Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V: The HERO of Pendulum

Chapter 1: It Has Begun

Howdy fic fans, now I know I said that my next fic was going to be one of the Fairy Tail universe, bu~t I really don't feel like it, plus I've had this idea for a Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V story for a while, and I really wanted to do it, so here we are. Just a heads up: I watched both the Sub and Dub of the anime and will be pulling the element that I liked best from each, like the English dub names, but the cool summoning chants from the sub. As for the overall plot, I have no real plan and I just intend on going where this story takes me. A second heads up: this fic will involve a fair number of cards that I invented based off of another archetype that I use in real life, so hope you like it. That aside, let's get on with the fic…

Nemo Reinhard was having a rough day, after getting placed (yet again) in the lower half of a dueling tournament, Nemo had started riding home on his skateboard, with his treasured scarf, that he almost never took off, flapping in the wind. He spaced out thinking of his failed attempts in the tournament. Nemo was a duelist who tried to specialize in the mastery of the four summoning methods: Pendulum, Fusion, Synchro, and XYZ. He had created a deck that merged the Elemental HERO and Pendulum Magician archetypes together. It had actually worked better than one would expect. Then came the Link monsters and the new field. Don't get him wrong, Nemo was all for a new summoning method and such, but it did jack of his style, he tried incorporating Link monsters into his deck, even managing to get his hands on a HERO Link monster. But he couldn't keep up. As hard a he tried, Nemo's HEROs and Magicians couldn't keep up. What's worse is that nowadays, everybody just used the new and most powerful archetypes. Nemo was a duelist that believed that a duelist should construct a deck that is unique to them, not just grab the card that'll get you the most wins. Nemo's cards weren't the best, or the rarest, far from it to be honest. But they were the cards he chose, and the cards he believed in and he wouldn't have it anyother way. If only other people followed the same ideology.

"Guh, if only I lived in the Yu-Gi-Oh world," Thought Nemo to himself, "at least there I would be a respectable duelist."

He stopped at a red light as he waited for it to change. He looked across the street to see how long it would take to change and saw an old man crossing the street. Then the sound of a blaring horn rang in Nemo's ears. His head darted to the side to see an out of control truck barreling towards the old man. Without thinking Nemo charged towards the old man at full speed, slamming into him and pushing him out of the truck's path. Although Nemo couldn't say the same for himself. His eyes widened as the vehicle roared towards him. Then everything disappeared into darkness. Now if you had asked Nemo if there was one thing that he had regretted, he would have said that he had wished he had chosen something better than, "Oh son of a-" as his final words.

Nemo stood there blinking. He looked around, but all he could see was an endless landscape of white. Nemo tried his best to recall what he was doing last, then the memories of his death came flooding back to him.

"Hello Nemo." Said a voice from behind him.

His head whipped around but he didn't see anyone, what he did see however was the inside of a large library. He saw rows and rows of shelves that went on forever. He looked around, but didn't see anyone.

"Over here." Came the voice again.

Nemo turned around again and jumped in surprise to see a woman, who only looked three or four years older than me, standing at less than arm's length away. He jumped back in surprise but said nothing at first.

Then Nemo asked, "Who're you, are you dead as well?"

She laughed quietly shaking her head. "No, I'm not dead, though this is my library if you're wondering who it belongs to." He stared at her quietly as he did nothing but blink and let the dots slowly come together in his mind.

"Holy $h!t, you're God, aren't you?" Asked Nemo, then paused and began to sweat nervously (which shouldn't be possible for someone who's dead) as he realized that he just swore in front of god her(/it/him/all of the above?) self. He then coughed into his hand at looked at God. "Sorry 'bout that, I'm not usually one for swearing unless I'm mad." Said Nemo.

"Are you mad?" Asked God.

"No, I was just kinda thrown off, I don't swear much externally, but I do sometimes swear in my head, it just kinda slipped, sorry." Replied Nemo.

This time God laughed a little louder causing Nemo's lips to press into a thin line. "There's no reason to apologize, I specifically took this form so that you'd be more comfortable, so please don't worry." Replied God.

"O~kay then," Said Nemo, "so what happens now… my lord?" She laughed and then, using what I'm assuming was either magic or telekinesis, pulled a book off of a shelf, made it float towards us, and opened it so that we could both see it. "What's this?" Nemo asked raising an eyebrow while looking at the all powerful deity next to him.

"You're book Nemo, this tells me everything there is to know about you and your life." Explained God. Nemo turned his head to the side to examine the book.

It was huge, probably somewhere between two to three thousand pages and each page was around twice the size of a piece of printing paper. "A lot of info for a sixteen year old." Commented Nemo.

"Yeah, but you're a very smart and creative person Nemo, albeit more than a little insane," Explained God.

"Note that I'm not denying that." Deadpanned Nemo.

",so," Continued God, "a large concentration of this book contains all of your thoughts and ideas.

All my thoughts and ideas. "Can I get a copy of that later?" Asked Nemo.

