NOVEL WEB Chapter 2: Waking Up?
"The Yu-Gi-Oh! Universe what a unexpected surprise!"
'At this point I've given up on this being a dream. But Yu-Gi-Oh? That's something I can work with! Its better than Beserk or One Punch man or most other universes.'
Forgetting that the crow can read my mind it nods along to my open thoughts. "Your correct! It's way better than some many of the other universes floating around! Now we're running out of time so I'll make this quick, you'll be reborn as a child, don't worry you won't have to go through child birth or the baby phases but you'll start off as a 6 year old named Riku Yukida. In addition you won't have those pesky parents constantly over your shoulder! Which means you can focus on Duel Monsters without any extra stress!"
Blinking, or at least imagining that I do in confusion I try to respond with something along the lines of 'A 6 year old without parents how would that work?' Though before I can open my metaphorical mouth the crow talks before me.
"And finally you'll get something special from little old me!" The crow opens their wings and launches a feather close to me, and while I didn't feel anything hit me it disappeared after getting close. "There! With that you should have a little bit of an easier time! Now get out there and show the world what's what!"
Trying to speak out in protest I find that my mind is cluttered with words and letters sluring into a soup of noise blocking me from thinking in any capacity. "Opps! Sorry! I've got to do this it's company policy! You'll forget about me but you'll remember what I told you, and don't worry your memories from before you came here will be fine!"
With a wave of their multi colored feathers my mind is sent somewhere with twists and turns causing a headache even though I don't have a body. "Bye! Also for your information I'm a woman!" The crow said lying through their beak. "You!!!"
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POV [First Person/Riku Yukida]
'My head!!' Jolting up I lift myself out of the snow and dirt I was covered in covering my head in pain. 'Fuck me!!!' Trying to stop the pain I shove my head back into the snow only for it to fail as even through my numbed face the spliting headache doesn't stop.
Thankfully after a minute or two the headache slows into a dull pain and a strange....Wetness? Lifting my hand to my head I pull back in pain as I look at my palm to find blood. 'The hell? Damn I must've hit myself trying to get rid of that damn headache..'
Thankfully its nothing serious with onlt a small trickle of blood coming from it. 'Where am I?....I think I'm in Japan. I mean hopefully I'm not a abandoned Japanese boy in the USA, though it'd probably help me in this situation....'
Looking around at my surrondings I find that I'm in an alley way with frozen and snow covered ground everywhere. Looking out towards the nearest street I see multiple signs is some sort of kanji language. 'Shit....I'm definitely in Japan...Or I'm somewhere else with this type of writen language. I could be in Korea or all I know.'
Using my arms to push myself off of the cold ground and snow I look myself over more carefully. Thankfully I'm fully clothed though the quality of my clothes is questionable. I'm wearing a dark blue colored winter coat that just from a quick look over has multiple holes and stains, an under shirt that was black though it also has multiple stains and holes. I have on jeans that are just as dirty as the rest of my outfit and some beat up gym shoes that look like they've been through hell and back.
'God damn it...I guess it could be worse?...At least I'm just cold and not completely freezing..' Standing up I take a couple of steps towards the exit of the alley way, ingoring the wet sloshing of my shoes as snow and water has seeped into them. Looking out the street is nearly barren though a few businesses down the block contrast that with a couple of visitors late into the day.
'What time is it? It's go to be at least 8 or 9 pm the sun's down plus its cold as hell....But I need food.. I think that's a 7/11 Japan has those right? But I can't speak Japanese! I don't even know if they speak Japanese here...' Moving along I creep out of the alley fully walking down the icy street towards the green colored convenience store down the road.
Thankfully it's a short walk as my numb and cold child body lets me know that its not happy with it condition. As I get closer my fears come to be realized as the two people standing outside of the store speak a language I can't understand. 'Dammit...I need help but it'd be kinda suspicious if I just can up and started speaking english out of nowhere...Maybe I can just use puppy dog eyes and get some handouts?' Standing near the entrance of the convenience store I look around me for anything I can pick up that of value.
