2 Years Ago
It was hard for Yuki to get used to being mute. She had taken so many simple things for granted back in her world including her voice. He mother used to say she had a beautiful voice… It still hurt to remember her mother, even if she remembered that her parents were gone.
It had been a week since the Nekroz had found her and taken her in. They were strange to her. They seemed to be so intuned with nature, but at same time they seemed to also hold it in a cold contempt.
The Clan was small with only a few other Members aside from Emilia, who was probably the nicest women she had met. She had introduced them to their Elder and her husband, Avance. It still boggled her mind on how Emilia could look so young and Avance could look so old when they were supposedly really close in age. The she met their son, Shurit, who was definitely… cocky for lack of a better term.
They had helped her learn about this new world. She had heard about the events of the previous two wars. On how the Worms had tried to take over the world to the Evilswarm Virus that had forced Emilia's mother to kill her. But they also explained the other tribes and their current standing with them and their current peace.
They offered her a place here and she accepted it almost immediately. She had met the rest of the tribe an hour. From Ariel, who officially welcomed her into the clan, to Exa, who honestly still scared her. Everyone was so nice and even offered to help her adapt to her new issues.
Today however she was going to learn how to perform their own form of magic. How to sew a monsters spirit into clothing.
"Ah Yuki you made it" Emilia greeted her outside of a small building. The building was rather simple, being made of mostly stone and wood built into the shape of a small shelter. "Shurit and Avance are already inside, but I think Shurit might be getting impati-" she was about to finish before a young voice interrupted her.
"About time you got here Yuki, we've been waiting for hours" Shurit told her, looking impatient. Yuki pulled out a small book and pen an wrote "Sorry, I got lost and Ms.Ariel wouldn't let me go until she was sure I was fine"
"Fair enough but we need to hurry, otherwise dad won't teach us" he explained hurriedly before he grabbed her hand and dragged her into an empty room where Avance stood.
"Ah glad for you to join us Yuki, Shurit was about to start but insistent that we waited for you" he told her, obviously teasing his son
Shurit blushed before denying "T-that's not true" earning a chuckle from Avance and a silent giggle from Yuki.
"Well either way sit down and get comfortable, this is going to take a while" Avance told them before her began his lecture.
(Present time)
The man who Yuki met introduced himself as Shoichi Kusanagi. He had offered her a seat in his truck before he grabbed some loose paper off a shelf and placed it in front of her with a pencil. She picked up the pencil and started out with one simple question "Where am I?"
Shoichi chuckled a little "You're in Den City, in Japan" he answered her.
She smiled a little, remembering the name somewhat. Her family brought her here on a business trip involving SOL Technologies. She wrote down a question that has been nagging at her subconscious for a while "Who are the Knights of Hanoi?"
The man looked somewhat surprised at the question before guessing that she might have not heard recent news "They are a group of hackers who are trying to take over SOL Technologies and VRAINS by force. They have killed and hurt many innocent people" he explained to her.
She wrote down "VRAINS?" she doesn't remember hearing about that until now.
Shoichi was honestly surprised by this question, he figured that even a non-duelist must have at least heard of it, but he explained anyway "It's a VR Dueling system that allows people to duel with others and communicate from almost anywhere" he explained before noticing her expression of awe "I see I peeked your interest. Why don't I set you up an account and you make a deck. I think I have a spare Duel Disk and cards in here somewhere" he said before he pulled a box out from the shelf and went through it and grabbed an dusty Duel Disk and gave it to Yuki.
"It's an older model so it still needs cards, but I have several you can use. I used to collect them back when I played" he told her before he pulled out a few smaller boxes made of Tin. He pushed them in front of her and she opened the first one and looked at the first card and smiled before she started looking for others like it. The card she pulled out was Nekroz of Brionac.
As she pulled out more cards Shoichi was surprised. They were all cards that benefited Ritual Summons. "Huh, that's surprising. I would've thought you'd use a Link Monster" he said out loud before she gave him a confused look and he sighed.
(5 minutes later)
After his short run-down on Link Summoning and Monsters Yuki smiled like a vicious predator. She placed the last of the cards she thought were useful into the deck and waited for Shoichi to finish making her an account for VRAINS. He grabbed a plug from behind a shelf and plugged into the Disk and after a few more seconds it turned on and an image of the Nekroz mirror appeared on the Disk. "Well that's surprising." he mumbled to himself as Yuki held the Disk. For a moment she hesitated putting it on before she decided that it was just a game here anyway and put it on. She felt a small zap on her arm and would've yelped if she could.
"Hey, you okay. You just jumped there for a second" she nodded before she put her deck in the Disk and gulped. Then a voice, a feminine and soft robotic voice, simply said "Into To The VRAINS" and she was engulfed in light.
(VRAINS)
The first thing she saw when the light faded was a copy of Den City. The second thing was her reflection on a digital window. Facially she looked the same, but her hair was in a ponytail and was now a pure white instead of it's usual black and was definitely longer. Her eyes were also different, looking like a pale blue, almost white. Her clothing was also different, now being sleeveless on the arm with the Duel Disk and she was now wearing a ruffled skirt that was longer on her right leg. It was the same colors as her normal clothes though.
She looked at the Virtual City before she mouthed "Wow" then jumped when she heard someone else say wow. She looked around and she was definitely alone and for a moment she was confused before she tested something. "Nekroz" she mouthed and as she mouthed it she could hear a voice say Nekroz at the same time, her voice but softer. Her eyes widened as she looked at her disk.
She smiled as tears rolled down her eyes before she let out a very loud "YES!" she had her voice again.
She would've celebrated longer if the building didn't shake suddenly and a large crack appeared on the building she was standing on and out crawled some sort of metal Lizard with a Knight of Hanoi riding it. "Tch, not even five seconds and I already had someone see me" he observed, annoyed as the Lizard reared back and tackled her off the building. She felt the pain for a moment was more shocked that she felt anything. Below her was some sort of stream and she knew it wouldn't help. Not unless a miracle happened.
Said miracle came in the form of a board catching her before she fell to far and landed on the stream. The Knight of Hanoi saw this happen and decided to pursue her on his own board. "Damn, I can't even kill someone right" he said as he caught up with her and looked at her. "Well, there's no helping it" he said as the Duel Disk on her arm simply said "Duel Accepted, entering Speed Duel Format"
"I'll make sure to end this quickly" the Knight told Yuki as the stream seemed to speed up and a holographic projection of 4000 Life Points appeared in front of them.
It took her a solid ten seconds to register the situation "B-but I just got here!"