She laughed once more. "We'll see." She replied as she read the book. "Nemo Reinhard: Born April 16 of 2002 in Mesa Arizona. Raised for the first five years of your life before your step-father was released from prison on July 7, on the year 2007… that's a lot of sevens," Read God.

"Tell me about it." Deadpanned Nemo.

",then had a younger brother named Rexx born on November 29 of 2010 and moved into most recent home in 2012." Continued God.

"You all (mostly) lived there happily until June 15 of 2018, when you sacrificed your life to save an elderly man from being hit by an out of control vehicle," Said God.

"If I could go back, I'd change my final words to "I regret nothing!"." Commented Nemo. Then something struck him. "Poor Mom, she already hated June a is, I'm sure this didn't make things better."

God stared at Nemo sympathetically, she told him that she knew his Mom had lost people she had cared about in the months of June over the years.

"Wait how do you know all that?" Asked Nemo. "While I was waiting for you to arrive, I read your entire book, where we are is a world between worlds, where time moves infinitely times faster, and yet infinitely times slower, it's impossible to survive here unless you're immortal." She explained.

"Then how-" Started Nemo then stopped. "...Dead. Right." Said Nemo looking down. Then he perked up. "Wait if you already knew all that, then why did you have to read all that stuff aloud?" Asked Nemo.

"Because those are the rules." She replied.

"And who made those rules?" Asked Nemo crossing his arms.

"I did of course." Replied God.

"So that really doesn't answer my question then, does it?" Retorted Nemo.

"Y'know, I'd ask if you're like this with everyone, but we both know the answer to that." Said God.

"'Cause I'm me, and you read my book." Said Nemo." The two stared at each other silently for moment. Then Nemo broke the silence by saying, "Moving on."

She then closed the book. "Any questions?" She asked.

"What happened in the accident? Was anyone else hurt?" Said Nemo, shooting off questions the moment the words left her mouth.

"You were the only fatality and while the driver did suffer some broken bones and burns, he will make a full recovery." Replied God. Nemo breathed a sigh of relief. "Anything else?" She asked. Nemo looked around.

"While this library is large, I doubt the people who come here stay for two reasons: 1: I doubt this place is infinite since I'm assuming only the books of the dead are here." Said Nemo.

"And 2: I'm assuming the only books of the dead are here so there's nothing to really do except read those, which I'm sure you don't allow since that'd be a severe invasion of privacy." God laughed slightly louder once again.

"You catch on fast, and to respond to what you said, I can create and send you to any universe that you can create, your only limit being your imagination." She replied. Nemo raised an eyebrow.

"Really?" He asked certainly.

"Yes." She replied.

"There's no catch?" Asked Nemo.

"No catch." Replied God.

"You won't call me back once I'm 'satisfied'," Said Nemo, doing air quotes around the word "satisfied", "and then call me back to be your soldier so that I can fight time travelers for you?"

"You read too much Manga." Replied God.

"You're not wrong." Deadpanned Nemo.

"To put all your paranoia to rest, no, I'm send you to wherever you want to go, and then you can stay there as long a you like, be it the rest of your life, or until you want to go somewhere else." Explained God.

Nemo thought for a moment. "Is the multiverse string theory true?" He asked.

God looked surprised, but nodded. "If you mean the one where anything imagined is created in another universe and becomes reality there, then yes." She replied.

"Would it be possible to send me there with my memories of my previous life?" Asked Nemo.

Now she was smiling brightly. "I don't get that request often, but it's possible."

It's possible. "Would you be willing to do it? " Asked Nemo.

Now God was smiling so brightly she practically glowed. "Yes I would, this is the most exciting thing I've done in years, you'd think with all the TV and book series out there, there'd be more requests like this, but no, it's just one boring universe after another!" She said her voice slightly raising, then she calmed down.

"What are you upset about, I'm the one who died here?" Asked Nemo.

"I'm an immortal being who has nothing to do, the only interesting thing I can do is create the universes I send people to, explore their lives, or watch the stories created in your world." She replied.

"Fair enough." Replied Nemo.

"Well, with that out of the way, let's set this up, can I request stuff to bring with me?" Asked Nemo.

"Yes." She replied, waving her hand causing a notebook and pen to appear. She smiled at Nemo's confused expression. "This might take a while, better safe than sorry." She explained.

"Just tell me if and when I go to far." Said Nemo.

"I'm ready." She said with a smile.

"I want you to send me to the world of Yu-Gi-Oh, specifically during the Arc-V timeline." Said Nemo. She wrote that down.

"I'm assuming you'll want to be a duelist?" She asked. He nodded.

"When in the timeline do you want to appear, and where?" She asked.

"Right after Yuya beats Declan and is promoted to Professional, like literally drop me in as he says "I'm ready to swing into action!", as for where, somewhere in or around the stadium will do." Said Nemo.

She wrote that down. "Next, what do you want to look like, physically and clothing wise?" She asked.

