A/N: Hello everyone, this is the start of my brand new, and most ambitious series to date, so get your drink and popcorn ready, sit down in comfort, and be amazed for one of the longest series to date. Cannot wait to hear your comments and opinions on it.
Heroes are born of every age, those who can overcome the greatest of obstacles standing in their way, and in the world of Duel Monsters, it retains the same theory of life. Three unlikely people with great strength and courage aim to make their own world a better place. Like the heroic Yusei Fudo, who knew the world of Satellite was merely a stepping stone for his own greatness, as his quest to retrieve his Stardust Dragon, the one Synchro card that was in his possession that his supposed friend stole from him, taking it to New Domino City with him.
Yusei fought his way through many obstacles, whether they were Officer Trudge, Jack Atlas or the ruthless Dark Signers who possessed the strongest monsters he had ever come across, and the sight of an old friend, who was out for revenge against him for ratting him out to Sector Security, or so he claimed him to have done. However, the Dark Signers were merely puppets compared to that of the master, Rex Goodwin, who had lost his mind in believing that by using the powers of the Earthbound Immortals and that of the Crimson Dragon, he could reborn the world anew. However, thanks to that of Yusei and his fellow Signers, they defeated him, bringing peace back to the world, for now.
That was, until a new, mysterious enemy came along with what appeared to possess a new, stronger card, one known as a Synchro Killer. Later on, they discover the name of them as Meklords, a powerful enemy to use against their own strongest cards. Yusei later on, learns a new way of Synchro Summoning, the Accel Synchro thanks to a mysterious stranger known as Vizor. Thanks to the Accel Synchro and the help of his own friends, Yusei managed to defeat the master of the new adversaries, Z-One, thanks to the power of an Overlimit Accel Synchro, bringing forth his strongest newest ally, Shooting Quasar Dragon. With this card, Z-One was defeated, and Yusei and company were let to live on their lives, bringing the best out of the future of all.
The line of legendary duellists doesn’t end there however, as we move back in time, to watch that of a duelist who aimed to be the next King of Games through a place known as Duel Academy, that young man’s name, was Jaden Yuki. Despite this young man’s mind on schoolwork lacking in many areas, seeing as his favourite resting place was none other than classes, his duelling skills are on par with the current King of Games. Due to his own duelling skills, he had also faced many odds against him and his own friends, and his first obstacle, was none other than the Shadow Riders.
The Shadow Riders had but one goal, to retrieve the keys that stopped them from possessing the one thing their own master sought out, the Sacred Beasts, cards of immense power that drained the power of card spirits around them. Jaden fought his hardest against that of the Shadow Riders and the mastermind behind them, Kagemaru, the chairman of the entire Duel Academy. And in the outcome, victory came to Jaden, thanks to a card given to by a former head of his own dormitory. In the end, Jaden was claimed to be the best duelist at the time in Duel Academy, and eventually fought against his toughest rival, Zane Truesdale, with the might of his Cyber Dragons, which ended in such an uplifting draw of respect and laughter.
During his second year, Jaden fought out against his next rival to be, Aster Phoenix who eventually defeated him so badly, that due to some possessive force, stopped him from being able to see his own cards upon defeat, which would soon be replaced by a new ally in his deck, Elemental Hero Neos and his Neo-Spacians. Soon, the true enemy revealed themselves, as the Light Of Destruction, whom wished to make the world his own, making everyone into their servant. But thanks to the power of Jaden’s new allies, they eventually fought back, defeating the enemy in their tracks, bringing their own chaos to an end.
However, when one great enemy is defeated, another emerges to cause destruction in their wake, and this one, was a blast from the past in which soon Jaden would realise. The new enemy in question was one much unknown at the time, as the energy of Jaden, his latest friend Jesse who possessed the same spiritual skill he had, being able to talk to duel spirits and the rest of his long-time friends were stolen, and absorbed into this unknown villain. Soon, they had revealed themselves after being transported into an entirely different dimension, filled by other duel monsters and dangers of possessed students and teachers. The latest enemy was then realised by Jaden himself, who was left in such shock at the time, it was none other than an old ally in his young days, Yubel.
Soon, Jaden was possessed by such darkness, turning him into the Supreme King and making his own deck turn to the dark side, creating a whole new demonic set of monsters, the Evil Heroes. But in the end, the darkness of his reign had been swept away, allowing him to return to defeat that of Yubel, by doing the only thing he could possibly do, to fuse their bodies into one, making him even more unique than ever before. Jaden eventually returned to the real world after so long, revealing his own form to be that of more mature than previously before. Jaden knew that he would have to use his new found strength, and the return of his oldest ally Yubel to great use, but in time, he would leave the Academy and wander the world, with nothing but his trustiest allies and a rather faithful, feline friend.
The legend however, continues further back, to the age of where Duel Monsters was resurrected through the form of cards. This era was home to that of the most legendary duelist of all, Yugi Muto, the one true King of Games. Yugi was once that of a wimpy, young man, one who would not be able to put up a fight, as his own friends soon helped him out with. It was not until his own grandfather who gave him such a unique looking puzzle from his travels to Egypt, to be known as the Millennium Puzzle. Once the puzzle was solved, not only did Yugi release its once known secrets such as the Pharaoh stored inside, but also the return of such a demonic way of duelling, the Shadow Games. Once these games were brought back, many terrors would walk across the earth, as Yugi and his new ally, the Pharaoh would soon find out personally.
