Disclaimer: I don't own any of the names of both the characters and the cards. I do have one original character.

Chapter 1: The Enforcers

"BOSS! The Enforcers are here!"

I heard my male subordinate telling me that. I prepare my deck and put it in my Duel Disk that has a red rim. I put on my navy blue vest over my red shirt.

"They show up pretty quickly," I jokingly said as I look myself at a shattered mirror. I'm checking to see if my short black hair with a yellow streak on the left isn't messy. "So what happen?"

"Well…" I can hear the regretful tone of my subordinate. "Most of our toughest men have been defeated by them! Their leader, Kalin, have been asking to see you!"

I turn to my subordinate and asks, "To Duel me? Or to talk to me? I just want little bloodshed as possible in our territory."

"We don't know! But it's not too late for you to escape! We'll find an escape route and—!"

"SILENCE!" I shout at my subordinate to make him not finish his sentence. "I'm not going to run away! Where is this Kalin person?"

My subordinate told me that Kalin and his gang are at the west outside of our territory. I order him to take me to that location and he reluctantly follows. We got outside of the hideout to see the ruined urban city called Satellite.

Satellite was once part of a grand city called New Domino City, but some things happen that made Satellite into an island. The residents work in recycling plants for the garbage that has been "given" to this place and the people who got busted by Sector Security in New Domino City got transfer here. I live in Satellite ever since I was born and my mother took care of me before she left some time ago. Right now, Satellite has become a war zone with gangs Dueling each other for control; kind of like a certain Warring period of our history. Dueling is a term for the popular trading card game called Duel Monsters that were created a long time ago and is still playing to this day. I created a gang as well, but not for fighting. There are people in my territory that can't deal with the gang war, so my gang was created for protecting instead of fighting.

We arrive at the location where Kalin and his Enforcers are waiting. I look around and saw my other male subordinates look defeated. They look at me with sadness in their eyes and quickly hide their face in shame, which I couldn't blame them for.

Then I look at the people who are called the Enforcers, which happen to be four young males. They wear similar types of clothing like brown vests over their shirts and jeans. I look at the boys starting from my left to right; there's a boy who orange hair and is wearing goggles on his forehead, a boy who has black spiky hair with yellow highlights, a boy who has short light blue hair, and a mean-looking boy who has spiky blonde hair and wears a headband. I could make a joke about them looking for a modeling agency, but that would ruin the tense moment here.

One of my subordinates weakly walk up to me and he gets down to the ground in all four of his limbs. He bows his head and said, "I'm sorry, Boss! We try our best to beat them, but they were too strong! Please forgive us! We didn't mean to let this happen!"

"It's okay," I gently reply. "Please raise your head and stand up straight. There's no need for you to feel ashamed of your loss. I want all of you to learn from them, not hate them."

"Thank you for your wise kindness, Boss!" All of my subordinates bow their heads as they say their words in a grateful tone.

I glare at the four boys who are also staring at me. I ask in a demanding tone, "Which one of you is Kalin?"

"That would be me!" The light blue hair boy steps in front of his gang with a smug-look on his face. "I guess that you must be the boss of Team Butterfly. Funny, when I heard from the other gangs that we defeated that this territory's boss is a girl, I never thought it would be true."

I cross my arms together and intensify my glare at him. "You got a problem with that! If you have time to talk, then how's about you use that time to leave this place!"

"I'm sorry, sister!" the orange hair boy spoke with a smirk. "We aren't leaving until we take over this territory!"

"Why?" I gasped. "For what reason for a gang like yourselves want to come over to another gang that didn't expand their territory? We're only on defense not offense!"

"Does that matter?" the blonde guy scoffs in a very arrogant tone. "Your gang is just another set of stepping stones for our goal."

Just as that blonde guy was about to step in, the black hair guy stops him. "Wait, guys! I don't think she wants to fight. After all, none of her gang have gone out to expand their territory. I say we should try to avoid more conflict than we already did."

"It's already too late, Yusei!" Kalin replies. "I mean we already took care of her toughest guys here."

He does have a point, I thought, it's already too late to compromise. "Then can I ask you guys a question? Why is it that a small group like yourselves try to fight against every gang here in Satellite?"

Kalin scratches his nose as if he's trying to be cool to tell me about their reason. He said, "It's because of our goal of becoming the strongest gang that Satellite! We all know that there's no way we can get out of this place, so why not settle to beat all of the gangs here!"

