Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction ❯ Dragons Legacy ❯ Chapter one ( Chapter 1 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: The Chaotic Ones 
In which we meet Jou
Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Fantasy / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.09.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.7K | Visits: 306 | Status: Completed
In which we meet Jou
Anime/Manga: Yu-Gi-Oh! Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Romance / Fantasy / Angst | Type: Alternate Universe | Uploaded On: 06.09.2005 | Pages: 2 | Words: 1.7K | Visits: 306 | Status: Completed
Chaos: Here is Dragons Legacy, my brain baby.
Angel: Chroni said she would beta this too so profuse thanks to her for both agreeing to this, and the GREAT job she has done for Dark Legacy thus far.
Chroni: ((beams)) hear that, ya’ll? I get profuse thanks! ((Shudders)) I just said “ya’ll.” In CONTEXT.
Jef: We will be trying to post on this every two weeks, alternating posting one chapter of Dragons Legacy one week, and one chapter of Dark legacy the next week. We may or may not actually get it done that way....
Aaries: Anyways... this starts seven years before the Dark Legacy, Jou is ten and Shizuka is eight.
Jef: This was decided after writing most of Dark Legacy so that when the stories got to the point where they merged the ages would be compatible for couplings.
Angel: We really don’t have much to say about the beginning of this fic, other than most of it isn’t written out, unlike Dark Legacy and Legacy of Light.
Chaos: We only have about three chapters of this, and even by then, it may not be to the same point as Dragons Legacy by the time Jou shows up over there.
PR: WE-DO-NOT-OWN-YUGIOH-OR-MUCH-OF-ANYTHING-ELSE-EITHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aaries: Oh, and this is going to be a little short, until we get up to speed, ok? OK.
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Jou ran through the field happily, the prickly desert flowers not bothering him in his joy. A black shadow passed over head, and Jou looked up joyously to see his friend and partner Nerutaki coming in to land near him. Within the next few days he would begin his journey to adult hood, and grow into the latent power that he could already feel stirring inside of him, but until then all he wanted was to play with his best friend.
Neru was a shadow beast, more specifically one of the rare and powerful Red Eyes Black Dragons, the first Red Eyes to be bonded to a Human in fact. The Solar tribe Elders had argued at first that she was too powerful to bond with a child, but Neru and Jou had shown them without a doubt that they were meant to be bonded. Even when before he had bonded with Neru, Jou had been very powerful, but afterwards, with his and her power merged they were almost as powerful as the chief of the Solar Tribes, and he was strong.
In five years, when his changes were over, he would be much stronger. Like all children of the Dragon clan, he had Dragon’s blood running through his veins. Because of this, all of the members of the Dragon clan started to develop magic 'gifts', starting when they turned ten, and Jou had just turned ten a few days before. Soon he would develop a fever as his body adjusted to allow the latent power in him to awaken, and when the fever died down he would have a new gift. It would happen frequently over the next five years, but for now all Jou wanted was to play with his friend.
After all, when the Dragons blood was awakening gifts, he wouldn’t be able to summon her.
"Jou!!" A girl’s voice called, and Jou looked up to see his sister, Shizuka running toward him, her Petite Dragon Meria fluttering behind her. Shizuka's dragon was much smaller and weaker than Jou's dragon, though Meria didn’t seem to mind at all.
"Hi Shizuka." Jou said, standing up from where he had sat down a few moments ago.
"Dad wants to see you, ASAP." Shizuka said, and Jou nodded. Their father was the leader of the Solar Tribes, and in specific, the cheif of the Tagnik'Zurr clan, or Dragon clan.
"Bye Neru, I’ll see you later!!" Jou said to the young Red Eyes, swiftly opening a portal for her to go home.
::Later Then, My Friend:: He heard Neru reply as she went through.
"Dad is in the War Tent." Shizuka said, rolling her eyes slightly. It was easier to let the dragons fade back to their realm, though it took hours and was very boring for the dragon in question.
"Yea yea, see you there." Jou said, before sprinting off toward the little "village". The Solar Tribes were Nomadic most of the year, and their current camp was more like a small city of tents rather than what most people would consider a village. Jou headed for one of the larger tents in the middle of the village, and stepping in he navigated until he was in one of the further back "rooms". The tent was large enough to be sectioned off by large hangings to create different rooms. Jou found his Father in a room hung with maps and a few banners.
"Shizuka said you wanted to see me, Father?" Jou said from the door way when he saw that his father was alone.
"Indeed. Jou do you recognize this banner?" his father asked, pointing to a yellow and orange depiction of some bird.
"It’s the banner of one of larger houses in the country to the east, Egypt I think it is." Jou answered, before asking his own question. "Why?"
"There is a large troop of men headed this way, an army bearing this banner. I want you and the others who are awakening or whose dragons are too weak to be of any help in a battle to take the younger children into the desert and Hide until we find out why they are approaching us." The cheif said.
