I do not own Yugioh Arc-V, but this is a story of my own creation. Please do not use any materials of this including cards and action fields without permission.

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The crowds cheered, it had happened, the great Strong Ishijima who was the reigning champion, had lost. A boy with a new summoning method had overpowered the man in one move. This was one of the most monumental duels in history. Later that day, multiple news channels, that had video of the event, talked about it on and on. Sakaki Yuya became a celebrity overnight.

A boy around the age of 14 sat on a couch re-watching the footage for the event. He had short black hair and blue eyes. He had a red hoodie on with black running pants. He wore white socks and red and black shoes.

"Nazo! Time for dinner!" called a woman from the kitchen.

The young boy turned, "Ah! Ok coming!" with that, the boy turned off the Television and headed towards the kitchen where a pleasant smell emanated from.

As the boy and his mother sat down to eat, the boy spoke up, "Mom, I am going to the You Show Duel School tomorrow to join."

The mother sighed, "We have been over this Nazo. I know that you like dueling, and I would love nothing more than you to go out and make friends, but that can only happen once you finish school. Your grades are more important that dueling. Once summer break starts, you can join any duel school you like."

Nazo sighed, "But it is near the end of the school year! All the exams are already done!"

The mother shook her head, "No means no, Nazo, and that is final."

Nazo's shoulders slumped, but he made no response back. His mother was never supportive of his interesting in dueling. She thought that it would be more beneficial for him to get a job that did not depend on pleasing the masses. Her own occupation supported her point of view. She worked as a simple salary woman.

Nazo's father was much more supportive of his interests. It could have been the fact that his father was an engineer, and a high quality one at that, of duel disks and solid vision machines for Leo Corporation, or that he was extremely tolerant of everybody and everyone. His personality allowed anyone multiple chances with him before he would draw a conclusion.

When Nazo as 10 years old, his father bought him a starter deck, as well as 5 booster packs, and proceeded to help him make an amiable deck. His father would pour over rule books with him, read effects aloud to him, and search the internet for interesting cards with him. His father did keep his wife's interests in mind as well. For every A on his report card, he would get a choice of a booster. This pushed Nazo to get good grades to keep up his interest in dueling. More often than not, his father would agree to duel Nazo. The father always gave Nazo the best cards, while he used the left over cards. Oddly enough, the father won just as much as Nazo. When asked why his father did not go pro with such amazing skills, the father would laugh, pick up Nazo and set him on his lap, and pat his head while saying, "I don't need the fame or the glory. I have you and your mother, and that is enough for a guy like me."

He would often tell Nazo to not get good grades for cards, but learn the material for the chance for the future, and see the cards as a reward for a job well done. When Nazo would get to the age when he had to decide between a pro duelist and something else, he would have the knowledge and maturity to choose correctly.

As Nazo lay in bed, thinking of what had happened at the duel stadium today; his father knocked on his door and opened it.

Nazo sat up and smiled, "Dad! Did you see what happened today?!"

The man nodded and sat down next to Nazo on the bed, "I did, and I also heard that you wanted to join the You Show Duel School tomorrow."

Nazo nodded, "Yeah, but mom said I couldn't until summer break starts…"

The father gave a chuckle and patted the boy on his head, "Look at it this way Nazo, tomorrow, almost every kid your age is going to be trying to join that school. They aren't going to think you are better than everyone else there. You couldn't even show off your abilities; there would be so much people. School ends in a week though. After that, the hype will have gone down, and people will not be crowding the establishment. You would have relative ease signing up. Then, as the new kid, people would be interested in seeing your potential, showcasing your talents."

Nazo put a hand to his chin in thought. His dad, as usual, was right. It would be more beneficial to wait. After a while Nazo nodded and told his father he would wait. His father gave a sincere smile and patted him on the head before wishing him sweet dreams and exiting.

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Days later, Nazo placed down his backpack into his room and walked up to his mother to hand in his report card.

"I'm off to sign up now!" called Nazo as he walked toward the door.

"Wait a second! Your father left something for you! Look in the Living room!"

Nazo scrunched his face in confusion, and took a peek into the living room. A red and black duel disk sat on the living room table, and note sat beside it. Intrigued, Nazo scooped up the note and read it.