Though before that I have a eureka followed by a mental face palm, as I start rummaging through both my jeans and coat pockets finding a couple of coins of various sizes and colors. 'I don't know what how much this is...The copper looking one has a 10 on it so I guess that 10 Yen? the silver ones have a 1 on the back so that's probably 1 Yen and since the gold one is bigger then silver but smaller than the copper its probably 5???'
Counting my coins leaves me with 19 Yen exactly. '19??? The hell am I suppose to do with19 Yen?....I'm gonna starve out here. Scratch that I'm probably just gonna freeze to death. How is this Yu-Gi-Oh? This is just a try to die challenge?!' While I'm wollowing in my sorrows another older man walks out of the store and past me as I look around for any coins or unruined cash.
"え?ここで何をしているの?" The man speaks at me in a language I don't understand and I put up an unsure face as he continues to speak. "私の言っていることが分かりますか?" Attempting to convey my confusion I tilt my head and slightly water my eyes which isn't hard to do in these cold winds.
"Hey! do you understand me now?" The man changes his language after a second of thinking speaking in perfect English. "Y-yes! I can understand!" Answering him in kind I surprise myself with my high pitched child voice.
"Ah, finally. I was asking what are you doing out here? Shouldn't you be home by now or somethin'?"
"N-no sir! I don't really have a home or anything...If I do I can't really remember it.."
'This is my chance! If I can get him to help me out maybe I'll be able to get some money out of him!' Answering the man I also give him a subtle look over.
The man is tall taller than you'd expect probably around 6ft or so, he has black hair that's quite long reaching his shoulder's while in a sort of ponytail. His eyes are intresting with them having a deep dark blue color combine that with is angular and rough face he looks quite handsome. His clothes are nothing special with the classic salary man outfit shown all the time on TV.
"...I see. That's sad as hell..Oh! I mean that's really sad....Um, listen kid I can get you something from the store if you'd like I come around here everyday after my shift so if you need something you can tell me! I see that you don't really of the cash form anything." The man apon seeing my dejected face waves his hands towards the door to the convenience store with a slight smile on his face.
'Perfect!' "O-ok sir! Thank you Sir!" Entering the store I quickly look around searching for any imagery that could help me figure out what to buy. 'I've got to look desperate and not too greedy one or two items is good enough no matter how much my body will complain!'
Grabbing a larger item showing multiple rice balls inside with a 500 writen on it and a small bottle with a tag saying 100 I sheepishly hand them over to the man. "a-are these ok?"
"These are just fine in fact if you want some more you can go ahead a grab it! I'm getting myself a late night meal so go wild! Plus I got myself a little bonus at work." While he says that last part quietly he also grabs a cup or ramen and goes up to the register to pay.
'Thank god I found a good guy! He's pretty weird though...But he's better than those teens who just stood there and watched me.' While I wait for him to pay I idly look around and spot in the corner of my eye a small box, open and showing its contents. 'Is that?'
Looking closer I see pack of cards all in the same box of "Duel Monsters- Story Of The Red Desert."
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{First of the Double Chapter of today!}
{Speaking of Chapters I should inform anyone on the schedule of this Fic! It'll be bi-daily with usually 800-1000 words a chapter. I know its short but I've got a job to keep up with and another fic to write, ok? Secondly I'll be releasing extra chapters per every quote on quote "milestone" reached. So at 100 collections I'll release an extra chapter and at 10K veiws I'll release another chapter and so on. Thirdly this fic will be going pretty slowly and no main characters will be showing up predominantly until Riku enters high school.}
{That's about it! couple other small things is like go check out @Summoner's Network on Youtube and twitch to see my inspiration for this fic and just in case you didn't read the synopsis this fic will have new and slightly changed cards in them.}
{If you didn't read that your a bitch! (I don't mean it). BYE!}