Max was tossing in turning in his bed, It had been six months since Rex left the stages of grief hit them all hard, it hit him with Nightmares. It was always the same nightmare.
Within his dreams he was in a Golden Egyptian city ruled humanoid animals, he was a jackal, black furred golden eyes, a pup wrapped in a blanket looking up at his dream mother, eight foot tall powerful, curvy but toned body, and well let's just say her three sizes put models to shame, no hair just a jackal head, dressed in a white dress, golden waist band, golden arm and wrist bands, golden sandal boots, golden ring around her neck, and a pharaoh's headdress. He as a pup was pawing at the necklace around her neck, An ankh with the eye of wdjat. he giggled looking at it, before crying as the ground shock in fire.
the mother got up as Max cried, "My little Maximus don't worry Your mother will keep you safe," She ran looking out at fires, "Those dirty snakes." She ran to a servant couple jackals like her, in more modest dress the man in Egyptian skirt, the wife in a single dress. The Queen came to them, handing the baby Max, who was crying reaching for her to The couple.
The mother cried, "Mommy is sorry my little princess." She held her necklace opening a portal. She removed it , handing it to the servants the woman Jumped, "Aki do not fight me for this, Take the millennium necklace the snakes green fire is everywhere, they are using dark magic to win the shadow games, they will come here soon, Go through the portal, use the necklace to look like the beings there, protect my son, I will come when it's safe for him back." She pulled out form her headdress a deck box, "till then have him use my deck, I have erased Ka-battle form the minds of the people, So long as you don't drop the image of being human they won't find you you will have no danger."
baby Max cried reaching for the Queen, as Aki took it, her and her husband becoming the Aki and Spike we know, Max a baby human, as The Queen said, "I have already given False memory and background to you live it, live it well." She said kissing her son's head or well licking him and nuzzling him. "Relax my son your mother Queen Amput will protect you, and keep our land save my little prince. If the worst happens I have flung a light for our Kingdom into the future." the baby held the deck box sniffling and crying as his new gaurdians headed through the portal to Sanjo.
Max rolled out of bed waking up, holding his head panting pale, He got up looking in the mirror jumping before looking at his hand, the mirror showed a humanoid black furred jackal, but his hand was still human, he looked back normal, he panted, "So vivid." he panted, holding his head.
The next day At school it was a field trip , they started using uniforms, blazers for boys in Black, Girls in sailor fuka's white and pink. On the bus ,Max sat with Zoe. Zoe who had her hair in one pony tail now with a green bow was talking to him, After Rex left they just fell into eachother's arms becoming a couple and each other's emotional support. Zoe had heard about the dream as she said, "Okay deck of magic cards, the past, portals magic, Those things make since," As they faced them "The furries that's probably just normal teenage thing." She said being blunt but bring a smile to her boyfriend's face, "Changeling fantasy pretty normal stock plot." She was trying to help him dismiss his returning dreams.
The bus stopped at a museum Instead of Dinosaurs Max stopped at a wall from Egypt looking at it, "...The nameless Pharaoh locked away the darkness." Zoe blinked the translation was on the plaque but her boyfriend seemed to just be reading it off the wall.
Zoe held her chin, "Okay creepy..." it got worse as he walked off Continuing this. She blinked before they came to a carving of a dragon, the word was damaged. Zoe was turning paled as Max looked at it filling in the gap "laenat altiniyn?" That's when it Glow Making both jump back, they where by themselves and the yellow arm and legless dragon was coming out of the stone carving. Zoe was shaking, they though it was wadjet the winged snake protector , but this was no snake. Max stood before Zoe, the monster sniffed him before returning to stone. Zoe stared wide eyed. She said one thing, "I am no long dismissing this dream...because...the hell?"
Right now they were thankful to be alone, As Zoe was holding her head, apparently Max's nightmare has more truth to it, and it got worst, when he saw it on a carving, "That's the necklace." Zoe blinked at it, depicted on the neck of a jackal headed person. She covered her mouth jaw dropping. They were soon forced to rejoin the group.
Yet after school as his house Zoe was going over, "either A some force like before is fucking with you trying to trick you, or My boyfriend is secretly a furry Magic boy, Not a deal breaker." She said red, Teenage hormones are a bitch, " So what do we do?"
Max ran up stairs Zoe following she had put on weight enough to be called cute and snuggle fluffy while remaining hot, wider hips, rounder shapely legs and arms, cuter round face, wider shoulders, and this made the best bigger, as side effect. The woman panted because of it, "Dam it, why did I eat my feelings and put on Forty plus pounds." She said up the stairs Max was in his parents rooms ripping over a wall safe. trying to open it.
he said one thing, "they told me to never open this!" He said trying to pick it. Zoe blinked as she watched this, before somehow Max managed to rip the safe a metal item's door open a crack. She jumped fanned herself.
