Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Battle City, A New Journey ❯ The Beginning ( Chapter 1 )

Battle City, a New Journey

By: Locke Watcher

Chapter 1: The Beginning

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh or any of the possible crossovers. I only own myself.

Author Notes: Okay first thing on the schedule, I wish that some people would make a character for themselves in this fiction, should they so choose. For the characters, I need the age, physical appearance, some base set of morals (or lack of), possible coupling with any character that I know (I'll e-mail you for details, if I have no clue about that anime character), and Deck type (aka: you deck is mostly Dragon and Trap, Name: Dragon Trap Deck) and later, if I decide to use you (and you all have a great change to be in here) then I need you to tell me what cards are in your deck (but if you have a deck that screams fake to me, then I will change it into a weak deck. Sorry, but I have people that say that they have three non-fusion Blue Eyes Ultimate Dragons in their Decks, that just screams fake to me) and the cards stats and abilities (not the elemental card powers, the powers of the cards on the paper). If you have any questions, then e-mail me at wing_prophecy@hotmail.com.

As for the unknown person that I have in here, that person's character is more fleshed out over the whole of the fiction. Read and Review and remember, I welcome flames; they warm my semi-cold apartment! And does any one know what site you go to find the official stats of each card?

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The battle arenas are set. The duelists ready. And the cards are waiting for their orders.

This is the fourth Battle City Tournament. And not a single wielder of a Millennium Item had registered, that included Seto Kaiba and Yugi Motou. But Seto was fine with his degree of no wielders in the Tournament, all that meant was only normal, non-magicked, duelists would deul; and those duelists stopped being a challenge to Seto after he took the Millennium Rod from Marik during the second Battle City.

But this Tournament still had the same effect on the duelists as the first; win and prosper, lose and you lose your most treasured card. Plus, this Battle City had some new rules that would force players to change strategy at a moments notice (A.N.: no offense, but many of you duelists are predictable with your moves). But still the duelists came to duel and all, but the last four, that they would earn would be a kick to the side and a lost card.

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Locke took a quiet zip of some Pepsi as the train took him to Domino City. Although Locke appeared passive as he sat there, he was far from; his bloodstained katana and shoes are proof of that. He was ready for Battle City, he craved Battle City, he got slugged by his wakening companion. Good thing for Locke's companion that Locke had seen and fought too many close-quarter battles for that punch to have much of an effect on him.

The formerly sleeping person woke up as soon as fist meet nose. The person had seen Locke kill in self-defense for less; the person almost begged Locke not retaliate. The person quickly saw that Locke only moved his left eye to give a penetrating glare. The person sat up and left Locke alone with his thoughts and soda.

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Joey looked at his Deck, the Deck that had won him the Battle City championships last year. He had not changed a single card in it; which he knew was a mistake, but he decided not to mess with success. His Deck was powerful enough that he had won a fluke victory over Kaiba in the Semi-finals, but as the fourth Battle City came closer and closer, he could barely contain himself not to change the deck.

But then, Joey spotted the one person that he could test old Deck on, without the loss of respect of his fellow duelists; Joey Wheeler spotted Trusdale, grandfather to Yugi and both Yugi's and his mentor. Joey knew that Trusdale had built a new for the sole reason to compete in Battle City, but both of them had not tested their Decks. `Well, time to see if my old Deck can still provide me with the needed cards!' Joey walked up to Trusdale and talked him into a Duel, not that Trusdale needed to be talked into a duel, he needed the practice and testing of his Deck for the Tournament anyway. They decided to duel with 2000 Life Points and the arena was their Duel Disks.

"Alright pops, I start this Duel with this. I play Alligator's Sword (1500 Attack: 1200 Defense) in attack mode and I'll set one card face down! That ends my turn."

"If you are thinking that I would fall for a Trap, then you are mistaken. I play Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your face-down card."

"Shit! My Trap Hole!"

"Trap Hole? Well then, I guess that my Magic card just save my monster from its destructed. I summon Neo Bug (1800 Attack: 1900 Defense) in attack mode, next I play two cards face down. And now I'll attack your Alligator's Sword with Neo Bug!"

Joey: 1700 LP

Trusdale: 2000 LP

`Lucky move pops, but my next move will leave you begging for you LP!' "I play Harpy's Feather Duster and time for you to say good bye to your cards!"

"Really? You should know that I cards that appear useless in my Deck, and you have just activated it. Reveal Griffon's Wing! This Trap sends the effect of Harpy's Feather Duster back to the user, but since you have no other Magic/Spell or Trap cards, you're safe."

`SHIT!! Pops just used the one card that Mai hates more then my Time Wizard! Guess I'll pay for that later.' "I'll set one Monster and end my turn."

"Time for you to see what an old man can still do! I'll play the Change of Heart magic card and take control of your monster!"

Joey starts to laugh at this, as his Monster is revealed be a Blindly Loyal Goblin (1800 A: 1700 D). "Gramps, I cannot believe that you would think that this would be that easy! I know that you have mind-control cards in your Deck; hell, almost everyone has a mind-control card in their Decks. So I decided to counter that type of play with some of my Monsters. Too bad for you, now you have to attack me the hard way!"

Trusdale is truly impressed with Wheeler's move of the BLG, but he still had more moves to make, "I'll play Beautiful Headhunter (1600 A: 1600 D) in attack mode! Now Neo Bug, attack his Goblin! And now Headhunter, attack Joey's LP directly!"

Joey: 100 LP

Trusdale: 2000 LP

`Time to take the offensive!' "I'll play the magic card, Polymerization and fuse together my Baby Dragon [from hand] and my Alligator's Sword [from hand], to form Alligator's Dragon (1800 A: 1600 D, if I am wrong that tell me!). Now I'll play the Sword of the Deep-Seated to increase my monster's attack to 2300."

"Am I supposed to be impressed young man? That combo will only work for a short amount of time, likely it will end by my turn, it will be gone; much like your LP."

"Not a change Gramps. Because of my monster's special ability, your LP are about to drop like a stock market crash! Now my Dragon, attack Pops' LP directly!"

Trusdale looked at his face-down card, wishing it was something that could block the incoming attack. But the card was a Monster Reborn magic card, and he could not play it this turn. `Next time I face Joey; I'll win! I'll not hold back anything, next time!'

Joey: 100 LP

Trusdale: 0 LP

`My Deck still has what it takes, but I still need to change some of the cards. This time, I will not win by fluke against anyone!'

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The train stops in Domino City's train station as the Duel between Joey and Trusdale concluded. Lock had come to the City for two reason, one: to duel in the Tournament and two: to make sure that his companion safely delivers a card to Seto Kaiba, that not even the person who carried it knew what it was. All that Locke cared about that subject was the amount of money and other cards that he would have at day's end. After all, Battle City starts in two days; and it never hurt to have some cards that others might not have.