Hey Guys,

I started this a while ago and have adapted the first chapter of the story slightly. I will attempt to post another chapter as soon as possible but hope you enjoy this one first off. Reviews are really useful to me, so feel free to leave them if you have any points about the way the story has started. Inbox with any questions and I'll try to get back to them around my studies.

Buckle up and enjoy the ride.

Writey x

Disclaimer: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh… so just enjoy the ride.

The story will be written in character POV starting with Jaden!

Jaden's POV

"Jay…. Tess don't put that up your nose… Jay…... Joshie stop shouting at the television… JADEN YUKI GET OUT OF BED THIS MINUTE!"

Maybe if I pretend, I'm fast asleep she won't disturb me I thought to myself as I lay half asleep in my bed.

"Jaden, I know you can hear me, get out of bed."

I could hear the slow footsteps gradually edging closer and closer towards my bedroom.

"Jaden, please get out of bed, I could really use your help this morning," said the voice of a middle-aged women as she burst into my bedroom unannounced.

"Ugh… Wha…... Me… Do… Sleep… Here," I replied still pretending to be half asleep.

This woman is my mother, Susan Yuki, and like normal she was trying to disturb my lovely, pleasant sleep.

Now if your reading this then you already know who I am but let's just have a good old recap anyway. My name is Jaden Yuki, I attended Duel Academy, one of the most prestigious duelling schools in the whole world. I have so many good memories from there, making loads of friends, having some the toughest duels I've ever had and saving the world on countless occasions.

However, I have now graduated, which leaves me at the torment of my family who will never, EVER, let me sleep in on a Thursday.

"You know Jaden if you weren't so lazy you might be able to sleep in once in a while," said a figure with green and orange eyes floating above the sleeping boy.

"You know Yubel, I don't remember asking for your opinion."

Yubel is my duel spirit which was another one of the little additions Duel Academy had on my life.

"I never said you did ask for my opinion, just thought you might like to hear it," said the figure with a slight chuckle. "Also, you know I can still hear you when you talk to yourself; I basically live in your head."

"Yes, I do, and now I'm also awake, so thank you very much."

I slowly rolled my aching body out of bed and stood up with a light stretch. I went over to my window and cracked open the curtains allowing the bright sunshine beating over New Domino City to enter my room before heading out the door to follow my mother who had already proceeded to go back to my younger sibling's downstairs.

Anyway, as I was saying before I was rudely woken up, I graduated Duel Academy roughly two years ago. After that and with everything that happened, I sort of lost my way and eventually lost contact with all of my friends. I didn't want that to happen, not at all but, I don't know, it just kind of happened. I don't really duel much either, only when my little brother wants to have a practice.

I still see my friends doing all these amazing things, Syrus and Zane tour the pro circuit together, Bastion is helping create new duel strategies at a company here in New Domino and Chazz made up with his brothers and started helping in the family business.

At first I just wanted a little break, but after I got into a routine of living at home, well, I just kind of stuck to it. My whole life I'd only ever known one thing, the love of duelling, but since Duel Academy, that love sort of just disappeared. I still have all my cards; I've had them since I was 13 so they're not going anywhere and my entire family loves duelling so there is no way I will ever be fully able to escape it. I just know that with everything that happened at Duel Academy, I needed to find myself again, find out who Jaden Yuki is.

"How long have we been doing that now," said Yubel with a hint of irony in her voice.

"Well, it's not going to happen overnight Yubel," I said plodding slowly down the stairs trying to avoid all the clutter my family had left on each step. My family loves to leave things everywhere, but the stairs usually consisted of a mixture of Josh's school homework and Dad's drawings.

You see, Malcom, my dad, works for a marketing company called Yu-Design that specialises in the development of new card types. He and my mum both met at Duel Academy and have been together ever since.

Mum used to tour a few circuits duelling but once her and my dad decided to start a family, she gave up the duelling scene to look after us kids and just stuck to the occasionally match against my Dad at Christmas.

I also have two younger siblings, Josh and Tessa.

Josh just turned 13 and Tessa is 4.

Now, I'm not sure Tess really knows what duelling is yet but I have caught her trying to chew my duel disk so I have the feeling that she will probably love it as well. She pretty much just watches TV all day whilst my Mum tries to tidy up the mess that she's made that morning at breakfast, hence my early wakeup call this morning.

My brother, Josh, is still at school, he's going to be attending Duel Academy in a few years or so. At his age he's a better duellist than I was, and he doesn't even have his own cards yet. I think he's actually due to be getting them relatively soon but I can't remember.

I made my way into the kitchen which looked like there had been a car crash.

