A/N: Hey everyone, it's been years since I attempted to make a new story but I'll try my best at it. Please note that English is not my first language, and while I do have proofreading software, it doesn't always catch all the grammatical/spelling errors. I'd appreciate any constructive feedback on the story style and language.
Anyways this is a self-insert story in the beginning of the Yu-Gi-Oh! GX anime world and with a bit of a twist in the regular style. Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! In any way whatsoever. All rights go to Konami. I only have claim to my OCs.
Somehow I'm in GX!
Chapter 1: In Limbo!
Of all the shitty ways I imagined dying, a car crash was a pretty ordinary way to go compared to the other deaths I'd come up with. At least it wasn't painful. One moment you're walking on the sidewalk and then BAM! You're dead. Sorry for the inconvenience. Now I'm stuck in what seems to be a blank white room with nothing else. There were no furniture, windows, or doors. Just me in the same clothes that I was wearing the day I died. Now that I think about it, it's a good thing I died in a car crash. Imagine dying in the shower and meeting whatever higher power waiting for you wearing nothing but your bathing suit. Now that would have been an awkward conversation.
Speaking of which, where is said higher power? I began looking around for any being to talk to. 15 minutes later of looking stupid, I ended up right where I was. In a white room with nothing but myself to talk to.
"Is there a waiting line I don't know about, or should I wait for my paperwork to go through?" I joked.
"Sorry to keep you waiting, but I wanted to see how long you would last in this situation." A voice replied behind me.
Naturally I did the only logical response, which was screaming like a little bitch and jumping 3 meters high. As I turned around, there was a muscular man behind me wearing those white robes you'd expect in an Ancient Greek/Roman movie with dark skin and hair, honey-gold eyes, and wings on his back that were pitch-black in color(1). If I wasn't scared shitless, I'd say the guy was so good-looking that any woman would find him attractive.
"After millennia of ferrying souls, you humans always have the best reactions." The man said amusedly with a small smile on his face. He wasn't openly laughing at me, but I could see from his eyes that my reaction was pretty hilarious.
"What the fuck man! You could have given me a heart attack!" I blurted before realizing I was talking a guy who had wings on his back. Looks like Operation Divine Kiss-ass is going out the window.
Instead of smiting me, the guy simply raised an eyebrow, "I find that highly unlikely, seeing as you're dead with no physical body to speak of." He replied smoothly.
That's when reality hit me, and my knees began to turn into jelly. I tried replying at first but I had problems clearing the lump in my throat. "So it's true? I'm really dead?" I finally asked. Turns out that suspecting death and having it confirmed to you are two entirely different things.
"Unfortunately, but your death is rather odd." He replied with a thoughtful look. His wings flapped a couple of times, and their very beats sent thrums throughout my entire being. Somehow, I instinctively knew that this was a being that was infinitely more powerful than I am, and should be not be provoked under any circumstances whatsoever.
"Seriously? Not trying to be smart and all, sir, but aren't car crashes a regular cause of death? And I'm really sorry but who are you exactly?" I asked timidly. God what is wrong with me? This guy was literally intimidating me without doing anything other than looking at me, and here I am asking for his name.
"To answer your questions in order I was given many names by countless civilizations, yet I am now simply called Death in this era. As for why I consider your death to be unusual is because you were not supposed to die at that particular time." He replied with a frown, as if the fact that I'm dead was annoying him. More paperwork for him I guess?
"Oh." Was my articulate and intelligent reply, then I remembered the second part of his answer, and hope began to bloom in my chest. "So if I'm not supposed to die now, then can I go back?" I asked.
"Unfortunately, your body has now decayed far too much for it to be a proper host for your soul. Time flows differently in the realms of Life and Death. What may seem as only 15 minutes for you was actually 15 weeks in world of the living." He regretfully replied with sympathetic eyes.
