CH.1 Return

Quick Note: This story uses the English localized names, so I do not wish to hear anything about that. Critism towards the story and grammar are very much welcomed. I just do not wish hear about the English names being used, please.

It is the finals of the Arc League championship; Yuya Sakaki is dazzling the crowd with his stunning feats of dueltaining. He is currently winning with his signature combo of setting the pendulum scales using his scale 1 Stargazer Magician and scale 8 Timegazer Magician and using them to pendulum summon his level 7 Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon. The field advantage is his as he shouts.

"Ladies and gentleman, boy and girls, duelists of all ages, I promised a spectacle, and I'm about to deliver it."

His opponent is wide open with only 1500 life points remaining. Yuya hops on the back of his dragon as it begins to charge to his opponent.

"Odd-Eyes, let's end this duel with a bang…Attack!"

Odd Eyes's eyes light up as it prepares to launch its flames at the opponent. The crowd begins cheering louder at the attack connects (opponent 1500-0000) winning Yuya the duel. The crowd is now roaring with applauds as Yuya waves to the audience with a big smile on his face.

While in the midst of celebrating his victory, Yuya then hears a loud sound that rings in his ear. He turns around to see a new opponent that he cannot see. He (Yuya) asks this opponent.

"Do you want dueltain with me next, good sir?"

The new opponent holds out a spell card and calls out.

"I play…."

Suddenly, the crowd's cheering begins to silent as Yuya begins to feel afraid as he can sense the evil coming from the card. A green sigil appears below his (the opponent) feet and begins to expand creating a dome-like area around the two. The opponent readies his duel disk and Yuya feels hesitant to ready his own duel disk.
Luckily, it turns out to be a dream as Yuya falls out of his bed and bumps his head on the floor of his room. It is morning, fortunately, so Yuya doesn't have to go to the trouble of going back to sleep. Instead, he is going to forget his troubles with his mom's tasty pancakes. His mother, Yoko Sakaki, has left out on an errand, but has left a plate of pancakes for her son. So his breakfast is rather quiet.

Later in the day, Yuya is attending his duel school, You Show Duel School, with his classmates, Zuzu Boyle, Tate, Ally, and Fredrick. The dream is still bothering him, so he doesn't pay much attention to Skip's lecture on field spells. Zuzu gets annoyed and calls to him.

"Earth to Yuya! Will you stop daydreaming for two seconds, Yuya?"

Zuzu is standing in front of him with an annoyed look on her face as she smacks him with a fan. Yuya now has small bump on his head as he asks.
"What was that for, Zuzu?"

Zuzu points to the front of the class, and a new person is standing in front of Skip. It is a young girl around the age of the children in the class. She is wearing a navy-blue sweatshirt with a rose-red shirt underneath, a knee-length light-blue skirt with a snowflake design on the front, white tennis shoes, and is wearing a green circular pendant. She has pale skin, pink eyes, and back-length blonde hair with a tie in the front with her dyed green for that part.
Skip announces the few students he has.

"This young lady will be joining our school today, so I expect you all to show her the ropes here at You Show. Now go on and introduce yourself, young lady."
The young girl lightly taps her fingers together and softly introduces herself.

"I'm…Annie…and I'm happy…to be coming here."

Zuzu approaches the young girl and gently says.

"There's no need to shy, Annie, I'm sure you'll fit in here."

Annie lightly continues to tap her fingers together as she softly makes a request.

"Actually, I was….hoping to duel today…if that's okay?"

Skip is a little concerned as he asks.

"Have you ever dueled in an action duel before?"

Annie softly nods with a slight smile. Yuya leaps from his seat as he proclaims.

"Then allow me to show her the ropes of dueltaining."

Zuzu objects to this by responding.

"No way, Yuya, she's just a little girl, and your pendulum cards wouldn't be fair against her."

Yuya is bummed out and replies.

"Come on, I'll go easy on her."

Annie quietly puts in.
"Um, I don't mind dueling him. It isn't fun if you limit who you play."

Zuzu then agrees, but tell Yuya that he'd better hold back. Skip goes to the control room to set up the duel arena. The other children watch from behind the window, Zuzu stands inside the arena to make sure that Yuya is indeed holding back, and the two begin their duel. Skip announces.

"Okay, for safety reasons, and because I don't want to deal with angry parents later, the field will be…Ah! Sweets Island."

The arena turns into a vast land of candy and sweets. The action cards are dispersed, and both duelists announce.
"Let's Duel!"
Yuya gets ready to draw out of excitement, but Zuzu interjects.

"Uh, Yuya, shouldn't you let the new girl go first?"

Yuya then feels a slight embarrassment as he bashfully replies.

"Yeah, you're right, I got a little excited."

Zuzu then turns her head and nods to Annie, who nods back

Turn 1 Annie: 4000 LP

Annie draws her cards and decides on her move.
"I…Set two cards face down..and one monster in defense mode, and I'll end my turn.

Quick Disclaimer: Annie will only use actual cards, so if you need pictures of the cards, they will be there upon being looked up.

Turn 2 Yuya: 4000 LP

Yuya draws his card and looks at his hand. By a stroke of luck, he has already drawn his two magicians and his Odd Eyes, but he at look at Zuzu, who is seriously looking at him with expecting eyes.

"Zuzu is right, I shouldn't be too hard on a little girl. So"

Yuya then decides on an alternative move.

"I summon Perfomapal Skeeter Skimmer (LV 4 ATK/DEF 500/1600) in attack mode."

He then notices a trap card, Wall of Disruption, but decides not to set. Instead he simply ends his turn.

"After that…I uh..end my turn."

Zuzu nods with a smile since she notices that Yuya is indeed going easy.

Turn 2 Annie: 4000 LP

Upon drawing her card, Annie flips up her face-down monster, Ghostrick Witch (LV 2 ATK/DEF 1200/200), and summons another monster.

"I reveal my face-down Witch, and I summon Ghostrick Doll (LV 2 ATK/DEF 300/1200) in attack mode."

Yuya wonders why she would play such a weak monster in attack mode, so he chalks it up to the monsters ability, so he prepares to look for an action card, but Zuzu shakes her head and can't help but think.

"Come on! I can't even go for an action card!?"

What happens next actually surprises everyone as Annie announces.

"I use my Witch and my Doll to build the overlay network."

Skip can't help but be impressed as he says inside his booth.

"This kid can XYZ summon!?"

The two monsters are sucked into a small vortex in the ground and Annie makes a small introduction to her upcoming monster.

"Always late for work, and never really awake, I summon the laziest of all ghosts…. I summon Ghostrick Socuteboss (Rank 2 ATK/DEF 1400/1200)"

Everyone watching begins clapping and slightly cheering for their new peer as she has successfully XYZ summoned a monster. Yuya is even excited despite being heldback, and is looking forward to continuing the duel.

Elsewhere in the city, three members of the Duel Academy's Obelisk Force are cornering someone they believe to be a refugee from the XYZ dimension. They arrogantly challenge him to a duel, and the person then asks, threateningly.

"So, you three think it's fair to gang up on one person?"

The three members of the elite force simply smirk, and the person says.

"Okay…as punishment for your arrogance, the three of you will be offered to the seal."

Later into their duel.

"I play The Seal of Orichalcos !"

The three members cry out as a green light envelops the area they are in, and they fall to the ground in a comatose state. The person walks away and quietly says.

"So this is what the institute's best can do…pathetic."