regenerating Rose tokens" to your side of the field. (Plant type, Dark, Lv.3, ATK/1200, DEF/1200)
"Now then." Akiza said. "Since damage is negated for this turn, Regenerating Rose, attack his Stardust Dragon!"
The Rose few at Stardust, only to be wiped out by a silver stream of energy from the dragons' mouth.
In the wake of the blast, were two monsters who looked very much like the original monster, but with two arms each and smaller.
Regenerating Rose Token
Dark
Plant
lv.3
ATK/1200
DEF/1200
This card can only be summoned by the effect of Regenerating Rose. When his card is removed from the field, it disappears.
"Now for he final part of my combo!" Akiza said. "I activate my trap, Urgent Tuning! Which allows me to synchro summon in the battle phase."
Silvers eyes grew wide. All of a sudden her odd moves made sense. He looked at the field and smiled. He had lost this one.
"I tune my two lv.3 tokens to my lv.1 Turbo Synchron." The two tokens imploded and turned into six stars, while Turbo Synchron became a green outline of itself, which morphed into a green ring. The stars flew through the ring and aligned, when a beam of light shot through it. When the light cleared, a huge black dragon covered in red petals was floating next to Akiza.
"I synchro summon Black Rose Dragon!"
Black Rose Dragon
Fire
Dragon
Lv.7
ATK/2400
DEF/1800
When this card is synchro summoned, you can destroy all cards on the field. Once per turn, remove one plant from your graveyard to change one opposing monster into attack mode, then make it's attack 0 for this turn.
"By removing the Regenerating Rose from earlier, I put your Black-Featehr Dragon back in attack, which becomes 0! Now Black rose Dragon, Attack!"
Four black vines shot out of the dragon, which impaled Black-Feather Dragon. It exploded.
LP
Silver 0
Akiza 2700
As the duel disks deactivated and the crowd gathered around Akiza, Silver smiled. He knew that she needed to win every once in a while, otherwise she wouldn't have any confidence. Losing on purpose was worth that. So he looked at the first cars in his hand, Obelisk the Tormentor, before placing it back n his deck.
He walked up to Akiza, who was smiling. "That was a great combo Akiza." Silver said. "Until you used the last part of it, I had no idea what you were doing."
Akiza smiled even wider at him, then said "So, has… he said anything new yet?"
By "He", Akiza meant the Crimson Dragon, which had been visiting Silver in his dreams lately, nudging them in the right direction, but never being very clear. When he awoke from those dreams his mark was always glowing, but faded rapidly. The last few times, it hadn't vanished like usual, but stayed on his arm, like a tattoo.
To cover up the glow that sometimes happened when he dueled, and slept, he had adopted a gothic look, wearing the black fingerless gloves that went up to his elbows. On his black T-shirt, his left sleeve was cut off, while his right remained intact. To compete the "look" he also wore black skinny jeans, A gray sleeveless jacket and a chain around his neck. Akiza always said that all he needed was a choker and a crazy wig to cosplay as Yugi.
But the disguise worked, when the mark glowed, the glove covered it completely. Only Akiza was aware of it, and even she didn't see it, she kind of "felt" it, she never understood how it worked.
After she asked her question, Silver tilted his head to signal her to follow him. They excused themselves and went to their hoverboards, taking off. Silver took the lead and angled west. Akiza put on her scouter. They had each won one in a local tournament; they were modeled after the devices in Yu-Gi-Oh! Zexal, which allowed the duelists to communicate up close, display attack strengths, read out effect, show life points, etc. They looked silly, but were actually quite useful.
As she did, a tiny window popped up on the lens, showing Silvers face. "The Crimson dragon did show me something last night actually."
"Cool." Akiza said, "What is it?"
After a moment, Silver said "Wendover." This surprised Akiza a bit. Wendover was where she and her father had lived until… until the chosen had blown up the entire region. It was labeled as a terrorist attack, and the government had sealed off the area until they could find out who did it. However, the government didn't exactly have a ageless dragon to help them look.
But still, Akiza had second thoughts about returning, it was the final resting place of all her friends, her family… She and her father were all that survived.
"I don't know…" She said, not really wanting to go anywhere near the area.
"Akiza, I understand. But we can't split up. Remember what happened last time?" There was a point sometime after they had gone off on their own that Akiza had turned back to find her father. She had ended up in the custody of Child Services for being "homeless" Had Silver not somehow found her and used his powers to bust her out, she'd be in some foster home now.
"I guess, but I don't wanna go back."
Silver sighed. "I know, but if we run away from things that block our way, how are we going to move forward?"
Akiza smiled. Silver always managed to sound older than 12 when he wanted to. She had run away, and she was glad that Silver had run away with her. "Alright. Lets go."
So they angled towards the direction the Crimson Dragon was pulling Silver, and they hit the accelerator.
00000
It had been almost a year now since Silver ran away with Mikes kid. James was still fuming over it, and he'd been searching for the Chosen this whole time. He knew that if anyone had answers to what was getting into everyone, it would be them. And he'd beat the answers out of them if he had to. He had gotten a lead on Orichalcos cards being used in Sydney, Australia. So he had taken a ship there.
As he and Shrab looked over the ocean at the coast, which rapidly approached, James turned to him. "Why are you helping me?"
Shrab shrugged. "We've been friends for a long time, and everything going on seems to involve you, I'm staying where the action is. Maybe someday I'll find a duelist with skills to rival my own."
James laughed. "You're saying I can't take you?"
Shrab punched him on the shoulder. "I'm saying I KNOW you can't take me."
"How about a duel then?" James asked.
"Sure." Shrab raised his duel disk, it was much like a standard duel disk from 5ds, but black and the blade shaped more like the Orichalcos disks.
James raised his, the blade halves were folded against his arm, on command they flipped into the horizontal, popped outwards, swung around to connect in front of the deck, then swing to the front, jutting outward like a wrist mounted sword.
"Ready to try these things?" James asked, getting out a scouter.
"Yep." Shrab said. Putting his own on.
They drew their hands and Shrab looked at him card in horror.
"What is it?" James said.
"This card… It's OVER 9000!" Shrab yelled, drawing looks from bystanders.
James laughed. "You're never gonna stop that one are you?"
"Goddamn it, shut up Nappa!" They both laughed at the reference.
"But really," James said. "Ready?"
Shrab nodded. Then they both said "Duel!"