Their first obstacle was none other than Seto Kaiba, a rich company tycoon who possessed the strongest cards of their time, the Blue-Eyes White Dragons, and with these, gave untold troubles to that of Yugi and his own deck, even his mighty Dark Magician. It was however his victory as he drew the only cards that would hand him the only way to defeat three of these mighty dragons, Exodia, The Forbidden One. With this victory, he was the invited under some persuasion, to the Duelist Kingdom Tournament, in which he had to defeat his next enemy, Pegasus, the creator of Duel Monsters himself. However, due to his ally the Pharaoh, the way to victory was at hand, thanks to the last attempt of victory thanks to Yugi, bringing out the Magician Of Black Chaos, and wiping out the rest of Pegasus’ life points.
However, just when he had defeated Pegasus and rescued his own grandfather, the next part of his undying fate came into the picture, known as Marik Ishtar. His sole purpose was to defeat the Pharaoh in battle, and take his Millennium Puzzle away from him, granting him the secrets of his own past. His minions, the Shadow Duelists went at him with all they had, even with one of the strongest cards in history, the Egyptian God cards, and the first one that stared down Yugi and the Pharaoh, was none other than Slifer The Sky Dragon. However, due to his victory and that of the rules set by Kaiba’s Tournament, he was able to add this incredible card to his collection, and use its power to stop Marik’s plans.
Time had passed in the tournament, as Yugi and the Pharaoh now faced against the last two battles that would decide the fate of the world, one against that of Seto Kaiba, with thanks to the power of Dark Paladin, he overcome his long term rival, allowing him to take possession of Obelisk The Tormenter and finally have what he needed to take on Marik, who was now under such a demonic possession. The battle was fought long and hard, but thanks to the mysterious powers possessed by the Pharaoh himself, he managed to turn the tables, defeating the evil persona of Marik, bringing him victory and possession of the final Egyptian God card, The Winged Dragon Of Ra. With this victory, pieces of his own memory managed to resurface slightly, telling him that these three cards would be able to help him, in any situation.
Yugi and the Pharaoh, later known to be Atem, both brought peace to the world, by overcoming anything caused by the Shadow Games, and the ones who would abuse their power, like the evil spirit of the Millennium Ring, who wanted to release such a demonic power, known as Zorc. But that too was too great of a burden for them to bear, as both Atem and Yugi overcame those odds as well. The final challenge for them both there and then, was to face off with each other, to see if they were both ready to be separated from each other, and allow Atem to pass on to the spirit world himself. Yugi fought the Pharaoh which would be known as one of the greatest duels to have seen, but only known by so few. In the end, Yugi overcame Atem, and won the duel in such a stunning victory, allowing Atem to finally pass on, to see his own allies once more.
Yugi, Jaden & Yusei, these three were legends of their own times, bringing victory through their own power to save the world, through the power and belief of their own decks. However, unknown to so many, there was more to this than first met the eye. There was one more legendary duelist in the world, and thanks to Pegasus giving them the world’s strongest card, their own legend had only just begun. But to know their story, we must take our present selves to a much further past. Past Ancient Egypt to where the Shadow Games first began, and even past that of the unknown war of Atlantis and the Seal of Orichalcos. Our eyes must meet with that, of the beginning of time itself.
Chapter One/Prologue: The Beginning of the End
The universe was merely nothing in this state, which was until an event caused the whole of reality to begin: The Big Bang. Most scientists believed this to be because of a star of such intensity, to create our known life creating everything through particles of atoms, which would soon evolve into that of planets. However, this was not the case. What we believe with that of fancy words, and our own eyes are entirely different perspectives, which will truly hold what we would believe in. This truth will show how our lives truly begun, to prove that there was no known logic to what could have happened. Our Universe was not created by an exploding star or a bunch of atoms crashing into each other, it was created of something even stronger than those put together, which would later be known, as an event that exceeds that of any known science, as an embodiment of power, in the shape of a dragon.
Thanks to this mighty dragon, the universe we have all discovered by many means came to be with its almighty power. However, with its own life force mostly drained, in its wake, it left its own power to that of six dragons. These six dragons would possess most of the original dragon’s powers, but at many costs of its own life by doing so. Despite the large being now out of the picture, its unknown legacy would live on, as the planets begun to flourish with life, all retaining that of different life forms, from mere Dinosaurs which were known to live on Earth, to Biological life forms whose minds were out of this world, in which we would soon call Martians. The six dragons in this almighty beings wake, would be responsible for all life known to them at the time, but only by keeping their own existence unknown to them, hence they lived on Planet Earth, on a small piece of land that would not be known to exist in this modern age: The Isle Of Torguna.