"The reason why you're fighting is just for satisfaction?! Now I really want you guys to leave! This is Team Butterfly's territory and what is our motto, boys?"

"Our motto is to protect not to fight!" My subordinates all shout in unison.

"And why is it that we choose to protect this place?"

"Because fighting only brings despair! And we must use our powers for good and not for ourselves!"

"And that is Team Butterfly!" I smirk as I stomp the ground hard. "Kalin, I challenge you to a Duel! Whoever wins will take this territory!" I activate my Duel Disk as the atmosphere around me becomes tense.

Kalin smirks as he too activates his Duel Disk that has his deck. "Fine by me. I'm going to show you the power of the Enforcers!"

Butterfly's Leader's Life Points: 4000

Kalin's Life Points: 4000

We both draw five cards from our decks and Kalin allows me to go first. I draw a card and places it into my hand. Then I said, "I summon Elemental Hero Clayman in defense mode!" A humanoid with a huge build made of stone appears in front of me as he crosses his arms like he's defending me.

Elemental Hero Clayman: Level 4, Earth

ATK: 800 DEF: 2000

My subordinates begin to cheer to see Clayman as one of them shouted, "Go for it, Clayman! Protect the Boss!"

Oh brother… "I end my turn by placing two cards facedown!" Two mysterious cards appear behind Clayman.

Kalin draws a card. "First I activate the spell card, Into the Void! This spell only activates if I have three or more cards in my hand. As you can see, I still have five cards, which means I can get to draw one card. However, there's a catch. I have discard all of the cards in my hand as soon as I end my turn."

"Why did you play such a risky card?" I ask out of concern.

Kalin didn't answer my question as he continues his turn. "Next I summon Infernity Beast in attack mode!" A black wolf-like monster with a mask-like face appears in front of Kalin.

Infernity Beast: Level 3, Dark

ATK: 1600 DEF: 1200

"And I also end my turn by placing two cards facedown!" Two cards appear behind the Infernity Beast. Also, since Kalin ends his turn, he has send the remaining cards in his hand to the graveyard.

I can't believe he use such a risky card, I thought as I draw a card. "First I switch Clayman into attack mode and I summon Elemental Hero Lady Heat!" An orange hair lady in red and white spandex appears next to Clayman as her hands spew out fire.

Elemental Hero Lady Heat: Level 4, Fire

ATK: 1300 DEF: 1000

"Next I activate the Field Spell, Skyscraper!" As soon as I place a card to the Field Spell Zone, the whole area began to change from a ruined city to a much cleaner one. It's like I'm in a different Satellite than before.

My team and I aren't surprise to see this Field Spell, but it looks like the Enforcers are. The orange hair boy exclaims, "This is amazing!"

"I agree," the black hair boy called Yusei nods his head. "I wonder if this is what New Domino City is like."

"If you guys are done being a bunch of hicks, I'm going to attack! Clayman attacks your Infernity Beast!"

"Hold on!" The orange hair boy begins to speak. "That monster is clearly weaker than Kalin's monster! Why would you attack?"

I explain, "I activate Skyscraper's ability! If a weaker Elemental Hero monster attacks a monster that is clearly stronger, then that Elemental Hero gains 1000 attack points during the remainder of battle!"

Elemental Hero Clayman: ATK: 800 + 1000 = 1800

They've become shock to see the attack boost as Clayman punches Infernity Beast at its lower jaw that sends it flying. After a few seconds of flying, the Infernity Beast falls down to the ground and disappears.

Kalin's Life Points: 4000 – 200 = 3800

Elemental Hero Clayman: ATK: 1800 – 1000 = 800

"Now you're wide-open for a direct attack! Go, Lady Heat!"

Lady Heat forms the fire that she's spewing into a ball and she throws it at Kalin like a baseball. However, Kalin activates one of his facedown cards.

"You trigger my trap, Dimensional Prison! This trap negates your Lady Heat's attack and banish her from the field!"

A dimensional hole appears in front of Kalin and absorbs Lady Heat's fireball. The hole starts acting like a vacuum as it sucks in Lady Heat like its eating her. The hole disappears as soon as it's done eating my fiery heroine. I end my turn after that.