"Yes, Father." Jou said, swallowing nervously. If those awakening abilities, and those not for fighting were leading the younger ones instead of a seasoned Warrior for each group, Things must have looked very grim.
"Go help gather up the children so that we can get them out of harms way." The chief said, before turning back to his maps. "And tell Mas'uu I want to talk to him." he added absently.
Jou hurried to obey his father’s wishes.
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< br> Two hours later, Jou and a group of fifteen children were headed north, and of them Shizuka was the only one who was bonded to a shadow creature. The youngest child in his group was three, and the eldest was Shizuka at eight, and Jou had each of the younger ones paired with an older one. Jou's strategy was to get them to a rocky field that was about a day and a half from the tent village. He planned on finding one of the caves that the field was riddled with and staying there until someone came to tell them what had happened. Food and water wouldn’t be a problem because all of the children of the Solar Tribes were taught from the youngest ages how to find the necessities in the desert.
The tent village was still visible behind them, and even when Jou heard the awesome roars of someone's dragon he didn’t turn back to look, or let any of the others do so. "Come on, we don’t want to get caught up in this." Jou said, ushering them along. As they crested the top of one of the higher sand dunes, Jou turned back just for a second, and saw their home illuminated one last time in the waning evening light. The battle was taking place on the other side of it, and Jou fervently prayed to any gods that would listen that their tribes would win.
"Come on Jou, weren’t you just saying you didn’t want us to get caught up?" Shizuka said from just behind him, and Jou nodded and resumed leading the children away.
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Aa ries: Well how do you like that? Excitement in the first chapter.
Jef: Isn’t there supposed to be some kind of build up to that? I mean, something to let us know exactly what’s going on?
Chaos: Naw… all will be explained in time. If anyone has any questions about what’s going on, or about The Solar Tribes, ask and we will do our best to answer.
Angel: as for Nerutaki and Meria, they are The REBD and the petite dragon, if we weren’t clear before. The Solar tribes are like Summoners, but they can only summon one monster total. Generally they are bonded at a young age by their parents and the elders of whatever type of monster they are bonding to, but sometimes the children or parents decide that they won’t bond, which is fine.
Aaries: Yea, they still start developing talents at about ten years old, and that’s a general Solar tribe thing, not just the dragon clan. Each tribe generally develops a different set of abilities within a VERY broad set of catagories.
Angel: we really don’t have much more to say about that. If you are interested in knowing more about this culture, let us know and we will tell you all about it, but it doesn’t play to huge a role in the story, hence the brief rundown above.
Aaries: so let us know what you think please. It will be about five chapters into this when we meet up with dark legacy, maybe, give or take two or three....
Chaos: Aw heck, just let us know what you think.
Angel: Chroni said she would beta this too so profuse thanks to her for both agreeing to this, and the GREAT job she has done for Dark Legacy thus far.
Chroni: ((beams)) hear that, ya’ll? I get profuse thanks! ((Shudders)) I just said “ya’ll.” In CONTEXT.
Jef: We will be trying to post on this every two weeks, alternating posting one chapter of Dragons Legacy one week, and one chapter of Dark legacy the next week. We may or may not actually get it done that way....
Aaries: Anyways... this starts seven years before the Dark Legacy, Jou is ten and Shizuka is eight.
Jef: This was decided after writing most of Dark Legacy so that when the stories got to the point where they merged the ages would be compatible for couplings.
Angel: We really don’t have much to say about the beginning of this fic, other than most of it isn’t written out, unlike Dark Legacy and Legacy of Light.
Chaos: We only have about three chapters of this, and even by then, it may not be to the same point as Dragons Legacy by the time Jou shows up over there.
PR: WE-DO-NOT-OWN-YUGIOH-OR-MUCH-OF-ANYTHING-ELSE-EITHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aaries: Oh, and this is going to be a little short, until we get up to speed, ok? OK.
XPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXP
Jou ran through the field happily, the prickly desert flowers not bothering him in his joy. A black shadow passed over head, and Jou looked up joyously to see his friend and partner Nerutaki coming in to land near him. Within the next few days he would begin his journey to adult hood, and grow into the latent power that he could already feel stirring inside of him, but until then all he wanted was to play with his best friend.
Neru was a shadow beast, more specifically one of the rare and powerful Red Eyes Black Dragons, the first Red Eyes to be bonded to a Human in fact. The Solar tribe Elders had argued at first that she was too powerful to bond with a child, but Neru and Jou had shown them without a doubt that they were meant to be bonded. Even when before he had bonded with Neru, Jou had been very powerful, but afterwards, with his and her power merged they were almost as powerful as the chief of the Solar Tribes, and he was strong.