The legend of these amazing dragons would soon come to an end, upon the point of the origin of life ending completely for these ancient beasts, the Dinosaurs. This age would be 65 million years in our known past, to where the age of humans would soon surface up and roam the earth itself. At this time, the six dragons watched over every life form known back then, to make sure that their own life would not end under their ever faithful watch. Each one of the mighty god like giants each possessed an element to control, allowing them to correct the flow of life to keep everything that the mysterious dragon shaped being passed onto them to protect. Their elements were as followed: Fire, to create a temperature to maintain their life. Water, to maintain their sea and ocean, allowing them to keep hydrated. Earth, to form the land to live on, keeping them protected from oceans that surround them. Wind, this of course providing oxygen to such life, allowing them to breathe their own air, Light, to provide them with life, to create more if their own race comes close to an end. And Dark, the provider of death, to make sure that they do not create god like statures that overcome that of their own state.
These six dragons created balance, the balance of life and death. With their strength, nothing would bring an end to that of life known to them, as thanks to the mysterious form for giving them life in the first place. However, one’s own selfish desire placed them onto a different path, the Dragon that controlled death. It knew that if its responsibility was to bring death to those who were ready, it claimed to believe that all life should end, and begin anew in its own image, to create beings who would know them as gods and not merely beings to hide in the wake of inferior forms. It decided without the consent of its brethren to extinguish life on these planets, by destroying their life there and then. The Dark dragon would create that of large enough meteors with the remains of atoms in the space beyond, to destroy life on the known worlds, before using another means of resurrecting life in its own image, and then be claimed as a god among them all.
However, the remaining five dragons realised this plan, and attempted to stop that of their traitorous brethren with their own power. However, their once known ally placed up a sort of barrier around its perimeter, keeping its brethren at bay while it hatches out its own plans. The other five dragons knew that if they could not penetrate the barrier cast up by the dark dragon, then it would succeed in destroying all life that was once protected by their own might. Meteors began to form outside of the atmosphere of each and every planet beaming with life, as the dark dragon used its own powers to do so. Within time, the meteors struck its first waves of planets, quickly extinguishing all life on their surface, as the dark dragon merely laughed in its own accomplishment.
Time was running out for the five dragons to save whatever they could from their corrupt brethren, and they knew, that life would soon be obliterated. But due to the strength of the Light Dragon, they were able to penetrate the barrier constructed by the dragon of darkness, finally putting an end to its evil schemes, but it seemed just too late. Even though they had halted the dark dragon’s powers, the meteors were still on collision with the remaining planets, as the dragon continued to laugh in its own success. The dragons knew the first they needed to do was seal away its dark powers, finding the only possible way of doing so, was in the form of a stone tablet, to bury deep inside of their home, the temple of Torguna. Once the dragon was sealed away and deep inside of the temple, the dragons knew that they had lost all chance to save the other worlds, as they had no recollection of the beings genetic structure in their forms.
However, there was another of their power to save at least one planet, by only losing all of its inhabitants, but by doing so, they could create forms of new beings, to later be known as: Humans. Once they managed to save the last remaining planet, the Earth itself, they knew that the Dinosaurs would be wiped out by the impact on the planet’s surface, but this was only the beginning of what they could truly do. However, due to the impact, their own home began to overflown by the planet’s oceans, soon to be swept away by water. In their last lifeline, they too sealed themselves away, to remain alive and watch over life in solid stone. The land we now knew as Pangaea was soon broken apart, creating the land we now know in this day and age, and the Isle of Torguna itself, to remain at the bottom of the deepest ocean on Earth.
However, forever doesn’t always mean forever, as the once lost Island that held the Dragons inside, resurfaced from the vast ocean, being known once again. The current date of this event was 27th July 2011, leaving only just under half a year to the major year of prophecy given to us by the Mayans, the supposed end of the world. Many researchers came from all across the corners of our world, to wonder if this Island was to be that of a premonition of our world ending, but for one, this seemed to be the perfect idea to discover its contents first hand, and his name, was Maximillion Pegasus, the creator of Duel Monsters. And this is where our scene soon begins to reveal the destiny of all of man, to reveal the truth around the Mayan’s prophecy.
“Ah Kroquet, such a splendid day to discover such wondrous treasures among this island of old” Pegasus spoke out with such vigour in his tone, actually looking forward to discover the Isle’s hidden secrets. “Just the thought of this reminds me when I discovered the remains of the Egyptian God Cards and the Rainbow Dragon”.
“Yes, Mr Pegasus sir” Kroquet spoke out with so few words, proving him to be that of not a great speaker in matters like these.
Pegasus then gave his personal servant a quick stare. “Did you inform my three best researchers? So they know about our location for take-off?” He spoke out with slight uncertainty in his tone.
Upon speaking of this matter at hand, three young Researchers came to that of landing strip just outside of Pegasus’ company; Industrial Illusions. Pegasus had only decided to take a small group of his Researchers to look over the Island, to discover its secrets and boast about it to the others across the world. When it came to things like this, Pegasus was a born Archaeologist, loving anything to tell us about the world of old.
“Mr Pegasus, it appears everyone has arrived” Kroquet spoke up slightly, informing his boss of the current situation.
“Ah, excellent work Kroquet” Pegasus revealed such a delightful expression upon his face, before turning his attention to the Researchers at hand. “Now, I would like you to introduce yourselves, just so I may name you properly” He added on to his previous statement.