"That's pretty impressive," I said as a comment. And it's true because if he didn't get rid of Lady Heat after her attack, her special ability would kick in. Her ability allows her to deal 200 points of direct damage to my opponent for every Elemental Hero on my side of the field.

Kalin scratches his nose with a smug look on his face. "Well, what can I say… that's all skill, just like what I'm going to do right now! Draw!" He draws a card from his deck and he smiles happily when he looks at it. "I special summon Infernity Archfiend in attack mode!" Some sort of demonic warlock appears in front Kalin and he looks at me with an awful grin on his face.

Infernity Archfiend: Level 4, Dark

ATK: 1800 DEF: 1200

"You see; his special ability works when I have no cards in my hand. Since I don't have any cards right now, I can special summon him. Also, when I did summon him like that, I can add one Infernity monster from my deck and into my hand!" He looks through his deck for a bit and pulls out a card before he shuffles his deck and puts it back into his Duel Disk. "I summon Infernity Guardian in attack mode!" A V-shape arc that has a skull producing fire at its center appears floating next to the demonic warlock.

Infernity Guardian: Level 4, Dark

ATK: 1200 DEF: 1700

"Since your Field Spell only works when your Elemental Hero attacks, that means it can't get a power boost when I attack! Infernity Guardian attacks your Clayman!"

I see that the Infernity Guardian's mouth is forming a fireball attack, but I retaliate by activating one of my facedown cards. "I activate the trap card, Negate Attack! This trap negates your attack and quickly ends your battle phase!"

Infernity Guardian shoots its fireball at Clayman, but a vortex appears and sucks in the attack. The vortex disappears, only to make Kalin to end his turn.

I draw a card. "I summon Elemental Hero Stratos in attack mode!" A blue hero that has propellers as wings fly above my Field Spell and landed right next to Clayman. His design reminds me of a humanoid airplane.

Elemental Hero Stratos: Level 4, Wind

ATK: 1800 DEF: 300

"Elemental Hero Stratos's special ability activates! When he's summoned, I can use one of his two abilities! I chose the ability to destroy your facedown card for a number of Elemental Heroes beside Stratos! Since Clayman is still here, I destroy only your only facedown card!"

This makes the Enforcers to gasp in shock as Stratos uses his propellers to create a tornado. That tornado destroys Kalin's facedown card.

Next I order Clayman to attack Infernity Archfiend. This sort of tactic can be considered reckless, though that's because Clayman gets a 1000 power boost in his attack strength, which made his attack points equal to the target. Infernity Archfiend uses his claws to fight back, but it still got hit by Clayman's punch. Both of them die in that battle and no one loses any life points.

"Since you left your Infernity Guardian in its attack position, I allow Stratos to attack it!" Stratos uses a strong gust of wind that strikes the monster's body; however, it didn't die.

Kalin's Life Points: 3800 – 600 = 3200

Kalin explains, "Infernity Guardian can't be destroyed in battle or card effect as long as I have no cards in my hand. So much for you to get rid of him."

I end my turn by placing a facedown card. That card appears behind Stratos.

As soon as Kalin draws his card, the blonde guy makes a comment. He said, "I just realize that girl hasn't lost any life points. I guess Kalin is losing his touch."

Kalin, who heard that, retorts, "Shut up, Jack! I'm well-aware of that! She just got some good defense cards!"

Then one of my subordinates is acting all smug as he replies, "That is why Boss is so strong! Hell, we manage to deal some damage to her, but she still beat us! Don't you agree, everyone?" All of my subordinates have roar in response.

I shook my head in disbelief. "It can't be help. It's just that my drawing skills are just too good."

Kalin chuckles as he said, "That doesn't matter! At first I thought that, since you're a girl, you would just be some poster girl that is acting like a gang leader. However, after seeing how you Duel, I can tell that you're a tough opponent."

"I thank you for the compliment." I smirk.

Kalin continues his turn "I sacrifice my Infernity Guardian to summon Infernity Destroyer!" Infernity Guardian gets replace by some red, orc-like demon warrior and he looks extremely menacing.

Infernity Destroyer: Level 6, Dark

ATK: 2300 DEF: 1000

"Now Infernity Destroyer will destroy your Elemental Hero!"

His Infernity Destroyer walks up to Stratos and punches him. The punch is strong enough to kill him and took down some of my life points.

