New story!

Now just a heads up, this is mainly a rewrite of the Anime with a few bits of the Manga mixed in, along with slight Persona and Pokemon for flavoring. I got this idea from reading the manga, binging the Anime, and reading a few fics that seriously got my attention.

Few quick things to know beforehand:

-This will mainly follow the plotline of both the actual anime, and an abridged version of it by Arkfive Abreedged (i really liked that version. Too bad they're on hiatus… I think)

- This will incorporate both Manga, Anime, and fanmade cards, any ideas can be left in the review, comments or whatever.

- As with most of my fics, it will center around a main character (and his counterparts in this case), so the Yu-boys will be the center attraction for this. This will be OP yu-boys, so if you don't like, don't read. To balance this out, the enemies from the Manga will also be here.

- lastly, expect SOME form of OOC from the characters. This is FANFICTION, where the canon is usually given the middle finger, as poorly as it is executed, so don't expect it to go entirely like the show.

Now then, Let's BEGIN!

A 7 year old Yuya Sakaki sighed as he slinked around the corner of a building, several kids throwing objects running past the tomato schemed boy. Sighing, the child slid his goggles over his eyes and walked down the road. Walking the direction he was previously from, Yuya glanced at the bulgy pocket which housed his deck. Looking up through his tinted goggles, he saw that he was in the park near his house. Opting to ignore how much time he spent running away from the bullies, he sat on one of the swings he was near at the time.

Sighing once more and pushing up his goggles. He reached into his pocket and pulled out three cards: Odd-eyes Dragon, Entermate Kaiser Kid, and Soulsona Arsene. Looking up, he found that the sun was about to set, so he took one last look at the three cards… before clutching his head. A sudden pang of pain coursed through his head as he stared into the three cards, and he could've sworn… that they stared back.

Blinking rapidly at the three, the pain slowly faded as he regained his bearings and stood up.

"...weird." he said to himself. Pocketing his three cards and headed home. Unaware of the lingering shadow as the sky turned to dusk.

After a few minutes of greeting his mom, eating dinner, and getting prepared to sleep, Yuya laid on his bed as he once again stared deeply into the three cards in his hands.

"What was that just now…" Yuya wondered out loud. "That… that never happened before. Odd-eyes… Kaiser… Arsene…"

Shaking his head, Yuya sighed once more before kissing the three of them. "I'll figure it out in the morning. Night everyone." he whispered, tucking the three cards under his pillow as he drifted into a deep slumber….

Waking up, Yuya found himself within a deep void of darkness, everything around him was nothing beyond what he could see, which scared the boy a tiny bit. Opting to look around… Yuya stepped once to make sure he could actually walk… and continued when he confirmed it.

"Man, this is new, usually my dreams aren't so… dark." Yuya shrugged.

"You can say that again." a second voice replied, causing the tomato headed child to stop in his tracks. Breathing a deep breath, Yuya slowly turns around to the source of the second voice… to find another boy… who looks more or less like him.

He screamed.

"WHO ARE YOU!?" Yuya yelled fearfully, causing the other boy to scream back at him.

"WHO AM I? WHO ARE YOU!?" the second boy screamed back, which was silenced by a THIRD voice shouting at the two.

"Will you two stop screaming!? I can't focus with you plebs ear-rapping me!" the third voice shouts.

"I'm gonna have to agree with this guy." a fourth, calmer voice said behind the two screamers, looking around, they became face to face with two more duplicate looking males. Before they could talk further, a bright light shone down on all four of them, then at a fifth spot, revealing something entirely different. There in the fifth light, sat a man on a chair with a large desk with four other chairs around it, the weirdest thing though, was that the man looked just like them, albeit older looking.

"Now that the four of you are here, we can finally begin our discussion." the man began. Yuya rubbed his eyes, blinded momentarily and looked to the man, then to the other boys, who were more visible due to the extra light. He now saw that each one had some slight differences. Mainly the hays and eyes, as one had Black and purple hair, the other had purple and pink, and the third had yellow and blue.

"Please, have a seat." the fifth man said. "I can explain everything then."

"And why should we do tha- huh!?" the eggplant haired boy retorts, but was cut off as the blueberry haired boy and Yuya both sat down. "Hey!"

"Well, at the very least, we know it's not immediately dangerous." the grape schemed boy said, cautiously sitting down on his own seat. Huffing at how he was now the only one standing, the last one sat down in the remaining seat.

"Now that we all are seated I shall start. "I am Zarc." the man, now named Zarc, introduced. "And, you four must be… Yuya," he looks to yuya, then to the blue and yellow haired boy. "Yugo," the black and purple male was next. "Yuto," and finally the purple/pink haired boy. "And Yuri."

"Okay, talk old man. How do you know my name?" Yuri shouts, causing the man to chuckle at his words.

"A simple answer for that, the problem is if you'd actually believe me."

"Well, I'm a bit open minded, so… lay it on me!" Yuya piped up, causing the others to look at him funny.

"Very well then; we're all the same person… or to be specific, you all are me."

"That's a load of-" Yuto started.

"Bull?"

"Wha…"

"You four needn't worry, before we discuss the main reason why you four are here, I will explain myself and the reasoning behind my claim."

"Oookay." Yugo droned out.