And just like that my rising hopes crashed and burned. At the moment all I wanted to do was sit in a corner and try to come to grips with reality. Normally I would try my hardest not to freak out, but try putting yourself in my shoes and remain calm. If you managed to do that, then you must have dealt with some pretty horrible shit in your life to being with. While Death was calmly standing there I was having a full-on panic attack. Why? Why me? How is it fair that I died too soon for my time, while others get to live life to the fullest? Meanwhile, the newly introduced death just stood there patiently for me to pull myself together. Then again, seeing as he's literally Death, then he has all the time he could want. And there we stood, a guy losing his marbles and the literal personification of Death waiting for him to stop.
Finally, I looked up with blurry eyes and asked, "So now what? Do I go to Heaven or something?" I sincerely hoped he wouldn't send me to Judgment Day since I wouldn't call myself a particularly religious person, and my browser history would clearly work wonders in sending my horny ass to Hell. 'God dammit I should have cleared my stuff before going on that walk' I mentally berated myself.
"As amusing as watching you panicking and condemning yourself for watching pornography, I will not send you on to the day of your Judgment" Death chuckled. 'Well that's a relief. Wait a minute. Did this guy just read-
"Your mind? Yes I did. What is even stranger with your death is that is coincided with another at the exact same moment in another universe, and both of your deaths occurred due to a car accident." He replied. 'Back up a minute. Did he just say another universe? Which universe are we talking about?' I began to wonder.
"To be exact it occurred in Universe number #23852, or the universe more commonly known to you mortals as the Yu-Gi-Oh GX universe." He replied nonchalantly, as if the fact that a universe that's part of an anime is actually real did not faze him at all. "Furthermore, both of your deaths occurred prematurely and in the fashion of a car accident, which leads me to belief that this is a case of divine intervention." He added with a frown.
"So you're telling me some god or goddess decided to kill me and another guy who's from a universe that's supposed to be fictional. If that's the case then where's the other guy?" I asked him with both my eyebrows raised. Hey forgive me being skeptical but the fact that the Yu-Gi-Oh! Universe was real is kind of hard to accept.
"I understand your skepticism and do not take offense from it, but what I told you was the truth. As for the other individual, he was sent to the next life by whatever force that left killed the two of you and left you here." He replied with a glare. "I hate it when other immortals interfere with the natural order of life and death. This is my Domain, not their Playground!" He snarled, and his face started to take on a more skeletal appearance. Lines appeared on his mouth that resembled teeth, his eyes darkened, and his dress/robe started to turn black which made him all around scary as fuck. Before I started to freak out again he then calmed down and changed back to his first appearance. Good. I can handle supermodel Death, but Grim Reaper Death. Not so much. He then looked and said, "As much as I hate what happened, I cannot change this course of events. However, I can offer you a choice."
Now I was kind of stumped. A choice? The religious texts I was told to read growing up didn't mention a choice. Then again I might have slept through the sections dealing with other universes. So I asked him, "What kind of choice are we talking about?"
"You may move on to the afterlife to be judged, or I can send your soul into the body of the second individual who died. While in this dimension both of you died at the same time, the time elapsed in his universe was only 10 minutes, so the body is still able to host a soul. But be warned. The divine force that interfered with both of your lives must have wanted you to enter the second universe since it left you in my grasp. Once you make the choice, you cannot go back." He explained.
Now this was a problem. On one hand I could live what is practically every Yu-Gi-Oh fan's dream and get to duel with fucking holograms and shit. On the other hand, this was the Yu-Gi-Oh universe, where people's souls get sucked into the underworld/hell for losing a damn card game. If this universe was like the original series without any censoring, then one wrong move and I would be screwed sideways. So in order not to die in this universe, I needed to either keep my head down which was frankly impossible since characters in this universe settle nearly all their problems with duels and can't take a simple "no" for an answer, and I was not the kind of person who would take shit from anyone lying down. Therefore, the other way to ensure my survival, and hopefully happiness, was to have a good deck.
"Can I ask for a few conditions?" I asked hopefully. My answer depended on whether he would agree to them or not.
"Name them" He commanded.
"Before my walk I was actually playing this new Yu-Gi-Oh videogame (2), and I was wondering if I could have one of my decks with me from that game. Also, I'd like a duel spirit to help me on the way." I listed out my requests to him, which were pretty reasonable as you needed a good deck to be a good duelist (unless you're the main character, then it's plot armor for the win!), and duel spirit was pretty helpful when it came to Shadow Game stuff which I'm pretty sure I'll see plenty of it with my shitty luck.
