Here's Chapter 1. Hope you enjoy. R&R. Rated M for language at the moment.
Disclaimer: Don't own YGO: 5D's. No copyright infringment intended.
Where am I?
I couldn't move. What had happened to me?
I can't remember…Who am I?
I assessed the situation. I was sitting on the ground, eyes closed, back against a wall. Nothing hurt, but I still couldn't move.
Get up! You have to get up!
I opened my eyes, slowly, to gather my surroundings. I was in an alleyway. Of course. Whenever someone gets freaking amnesia they always end up in an alley. Common sense started to kick in and I slowly stood up. I looked up and noted that it was the middle of the night. The moon was full and high…But I still had no idea where I was.
I leaned against the wall and ran my hand through my hair…And then stopped.
My hair…It's long!
That's not right…My hair was short before.
Ha! I do remember something. Way to go me.
I walked slowly out of the alley, looking around the corner. No one was there. The street I was on was deserted. I figured now would be the chance to explore the area a little. It was a slummy area. I'm talking dirt poor. I started walking a little, my sneakers creating an echo on the street. Suddenly, the hair on the back of my neck stood up.
Not good.
I stopped and scanned the area.
"Well well well. What have we here?" a deep voice proclaimed, followed by some snickers.
I was in trouble. I was in an area, alone, where I had no means of protecting myself. I said nothing. I did nothing. I just stood there when an entire gang of rough looking dudes wearing…
Duel disks?! Where the hell am I?? Those are only plastic toys!
Another moment of memory. Fantasmic, but not what I needed. I needed help.
What I took for the head guy looked me up and down and then smirked. "What? Not going to introduce yourself?"
I stood there, glancing at him and the 10 guys that were surrounding me. Yeah. This is necessary. It almost made me roll my eyes.
"How rude." The guy was still smirking as he walked up to me. "Well, let me tell you what we do to people who are rude here."
More snickers from the gang. Fear was starting to spur inside of me. Trying to hide it was more difficult than I thought. The leader took another look at me and started laughing. "Boys! She's afraid."
They let out a laugh as well. This was not good. "Shouldn't we make her less afraid, boss?" one of the crones asked with laughter in his voice.
"I think you're right. We should make her feel more welcome." The leader walked up to me and grabbed my arm roughly. I cringed. Pain had shot through my arm and I was holding back a scream.
The leader leaned in and said, "Don't be so afraid, girly. We're very welcoming people."
I closed my eyes and tried not to cry. I knew what was coming. I was still weak and couldn't fight back. I couldn't move. I was to scared.
All I could do was scream in my mind, for I still didn't have a voice.
Someone…Anyone…Please. HELP ME!
Out of nowhere, the pressure the guy had on my arm from his hand was released. I opened my eyes and saw that a man with silver hair had thrown a grappling hook on the gang leaders duel disk. "Is that any way to treat a lady because I know I was taught to never lay a hand on one."
The leader snickered. "I know who you are, Kalin Kessler. Where are the rest of your buddies?"
"Why don't you take a look around you, you giant dope?" Kalin sneered.
While the leader was looking around, I noticed Kalin was motioning at me with his free hand. I looked at him and he mouthed "Run."
Before the man realized, I had ducked behind him and ran over towards Kalin with what little strength my legs had left. I was inches from him, when the leader finally realized I had run away from him. "Hold it right there missy!"
I did something stupid and stopped running. That caused me to trip over a crack in the road. I cried out in pain. I realized I had fallen on the arm that the leader had grabbed. Something was wrong with it. It shouldn't of hurt this much from a fall and from being grabbed.
"Ha! Got you, little bitch."
I looked over my shoulder and saw the leader standing over me, snickering. That's when Kalin appeared and kicked him square in the gut. He stood in front of me and stated "Face me! I'm your opponent." He held his duel disk in front of him and prepared himself. "Now let's duel."
"Hmph." The leader finally gave in and walked the distance necessary between two duelists and then readied his deck and disk as well. "Have it your way. The winner, gets the girl."
I'm not a fucking prize asshole!
Kalin glanced back at me and sent me a "I won't let that happen" glance. I knew I could trust him. I stood up and walked back a safe distance from the duel. I realized then that it was just the three of us in the street. The rest of the gang had disappeared. Where'd they go?
Kalin turned back to face the gang leader. "Fine, but the loser loses his duel disk." I didn't have to see his face to know that a smirk had formed on it.
"What?!"
"Why do you think I have this grappling hook around our disks you moron?" Kalin laughed. "Whoever loses this duel receives an electrical shock that will fry your duel disk. You won't be using that thing to duel ever again."
The leader laughed. "You sound as if you already won the duel, but fine. Let's do this."
And the duel began.
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It barely lasted 5 minutes. Kalin had some extreme skill in this game and had backed this guy into a corner in three rounds. It was amazing to watch to. I'd never seen anyone duel with holographic images before. Where I came from, technology hadn't reached that far yet.
Where I come from…
I could remember that I wasn't in the right time. I also wasn't in the right world. But, that's all my memory allowed me to see. Nothing about a name, place, family. It was just…empty. And I was scared. I held my arm that was hurting and watched as Kalin made the last move.
The gang leader fell backwards to the ground as his monster was destroyed and his life points shot to zero. There was a noise and a little poof and smoke came up from his disk.
Kalin snickered and retrieved the grappling hook. He walked over to the leader who had stood back up, anger all over his face. This guy was easily twice Kalin's size. The leader raised a fist and swung at Kalin. He ducked out of the way and punched him in the stomach, hard. The leader fell back to the ground, holding his stomach.
"Let that be a lesson to you."
The leader stood up and ran in the other direction. Kalin laughed at him and stopped as he turned back around. He saw me and realization came over his face. It was obvious he had forgotten that I was still there. He ran over to me.
"I'm sorry we didn't get here quicker. Did he hurt you?" Kalin asked, concern flooding his eyes. It made me blush slightly.
All I could do was nod. My voice still a mystery.
"Let me take a look." I held out my left arm for Kalin, wincing from the pain. He rolled up my sleeve gently, but it still hurt. He ran his hand up my arm, feeling if it was broken. It wasn't. Obviously. I wouldn't be able to move it as easily as I had. "Feels like a sprain and it looks like there will be a nasty bruise where he grabbed you." He sighed.
"It's…okay."
FINALLY!
It had come out in a whisper, but it was still my voice. Kalin looked at me and smiled. "So, you can talk. I was worried you were a mute."
"No…lost…voice."
"Then stop talking. You might lose it again. Before you do, tell me your name at least. Me and the other Enforcers will try and find your family."
I blinked. I couldn't remember. I looked down. "Can't….remember."
He looked at me again and noticed the tears forming in my eyes. He placed a hand on my shoulder. "Don't cry. You can stay with my friends and I till you have your memory back." He smiled warmly at me.
I looked at him and smiled. Suddenly, I felt very weak. My legs gave out and I felt Kalin catch me before I hit the ground. The last thing I saw before retreating to the darkness were Kalin's worried brown eyes.