DISCLAIMER: I OWN NOTHING
Yuya stared at the storybook, the story of the "Four Kingdom Dragons" rang clear in his mind. He didn't know why, but this story bothered him in more ways than one. It was as though it was talking about him. But that was impossible.
Right?
Shaking his head he put the book on his bookshelf and slumped at his desk, exhaustion running its course. He glanced outside the window where he saw the sun rising.
Great he stayed up late, again
Honestly he wondered why he kept reading that story every night. He couldn't remember the last time he actual slept a good night's sleep. He spent all his classes snoring and it was a wonder that no one pointed it out yet. The fact that he was sickly didn't help either.
He had been sick ever since he was seven and no one could figure out the cause. His parents tried every doctor in the kingdom but not one could find anything wrong with him. 'There was nothing wrong with him physically' was their diagnosis.
Than what was wrong with him?
"Yuya! Are you up yet? Pancakes are ready!"
Yuya groaned but got of his chair. At least it was pancakes.
XYZ KINGDOM
Yuto looked at the Xyz kingdom's new capital, Hope. It was the last of the Xyz kingdom that needed to be built. As reconstruction was taking place, many new projects were proposed and this capital was one of them.
It warmed his heart to see those people, the same people who spent everyday shivering in fear and barely surviving were finally smiling just like how he wanted them to.
If only he had survived than maybe...
"Yuto!" said person turned around to see his best friend Shun running towards him
"What are you doing out here? Don't you have to get ready? We're leaving in a few hours" Shun said
Yuto smiled "I know, I just wanted to look at the city before we leave"
Shun snorted "This again? You know it will still be here when we get back"
Yuto smile wavered at that "But in what state?" mind remembering once vibrant towns and villages later found burnt to the ground. Of comrades' corpses littered on the ground in a puddle of their own blood….
Ridding himself of those thoughts he turned his gaze back the view. Admiring its beauty but also feeling sadness at sight. For Hope reminded Yuto of him
"Where are you?"
SYNCRO KINGDOM
Yugo rode his D-runner through the city. He enjoyed the clean air than he did the disgusting smoke of the Syncro kingdom's 'progressive industrial era.' Anything that made such a revolting stench couldn't have been good for anyone's body. In fact he bet that's why most of Yliaster were machines, robotic-human hybrids, but still machines.
He was glad those stupid racist 'Security' was gone as well. Scratch that, the organization still existed but the members were replaced with more reasonable officers. Like Crow Hogan, despite all of those criminal markers he was really a good guy. A perfect example of 'don't judge a book by it's cover'.
He had always been awed by the D-runners they rode and wished he could ride one but couldn't. Now here he was riding his own D-runner.
He only wished he was here too
He searched the entire city but found not a single trace of him. If he wasn't here than where could he be?
"Little bro, wherever you are I will find you"
FUSION KINGDOM
Yuri looked down from his position on the balcony on the students of the Fusion kingdom's best school, Academia. The place had really changed, he mused.
The dorms hadn't changed, Osiris Red, Ra Yellow, and Obelisk Blue. But unlike before there wasn't any discrimination based on dorms. Students regardless of rank could interact freely without repercussion.
The school no longer trained child-soldiers but actual students. Teaching them normal subjects like mathematics, science, and language arts. Not how to shoot a gun, set up traps, and how to break your opponent.
Dueling on the other hand, never changed it's still on the course just less dangerous.
The only problem was that this school only taught one type of dueling which irked Yuri to no end. Dueling with students that only dueled using the style taught to them was a bore. He wanted something fun, he wanted entertainment
Particularly someone's entertainment dueling
"I wonder what he's doing now?"
MILLENNIUM KINGDOM
Yuya stared outside the window of the classroom. He was barely listening to the teacher like he did every other day. He was too tired.
"Now class does everyone know the story "The Four Kingdom Dragons"?"
Huh?
"The story where four dragons save the four kingdoms?"
"Yes. To honor the four dragons we hold the Dragon Festival every year. It's important festival, so important that all four kingdoms hold it together. Royalty will also be there, including our wondrous Pharaoh Atem and Lord Yugi."
Excited murmuring occurred, everyone excited for the event.
"Where will it be held this time?" A student asked
The teacher pulled out a map "On the shared land of the four kingdoms, the Pendulum Gardens"
Yuya stared at the map, directly at the marked area.
He felt cold and he didn't know why
So far so good another chapter in one day. I'm on a role! A short chapter but I'm on a role!