-Nazo

I know that you are excited about signing up for this duel school. It is not only a chance to get to know more people to duel, but also a chance to better yourself as a duelist. What I want to tell you is never get disheartened even if you lose. There will be good and bad times, but you will get through them. I made this duel disk just for you. There is a separate function that activates when you play your field spells, so don't be surprised. Sincerely,

-Ryo

Nazo picked up the duel disk and examined it. It looked like any other store bought one, but Nazo decided to use it. He set his generic white one down on the table, before placing the duel disk in his pocket and running out the door. Ten minutes later, Nazo walked into the small building of You Show Duel School, to find only a few children and one adult inside.

Nazo looked around curiously before waving, "Umm Hello?"

The man bounded over to him, "Are you here to sign up for the You Show Duel School?"

Nazo grinned, "I sure am, is there a place I can register or?"

A few seconds later he was sitting on a couch with a pen in hand slowly scrawling out information on a sign-up sheet.

"Hello! What is your name?"

Nazo raised his head to find a small girl with red hair smiling at him. He gave a smile back while responding, "Nazo, Nazo Ryukesoku."

The girl's smile brightened, "Nice to meet you Nazo! My name is Ayu! I hope we get along!"

Nazo gave a warm smile, "I will look forward to getting to know you as well."

The girl pumped her fist in the air and motioned the other boys to talk to Nazo. Nazo stopped writing to get to know the three little children. The blue haired on was Tatsuya, while the chubby one was Futoshi. They were excited that another person was joining the duel school. They went on talking about the failure that had happened a week ago, but where stopped by the boy who was eating a lollipop.

"You guys, let him finish…"

Nazo turned to face the blue-haired ponytailed boy, "They weren't really bothering me, but leaving that aside, what is your name? I'm Nazo."

The boy smiled, "Sora, pleasure to meet you."

Nazo nodded and finished the sheet. After he handed it in, the four came up to him asking him for a duel. Nazo smiled, "Sure who wants to go first?"

Sora stepped forward. "I will."

Nazo shrugged, "suit yourself."

The two entered the duel room, while Shuzo stood in the area above, operating the solid vision machine.

Shuzo's voice came through the speaker, "Action field on! Candy land!"

The solid vision machine activated, and the area around them changed, forming trees made of gumdrops, lakes made of chocolate, houses of gingerbread and frosting, and a pathway made of candy cane bricks ran across the field.

Sora seemed to like the area, if anything was to be assumed by his excited look.

Nazo sighed then called out, "Duelists locked in battle!"

Sora smirked and continued, "Kicking the earth and dancing in the air alongside their monsters!"

The pair continued on, "They storm through this field! Behold! This is the newest and greatest evolution of Dueling! ACTION DUEL!"

Sora raised his hand, "You can go first."

4000 Nazo cards: 5

4000 Sora cards: 5

Nazo nodded, "I activate foolish burial! This allows me to send Tuner monster, Dragunity Phalanx to the grave!"

His deck spat out a card and Nazo promptly placed it in the graveyard. "Now I play Dragunity Dux!" A man dressed in an outfit resembling an eagle came forth. "Now his effect allows him to equip a dragon type monster that has a level of 3 or lower to himself as an equip card, so I equip Phalanx!" A dagger appeared in Dux's hand.

Now the effect of Phalanx! Once per turn, I can special summon Phalanx from the spell and trap card zone! Dux threw the dagger to his side and in a flash of light a small purple dragon in heavy tan armor appeared. "Now I synchro summon!"

The tuner monster jumped into the air before turning into two rings that enveloped Dux.

"I summon out Dragunity Knight – Vajrayana!" A red dragon with a spear wielding rider descended to the field.

"Vajrayana effect! I can re-equip Phalanx!" the dagger once again appeared. "And I can re-summon it to the field!"

The dagger yet again formed the dragon covered in armor. "Synchro summon once more, Come forth Scrap Dragon!"

The two combined yet again to form a purplish dragon with metal hanging off it. Steam leaked from a pipe on its wing.

"I now set one card and end my turn."

Sora smiled, Draw!

Nazo: 4000 Cards: 2

Sora: 4000 Cards 6

"I start by playing the continuous spell card Toy Vendor! I can discard one card to draw the next card and reveal it! If it is a fluffal monster I can special summon it, if not, I discard it."