In five years, when his changes were over, he would be much stronger. Like all children of the Dragon clan, he had Dragon’s blood running through his veins. Because of this, all of the members of the Dragon clan started to develop magic 'gifts', starting when they turned ten, and Jou had just turned ten a few days before. Soon he would develop a fever as his body adjusted to allow the latent power in him to awaken, and when the fever died down he would have a new gift. It would happen frequently over the next five years, but for now all Jou wanted was to play with his friend.
After all, when the Dragons blood was awakening gifts, he wouldn’t be able to summon her.
"Jou!!" A girl’s voice called, and Jou looked up to see his sister, Shizuka running toward him, her Petite Dragon Meria fluttering behind her. Shizuka's dragon was much smaller and weaker than Jou's dragon, though Meria didn’t seem to mind at all.
"Hi Shizuka." Jou said, standing up from where he had sat down a few moments ago.
"Dad wants to see you, ASAP." Shizuka said, and Jou nodded. Their father was the leader of the Solar Tribes, and in specific, the cheif of the Tagnik'Zurr clan, or Dragon clan.
"Bye Neru, I’ll see you later!!" Jou said to the young Red Eyes, swiftly opening a portal for her to go home.
::Later Then, My Friend:: He heard Neru reply as she went through.
"Dad is in the War Tent." Shizuka said, rolling her eyes slightly. It was easier to let the dragons fade back to their realm, though it took hours and was very boring for the dragon in question.
"Yea yea, see you there." Jou said, before sprinting off toward the little "village". The Solar Tribes were Nomadic most of the year, and their current camp was more like a small city of tents rather than what most people would consider a village. Jou headed for one of the larger tents in the middle of the village, and stepping in he navigated until he was in one of the further back "rooms". The tent was large enough to be sectioned off by large hangings to create different rooms. Jou found his Father in a room hung with maps and a few banners.
"Shizuka said you wanted to see me, Father?" Jou said from the door way when he saw that his father was alone.
"Indeed. Jou do you recognize this banner?" his father asked, pointing to a yellow and orange depiction of some bird.
"It’s the banner of one of larger houses in the country to the east, Egypt I think it is." Jou answered, before asking his own question. "Why?"
"There is a large troop of men headed this way, an army bearing this banner. I want you and the others who are awakening or whose dragons are too weak to be of any help in a battle to take the younger children into the desert and Hide until we find out why they are approaching us." The cheif said.
"Yes, Father." Jou said, swallowing nervously. If those awakening abilities, and those not for fighting were leading the younger ones instead of a seasoned Warrior for each group, Things must have looked very grim.
"Go help gather up the children so that we can get them out of harms way." The chief said, before turning back to his maps. "And tell Mas'uu I want to talk to him." he added absently.
Jou hurried to obey his father’s wishes.
XPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXPXP
< br> Two hours later, Jou and a group of fifteen children were headed north, and of them Shizuka was the only one who was bonded to a shadow creature. The youngest child in his group was three, and the eldest was Shizuka at eight, and Jou had each of the younger ones paired with an older one. Jou's strategy was to get them to a rocky field that was about a day and a half from the tent village. He planned on finding one of the caves that the field was riddled with and staying there until someone came to tell them what had happened. Food and water wouldn’t be a problem because all of the children of the Solar Tribes were taught from the youngest ages how to find the necessities in the desert.
The tent village was still visible behind them, and even when Jou heard the awesome roars of someone's dragon he didn’t turn back to look, or let any of the others do so. "Come on, we don’t want to get caught up in this." Jou said, ushering them along. As they crested the top of one of the higher sand dunes, Jou turned back just for a second, and saw their home illuminated one last time in the waning evening light. The battle was taking place on the other side of it, and Jou fervently prayed to any gods that would listen that their tribes would win.
"Come on Jou, weren’t you just saying you didn’t want us to get caught up?" Shizuka said from just behind him, and Jou nodded and resumed leading the children away.
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Aa ries: Well how do you like that? Excitement in the first chapter.
Jef: Isn’t there supposed to be some kind of build up to that? I mean, something to let us know exactly what’s going on?
Chaos: Naw… all will be explained in time. If anyone has any questions about what’s going on, or about The Solar Tribes, ask and we will do our best to answer.
Angel: as for Nerutaki and Meria, they are The REBD and the petite dragon, if we weren’t clear before. The Solar tribes are like Summoners, but they can only summon one monster total. Generally they are bonded at a young age by their parents and the elders of whatever type of monster they are bonding to, but sometimes the children or parents decide that they won’t bond, which is fine.
Aaries: Yea, they still start developing talents at about ten years old, and that’s a general Solar tribe thing, not just the dragon clan. Each tribe generally develops a different set of abilities within a VERY broad set of catagories.
Angel: we really don’t have much more to say about that. If you are interested in knowing more about this culture, let us know and we will tell you all about it, but it doesn’t play to huge a role in the story, hence the brief rundown above.
Aaries: so let us know what you think please. It will be about five chapters into this when we meet up with dark legacy, maybe, give or take two or three....
Chaos: Aw heck, just let us know what you think.