The researcher on the far left decided to speak up for his boss. “I’m Tasuke Hashiyama, it’s a pleasure to be picked by you Mr Pegasus, sir” He spoke before bowing slightly to Pegasus.
The next researcher then spoke up for his boss. “I’m Hideo Kojima, I am glad to be working with you for today, sir” He too bowed slightly towards his boss.
The last researcher on the far right then decided to speak up slightly. “My name’s Darren Lewis, it’s an honour to be here” He spoke out abruptly.
“Ah, I am glad to have such a bunch of reliable researchers here” Pegasus spoke up, expressing such delight in the tone of his voice. “Make sure to work hard, we’ll be the first ones to have stepped on this undiscovered island”
The researchers all nodded their heads more or less at the same time. “Yes, Mr Pegasus, sir” They all spoke up at the time.
After Pegasus’ motivational speech, they had soon boarded their first ride towards their location, a Private Jet owned by Industrial Illusions. With this form of transport, they would soon rendezvous with their next stop, an oil rig specially designed to hold small jets on top of its surface. As they headed towards their location, after finally taking off, one of the researchers, otherwise known as Darren approached Pegasus, as he awaited his favourite drink of sorts.
“Mr Pegasus, sir?” Darren spoke up slightly to his boss. “May I ask why you are so interested in stepping on this island? After all, you are the head of Industrial Illusions sir”.
Pegasus simply revealed a sparkly grin of sorts up at the young researcher. “Before I produced cards Darren my boy, I was a very active archaeologist, looking over for the greatest discoveries” He spoke out with such vigour in his tone “However, after losing my eye due to certain circumstances, I was unable to pursue such treasures of our ancient world, so when I heard about an undiscovered island, I was unable to help myself” He added.
“I can understand that sir, but still, it seems rather suspicious that such a piece of land would resurface after so many millennia” Darren spoke up. “Don’t you find it rather strange, sir?”
“Darren my boy, strange and wonders are entirely different things, and yet, they relate so much” Pegasus smiled at this, closing his only visible eye. “I believe that such a discovery could bring so much to our current knowledge, and maybe a new set of Duel Monsters cards”
Darren just scoffed slightly, unable to believe his own boss’ logic. “Well Mr Pegasus sir, I do hope that we will attain more than just ideas for cards” He said with a keen smile upon his lips.
Just before Pegasus spoke up, Kroquet brought his drink, placing it on the table aside of him. “I’m sure we will Darren my boy” He speaks out as he picks up his White Wine Spritzer. “Only time shall tell” He added before taking a sip of his beverage.
As time passed, they had soon reached their point of landing, slowly descending towards the only oil rig with such a landing strip on top of its surface. Once the engines to the private jet began their shutdown process, Pegasus and his researchers stepped off of their previous transport, heading over towards their next form of flight, a military operated helicopter. Although not used by any Army Forces, it would provide a lot of room to any small group needing to land on a small island, such as the one recently resurfaced from under the depths of the ocean. The journey would be pretty long, but Pegasus knew that the long trip would be worth the wait.
After around two hours, the helicopter they were commandeering was nearing its location, the ever faithful island that had risen from the water, surrounded by many trees non-existent to their own timeline. The researchers did not realise this themselves from afar, however, Pegasus himself saw the truth as it stood below him. He knew the island itself was truly a marvel, despite it not being of any such link to land, its size was larger than any of what they would call islands themselves, as its size was near that of the Hawaiian Islands.
“Mr Pegasus, we are nearing our destination sir” The Pilot announced at the time. “Once we have landed, please allow the engines to shut down properly” The Pilot added on to his previous statement.
“Understood” Pegasus simply stated, as he knew even he would not wish to mess up his own hair before getting anywhere.
Once that announcement was made clear to the passengers, the Pilot soon began his descent upon the island. Upon closer inspection, the Pilot managed to find the perfect landing position of the land itself, soon positioning himself onto that point. Shortly after that time, the helicopter soon landed upon the surface of the island, making them the first to explore this mysterious isle. Soon enough, once the engines had shut down, Pegasus and his Researchers exited their only ride from off of the isle, stepping on its surface for the first time.
“Ah, such an exquisite environment, if I must say so myself” Pegasus stated with such a wondrous tone. “Seeing the ancient world here at our finger tips makes it so beautiful” Pegasus added on to his previous statement.
“Incredible sir, these plants, these are from the era of Jurassic Period” Tasuke simply stated, feeling his long life ambition in front of his own eyes.
“Indeed they are Tasuke my boy, this simply marks the era of island itself” Pegasus spoke out softly. “What we are seeing in front of our own eyes, is the mark of the ancient world tied to our own life style”
“Mr Pegasus, if you don’t mind me butting in, from above, I managed to spot that of a temple of sorts” Hideo spoke out with much importance.
