POV [first person]
After my disappointing opening I decide to make use of my new life by getting a job at the closest shop which happend to be a deli around a block away from my apartment. I then get a job to fund my new found cardboard addiction using it to buy many more packs and trade a couple cards here and there and I realize how lucky I was in my first 12 packs by getting cards like fairy box, gradius and beast of talwar. Over the next 2 week I find many cards that don't exist or have different descriptions like gradius having a live of text saying it's always considered a starship monster and cyclon laser stating that it's equitable only to starship monsters and that it increases starship monsters by 300 ATK and gives them piercing battle damage. I've been living here for 2 and a half weeks and it's been good so far as I've learned that I go to a high-school not far from my apartment.On a interesting note I joined a tournament in my school to get some experience in dueling as I haven't done it in a while.
Classroom
"My turn, I draw I summon Enchanting mermad in attack position and I attack your facedown" "you've attacked my prevent rat and I ativate Destruction punch since you have lower ATK then my DEF your monster is destroyed and you take a quarter of its ATK as damage."(duelist kingdom rules a monster is destroyed by effect you take a quarter of its ATK as lifepoints)
Tommy-1000--->0
After my win against Tommy my other classmates drag me into other duels where I win by using marginally better cards like Uraby.After my fifth win i decide to leave but as I do so I spot two other teens one being around a head shorter and the other reaching my chest.
As i walk past I over hear their conversation, "Yug's you gotta be more careful around those guys they only want trouble." 'the shorter teen I recognize as Yugi Moto the future king of games and his best friend and side kick Joey wheeler continue to talk about their bully trouble.'
Although I'm more focused on finding out why they are so close to my school. I callout to both Joey and Yugi "hey you I knew there were bullies around here but i didn't think that they would attack people are you guys alright?"
'After I finish speaking I cringe and die a little bit more on the inside.' but Yugi responds to me saying "Yes we're fine just some of the guys got a little to rowdy" Joey buts in and proceeds to talk about how he would rough them up if they every tried it again.
'Joey being the extravert that he is decided to "hang out" with me while dragging Yugi along and all I could think about is how much I don't want to be near Joey again.'
'That ended up not being the case as both Joey and Yugi started visiting my school more and more often and because the others would'nt let me leave with atleast on game they always got to my school without me being able to slip away.'
Card Shop
"Another rare card your really lucky Riku." I grunt in response. 'Tommy is looking over my shoulder watching as a open a card pack to get Battle Steer just for me to throw it in the pile of bad tribute monsters. So far I've gotten terrible cards since my first opening with the only a few usable ones like another shinning angel and a bait doll overall my openings have been lack luster.'
Combine that with everyone preparing for the tornuments to qualify for nationals the price of card packs hase gone up. For the cherry on top I still don't know what my cheat is even after nearly 3 months.'
"Hey if your not going to use that Dragon zombie I'll trade you any two cards in my folder." The person who offered such a trade is a small boy who is very dark and looks almost sickly with pale skin.
'After looking at him i can see that this kid is bonz one of Bandit Keiths henchman who had a unfortunate death in the original.'
"Let me see what you have in your folder and the I'll decide" After he flips up his folder I see a lot of cards from Wingwever to Hyozernryu and even a Blue ezes white dragon.
I immediately know that these cards are fake as they are either extremely rare or only 4 of them are in existence at this current point, they also have typos and smudges on the cards.
Although one card in bonz collection catches my eye and its the one of, if not the most famous card in YU-GI-OH's history Pot of Greed.