"Can you read minds?" Asked Nemo, she nodded. "Read mine, it'd be faster and yield better results." Said Nemo.

God nodded, then closed her eyes and began concentrating. She was like that for about five to ten seconds, then her eye shot open as her body stiffened, but she quickly recovered.

"Are you alright?" Asked Nemo.

She nodded, panting from fatigue. "Yes, but if you ever run into another psychic, do not let them read your mind, in fact I'm implanting mental barriers to protect you from telepathy." Replied God.

"Why?" Asked Nemo.

"Because if anyone who isn't immortal attempts to enter that insane head of yours, it will kill them." She replied.

Nemo blinked in surprise, then swallowed the lump that had formed in his throat.

"Now what kind of deck do you want?" She asked.

"Just give me the deck that I duel with online, which I'm assuming you know about, since you know everything about me now." Said Nemo.

God nodded her head, then wrote it down. "What about abilities?" She asked.

Nemo thought for a moment. "I want the same powers that Jaden and Yuya have, I wish for the power to see monster spirits and to be able to communicate with my monsters, as well as make then have physical bodies when summoned, whether or not I'm using an Action Field." Replied Nemo.

God nodded then began writing. Then she paused for a moment and thought, then wrote some more. Once she was done, she made the notebook and pen disappear. "Okay, we're ready, and as a special treat, I threw in a couple of interesting characteristic about you that I'm sure you'll like." She said. "You're new journey is about to begin Nemo, best of luck, and I hope you have fun." She said. Then she faded away. Then the library around Nemo slowly pixelated until there was only whiteness once more. Then the white faded into black.

Nemo opened his eyes once, but when he saw only darkness around him, he started to close them again thinking he was still in the void, but he noticed something. He was cold. There was no warmth, no cold in the void, only nothingness. Nemo looked to see his scarf (if you unfolded it and laid it out, it'd be ninety inches long, five inches wide, and about an eighth of an inch thick) flapping around, it was tied around his neck twice, the front end of the scarf hanging down the front left of his body while the tail end went down the back left of his body. His scarf had been a variety of colors in his past life, but now it had been bleached completely white, and the stitching was also different, it had been made using one long piece of thread, so it was more like a really long net than a scarf, now it was one solid piece of fabric there wasn't even a seam line. As for the rest of his clothes, Nemo had an orange shirt with a six pointed star on it, each point of the star was a different color of the rainbow, and had a black border going around it. He had dark green pants as well. On his right wrist was a thick blue wristband, and on his left arm was a duel disk like the one Yuya had, but it was yellow and red, Nemo could see his deck tucked inside of it. For shoes, he was wearing the same ones he had been wearing in his past life, black van with flame designs on the sides. All of his clothes were blowing in front of him, and Nemo felt a heavy wind from his back. The front end of his scarf was flapping in front of him, and the end behind him went under his arm and was also flapping around. He looked up to see his hair. His hair was naturally a dark brown color, that he thought was boring, so he had dyed it orange, red, and yellow. Now his hair was only orange and red, and in different areas. The pattern matched Yuya's hair but was different colors, the hair at the center of his hair was red, and the hair surrounding it was orange. Nemo's hair was also spiky, he had six orange spikes at the front of his head. The far two on the left, and the three on the right all hung on his forehead, but the sixth one naturally stuck up and went back with the rest of his spikes. The rest of his hair was also spiky, all coming together in large spikes that went mostly up, but also slightly back. As for length, if you were to line Nemo's and Yuya's heads ide by side, their hair would reach around them same height. His hair was also flapping around. Nemo twisted his body to the left, preparing to throw his over, in order to turn around, expecting it to be difficult in a void. When he threw hi weight, he ended up spinning in ten to twenty circles before coming to a dizzy stop, this time facing the source of the wind. He saw what looked like the above of a stadium, only very small, the lights were on so Nemo assumed people were there. But he didn't understand where he was right now. Then he passed through a cloud. Nemo turned his head to look behind him, then back at the stadium he was heading towards, then he noticed that it was getting closer. Then it clicked.

Nemo adjusted himself so that his back was facing the stadium, then flailing his arms he shouted, "When I said 'drop me in' I didn't mean literally!"

Now part of this chapter was inspired by the Fairy Tail fic known as Ripples, written by the real narnia who I'm assuming is a girl. So credit to her and thank you for helping me come up with this fic. For those who didn't figure it out already, this takes place directly after the ARC-V timeline, in the Arc-V universe. I hope you like Nemo, he's based off of yours truly, and I swear to God (Nemo: Been there, done that) if any of you make any fish jokes about his name, I will find you, and hurt you. That aside I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of: Yu-Gi-Oh Arc-V: The HERO of Pendulum. Nemo will be having some surprising surprises happening in the next chapter, as well as my first attempt at writing a duel, so wish me luck on that front. With that done, I really need to get out of here, so until next time fic fans, Nemon0416 is outta here!