“A temple you say? Ah, such a discovery to behold” Pegasus said with such an eager smile upon his lips. “We must investigate its contents straight away”
As Pegasus and his fellow researchers wandered towards that of the mysterious temple of sorts, Darren stopped in his own tracks, placing his hand upon his head, as if something was calling out to him. He soon shook his head, believing it to be of his own imagination, as he continued to stroll towards their next location of discovery. A twenty minute walk was all they needed at the time, as they had soon come up to the mysterious stone like temple in front of their own faces. Pegasus was left in such awe as he inspected the engravings of its stone walls.
“Astonishing, this is just astonishing!” Pegasus spoke out with such energy in his own tone. “Never have I seen such astonishing craftsmanship upon such a temple, it’s like nothing I’ve never seen before!”
“Mr Pegasus, would it be wise to step inside of its walls?” Hideo began to speak up. “Who knows what may lie inside of this place”
“Oh do not worry so much Hideo my boy, we came here to discover, and discover is what we shall do” Pegasus spoke up with such an adventurous tone.
“But sir, I hardly think it’s wise to do so without so much of a guide or even knowledge of the building” Hideo said with such worry in his voice, showing him as not much of an adventurer.
“Come on Hideo, don’t be like that, unless you wish for someone other than ourselves and Mr Pegasus to discover its contents” Tasuke simply spoke up, knowing how his boss was like when it came to ancient discoveries.
Hideo let out a sudden sigh of defeat, before looking back towards his own boss. “Very well then, but if anything bad happens, don’t say I didn’t warn you already sir”
Pegasus revealed a simple smirk, as he headed into the entrance of the temple, while the others simply followed him at the time. Yet again, Darren held his head, believing it to be some kind of headache, well, before he heard such a demonic voice.
“Release me human, release my power” The demonic voice simply stated in such a cold and malevolent manner.
Darren looked around himself at the time, trying to pinpoint where that voice came from. But to no avail, as it appeared no one was close to him, or surrounding him. So he had decided to forget about it, as he soon caught up with his boss and other researchers, inside of the temple.
“Mr Pegasus, these engravings, they are showing a sort of DNA coding” Hideo simply stated at that time, taking a few pictures with his digital camera at the time. “Maybe these could reveal so much of our past, or our beginning”
“Incredible, these glyphs are telling a story of how life truly begun in our universe, but the language isn’t one I’m familiar with” Tasuke spoke up, as he soon took some photos of the walls.
“Such discovery, and we have only just touched the tip of the iceberg” Pegasus said with such an astonished tone. “More secrets are likely to be hidden deeper inside of the temple”
Soon enough, Pegasus moved on deeper inside of the walls of this mysterious place, before coming across what appeared to be a huge twenty-five foot tall, twenty-five foot wide stone door, that he assumed held a much larger secret inside. “Hmm, what secret does this door keep locked away?” Pegasus thought to himself, placing his hand under his chin.
At this time, the researchers soon caught up with Pegasus, quickly taking notice of the huge door that shadowed their own bodies. “This door, it’s so huge sir!” Tasuke quickly spoke out, unable to believe at the sight of such a large entrance to another side of the temple.
“How do you suggest we get inside Mr Pegasus?” Hideo simply asked his boss at the time. Unsure of how they could venture past the heavy stone door.
Pegasus simply revealed an amazed smirk upon his lips. “Such mystery this door must hold to be of this size” He quickly remarked. “Our history may be what lies inside of this next room”
Hideo revealed a slight sweat mark against his forehead. “Um sir, that doesn’t seem to answer my question” He quickly responded.
Pegasus took note of this question, before revealing such a serious look. “I am sure that there is some kind of entry point to the wonders of this next room Hideo my boy”
Pegasus and the researchers soon started to search around the huge behemoth of a door, looking for source of entry, as they refuse to turn back right at this point. Ten minutes had passed since the start of their search, still with nothing found, but unknown to the others, Darren placed his hand against his forehead once more, feeling some pain, like something forcing its way into his skull.
“Release me human, release me from this imprisonment” A cold, dark voice spoke out into Darren’s head, as it aimed to receive his attention.
Before Darren could speak up, he soon noticed a large tablet of sort, glowing into his eyes. He had no idea of what had entered his head, nor did he know the origin of this unknown voice in his mind. As he noticed that the others could not see the glowing tablet of sorts, he soon went over to it and placed his hand upon its ancient material. This seemed to have reacted from his touch, as the huge stone door soon started to open up, but only enough for that of human size. Pegasus quickly took notice of this door opening up, before revealing a wondrous smile upon his lips.
“I don’t know what any of you did, but it appears that we now have entry past this door” Pegasus spoke out, slowly moving towards the gap of the door.
Darren had no idea of what happened, nor did he care at this point, as long as they were able to enter the large space inside. The researchers soon followed Pegasus passed the door itself, only to find five large tablets at the far end of the room, each holding what appeared to be dragons upon their surface. Pegasus was delighted when he picked up what he saw himself, knowing that he was right of such a discovery.
“Incredible! This is simply incredible; to find such a discovery and that of old life is wondrous!” Pegasus declared at the time. “This reminds me of the time I had discovered the Egyptian Gods that were used by the Shadow Games so many years ago”
Tasuke decided to speak his mind there and then. “Mr Pegasus, do you think we should take photographs, for archive purposes?”