Butterfly's Leader's Life Points: 4000 – 500 = 3500

"Finally Kalin has decrease her life points," the blonde guy named Jack sarcastically spoke, "I thought he was just holding back because he is Dueling a girl."

"Jack…" the orange hair guy looks at his friend. "At least try to support him, not criticizing him!"

Kalin ignores his friends' argument as he said, "I activate Infernity Destroyer's special ability! When he destroys a monster in battle, you lose 1600 of your life points!"

My subordinates become surprise when they heard that, even I'm surprise as well. Infernity Destroyer uses his shadow to attack me and it did as my life points begin to dwindle.

Butterfly's Leader's Life Points: 3500 – 1600 = 1900

Everyone couldn't believe that I already lost half of my life points within that one battle. Kalin immediately ends his turn since he has no cards in his hand.

I draw a card and that card happens to be the spell card, Pot of Greed. This spell allows me to draw two more cards from my deck. "I summon Elemental Hero Blazeman in attack mode!" A red and black hero comes in from the sky like a meteor. His hair is like actual fire and he has a strange contraption on his back that has six candles.

Elemental Hero Blazeman: Level 4, Fire

ATK: 1200 DEF: 1800

"That's a weak monster compare to Infernity Destroyer," the orange hair boy commented.

However, Yusei interjects, "I wouldn't be too sure, Crow. She's pretty confident when she summons that. So it must be powerful or something."

I giggled when I heard that. "You could say that. I activate Blazeman's ability! During my main phase, I can discard any Elemental Hero card from my deck to the graveyard. And when that happens, Blazeman's attribute, attack points, and defense points become the same as that discard Elemental Hero until the end of the turn."

"WHAT?!" Kalin and the orange hair guy named Crow both gasp in surprise.

"The Elemental Hero that I send to the graveyard is Elemental Hero Bladedge! Now Blazeman gains Bladedge's power!"

Elemental Hero Blazeman: Level 4, Earth

ATK: 2600 DEF: 1800

"But wait there's more! Next I activate the spell card, Miracle Fusion! This spell allows me to do a Fusion Summon by using the Elemental Heroes in my graveyard by removing them from play! I remove from play Elemental Hero Clayman and Stratos so they fuse together to become Elemental Hero Gaia!"

The two monsters, Clayman and Stratos, fly up into the air as a vortex opens up. They went inside the vortex and they spin around until a bright flash of light stops the vortex. Coming out of it is a gigantic black golem that looks an awful like a giant robot, but a bit smaller.

Elemental Hero Gaia: Level 6, Earth

ATK: 2200 DEF: 2600

"When Gaia is summoned, he cuts down your Infernity Destroyer's attack points down to half and that half goes to Gaia!"

Infernity Destroyer: ATK: 2300/2 = 1150

Elemental Hero Gaia: ATK: 2200 + 1150 = 3350

"No way!" Kalin is shock to see this kind of dilemma.

"It's your lost, Kalin~!" I cutely said.

I order Gaia to attack Infernity Destroyer. Gaia slams his fist to the ground and a bunch of debris flies and hits Kalin's monster. The weight of the debris kills Infernity Destroyer.

Kalin's Life Points: 3200 – 2200 = 1000

"Blazeman~! Please finish this Duel for me~!"

Blazeman jumps up in the air and does a diving kick towards Kalin. My Elemental Hero becomes a shooting star at that kind of speed. His kick hits Kalin, which causes an explosion. It's not a literal one, so Kalin didn't die from that. But he does lose the Duel.

Kalin's Life Points: 1000 – 2600 = 0

When the Duel is over, the holograms disappear and Kalin falls down to the ground on his butt. The Enforcers are shock to see the outcome, while my subordinates just cheer for our victory. I walk up to Kalin and offer him a helping hand, which he accepts as I pulled him up from the ground.

"That was a great Duel," he said with a smile on his face. "You're either pretty strong or just very lucky. It doesn't matter since it's your victory."

Then Jack steps in. "Step aside, Kalin. It's my turn. I'll be the one who's getting this territory!"

"No, Jack!" Kalin reprimands him. "She won this Duel fair and square and we promise her that we leave her territory alone!"

"Have you forgotten what our goal is as the Enforcers?! Our goal is to become the strongest gang in Satellite and that is why we've been going around conquering territories!"

Yusei spoke, "She must have a reason why this place needs their protection. Can you tell us why you're protecting this place?"