"I know you four don't want to hear a long story, I don't either, so I'll keep things short." sighing a little bit, Zarc continued. "I… made a little mistake that costs me by world, myself… and the love of my life. To fix this, my love, Ray, split herself, me and our very world into four similar worlds, each one having a fourth of our soul. You four are the four pieces of my soul, thus, you're all technically me."

"...wow." Yuya said, eyes wide at the sudden news.

"And you think telling a 7 year old-" Yuri started.

"7 year olds." Zarc corrected. "You're all technically the same as well."

"Whatever. You think telling us that will…" Yuri stopped his statement as he and the other three children began glowing slightly, alerting the other boys. "W-What is happening!?"

"Proving a point." Zarc replied, staring into Yuri's eyes as the male stared into his. For a few seconds nothing was said between the five, until the glowing stopped and the five were now back to normal.

"...okay… say, we believe you…" Yuto started once more. "Why did you bring us here?"

"I need your help." Zarc answered bluntly. "I have foreseen- no, witnessed events that will happen years from now, from each of your perspectives. The end result leaves with you four in the same state I'm in; alone."

Yuya decided to ignore Yuri's visible flinch at the word alone and continued to listen.

"I lost my chance to apologise, to fix things… but you four can! we can change this fate and rewrite it so that everyone wins."

"I'm sensing a but somewhere though…" Yuto deadpanned. The man chuckled once more.

"Indeed there is. I was tricked, lured in with the promise of the power to protect my love, to entertain, to live… and I paid the price. My soul was corrupted, twisted from my pure intentions, and turned my wish into a nightmare that haunted me to this very day."

"Oh dear…"

"And I'm afraid that might have crossed to you as well."

"WHAT!?" all four yu-boys shouted out.

"Don't worry, malevolence is suppressed and divide amongst you; as long as you're all fine, then it won't get to you."

"Okay, good." Yugo wheezed in relief.

"You say that we can help you… how?" Yuya asked, gaining the four's attention.

"I'm granting you four a fraction of my power. Think of it as… parting gifts, though I must ask that you keep it a secret for now."

"Parting gifts?"

"The night is almost over, and we'll surely meet again soon, but to compensate for the… odd introduction, I'm handing out presents as a token of goodwill."

"Huh."

"Sounds good to me."

"Yugo, was it? We seriously need to talk about your-"

"I'll help." Yuya announced causing the four to look at him flabbergasted.

"Really?"

"I won't turn away from a person in need if I can help them!" Yuya continued.

"Splendid. Then I'll start with you first." snapping his fingers, three cards appeared in front of Yuya.

"Hey, those are mine!"

"I know. I'll grant you one of my secret weapons, behold, I grant you the power of pendulum summoning!" a flash of light shone on the three cards, changing part of it in the process, the top halves look the same, but the bottom halves were turned green, with a second box and two diamonds with numbers below them.

"I'm giving you a special surprise, but you'll get the chance to use it when the time is right. Use it wisely, but only as a secret weapon. People love plot twists and showstoppers."

"Wow…" Was all Yuya said as he clutched the three cards in his hand.

"Yuri, I'm giving you my Starving Venom Fusion Dragon. May its poison and power serve you well." he said, a purple blotch of bubbles and sizzling sounds appeared to Yuri, revealing a fusion monster.

"Hmmm… I'll… consider the idea. If only to pay you back for giving this to me."

"Yugo. I'm giving you my Clearwing Synchro Dragon. May its speed guide you to victory." a burst of wind and light appeared, a white card spinning to Yugo's hand.

"Aw yeah! Thanks, Zarc!"

"And Last but not least, Yuto. I grant you Dark Rebellion Xyz Dragon. May its wings of rebellion shield you and your goals." a dark haze appeared around Yuto as a black card appeared in his hand.

"...fine." he said, nodding to the man.

"The night is nearly over. We'll meet again soon." Zarc finished as the four nodded, fading away as their world became nothing.

Waking up with a slight jolt, Yuya looked around the room he was in. sighing when he confirmed it to be his own room, he lay back down.

~man, that was a weird dream.~

~tell me about it.~

~agreed.~

~hmmph.~

…

…

…

~What?~

~Huh?~

~What?~

~Hmm?~

Rising up from his bed in haste, Yuya looked around once more before lifting up his pillow…

Needless to say, everyone in the neighborhood got up grumpy that morning.

And, prologue done. This will mainly be up on Fanfiction, and also Ao3 if I'm feeling generous.

A few post chapter notes;

Entermate will be the performapals name, fight me. Odd-eyes are more or less the same, and Soulsona… well, you can take a guess on what that'll be.

- this will be centered around the yu-boys, so expect them to be the main OOC OP protags this series needs.

- the majority of the duels will be against the yu-boys, with a 95% win streak, with the few exceptions of Reiji, some manga villains (won't name who or what), and possibly more if I feel like it. Reason why is because it'd be funny to see their opponents breaking down as the yu-boy wreck their shit.

-this will be a bit darker than the original stuff, with some of the other characters being a bit more on the… toxic side of dueling. And i can get REALLY dark if I wanna be, so expect beforehand please.

Next chapter will be tracing from ep 1-3 of the abridged version. After I make it to the supposed end of the abridged series(or until it's caught up to the recent ep.), I'll follow the actual anime from that point.

TBC