Tess had clearly just eaten breakfast because it was all over her and the table, mum was scrambling around trying to clean up the mess my sister had made and my brother was, like usual, watching some pro-European duellists battle it out for a place on this years World Championship.

I made my way over to the seat opposite my sister and sat down.

"Finally your awake, here's your pancakes," mum said handing me a plate.

"I need you to give Tessa her bath whilst I take Josh to get his first deck this morning."

I stopped dead in my tracks and looked my mother square in the eyes.

Not only had I forgotten that today was the day Josh was to get his deck, but I'd also not realised that Tess had still needed her morning bath.

One thing you have to learn is Tessa isn't the cleanest of people and her bath times are in the top five things I dislike the most. I've always told mum that she clearly doesn't want to have bath time and to be frank I'm sure that mum doesn't really want to have to be the one to give her the bath, but they need doing, especially on days like today.

"You know Mum I'm just going to go back to bed" I said picking up my plate and trying to leave as quickly as possible.

"Jaden… Jaden… Stop! Take Josh and I'll take bath time!" Mum said with a slight hesitation in her voice. I knew she didn't want to do it either, but she has far more experience in that category than I do.

"Now that I can certainly help with," I said, turning and grinning at my mother who was less than impressed.

Us Yuki's have many family traditions but my most favourite one is that every member of the family will receive their deck after the week of their 13th birthday and it just so happened that Josh's birthday was last week.

Anyone who knows us as a family understands this tradition.

If you looked at a picture of us, you wouldn't have guessed we were a family though.

I have Brown hair and brown eyes, hair from my father, eyes from my mother, a lean toned out body and long legs however my brother on the other has blonde hair and blue eyes, opposite of what I have, he's rather short and in comparison, a lot fitter and stronger than I was at his age.

You see, he's the star of most sports teams at school, he is very popular and incredibly smart. But his passion for duelling far outweighs any of that.

Tessa has something in common with all of us. She has mainly brown hair but there are streaks of blonde in there and blue eyes have shades of brown in them. I'm convinced that she's going to be the tallest out of us all, even though we're not exactly a tall family. I'm also convinced dad believes that she's going to be the best looking, yes, even better than me!

I finished up my pancakes, washed my plate and cutlery and looked over at my brother.

"Josh, you need to get changed so that we can go and get your deck," I said to my brother who was too fixed on the TV to even notice what I had said.

One thing is for sure, when it comes to duelling my brother has a tactic for about any situation. He loves duelling even more than I did at his age. The amazing thing is I don't remember the last time I saw him lose. Honestly, when he gets the right cards, no one can beat him and he doesn't even have his own set of cards yet, that's nuts if you ask me.

"Okay. Let me just finish watching this and then I'll go and get ready," he said turning up the sound so he could hear the final few moves. I could see that the duel was about to finish so I made my way upstairs to go and get ready.

The one thing about living at home is that I get my own room. I did love living in slifer red with all the others but I do love being able to just relax on my own.

My house isn't anything extraordinary, but this house has been in the family for more than two generations. We have the essentials, kitchen, two bathrooms, dining room, living room, 4 bedrooms and a garden and for us it's perfect, there's just enough space for Tess to explore, Josh and me to get alone time but also for mum and dad to have their own peace and quiet every once in a while.

This house is also incredibly important to my Dad, it's where he grew up. A few years back he decided that it would be a good idea to have a duel arena set up in the garden. Every few months my family hosts what we call a Meet 'N Duel with the other members of the family. Basically, we just get together and have a friendly tournament of duel monsters.

Now because it was mum and dads idea, they decided to be the hosts and with there being really nowhere to have a duel around here, dad thought it would be a good idea to improvise so he decided to create a space for the whole thing to happen henceforth the duel arena. Everyone else provided duel disks and stuff because my dad basically paid for and built the whole arena himself, just so we could stay close as a whole family.

Once I had showered and brushed my teeth with my sister's weird pink toothpaste, I went back to my room and grabbed a simple red top and jeans, slipping them both on.

My room is reasonably small compared to everyone else's. Since I went away to Duel Academy, my mum and dad decided it was only fair to move my brother into my old room which was the biggest.

I don't really have much stuff to store in my room anyway, all I really have is a few bit from Duel Academy, clothes and TV with my games console attached to it.

When I got back from Duel Academy, I decided to paint my room red. I admit it was an impulse decision, but I've gradually gotten used to the colour. At the foot of my bed sits a large oak wardrobe and a small desk used for storing my laptop and television. I have a couple of shelves with the odd thing on and I also have the only room with a decent view of the garden. It is a blessing when the Meet 'N Duel happens because I don't really have to leave my room until it's my turn.

