Yu-Gi-Oh! The Daikaiju Saga

'Yu-Gi-Oh! The Daikaiju Saga' is a fanfiction written by Super_Puzzler of YuGiOhRealms.com and XeroCreative.com. Puzzler is also goes by the name of Wolfgang DelaSangre, the name of a character he created for a Yu-Gi-Oh!-based role-playing federation known as the XeroCreative Dueling Federation, or XDF. Puzzler has stated that he has plans to introduce this same character, as well as another XDF veteran, into the Daikaiju Saga, establishing a link between the two. =

The word "daikaiju" is a Japanese word commonly translated as "giant monster," and is often applied to such fictional creatures as Godzilla. Puzzler chose this word because Godzilla and eleven other popular daikaiju are featured in the story as cards, though some have become real.

Premise
The Daikaiju Saga focuses on the original cast of the Yu-Gi-Oh! saga, occasionally featuring other, minor characters, as well as introducing new ones. The plot centers around several new cards created by Maximillion Pegasus known as the Daikaiju Cards. These cards are based on Godzilla and Gamera monsters alike.

Later, the focus is less on the cards and more on the building war between the forces of good and evil, with the Orichalcos seemingly at the helm.

Though the Orichalcos is featured, the story is changed where necessary to fit within the Daikaiju Saga and so as to not seem largely identical to the original anime story. Everything after Battle City and the Yu-Gi-Oh! movie "Pyramid of Light" is disregarded.

At the moment, Puzzler is currently in the process of rewriting the series. As much of the original story was lost in a site upgrade on YuGiOhRealms.com, much of the information here is drawn from Puzzler's memory. He will begin rewriting The Daikaiju Secret and move on from there, rewriting everything prior to Secret after he has reached the end of the Saga.

The Daikaiju Cards
The story begins with Yugi Mutou in his room, complaining of boredom, when a package arrives. The parcel is from Maximillion Pegasus and contains a letter and a card: Godzilla, King of the Monsters. The letter explains that there are seven others and that they ended up on a booster packing belt by accident. He only managed to save the one card, which is the one Yugi received. Pegasus asks Yugi to find the cards before they fall into the wrong hands, because their power exceeds the Egyptian god cards.

Yugi visits Kaiba and learns that he has also procured a Daikaiju card: King Ghidorah the Three-Headed Monster (the symbolism in this is fitting; King Ghidorah is often seen as Godzilla's arch nemesis and is the only monster in recorded history with power to rival Godzilla's on the whole, and is also a dragon, the monster type most associated with Seto Kaiba). However, Kaiba says that he got the card from Pegasus as well, which Yami, the spirit of the Millennium Puzzle, finds suspicious.

Not long after the brief encounter, Kaiba organizes a tournament similar in nature to Battle City, but the finalists consist of those eight who hold Daikaiju cards. Surprisingly, he invites Joey Wheeler to participate.

The first two duels are between Kaiba and the man he first used Obelisk the Tormentor against in Battle City, and Joey and Espa Roba. The duel is fairly short, ending when Kaiba summons his new card, quickly defeating the man.

Joey's duel with Espa is also similar in nature to the Battle City duel. Eventually, though, Espa reveals that he has a Daikaiju Card, Gigan, and summons it to the field. Joey eventually wins the duel. Meanwhile, Yugi and Kaiba are watching from the shadows of a back alley. It is possible that Yugi was trying to prove to Kaiba Joey's skill, though why he would do this is unknown.

Moments after Joey's victory, Kaiba and Yugi are knocked out from behind and the assailant kidnaps Yugi. When he awakes, Yugi discovers that the perpetrator is Arcana, another Battle City duelist. Arcana has taken Yugi to the very theater where he had is accident, but it is now abandoned.

Yugi is forced to engage in a duel when he is locked into place on a glass panel above a pit of spikes. Arcana also places himself above a spike pit, stating that this will be a duel to the death. Arcana is determined to win. He blames Yugi for losing his final chance at seeing his former assistant and love, Catherine. With Yugi's death, he believes he will be satisfied, while his own death would bring release.

Before the duel begins, Arcana hands Yugi his red Dark Magician and tells him that he never took it in Battle City. Yugi accepts the card and decides to use it.

Arcana is not using his old deck, but has constructed a new one based on the Chaos theme. The cards Dark Magician of Chaos, Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning, and Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End all appear in this order. When Arcana summons the Dragon, however, he uses its effect to destroy the field and all cards in both players hands. This effect also deals 300 points of damamge to the opponent for each card destroyed. Yugi saves himself, however, by using Trap of Board Eraser. He then summons the red Dark Magician that Arcana gave him and attacks, winning the duel.

Joey, Kaiba, and others have arrived at this point, having tracked down Yugi through the KaibaCorp. mainframe. When Arcana's Life Points hit zero, Joey jumps onto the stage and Yugi runs forward. They grab onto Arcana's wrists just before he falls and pull him out of the pit. Arcana then disappears.

Later that night, Arcana bumps into a woman and discovers it to be none other than Catherine.