Pegasus soon turned his head at such a suggestion. “Yes Tasuke my boy, please do so. I would love to recreate these Dragon’s lives into forms of cards”
Tasuke nodded his head, before they all started to take photographic evidence of such a discovery, making sure to get the temple’s main chamber along with the stone tablets that held carvings of the five dragons. However, just as Darren was about to move away, he heard something calling out to him, returning that pain in his head yet again. He had no idea of the cause of it, but it seemed that he headed towards the direction of the voice, finding what appeared to be a small gap in the wall. Once he had entered it, he quickly took notice of another stone tablet held in the darkness, as he used his flashlight, beaming up at the tablet. He quickly took notice that it was another carving of a huge dragon. But to him, this one seemed far different from the other five he had already seen.
Darren decided upon himself to take photographic evidence of this tablet as well, but for some odd reason, he had thought he had seen something out of place. When he lowered his camera down, he thought he was hallucinating as he noticed two glowing dark purple eyes appearing on the tablet. He closed his eyes for just a moment as he shook his head, before looking back up at the temple, noticing nothing out of the ordinary. Darren soon suspected that he did not get enough sleep the previous night, or if it was a form of jet lag, he had no idea. Darren took it upon himself to return to the others inside of the main chamber, taking the same direction as he did before.
“Darren, where on earth did you step off to?” Hideo spoke up as soon as he saw Darren returning to their current position.
Darren rubbed the back of his head with his free right hand, looking at Hideo. “Sorry about that my friend, I was just checking around, to see if I can find anything else” He quickly replied.
“Whatever my friend, just hope that you don’t keep Mr Pegasus waiting for too long; you know he is after many discoveries this place may hold” Hideo added on to his previous statement.
Darren continued to rub the back of his head, as he soon looked at his digital camera, scanning through all the images that were placed on his camera’s hard drive. When he came across the one of the dragon in the secluded area of the temple, he notices nothing up with it. With this, he proved to himself that it was all in his head, believing it to be the fact from lack of sleep. However, that voice too real in his own mind, but he knew not to fret over it right now, as he went back over towards his colleagues and Pegasus himself.
“Ah I believe we have enough of the discovery to archive and research my fellow scientists” Pegasus said with such courtesy. “Now, I believe it is time to…”
Before Pegasus could finish his own statement, the ground beneath them began to rock a little, thinking of it as nothing, until another movement under them startled themselves. The sound of water could be heard off in the distance, giving Pegasus such a worrying look as he had a feeling what was going on. It appeared that the island they had stepped upon, was about to sink back into the bottom of the ocean.
Hideo immediately spoke up for his colleagues. “Mr Pegasus, we have to go! I believe the island is about to return to whence it came!”
Pegasus nodded at this statement. “I believe you are right. We’ll have to evacuate, make sure not to drop anything behind!”
Just at that time, water started to flow into the main chamber of the temple, now proving their current situation. They knew that they had to step on it, if they stayed here too much longer; they too would be dragged down into the depths of the ocean as well. Once they had stepped outside of the temple, they easily managed to spot the ride they had onto the island itself, already with its engines on, as the rotors sped up. The Pilot was rather worried that they would be too slow for them to escape from the island, as more of the ocean surrounding them flowed onto the point of entry already.
“Mr Pegasus sir, you must hurry up, we have no more time now” The Pilot shouted out, knowing that he was indeed right.
“Mr Pegasus, sir! Hurry up!” Kroquet shouted across to his own boss, obviously worried at this time.
Upon that statement, Pegasus and party soon picked up their own pace, managing to get onto their ride before the island started to take on much more water upon its land. The pilot soon engaged the rotors to full power, allowing them to take off from what used to land, easily gaining altitude. This was all too close to call, as they only just managed to leave the island with their lives intact. They were indeed lucky, as the island soon return to the depths of the ocean, probably to never resurface for many millennia.
Two weeks had now passed since that faithful event, and the tablets of those dragons soon became cards, thanks to the genius of Pegasus. He soon knew that these cards should have a real duel test, to make sure that they were ready for the general public. Pegasus had an unsure feeling that there was more to these cards than first meet the eye, but he was unable to put a finger on it.
“Mr Pegasus, we are ready to engage the test duel simulation” Hideo stated to his boss, waiting upon his command to do so.
Pegasus moves his attention over to his researcher, before nodding his head slightly. “Very well Hideo my boy, engage the simulation”
“Yes Mr Pegasus, right away” Hideo quickly replied to his bosses’ response. As he turned his attention towards the computer, he turned on the simulators, engaging the holographic system. “We shall be using computers to duel against each other sir, this way; we can get a much clearer idea of how these new cards shall work”
“Very well then Hideo, but tell me, where would Darren boy be hiding?” Pegasus asked of his employee.
“Not quite sure Mr Pegasus, but I’m sure he’ll be back soon enough, after all, it was thanks to him that we have all six dragons instead of just the original five” Hideo responded shortly, as he turned his attention back towards the simulation terminals once more.
“I suppose so” Pegasus murmured slightly. He had a feeling something was weird right now, especially since Darren hadn’t been his normal self since the archaeology excavation two weeks ago. He had been talking to himself in the middle of the corridors once before, but shook it off as he thought he was speaking to himself.