Once I changed, I made sure to pick up my keys, phone and wallet and make my way down the stairs towards the front door.

"You know Jay, if you got money for every time you were late you wouldn't be able to afford to live here anymore," my brother said grabbing the money mum had left on the kitchen counter for us before dashing out of the house.

I shouted goodbye to mum before locking the door and running to try and catch up with my rather excited brother.

The card shop itself was about a 20-minute walk away from where we lived, right through the centre of New Domino City.

We lived on the south side of the city in the residential area. My former school and Josh's current school was only just around the corner from where we lived.

I didn't really talk to anyone I went to school with anymore. They all had permanent jobs in the big city whilst I just worked at the local bakery with our neighbour Mr Maloney.

Mr Maloney was roughly the same age as dad. His wife had passed away whilst I was at Duel Academy so my dad thought it would be a good idea whilst I was at home to help him out around his shop whilst I was looking for a more permanent job.

We stopped off to pick up some bread for mum from the bakery before continuing on towards the card shop.

I could tell that there was something wrong with Josh because he'd not spoken since we'd left the bakery and that was very unlike him.

"Everything okay buddy?" I said through a mouthful of warm crusty bread.

"Yeah, I think so, Jay, what if I don't find a deck I want?" Josh replied in a very quiet voice.

I immediately stopped and placed the bread back in the bag. I squatted down so that I could stare at him directly in the eyes.

"Hey, you listen here, if you don't find a deck you want then we keep looking. I don't care if we have to spend all day trying to find it for you, I will make sure that you get the right deck and that it is one you want!"

"I know but I want a connection with my cards like you have Jay!" He said with a sad smile on his face.

"You'll have one. Maybe not straight away but there will be one you just have to be patient and trust in your cards."

He looked at me with a warm smile and we continued on the rest of the way talking all the different types of cards he might want in his deck.

Once we reached the shop, I looked and realised I'd never been here before.

The shop was fairly modern but did look a bit worn down, the green roof looked as though it would need replacing any day now and the blue and white doors looked to be falling off its hinges.

When I got my deck, the shop we had brought from was in the other direction from home. My entire family had bought their cards from there but unfortunately it had shut down a few years ago. When dad found out, he did some research and decided that this was the best place to come because it was a small family owned store.

As we entered the store there was a ring of a bell and an elderly man who standing behind a counter cleaning a glass cabinet that had what looked to be many different old cards in it.

I walked around the shop for a while with my brother, allowing him to take a look at all the different monster, spell and trap cards there were.

As we approached the counter, where the old man stood, I picked up a weird aura coming from within the store.

Clearly, I wasn't the only one to have noticed it as Yubel appeared next to me looking slightly confused.

"Jaden…. this… this place it has…. some kind of mystic aura around it" she said staring intently at all the different cards that were held in the glass cabinet that Josh was looking at.

"Some kind of bad one?" I said in a muted tone so the old man wouldn't hear me. My family already knew about Yubel since they caught me talking to her but trying to explain it other people, I don't know just makes me look a tad bit crazy.

"No…. it's a very good, powerful aura…." She said moving around the room to get a better look.

I sighed with relief. I didn't really want to have to start something dangerous with my brother around especially as I nothing of the sort had happened since I had been back from Duel Academy.

Once she gave the all clear I went back to the counter were my brother was already looking at the different decks the shop had on offer.

"Hello there" said the old man who looked up from what he was doing to greet us. He looked very familiar, but I couldn't remember where I had seen him from.

He smiled at my brother and me before looking in the direction of Yubel and smiling at her as well.

"Jaden, you don't think he can…." said Yubel trying not to look to surprised.

"Yes I can" said the old man smiling to Yubel. I looked on at him bewildered.

No one had been able to see Yubel since I'd been home, not even my own family could see or hear her, they just spoke to her through me.

Before Yubel had the chance to reply the old man moved to see what Josh was looking at.

"I don't recognise you folks have you recently moved here?"

"Ughhh… no, we just don't tend to buy new cards, so we haven't been in here before and our old shop shut down a while ago," I said trying not to make the old man cross that we had went somewhere else.

"Ah, yes, I know the one, Montgomery's old place, such a shame, you know he works with me here now actually, he brought all his cards over from the old store," the old man said pointing towards a large cabinet of cards just to the left of him.

"Wow, that's awesome, this is definitely my new favourite place in New Domino, " I said looking at the cards my brother was trying to show me.

"Ahh yes some of my best cards are in this cabinet… what's brings you to my shop today? Looking to improve your deck?" he said cleaning off his hands before coming around to where we were stood.

"My brother here is looking for his first deck, we have a family traditional and I decided I would bring him here to get his first one," I said looking at the newer cards in the display.

