Yuki, Stranger Of Nekroz

Mirror 1

It was cold for the girl lost at sea. Her family had taken her on a cruise to visit the Americas and to see the world. Unfortunately the ship had difficulties in the form of terrorist who had taken control of the boat. They had claimed that everyone on the boat were Sinners or Members of the Knights of Hanoi.

By the time the authorities arrived all that were left was the girl and her family. Sadly, before they could do anything a member of the group had forced them all on a boat and threatened the authorities by saying that he’d kill them now if they came after him. So while the rest of his group was taken, he escaped with the family of three.

After only a few hours however, they learned quickly that they had limited supplies. At first the started rationing what they had, but quickly ran out and the man had to make a choice. He shot the parents in their heads, right in front of the girl. He told her that he was keeping the rations, but if she wanted to eat she would either fish for herself, do what he wanted or eat the corpses of her parents.

She was scared and hungry an hour after the sun had set. The terrorist had fallen asleep in the boat, his gun still in hand. She knew just by looking in the water that there were no fish around and that if she wanted to eat she'd either have to let the terrorist do whatever he wanted to her or eat her parents. With a gulp and a stomach growl she made her decision.

The next day she was crying and her father seemed to be missing an arm. She was covered in blood and when the terrorist saw this he laughed before pointing the gun at her leg and firing. She screamed in pain as the metal lodged itself in her skin. The man cackled as he said that she broke the ultimate sin and only death could cleanse her. Then he shot her in the neck and she blacked out.

(Into)

Normally when one experienced death they'd feel cold or nothing. That's why when the girl felt a warm blanket covering her and bandages on her neck and leg she felt confused. She was in a small room and a rather primitive one at that. Well primitive was rude, it was more old-fashioned than anything else. The room was light-blue with one window that seemed to look out towards the sea, but snow was also falling. She remembered that she left during summer so how?

Before she could start guessing at possibilities of how she got here and why it was snowing the door opened and a woman with long red-hair came in. She seemed to have a staff on her back and despite the weather outside she seemed to be dressed lightly. “Oh you're awake!” she exclaimed when she realized the girl was awake.

The girl looked at the woman for a moment, slowly processing what she was seeing. She was looking at the Dance Princess of Nekroz. By all accounts that should've been impossible, she thought Duel Monsters was a game. She was going to ask who she was and where they were, but all that came out was nothing. No sound, no noise not even the wind escaping her lips made a noise. She couldn't speak.

The woman looked at her in pity before sitting beside her on the bed. “I'm sorry that we couldn't save your voice” she began as she looked at the girl “but we did the best we could in what little time we had” she hugged the girl lightly as an apology. The girls mind however was reeling with more questions than answers. The woman let go and looked at the girl “As for where you are, well you're in my old room in the Necloth Village” she began to explain “You were brought here on accident. We were trying to summon an old monster using one of the old Gishki Mirrors, but we didn't expect someone to come out of it, much less someone dying” she explained as the girl slowly processed the information.

She almost died. Why couldn't she remember everything that happened. She remembered the boat and her parents being killed, but afterwards it's a blank, she couldn't remember what caused her to wake up here or why she was wrapped in bandages. She would've voiced these questions, but as her lack of noise reminded her, she was mute now.

“Oh would you like anything? Paper? Water?” the wom- no Emilia, she remembered from what little lore she heard about on Duel Monsters, asked. All the girl did was nod before Emilia got up and went to retrieve both paper and water. When she came back the girl immediately drank the entire glass before grabbing a piece of paper and wrote down “My name is Yuki” on it. Emilia stared at it for a second before smiling and replied “Well it's nice to meet you Yuki!”

This was the start of Yuki’s life with the Nekroz Clan. She would eventually come to see them as family and even adopt the last name, but that's not what the story is about so let's skip ahead two years, exactly a week before the Shaddoll would emerge.

(The)

Yuki blinked as she opened her eye to the sun. No it wasn't the sun, it was a light coming from the ceiling in a small room. She sat up and looked down herself, she was wearing the same thing that the Nekroz gave her, a small knee-length red dress and a navy-blue coat that was obviously to big for her as well as some leather boots they gave her. She remembered that they were going to try a new Ritual, but there was a flash of light and the roar of a large tiger before she passed out.

She looked outside a nearby window, causing her to bolt towards it and look out in shock. She was in a large city. Not some town or village back in the other world but a full-blown city. A city in her world. Tears welled up in her silver golden eyes as she looked at her reflection, and silently sobbed.

She was alone again. She was in another unknown location and she was alone. She cried silently for a few minutes, probably an hour, before a door leading into the room was opened and a doctor walked in. “Good you're awake. We just need to run some test to make sure you're okay” he explained quickly and efficiently, getting straight to the point.

She nodded, still bewildered, and a few small test began. After an hour she was told she could leave.

When she saw the outside, well she was a little overwhelmed. After the simplicity of living with the Nekroz, seeing so many lights and hearing so many sounds at once was disorienting. The first thing to catch her eye however was a Duel of some sort being shown on a large TV on the side of a building. A large crowd had gathered to watch as the announcer announced that it was a member of the Knights of Hanoi vs Playmaker.

She's heard of the Knights of Hanoi before, but she couldn't remember where. As the Duel progressed she watched as Playmaker seemed like he was losing, until he Link Summoned Decode Talker. After that he won and people cheered, some louder than others.

She would've simply left, if it wasn't for the fact that she had no idea where to go or what's going on. So she just stood there for an hour wondering what to do, before she felt a hand on her shoulder shake her. “Hey, you okay. You've been standing here a long time” she turned around and looked at the purple haired man in front of her before she just shook her head.

The man sighed before asking “Well do you want help?” she simply nodded in response before the man realized “You can't talk can you?” he asked bluntly. She nodded while he smirked a little “Then why don't you come with me back to my truck and I'll help you out” he offered and she nodded again and he led her to the hot-dog truck that was also probably the most important place in the city.

She had so many questions, but first she was going to need tons of paper.

(VRAINS)