She was watching her boyfriend go beast mode and she said one thing, " he bent the metal door...the muscle." She fanned herself, "bad brain bad brain we are just thirteen, bad brain!" She watched he continued to bend and warp the door out of his way growling like some kind of dog she was eyes widened, jaw dropped and red faced, "...Oh my!" she fanned as he warped it enough it no longer covered anything, and he could reach in. Zoe's jaw dropped, "he did it! I can't believe this! yet I am happy."
Max was crying as he looked inside pulling them out, "The deck box and necklace form my dreams." he held the necklace in his hand, tightly, crying.
Zoe's eyes widened, as she heard yelling and turned to See Aki freaking out going, "Max honey put those down put them down!"
the pink girl said, "...so are you guys secretly Furies like in Max's dreams? wait if the dream is real you are aliens, or would it be sliders."
Aki sighed as Spike came in, She sighed they had no choice, "it's not a dream it's a memory Max your dream is true."
Zoe blinked jaw dropping as she said one thing, "I am dating a real life Fury!" She jumped happily, "YES! ...sorry not the time..." she tapped fingers shyly going down.
Downstairs Max held the necklace and card box, his parent's explaining. Spike said, "All myths are true to some level, the realm of beasts is were dumping for discarded magic goes, The nameless Pharaoh locked away the magic so it went to us, yet it still returned here, The warp you birth mom cast had flaws the tablets of stone remained, hence why you were able to summon that dragon today form stone. The dragon Curse of dragon is a loyal follower of the royal family, so it smelled who you were and went away."
Aki followed up crying holding Max's hands, "Amput was our queen, a lone royal after her husband died in war, against the discarded snakes form Atlantis using there magic seal that trapped those in a shadow game, and gave them power and numbers to crush anything. Shadow games are bets enforced by magic, no can cheat or escape unless offered by caster. Ka-battle or as it was known till being erased here duel monsters was the most common. Son We ran because the snakes used the seal to rip out and harvest souls of people leaving them in a state between life and death, a soul could be returned by beating them, but it was too much, the spell keeping duel monsters form people's memories is tied to that deck box. You open it and it will return and the snakes will be able to find you. Please Son, I raised you and loved you as did your father, Amput was not just my queen she was my best friend, Please keep it locked away stay safe." Max got up running off crying, Zoe following, Spike stopping Aki.
Spike said it, "he is old enough the choice to stay safe or unleash his power is his choice."
Elsewhere in the City, Max had came to the spot where Chomp vs battled Terry crying holding his face, Zoe walked up, the sun was setting behind her. Zoe held his hand, 'It's okay I am here for you!" Before this couple moment could happen A gun shot was fired at Max, as a mugger grabbed Zoe and ran off with her making her scream, Max cried openeding the seal, while gut shot making his necklace glow. He needed the magic. Zoe was gun to her head before she froze, The world around them changed it was dark and a golden glow of an eye showed up. In the outside world Duel monsters returned to the world like it never left.
Inside form a wall shadow became real showing Max in uniform now a black furred Jackal humanoid male, golden eyes, Zoe was red. The robber tried to fire again, but nothing happened. Max chuckled his new mouth gave him a new voice he was also taller than Zoe a foot. "Oh a kidnapper and murder you think you can get away with this, I should strike you down, yet I cannot there are rules, something you won't know about shadow game start! Win you are sadly free lose face Karma.
Zoe was soon pulled by a shadow arm form the kidnapper to Max's side, she hugged him shaking as the game started. The random criminal blinked as they came to a set of game show with a count down watch, in the middle a swinging weight came down, "the weight comes down every minute, Stop the watch closet to one minute with out over to win!" He said weighing to do it. He stopped it at ten seconds, it came from the left. "Your gun won't work and you can't leave till you play fold or cheat.
The criminal smirked, "it comes from left and went back, so if I stand on left I have the edge unlike you who went on the right side. " he did it only to be shocked when the weight came from the other side, smacking him hand making him hold it.
Max smirked, "there is no edge in fair play Sir! now you lost time for the penalty." the man fell over in pain nothing happening. Max held Zoe's hand, "You feel what you did to everyone else psychical and emotional now." the world returned to normal including Max's human form, Zoe was crying scared watching the kidnapper and murder, shake as she hugged her boyfriend She was shaking not scared of her boyfriend but of what he saved her form and what he had unleashed. " Come on let me get you home, being beside me just became more dangerous." They past by people dueling with dueldisks all around. Max looked at his deck box at his hip saying this,"
to be continued
before anyone complains the early Yugioh manga had random games and Yami using them to inflict vigilante justice on Japan, and only had a few duels the anime covering this section is called Season Zero it was handled by a different animation company and wasn't included in the rest of the show, give it a goggle.