“Engaging hologram systems, all at one hundred percent” Tasuke quickly spoke out, as he continued to type in the coding for the terminal.
“Automatic systems for duelling bots ready to engage” Hideo spoke up. “All decks shuffled and ready to start”
“Ready to engage duelling simulation at your command Mr Pegasus” Tasuke said as he continued to monitor the terminal.
“Very well, engage the systems Tasuke my boy” Pegasus smirked slightly, ready to see his latest work be made into reality.
“Yes Mr Pegasus, all systems are online!” Hideo replied, pressing a few more keys on his own terminal, before engaging all systems there and then.
At that moment, two large duelling bots came out from the walls either side of the interior duelling field, ready to engage the duel. Each duel bot soon drew their opening five cards, ready to start the duel at maximum capacity. Pegasus continued to overlook the field, as his smirk remained upon his own lips. The anticipation of it was getting to it, as he waited to see the strength of these ancient dragons in card form.
[First Duel Bot/4000]
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[4000/Second Duel Bot]
“First turn commencing” the left simulation duel bot spoke out in such a robotic voice, as a card appeared under its main form. “Placing two Set cards onto field”
At that moment, two face-down cards appeared closest to the duel bot, revealing them to be either that of a Spell or Trap card at the time.
“Then summoning Jain, Lightsworn Paladin to field in attack position” The Duel Bot announces, as another card places itself onto the field, this time however in a face-up position. A female based warrior in silver armour emerges onto the field; she lifts up her own sword as its stats are then revealed to the duelling systems.
Jain, Lightsworn Paladin
LIGHT
Warrior/Effect
Level 4
ATK/1800 DEF/1200
“Ending first turn” The Duel Bot announces once more, handing it over to the other Duelling bot. However, due to the effect of Jain, the turn would continue on. “Due to Jain’s effect, the top two cards of the deck are placed into the graveyard” It spoke up, sending two cards out of the deck into the makeshift graveyard.
A light glow then emerged from the graveyard slot, sliding out once more. “The card sent from the graveyard will activate its effect, allowing the card to be Special Summoned; Wulf, Lightsworn Beast will be placed onto field in attack mode”
At this moment, the monster card was returned onto the makeshift duel disk, allowing its form to materialize onto the field.
Wulf, Lightsworn Beast
LIGHT
Beast-Warrior/Effect
Level 4
ATK/2100 DEF/300
“Commencing second turn, drawing card” The second Duel Bot announced, dropping a card from the deck into its makeshift hand “Summoning Warrior Of Atlantis, attack mode”
Warrior Of Atlantis
WATER
Aqua/Effect
Level 4
ATK/1900 DEF/1200
“Warrior Of Atlantis will commence attack on Jain, Lightsworn Paladin” The second Duel Bot announced, allowing the monster to engage in battle as it swung its fists against the targeted monster.
“Activating Trap Card, Sakuretsu Armor” The first Duel Bot announced, as the set card flipped face up, revealing it to the duel bot opposite of itself “Trap card’s effect, when an opponent’s monster declares an attack, the opposing monster is destroyed”
Upon this activation, a silver coloured lightning bolt shoots out from the now activated Trap card, shattering the opposing monster into pieces, removing itself from the field with such ease. The Trap card then evaporates from the field as it too is sent to the graveyard.
“Placing one Set card down” The second Duel Bot announced, as the newly placed Set card appears into the Bot’s Spell and Trap card zone.
“Starting second turn, commencing draw phase” The First Duel Bot spoke up, before drawing a card into its makeshift hand, adding it to its current arsenal of cards. “Activating Set card, Glorious Illusion” It announced as the Set card turned face-up to reveal its form.
“Card effect; allows the special summoning of one Lightsworn monster in the current graveyard” The first Duel Bot announced, as the card reacted in such a golden glow. “Resurrecting Celestia, Lightsworn Angel” It added onto its previous statement.
The golden glow of the activated Trap card then began to take another form, as its shape became that of the targeted monster, revealing it’s rather angelic form as its stats are revealed to the duelling field.
Celestia, Lightsworn Angel
LIGHT
Fairy/Effect
Level 5
ATK/2300 DEF/200
“Initiating tribute system; sacrificing all three Light attributed monsters” The first Duel Bot announced, as the three monsters begin to take another form, into what appeared to be three golden orbs with the kanji for Light upon them. As this summoning was performed, Pegasus and his fellow researchers continued to look down from the overlook of the Duelling Simulation.
“All systems are normal so far” Tasuke mentioned to Pegasus at the time, while Hideo’s left eyebrow started to rise up a little. “It looks like it may not be as smooth as we may think” Hideo immediately responded as he looked down onto his monitor.
Pegasus was slightly concerned at what one of his own top researchers started to say. “What is it, Hideo?” he immediately asked of him.
“It appears there has been a large spike of energy within the Duel Simulator, Mr Pegasus” Hideo stated to his company’s boss. “Could it be because of the card being summoned?” he added on to his previous statement.
It was now Tasuke’s turn to worry, as the spike of energy started to tamper with his own monitor, glowing out in a golden colour. “Mr Pegasus, something is wrong here!” He announced, as his own worries started to increase.