"Hmm… right…. What cards do you use?" he said to me.

I took the deck I had brought with me out of my holster and gave it to the man.

"Hmm… Elemental Heroes… Interesting" he looked at my brother, smiling, before moving back round to behind the counter "I think I know just the cards to give to your brother here."

We both looked at each other confused whilst the old man took a small brown box from the top of a shelf that was behind the counter and opened it pulling out a 40-card deck.

"Here" he said passing the deck to my brother.

Josh looked over the cards, his eyes widening before giving them to me to have a look at.

"I've never heard of them?" He said looking back at the shopkeeper.

I looked at the cards. Josh was right, these were cards that I had never heard of either.

The old man smiled at him before saying "that's because there new."

My eyes widened at the realisation of what that means "That means- "

"Yes. They are cards that no one else possesses. My Grandson won them in a duel tournament not too long ago, however he gave them to me and told me to keep them and give them to whom I deem worthy."

I looked over at my brother who looked completely shocked. I gave the deck back to my brother and took out the money my mother had given me before placing it on the counter. The old man looked at the money before pushing it back to me and producing a sharp glare.

"In this card shop you do not pay for the first deck of a duellist; therefore, this is not needed."

I looked at the old man completely shocked before saying "well there must be something I can do, err… oh wait, I saw that your roof needed mending, how about I come round at some point next week and come see if I can fix it!"

The man looked at me for a moment, then smiled and nodded, "okay that's a deal, I like the thought of having some else around besides Monty to keep me company."

I still felt as though a deck like that should be paid for however, I didn't want to argue with my new employer. I pocketed the money and looked back up towards the shelf where the old man had gotten my brothers deck from new deck from. There was a plain white package next to where the box was that had stored my brothers' cards.

The old man had caught my gaze and smiled at me.

"Those are some cards my son gave me from his deck" he said taking the small package off the shelf "you have them, I won't be using them and something tells me they just belong to you," he said handing them over to me.

"I can't take these…. you've already given us loads," I said slightly overwhelmed by the whole thing.

"Don't be silly, I know he would have wanted you to have them."

I smiled slightly and took the little packet from him before slipping it into my back pocket. I called Josh over, who had already opened up the box and was examining his cards to the minor detail.

"Oh wait," I said turning back to the man just as we were about to leave, "I should probably ask the name of the man who's roof I will be fixing next week?"

He smiled before replying "Solomon. Solomon Muto."

"Well, thank you for today Solomon and I'll see you next week, I'll be sure to report on all the new cards when I see you," I said making my way towards the door.

"I'll be looking forward to it," he replied before I headed off out the door to catch up with my younger brother who was still fixated on his new deck.

The walk home seemed to go very fast. Josh was too busy trying to plan strategies with his new cards and I couldn't stop thinking about the aura that was coming from Solomon's shop.

"Yubel," I said to myself so that Josh wouldn't here the conversation that we were having, "did you recognise that name from somewhere?"

"I don't know Jaden, I hadn't really thought about it until you said something, I don't think so"

I looked down at the package Solomon had given me and smiled. I had a feeling that whatever was inside this package was going to be key in helping rediscover my passion for duelling.

Once we arrived home my brother pulled me straight out into the garden for a duel. He had been talking about the deck for the last part of our walk home and decided that he was 'the greatest ever.'

I quickly popped back inside to put the loaf of bread I had gotten mum on the table as she was working out front whilst Tessa was asleep upstairs.

"Let's do this Jaden," I heard Josh shout from the garden. He had run off to grab the old duel disks I had brought back from Duel Academy that were stored in the shed.

As I went to take my deck out of my pocket the package Solomon had given slipped out onto the floor.

"Maybe you should use those cards another time," Yubel said fully knowing my brother probably needed to beat me in order to keep up this newfound confidence he had just discovered.

I picked up the package and placed it on the table next to the bread, agreeing with Yubel's opinion.

As I was about to head outside, I heard mum come in the front and hurriedly tidying.

"Jaden there's two people at the door for you. " she said picking up all the stuff Tessa had left on the floor.

"And you didn't even ask who they were?" I said in disbelief heading to the front door.

Once I arrived at the door, I was shocked to see who was standing there.

"Sy? Zane?" I said in disbelief.

"Long time no see Jaden!"

So, what did you think? Leave a review or a message to give me your thoughts.

Syrus and Zane have arrived on the scene! What does that mean for Jaden! Will his job at Solomon's shop have an effect on him? What kind of card did he give him and what was the strange aura at the shop about?

You'll have to keep favourite and like to find out!

Hope you all enjoyed

Writey x