So this was a rp between me and Millie_Astral (aka Chibi) of Wattpad. The rp was random but it was good enough to become story material. It was my idea to turn the rp into a book, but Chibi wrote all of this. I'm just rewording a bit as well as changing the Japanese names to English. Chibi prefers the Japanese names while I prefer the English names.

Side Note: Yuri from Arc V and Vegeta from DBZ will be mentioned in this story but the story is centered around Zexal

Yuma and his friends were just coming back from school when it happened. They were taking their time today by going to the park and dueling. It was Yuma against Bronk as usual, and this time Yuma won. After celebrating for a solid five minutes, they all finally went home.

Little did he know, a girl was watching over his every move. She was hidden behind some bushes, watching his movements. Noting how confident he seemed. The way he dueled in the past was powerful and experienced, even if his casual dueling with friends was silly and seemingly stupid. She also knew he had a friend from another world that helped him to duel from time to time when he was in a tight situation.

The girl's tail flicked as she watched Yuma walk home. She had been watching him for a while now after she left her own home world in search of a new one. She found this city, Heartland City, and settled here in a large building she bought. That building was to be the center of her operation.

She followed Yuma home, even going so far as to wait for him since she knew where he lived. The girl noticed that his sister and grandmother were gone today. She suppressed a giggle; she would do it today.

"Kari, Grandma, I'm home!" Yuma called and waited for them to respond. There was nothing. The boy shrugged and went to the kitchen to make himself a sandwich. He made his way leisurely to his attic room, where he laid on his hammock and ate his snack.

He thought about what he would do for the summer. School just ended, so he had a lot more free time. He supposed he could spend a lot of time with his friends, and now that school was out, he had more time to go looking for the Numbers with Astral. He smiled as he made his mental list of things to do.

The girl snuck into the house when it was clear that no one else was home beside Yuma. It made things so much easier for the girl to grab her target without anyone knowing. She made her way up the stairs and to the attic, poking her into the attic room to see her victim completely at ease. This wouldn't take long. After all this was Yuma's house, he had no reason to be wary in his own home. Plus he didn't have the sensing capabilities of an energy being like Astral. There's no way he could even know that there's an intruder in his house. The girl was skilled at hiding her presents like this.

Soon, with the speed of a hunting snake she struck.

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Yuma groaned awake and slowly opened his eyes. His vision wavered for a good while before it finally cleared. He looked around trying to take in his surroundings, but there wasn't much to take in. It was an empty lab-like room with a machine a few feet away from him and another machine right beside him. Coming from the machine was a tube that stretched from the machine all the way into his neck. The needle of the tube was already in his skin and taped on so it was secure. He tried to lift his hands, but metal bands are wrapped around his wrists keeping him strapped to the chair he's in, the same applied to his legs as well. On his forehead and temples are little pads attached to wires for some reason.

"Hello?" Yuma called into the room. "Is anyone here?!" He waited a while, but there was no answer right away. He was about to try calling out to someone again when the door in front of him opened and a female voice answered him.

"Hello my dear little Yuma." The voice purrs. In walks a girl who is approximately five feet three inches tall. She's wearing black skinny jeans with a red tank top. From behind her pokes out a jet black tail, which swayed from side to side. Her hair is short and slightly dark blond in color, and her eyes are emerald green in color with slits for pupils.

"Who are you?" Yuma asks. "And why am I tied to this chair?!"

The girl walks over to the machine and grins at the boy. "My name is Shingetsu Rei Shadows. But you may dear boy, may call me Shing." She starts pushing a few buttons on the machine farthest from Yuma. "And I plan on using you for a little something."

"What's this 'little something' huh?"

Shing took her time answering, pushing buttons as if she knew exactly what each one did. "I plan to take over this city. The person in charge isn't capable of leading effectively. I plan on fixing that. And I'm going to be using you as my knight."

Yuma took a moment to process what she's saying because it just sounded so ridiculous. If he didn't know any better, he would say she sounded like some kind of monarch spreading her rule over countries. That was impossible though. In this day and age there were only a handful of kings and queens in the world, and even their armies weren't big enough to take over whole countries.

"Do you know how crazy you sound? You're acting like you can even do this!"

"Only the ones who can't see reason think like that." Shing finished pressing buttons and stood in front of her victim. "Don't worry. I'll help you see reason. Are you ready my knight?"

At this point Yuma tried struggling out of his bonds that held him down to the chair. He didn't know what this girl was going to do to him, but he knew it wasn't anything good. He wrenched his wrists until they trend red, all the while Shing walked to the machine and held her hand over the start button. She watched Yuma's brainwaves spiked with adrenaline.

"He'll see reason soon enough." She thought to herself and flipped the switch.

Yuma felt something cold go into his neck. He felt instantly weakened, and his thoughts become jumbled. He still fights though, even though he knows it's useless. The Emperor's Key around Yuma's neck starts to grow dim in color as it locks itself. A defense mechanism when there is danger. Soon his struggling stops.

Shing looks over at her monitor with disapproval as Yuma's brainwaves drop. She was hoping this wouldn't happen but she had the foresight to make something should this problem arise. She leaves the room for a moment to grab a headset that would be able to stop any further brain damage from happening, then returns to the room she left Yuma in. Shing walks over to Yuma and slips the headset onto his head. Yuma starts to groan as he comes to.

"Hello my knight." Shing purrs. Yuma opens his eyes and looks up at her sleepily and blankly. "Are you feeling alright?"

"I'm… better," Yuma slurred his words, still not looking her in the eye because of the effort it took to lift his head up.

Shing knees down to his level so he could look at her. "Before I send you off to rest I need to ask you one question." She holds up a few pictures of Yuma's friends that she had taken over the time she watched them and Yuma. "Are these you friends or your enemies?"

It took Yuma a moment to answer. His eyes squinted at the pictures as he tried to remember who they were to him and what they would do. He finally answers, "They're my enemies."

"That's right. They'll try to stop me from taking over this city as its rightful queen. I need your help to gather an army to take the city over, is that understood?"

"Understood."

"Good, now come along Yuma. You need to rest."

Shing unties Yuma's bonds and helps him to his feet, leading him out of the room.

That's chapter one, if you would like to read Chib's version of the story then head to wattpad and search for the user Millie_Astral as she has some good stories of her own there.

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A/N: If I can remember to do this, I will try to post 2 chapters a day of this story as there are 23 chapters to this story. If I forget to post then I'm sorry but I will try to remember to post.