Death actually considered my requests for a few seconds before replying, "Very well, you may have a deck of your choosing, but you cannot choose any cards that are beyond the era of this universe. In addition, there are some cards that cannot exist in multiple copies such as the God cards. You may also have a duel spirit as a companion, but any enemies who are aware of your powers will notice that and begin to seek you out. Also, the individual who you will replace had a horrid past, and a complicated future destined for him. Now the burden of his destiny will lie on your shoulders instead." He relented.
Suddenly a deck of cards appeared in my hand. "Of all the decks you constructed, this is the only one that satisfies all the requirements." Death continued. "Are you now satisfied with the arrangement?"
I took a look at the cards in my hands and realized it was my Elemental HERO/Masked HERO (3) deck. 'I could work with this. This is definitely not the most powerful deck there is, not even close, but it's pretty powerful on its own. Plus this is my favorite deck' I thought to myself. That pretty much made my decision.
"Alright Death, you got yourself a deal." I replied with a bit of excitement, since I'm pretty much going to live one of my dreams.
"Very well, you will transferred now. Be warned, this might hurt a lot." Death intoned before beginning to chant in a language that made no sense to me whatsoever, but a deep part of me knew that these words were imbibed with power beyond my understanding. Then the weight of his words hit me.
"Wait! What would you mean this would hur- ARGGGHHH!" I screamed before my entire world exploded in pain. I couldn't move or even scream due to the sheer amount of pain. Imagine each of your nerves that convey pain being taking apart and then stimulated simultaneously at the same time at the maximum output. You'd probably have a good idea of the pain I was feeling. Then suddenly after what seemed like hours, there was a blinding flash of light, and I knew nothing but darkness.
A/N: That's it for Chapter 1 folks. Hope you all like it. Next chapter will be waking up in the Yu-Gi Oh GX Universe. I'll try to update in a regular fashion with my chaotic schedule.
: To get an idea of what death looks like, search PJO's Thanatos.
: The game I'm talking about is Yu-Gi-Oh! Legacy of the Duelist Link Evolution, which is a pretty awesome game where you don't have to pay to win.
This is my Deck. I'm not a professional player so please bare with me:
Main Deck (52 cards total):
Monsters: 26 cards total:
3 x Elemental HERO Shadow Mist
3 x Elemental HERO Stratos
2 x Elemental HERO Blazeman
2 x Elemental HERO Woodsman
2 x Elemental HERO Ocean
2 x Elemental HERO Knospe
2 x Elemental HERO Prisma
1 x Elemental HERO Bladege
1 x Elemental HERO Bubbleman
1 x Elemental HERO Captain Gold
1 x Elemental HERO Iceman
1 x Elemental HERO Necroshade
1 x Elemental HERO Voltic
1 x Elemental HERO Solid Soldier
1 x Elemental HERO Heat
1 x Elemental HERO Lady Heat
1 x Phantom Magician
Spells and Traps (26 cards total):
Spells (20 cards total):
3 x Polymerization
3 x Mask Change
2 x Form Change
2 x Mask Charge
2 x Miracle Fusion
1 x Parallel World Fusion
1 x Fusion Gate
1 x Future Fusion
1 x Pot of Avarice
1 x Legacy of a Hero
1 x Skyscraper
1 x Skydive Scorcher
1 x United We Stand
Traps (4 cards total):
1 x Skill Breakthrough
1 x Paradox Fusion
1 x Hero Signal
1 x Shift
Extra Deck (15 cards total):
1 x Elemental HERO Nova Master
1 x Elemental HERO Great Tornado
1 x Elemental HERO Gaia
1 x Elemental HERO Absolute Zero
1 x Elemental HERO Terra Firma
1 x Elemental HERO The Shining
1 x Elemental HERO Core
1 x Contrast HERO Chaos
1 x Masked HERO Dark Law
1 x Masked HERO Acid
1 x Masked HERO Blast
1 x Masked HERO Divine Wind
1 x Masked HERO Dian
1 x Masked HERO Anki
1 x Masked HERO Koga