Then suddenly we heard someone running to this area. We all turn around to see a black hair, little girl in a blue dress coming towards us. I recognize this girl as Lily ever since we save her from a gang that was infiltrating in our territory. I remember that we promise her that we take her back home once we find safe pathway to take. Why is she coming here? I thought I told her that she should stay in the hideout when we heard a gang coming to our territory.

Lily stops in front of me as she pants very heavily since she comes here via running. I ask, "Lily, what are you doing here?"

As soon as she stops panting, she answers, "I heard that you're going to Duel against the Enforcers and I just have to come."

"I'm sorry, but the Duel is already over."

"WHAT?! It's over! No way… After all that running…"

I couldn't help but chuckle at her misfortune. I just find it funny for some reason. Then suddenly Crow grabs me by the collar, which shocks everyone. I look at his face and I can tell that he's mad, but for what reason.

"You…!" he growls. "So you're the one who kidnap Lily!"

"HUH?!" I exclaimed. "What do you mean by kidnap?!" I already guess that he must have been Lily's acquaintance from his tone.

"Don't play dumb! I heard from Martha that Lily has been missing for over two weeks! Now that I saw Lily here, that must mean you kidnap her!"

"You're wrong, Crow!" Lily puffs her cheeks and kicks Crow in the shins, which made him to let go of me as he hops in one leg.

"Ow!" he groans. "Why you kick me, Lily?"

"Butterfly Lady didn't kidnap me, she and her friends save me!"

Lily and I explain to them what happen. During one of her rounds of finding some flowers for Martha, she got ambush by some rival gang. My escorts and I happen to be in the area and save her and took her into our territory that have been housing a bunch of kids who are separated from their loved ones. Just having kids in our territory becomes the reason why we protect this place instead of expanding it.

After hearing our explanation, Crow immediately apologizes. "I'm sorry," he said, "and thank you for protecting her for all this time."

I giggle with a reply, "That's okay. I understand how you feel if I'm in your situation." I turn to Lily and said, "Since your friends are here, that means you can go back home now."

Lily makes a sad face, which is weird since this should be the part where she's happy to go back home. "if I leave this place, does that mean that I won't be able to see you guys again?" she asks in a very sad tone.

I didn't expect that from a little girl like her. I nod my head in response. "Yeah, you won't be able to see us again. I mean we're in a hellish warring city after all! You have to go back home!"

"No way!" Lily hugs my lower waist as she begins sobbing. "I don't want to go back! We've become friends and I won't be able to see you again! It's not fair!"

I petted the little girl on the head and I too become sad. "I understand how you feel, even I think it's not fair. But that's life for you. There are times that we have to part our ways." Thanks to my choice of dialogue, Lily sobs even more. It felt so heartbreaking for me if she continues like this.

Then Yusei offers a suggestion. "Hey, Kalin. Why not we form an alliance so that Lily can visit her whenever she wants? We did take out some of the gang from Martha's place to here, so the path should be safe."

I like that suggestion. "I agree with that offer. So how about it, Kalin?"

Kalin is hesitant to respond. "I don't know… Our goal is to become the strongest gang in all of Satellite and since I couldn't beat you, that would be a hindrance."

Then I make him an offer. "Kalin, if we form an alliance right now, this territory can be your check point area for you and your friends to rest. Also that the fact that you didn't beat me would act some kind of incentive for you to go out there and continue to get stronger so you can beat me! Think about it! You can't really be called the 'Strongest' until you beat someone who is stronger than you! I could act as your goal in your journey!"

Kalin seems to like my offer. "Fine, we'll form an alliance." We both shake hands in agreement as Lily lets go of me with a happy smile on her face. "Lets introduce ourselves. I'm Kalin Kessler, the leader of the Enforcers."

"I'm Crow Hogan, nice to meet you!"

"I'm Jack Atlas."

"And I'm Yusei Fudo. What's your name?"

I answer, "My name is Kokoro, Kokoro Fernandez. I hope that we get along greatly!"

My gang and I watch the Enforcers taking Lily back home. It's sad for them to see Lily off since they too become friends with her. However, they remember that she will come visit again someday. So when we saw them gone from our sights, I order my subordinates to go back to their stations and continue to protect our territory. As for me, I went back to the hideout to continue a very special project that I'm working on.