A large coin operated capsule machine appeared. Sora discarded one card and a coin appeared. The coin then was promptly inserted into the machine. The machine spat out a capsule which revealed it to be fluffal bear. Sora smiled, "I special summon my bear!" The pink winged stuffed bear appeared on the field. "Now I activate my spell card polymerization! I fuse it with edge imp Scissors to create, Frightfur Tiger!" A green stuffed tiger appeared, before it was ripped in half by scissors. "I activate his effect! I can destroy cards up to the number of monsters used to fuse Tiger!"

Nazo pressed the facedown card on his duel disk screen activating it, "I activate fiendish chain! I negate the effect of your Frightfur tiger!" Dark chains shot up from the ground and wrapped around the monster.

Sora smirked before running up to a tree and grabbing a card from the gum drop leaf. "Action card, candy coat! My monster is not effected by your magic and trap cards!"

The tiger glowed for a second before releasing himself from the chains. He extended the scissors in his abdomen and sliced Nazo's monster and trap in half. They exploded in yellow shards.

Sora smiled, "Now Frightfur Tiger's next effect, it gains 300 attack for every Frightfur and Fluffal monster I control, so its ATK is now 2200!"

The monster roared as it powered up, Sora held out his hand, "I still have not normal summoned this turn, so now I play fluffal lion!" A yellow stuffed lion with wings appeared. "The attack of my tiger again increases to 2500! Now Attack!"

The Tiger monster bounded forward and raised a claw to slice at Nazo. Nazo dashed to the side and picked up a card held between two bricks on the road and held it out, "I activate action card, Avoid, and negate your attack!" Nazo slipped it into his duel disk. The claw came close before it was retracted and the tiger withdrew to the other side of the field.

Sora laughed, "One more time! Leo attack! The lion bounded at him. "While Leo attacks it gains 500 attack points," the lion's attack raised to 2100. Nazo took the blow and skidded to a halt a few feet away. His life points lowered to 1900. Sora shrugged, "I'll get you next time, I set one card and end my turn."

Nazo grinned, "My turn, Draw!"

Nazo 1900 Cards 3

Sora 4000 Cards 1

Nazo smirked, "I activate my field spell, Dragon's ravine!"

Shuzo, up in the control room, sputtered, "Field spell?"

Shuzo's reaction was not totally unwarranted. While a field spell was a valid tactic of the past, nowadays, action fields were the most popular, since of the action cards. Action cards spiced up the battle, and made it more exciting. The possibility of changing the duel's flow with just one action card was possible. When a duelist uses a field spell, only they would get the benefits of the field, but in turn, would lose the benefits of the action field, meaning, that all action cards were now for the opponent only. This is why nobody used field spell cards anymore.

Nazo inserted the card into his duel disk. His disk then shot a beam of light out and into the ground. Duel disk 101789 has connected to solid vision machine, making appropriate changes. Half the field was encompassed by yellow light before it transformed into a jagged rock face. Above them, dragons perched watching the duel below.

Sora blinked in confusion, "Eh? Is this what happens when you play a field spell?"

Nazo shook his head, "Sometimes it does, but sometimes the field spell appears over the player as a hologram. Moving on, I discard one card to get one level 4 or lower Dragunity monster to my hand."

Nazo slotted a card into his duel disk, and his deck spat out a card which he took. "I got Dragunity Dux, and I will play him!"

The monster sprung to the field once again. "I equip phalanx and then special summon him," soon after the small dragon was on the field once again. "Once again I synchro summon Vajrayana, but this time I equip aklys!"

The same red dragon appeared, but this time wielding a red lance as well. "I activate my final card in my hand! Dragunity Divine Lance! While equipped it gives the monster that it is equipped to a boost in Attack equal to its Level x 100." Vajrayana was surrounded by a blue light and its attack points increased to 2500

"Now the next effect of lance, I can equip a dragon tuner from my deck to the monster, and I choose Dragunity Brandistock." A small claw appeared on Vajrayana's arm. "This allows Vajrayana to attack twice during the battle phase."

Sora clapped, "Well done, but by my calculations, you won't win this turn."

Nazo smiled, "I can always try. Now I activate Vajrayana's effect! I can get rid of one equip spell card equipped to him, and then I can double his attack! The warrior threw the lance up in the air as if to throw it away, but the lance instead changed direction and pierced Sora's face down.

