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Yu-gi-oh!5Ds: Legacy of the Star Princess

Prologue:

A long time ago, there was a tribe known as "The People of the Stars." They revered a being known as the Crimson Dragon, who watched over them as a star in the sky known as the Dragon Star. However, there were once terrible forces that threatened them along with the rest of the world. So, the Dragon Star sent a gift to the King, hidden inside a pink mass called "The Dragon's Cocoon" by the people. The king called upon his subjects to pull away the mass. Inside was a young woman whom the Crimson Dragon had endowed with great power, including the ability to call the Crimson Dragon and become one with it. The Dragon told the King the girl had few memories of her past life, so it would not pain her to be called away from her old life by her destiny, which was to defeat the evil that dwelt in this world. So, when she awoke, the King adopted the girl as his own daughter. Because of her unusual powers and almost celestial appearance, she was known throughout the land as the Star Princess.

But the king did not adopt her so out of charity. The King hoped to use the woman's power to become a god. However, his people admired him, and they would be ashamed to discover his selfishness. So, he tried to draw attention away from himself by marrying his new daughter off to a warrior who happened to be a signer (a person blest with some power tied to the Crimson Dragon).

The young woman was kind and naïve, but extremely strong-willed. She found the warrior to be self-centered and had no feelings of romantic love for him. The Princess was truly in love with another warrior who was also a signer, but of lower rank. He was kind and courageous and gentle, the traits the woman found worthy in a future king and husband. He was also liked by the other two signers (two girls the Princess befriended) and all of the friends the Princess had made. However, the king would not allow the two of them to marry at first. But, he discovered that the abnormal pairing would draw even more attention away from him in the previous union. So, he allowed them to be married.

This enraged her previous suitor, and as revenge against her new husband, he tried to take away her virginity, hoping that soiling her would change the king's mind. But, she herself was a fighter, and as she pinned him to the ground, she told him that physical purity was not and all that mattered was that she was pure of spirit and that she would share herself with only the man she loved.

The king was angry with the warrior and wished to execute him for his disrespect of the king's whishes, but the husband pleaded with him to spare his life, as the two of them had been friends.

Instead, the warrior made amends to the Princess by becoming a loyal guardian to herself and husband.

But just as things seemed to calm, the evil corrupted the King and told him that the only way to bring out the Crimson Dragon from her body and ascend to godhood was to kill her.

One fateful night, he called her for a drink, but she did not know it was poison. She drank it, and fell unconscious. The Dragon came, and tried to punish the King by stripping him of his own sign (he was also a signer). The four other signers felt the pain of the Princess, leapt from their beds and rushed to her side.

History has forgotten what would save her and whether she did survive, but it is known that the king was stripped of his sign and was further punished for breaking his promise to the Crimson Dragon. And… the evil was sealed away that night, not to return again.

A prophecy many centuries after the people of the stars faded away into the rest of the world was made that the evil would return one day, and another Star Princess and five signers would be born to stop it.

Many things would be the same. However this time history would not forget her fate and perhaps what happened to her in the past would be remembered.

Now, her story begins anew, in New Domino City …

Author's Note: I don't own copyright to anything. I have a no flaming policy. But, review of any other kind are welcome! So, please R&R as they say... This is an introduction to the story, and Episode 1 is up… Also, if you can guess who the characters are and who they were in the prologue (as accurately as possible)I will write a poem of your favorite Yu-gi-oh!5Ds character (as long as I know who they are, I haven't seen the whole series as of yet).