It was just a day like any other in the city of Canterlot. The sun was shining the birds were chirping and let’s face it you don’t really care about the weather so let’s get on with the real story.
Shuffle was heading to school to meet up with his friend Card Shark. Shuffle wasn't the most fit high schooler and tend to wear T-shirts with stuff he found funny on it. Today’s was red and said ‘I’m not lazy I just really enjoy doing nothing some black jean pants and his prescription glasses for his near sightedness. His glasses are actually bifocals with the lower part being made of regular glass. Now Shuffle always enjoyed watching his friend playing Duel Monsters against the other students at Canterlot High School. Shuffle got to school just in time to see the end of his friend’s duel. “…and now that all your monsters are gone thanks to dark hole’s effect I also use double summon allowing me to normal summon twice this turn and now I summon The Keeper of the Shrine so I can sacrifice the keeper of the shrine that gets treated as two monsters for dragon type monsters so this allows me to summon my Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Now Blue-Eyes will attack you directly destroying the rest of your life points.” And with that the duel was finished Card Shark has won.
“Hey Shark, that was a nice move at the end." Shuffle said to his friend. Card Shark wore a loose brown shirt and some Blue jean pants. "I wish I could of seen the whole duel though.” Shuffle said to Card Shark as Card Shark was putting up his Duel Disk up. The Duel Disk was mostly white and had blue edges on it.
“Thanks Shuffle, but I want to know why don’t you never play Duel Monsters you always just watch me play it.” Card Shark asked Shuffle they know each other since middle school and Shuffle had never once played Duel Monsters with him but he knew Shuffle had figured out the rules and could easily follow any duel he participated in.
“Look I just don’t think I would be any good against anyone in Duel Monsters especially you after all you’re the best duelist in this school after all.” Shuffle said not having any confidence in himself at all. After seeing Card Shark duel with a bunch of combos it was intimidating to imagine being on the receiving end of those duels.
“Of course, as you are, you don’t stand a chance.” Shuffle felt like everything he thought about himself was confirmed with those words. “You don't even have a deck and without one you would absolutely never get any better.” Shuffle then realized he should really stop over thinking things before people are finished talking. “How about we duel tomorrow morning after all class is about to start and I’ll make you a deck just bring a duel disk I heard they are selling them cheaply now.”
“Ok fine I’ll give it a try then.” Shuffle said in a defeated tone having no confidence in him-self now he didn't want to duel Card Shark for several reasons but the big one is it would feel like he was fighting his best friend, along with the fact he didn't like losing when he put his all into it.
After school let out Shuffle went to the local Canterlot game shop called “the Golden Crown” and gotten him-self a duel disk colored black and blue. After looking around the store a bit more he went home, which was about a 10 minute walk from the school, convinced he was going to lose tomorrow and felt like he would lose so bad he would never try dueling ever again and deep down he hopes he was wrong.
The next day Shuffle went to school earlier then he normally would to duel his friend. “Hey Shuffle you made it I was thinking you wouldn’t show up. Anyway are you ready cause I got your deck here.” Card Shark handed over the newly built deck to Shuffle. Shuffle took the deck and searched through it and noticed that he put the Blue-Eyes rival card in his deck the Dark Magician. Just like in the show based on the card game they both watched. While they liked it they would admit it was really dumb at times especially the version they watched when they were younger that edited out the guns. After reminiscing he inserted the deck into the duel disk.
“Thank you for the cards, Shark."
“So Shuffle are you ready for your first duel”
“Yeah cause if I have to duel only once in my life I would prefer no one else to duel with than you.”
“Ok then also if you’re good enough you can keep that deck and you will be my official rival at this but I'm sure figured that out when you saw him in the deck I gave you. Now if you’re ready let's start this duel like they did in the show. Ready!" Shuffle nodded his head. "In that case."
“Let’s Duel” They said simultaneously as they readied their duel disk with their Life Points set to 8,000.
Meanwhile Thousands of miles away someone was looking over Canterlot high school by looking at their website. “Soon I shall be able to use the magic at that school in order to accomplish my not yet completely thought out plan, and when I arrive I must analyze the magic to figure out how to accomplish my goal, but first I must wait to move to that city, so I got time. Come to think of it I’m in a room by myself so why am I talking out loud.” The planer said to them-self like a true crazy person.