"When Aklys is sent to the grave while equipped to a monster, I can destroy one card on the field, and now since its attack was 2500, it is now 5000"

The monster let out a roar as its attack soared upward. Sora took a step back then turned to furiously search for an action card.

Nazo held out his hand, "Vajrayana attack Fluffal Leo!" The dragon knight charged forward and impaled the small stuffed lion inflicting 3400 points of damage. Sora was thrown back and crashed through a gingerbread house.

Nazo did not stop, "Vajrayana, attack again! Your monster has been weakened and now it only has 2200 attack!" The knight surged forward.

"Action Card, Avoid!"

The frightfur monster dodged just in time and the spear crashed down next to it. Nazo sighed, "I end my turn, and since the turn is over, Vajrayana goes back down to 2500."

Sora came out of the house breathing hard, "Whew, that was a close one… My turn, draw!"

Nazo 1900 Cards: 0

Sora 600 Cards: 2

Sora looked over his hand, "I play Edge Imp frightfake." A grotesque monster with many sewn up part appeared. "This monster is treated as a Frightfur monster while on field, and in grave. So my tiger gains 300 more attack!" The monster once again rose to 2500.

Sora pointed at Vajrayana, "I attack your dragon knight with my Tiger!" The monster ran forward and collided with the dragon, making both explode.

"Now Frightfake attacks directly." The hideous monster hit Nazo dropping him to 600 lp.

Sora nodded in satisfaction, "I set one card and end my turn."

Nazo frowned and drew.

Nazo 600 Cards: 1

Sora 600 Cards: 0

Nazo glanced down at his card and shrugged, "I once again activate Dragon ravine, to which I discard one card to add a monster to my hand."

Nazo slotted his card to the grave and grabbed a new card from deck.

"I summon out Dragunity Legionnaire."

A man with a green feathered costume appeared.

"When summoned, Legionnaire gets to equip one level 3 or lower dragon-type "Dragunity" to himself and I choose Aklys."

The familiar red lance appeared in Legionnaire's hand. "Now I activate his other effect, by sending one equip card to grave, I can destroy one monster on the field. Also since Aklys is headed to the grave while it was equipped to the monster, I will destroy your set card as well."

Legionnaire took aim and threw the lance straight at Edge Imp frightfake, causing it to shatter. The lance continued and pierced Sora's facedown making it fizzle out of view.

Nazo grinned, "Legionnaire attack!" The feathered warrior dashed at Sora with its fist pulled back.

Sora looked around, but not an action card was in sight. He took the blow and skidded back while his life points dropped to zero. A sign came up and flashed a "Nazo wins" sign above their heads.

As the field flashed and faded around them, Nazo walked up and held out his hand, "Nice duel! You almost had me there!"

Sora smiled and shook it, "Yeah, it was fun, definitely!"

Nazo frowned, "I have a question though, why didn't you use the action card by your feet when I attacked with Legionnaire?"

Sora looked surprised, "Eh? There was one there?…. Whoops my bad!"

The boy laughed and walked out of the dueling arena leaving Nazo to his own thoughts.

Nazo scratched his head, "I thought he knew about it, it seemed he put his foot directly on it as if to use it for later… Huh, guess it really was just my imagination."

Nazo walked out of the arena and was met by Ayu, Tatsuya, and Futoshi, all exclaiming about how fun the duel was.

Nazo thanked them all before he heard a shout of "HOT BLOODED" that caused him to look up to find Shuzo running at him.

The teacher grabbed Nazo by the shoulders, "That was an impressive duel! Who knew that you would favor a field spell over the action field! And those Synchro summons!"

As the teacher ranted on, Nazo could only smile and nod. In the back of his mind, he pondered what he had gotten himself into. The door opened revealing a boy and a girl. The girl had pink hair and odd hair ordainments. The boy however was fairly obvious, it was Sakaki Yuya. The girl walked up to the two of them, "Dad, who is this?"

Shuzo spun Nazo around and pushed him forward, "This is our new applicant, go on introduce yourself."

Nazo caught himself and stood up straight before extending his hand, "Nice to meet you, my name is Nazo Ryukesoku, nice to make your acquaintance."

