An excerpt from my Dark!Signer Leo AU
Fandom: Yugioh 5Ds (anime)
Ch 1: Follow the Monkey
“Alright Leo, use your brain,” he leaned against a streetlamp to think, Tops was in the northmost part of the city, and his apartment was the highest point. Most of the time, it was pretty easy to see from anywhere in the city. “There it is!” The skyscraper was quite a bit away, and the buses had stopped by now. It looked like he had a long walk ahead of him.
As he stepped away from the streetlamp, he collided into an even more solid figure, sending him tumbling to his butt. Said adult’s stride didn’t break at all, the black cloak fluttering behind as they went on their way. Leo wanted to shout at them, but the words fizzled out in his throat as the cloaked figure looked back. The shadows of their hood made it impossible to make out any features, yet Leo knew they were staring right at him. A violent chill went up his spine, rooting him in place as their gazes locked. Something deep in his being was telling him that this person…if Leo could even call them that…didn’t belong here.
But what even was that here? This city? This era? This plane of existence?
An odd memory came to him. Leo had often used his dad’s old duel disk as a kid. It had been a decades out of date model. Once while dueling with it, he’d run into a bug where his banished monster wouldn’t leave the field. The hologram would still move and react to the duel as if it were still in play, but it couldn’t attack, be attacked, activate effects, or even be used for tributes. Trying to play a new card in that zone didn’t help, the duel disk couldn’t register it. His parents had chalked it up to the old duel disk having a hard time with the new mechanics, as some new updates weren’t supported on the model. He and Luna had gotten their first duel disks on their birthday not long after, so he’d forgotten all about it.
Why was Leo remembering that now?
Before he knew it, the cloaked figure broke their gaze, continuing down the street. It occurred to Leo that that was merely a passing gaze, barely half a second long. Yet to him, it felt like a stare down that had lasted for hours.
Leo, once again, picked himself off the ground. No one else on the street seemed to notice the strange, cloaked person. They took off in the opposite direction of where Leo needed to go. Leo knew he should be getting home, but his feet carried him to retrace that cloaked figure’s steps.
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Excerpt is from my ongoing fic Eathbound Heart and Crimson Marks on AO3. If you want a twin centered fic (and more development for characters canon forgot about), then check it out!