Before Pegasus could respond to Tasuke, a large stream of lightning bolts started to spark about within the Duel Simulators secluded room, causing a malfunction to both of the duelling bots, as a large golden form began to take shape past the viewing point, revealing it to be somehow larger than that of the three Egyptian God Cards. Pegasus was astonished at such a sight, and at the same time, worried to what kind of damage it could cause to his company. He soon knew what to do and passed on his sudden thoughts to his two researchers.
“Shut down all systems, now!” Pegasus immediately announced, obviously concerned for the safety of his company and his employees inside of the complex. “Shut it down now!” he added onto his previous outburst.
Upon this command, both Tasuke and Hideo started to initiate the shutdown process of the systems, hoping that they would be able to do so after the massive spike of energy filling up the secluded room. As they continued to proceed with the shutdown, Pegasus looked down into the Duel Simulator’s open space, watching the huge glowing form releasing shockwaves upon the walls of ceiling, causing the metallic surfaces to crack from such pressure. This had left him in such awe, and was just as surprised as the currently golden form turned its head at Pegasus, revealing its bright green eyes to him.
“Shutdown process is active, it’ll take just a few seconds to respond sir” Hideo shouted over his shoulder, letting Pegasus know of the current situation.
“Shutdown active in five, four, three, two…” Tasuke announced from his other monitor. And soon enough, the shutdown took effect, causing the huge golden form to release yet another shockwave before dispersing in front of Pegasus’ eyes, leaving him in such awe and shock.
“Shutdown process completed, Mr Pegasus” Tasuke announced once more, releasing a sigh of relief after this moment had passed.
“That spike of energy though, it far exceeded that of Obelisk The Tormentor that Seto Kaiba tested once before in his own Duelling Simulator” Hideo thought to mention to both his fellow researcher and his current boss. “If we had allowed it to proceed at its level of power, who knows how much damage would have been caused” he added onto his previous sentence.
“Yes, it appears that these cards have passed the level of destruction that the Egyptian God cards had once possessed” Tasuke thought out loud for the other two. “And our Duelling Simulator is three times stronger on safety than Kaiba’s systems”.
“It looks like we may need to keep these cards from the general public, just until we find some way to lock up their immense power” Hideo started to mention. “If even one of these cards was given to a public duelist, it could spell disaster”.
Pegasus then decided to retrieve the card in question, soon grabbing a hold of it, as he stared at its card art.
“With a power this strong, Kaiba boy and even Yugi boy wouldn’t be able to handle them, and they’ve held onto the Egyptian Gods before” Pegasus thought to himself, before moving in between the two researchers.
“Mr Pegasus, what shall we do with these six cards? There is no way we can start mass producing them, right?” Tasuke asked of his own boss.
Pegasus soon placed the card within its own personal, metallic like box, sealing it inside before moving towards the room’s door. “I believe we may have to hold onto these cards until we fix their power output” Pegasus personally announced himself. “Even now, their power is fearful, even more so than the three Egyptian God cards”.
Hideo nodded his head at this statement. “Yes Mr Pegasus, we’ll have to hold onto them for now”
“I wouldn’t see any other way at this time sir” Tasuke said to his boss. “We’ll have to hold them inside of the safe, just until further notice”.
Pegasus nodded his head at this answer, before staring down at the card’s art once more. “These cards…they are merely too strong for a normal duelist”.
Before Pegasus could utter another word, another researcher came through the door, suddenly gasping for air, slightly leaning down as he looked up at his own boss. “Mr Pegasus, sir, we have a problem!”
Pegasus seemed slightly concerned at this, at first believing it to because of the shockwaves emitted by the dragon’s immense strength. “Do not worry, the shockwaves have seized, so everyone is safe now”
“That’s not it sir!” The researcher immediately responded seconds after Pegasus’ statement. “It’s…it’s the new cards, two have been stolen!”
Pegasus’ eyes merely widened into shock at this statement, unable to believe it at first, but soon responded to the allegation. “What is this!? Who would do it!?” he asked of the out of breath researcher.
As soon as the researcher slightly caught his breath, he immediately stood up before he started to respond to Pegasus. “It was…it was…”
Outside the grounds of Industrial Illusions, a unknown person had thrown down their researcher’s coat, causing dried up mud sliding slowly onto its material. The certain person then started to smirk as they stared into the card art of one of the cards that were stolen, revealing such an evil and black aura around its small form. This caused the person to start letting out a rather evil snicker, pleased with their own selves as they soon turned around from the view of the building that was owned by Pegasus.
“Soon, the world shall crumble upon their feet, and begin the world anew, in their own image” The mysterious person started to speak out with such a dark tone. “This planet, shall fear what shall be brought upon them, the prophecy shall come to pass, bringing Armageddon to their doubtful eyes” They added onto their own sentence, before bursting out in such a demonic laughter, walking into the sunset of what may be, the end of everyone’s own existence.
End of Prologue
Subject: Yu-Gi-Oh! Isle Of Torguna - Prologue 
Fri Aug 09, 2013 9:00 pm
, can't wait for the next