The girl gave him a smile, "Nice to meet you, Nazo, my name is Yuzu Hiragi. Nice to meet you." They shook hands.

Sakaki Yuya stepped forward with his hand outstretched, "The name is…"

Nazo laughed and shook his hand, "I think everyone knows your name Sakaki, nice to finally meet the man who changed dueling as we know it."

Yuya laughed while scratching the back of his head, "I wouldn't go that far… Dueling is just as similar as it was before, besides only I can pendulum summon, so there is nothing really different, only if you are versing me."

Nazo shook his head, "That isn't true at all. While everything is fundamentally the same, you have made a new summoning method for the world to see, you're the pioneer on this brand new forefront. Everyone is excited to see how this new style will evolve."

Yuya laughed, "Well when you put it that way I guess it really is a big deal." He would have said more if not for the paper fan that hit him across the head causing him to stop and rub his head.

Yuzu scowled, "Don't get a big head just because you got a bit of flattery, it still took you near 300 tries to finally understand how pendulum summoning worked. If you had known how to do it right the first time, we would have gotten so many more applicants."

Yuya sighed and sat on the ground rubbing his head, "you didn't have to hit so hard…"

Nazo overlooked the scene with slight confusion, but attributed their behavior to them being close. Since Nazo had come late in the afternoon. They could only give him an introductory course on what they did there. There were many interesting things. One was to help train you to get action cards; others focus on your agility and athletic abilities like running outside or doing parkour. One of the pieces of equipment was a large deck holder that seemed to hold over 1000 cards just for the purpose of drawing. There were lessons too. There were ruling classes, dueling theory classes, and even classes on what should be in your extra deck. As Sora mentioned, it was not as structural as LDS, but with its freeform environment, it was a lot more fun. As the day wore down, Nazo said goodbye to his new friends and promised to come tomorrow. As Nazo walked into his household, he was greeted by his mother and father. After dinner, his father called him over and talked to him about his duel disk.

"Nazo, your duel disk is unique in only one aspect. It can change the field partially to whatever field spell you play. This can be advantageous in respect to all action cards are eliminated in the surrounding area. You many not move out of the area specified by your field spell, though this should not be any concern to you, since you cannot use action cards. If your field spell is destroyed, the area reverts back to normal, and you may use action cards once again. Remember this when you use this duel disk."

Nazo raised an eyebrow, "So how is mine unique? Some duel disks do that already."

His father chuckled slightly before explaining more, "It really isn't a unique feature per say, but your duel disk has permission to affect all duel fields. There is a registration process for allowing duel disks to affect the action field. Not everyone does this process because they find it tedious, and of no use, since they do not play field spells. Your disk had to be registered and accepted by the Leo Corporation. Use it wisely."

Nazo smiled, "Thanks dad, I'll treasure it."

His father nodded before sending him to bed.

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Well this is the first chapter. While making an OC that could pendulum summon would be a blast and all. I realize that would be another typical run of the mill OC. Instead, I thought that I would focus on a less appealing aspect of action duels, field spells. Now, I know that action duels can only happen on action FIELDS and therefore, like speed world, the field spell zone is already taken up. I decided that in this alternate universe, it wouldn't work like that, and instead there would be a hidden duality within the system, you can use a field spell, but lose the action cards, so everyone chooses not to use a field spell rather than cannot use one.

I will make a note that Yuzu does in fact have a field spell card, the sanctuary in the sky. However she never uses it and it is only seen when her deck is scattered.

Nazo's last name is a play on words. Ryukesoku can be split into Ryuu and ketsusoku meaning Dragon and unity respectively. The word "Dragunity" is derived from these two words, and it is also the deck he plays. As for his first name, it is a direct translation to "unknown."

All monster names will be the English Version, and have the real life effects rather than the anime effects. The only cards that I can think that will keep their anime effects will be Timegazer, Stargazer and XYZ rebellion Dragon. The two Pendulum monsters will be able to be played whenever, but in turn can only negate one trap and magic each per battle phase. Rebellion Dragon can use its effect twice, but it only affects monsters that are level 5 or higher.

I hope you enjoyed it. If you enjoyed it leave a review. If you disliked it, tell me how I could do better. If card count or rulings were off, give a review or shoot me a PM.