Yu-Gi-Oh! Templar with Eyes of Blue

Yu-Gi-Oh! Templar with Eyes of Blue sets in the original era where Kaiba hires a apprentice to duel in his place. The main protagonist is the templar named Aoimoku.
==Story==
===Chapter 1: Kaiba's Last Draw===
After dueling some duelists, Kaiba managed to gain some victories. But before he heads back to the Blue-Eyes White Dragon Jet, a kid named Aoimoku has stowaway onto the jet and notice the coolness of the tech without touching any of its features. Unfortunately for him, Kaiba and Mokuba discovered him and Aoimoku apologizes and gets out, yet still Kaiba asks why was he interested. Aoimoku replied that Blue-Eyes White Dragon was his favorite monster.
Kaiba flies off to duel another opponent. Evening, several kidnappers has taken some Kaibacorps scientists hostage and Kaiba decides to free them. In the midst of dueling the kidnappers, Kaiba felt heart trauma and tribute summons Blue-Eyes White Dragon only for his heart trauma to become worse. The kidnappers decide to interrupt the duel and beat him up only to have Aoimuko continue the duel in Kaiba's place and won.
Back at Kaibacorps, Kaiba decides to hire Aoimuko as his apprentice as he became handicapped.
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===Chapter 2: The Hunt for the Fraud===
After becomine Kaiba's apprentice, Aoimoku, also known as Templar, was given orders to duel against a fraudulent duelist taking credit as the 'Gambit of Games'. Before he can head for the virtual reality teleporter, a familiar figure summons his Dark Magician and tries to attack only to be countered by Templar and his Blue-Eyes Critias Dragon. It turned out to be his dueling robot trainer and friend, Proto. After the unexpected surprise attack, Aoimuko and Proto heads for the Templar Portal only to be stopped by a female operator of the Templar Portal named Shiroi and told that he was a little late but yet Aoimoku enters the portal and traveled to Domino City where the fraudulent duelist.
Entering his destination, Aoimoku is at the location of the fraudulent duelist who calls himself the 'Gambit of Games'. After searching for a while, he finally found the 'Gambit of Games' who turns out to be Joey Wheeler and yet Joey asked who he is.
Aoimoku replied that he has many names but for Joey to call him Templar but leaves because the fact is that Joey can't be the 'Gambit of Games', a fraudulent duelist.
Joey got angered being called a fraud and challenges Templar to a duel.
Templar accepts his challenge and yet he duels Joey.
Joey started good when he summoned out Red-Eyes Black Dragon on his first time but then when Aoimoku activated Blue-Eyes Advent, the same card he used to save Kaiba, he summoned his Blue-Eyes White Dragon and prepares for battle between Power and Potential.
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===Chapter 3: Power versus Potential===
Joey and Aoimoku continue their duel with their dragons on the field. Aoimoku gained the upper hand over Joey's Red-Eyes with his Blue-Eyes.
Kaiba monitors the duel from Kaibacorps and notice that Joey proclaims himself as 'Gambit of Games' and also that Aoimuko has brought out Blue-Eyes on his turn.
Joey managed to bring out a more powerful Red-Eyes and destroyed Aoimuko's Blue-Eyes only for Aoimuko to halve the damage and protect his dragon with his set trap while giving Blue-Eyes a ATK boost.
After Joey sets his 2 cards, Aoimuko draws the answer to his duel, a fusion card which fused three Blue-Eyes not just from his field but also either from his hand or GY as well and brought out the Ultimate Dragon which ended the duel with Aoimuko the winner.
Joey explains himself that his father is imprisoned for hurting his sister and needed the money to help her.
But then even though Kaiba his the cold opposite of him, Aoimuko gave Joey a hundred dollars for Serenity's surgery.
Joey thanked him and asked for his name only that Aoimuko replied to be referred as Templar.
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===Chapter 4: The Shining Friendship===
Aoimoku returns to Kaiba and was given a task to take down Tea Gardner in order to draw out Yugi Muto and the Pharaoh. Templar accepts the mission and heads through the Templar Portal to the last area Tea was in, a park.
Joey manage to pay off Serenity's surgery and then Tristan finds him in Serenity's room, he hen mentions a knight in a Blue-Eyes White Dragon armor. Joey asked if he fought the guy only Tristan replied he didn't.
Tea was sitting at a bench only be approached by Templar and was challenged to a duel which Tea figures something's wrong and accepts the duel.
Kaiba monitors the duel while noticing Joey and Tristan are looking for her, he informs Shiroi to mislead their direction so Templar can complete his task.
In the midst of their duel, Tea has Maha Vailo on the field equipped with Dark Magic Bond while she has Fire Sorcerer in her GY.
Just as Templar drew his card, he activates the trap card from his hand to prevent any damage plus any further damage.
Then Templar summons a Blue-Eyes Mirror Dragon to destroy all monsters Tea controls and won the duel with effect damage and battle damage.
Templar leaves the area via Templar Portal.
Yugi, Joey, and Tristan arrived at the incident and after Yugi asked who challenged her, Yugi became Yami Yugi or Pharaoh Atem and awaits for Templar for his challenge.
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===Chapter 5: Templar vs. Pharaoh===
Kaiba gets a message from Yugi and challenges him to a duel at the Kaibadome, but instead he sent Templar to accept the challenge.
Templar heads for the Kaibadome via Templar Portal arrived at Yugi's exact location. Even though Yugi did not expect what his friends described was true, a apprentice working for Kaiba. They begin the duel.
Kaiba then monitors the duel from his office alongside Mokuba and Shiroi
In the midst of the duel, Templar was experience some glitches as if a monster was about to be unleashed within. Yugi insulted him for being a coward and read his mind saying he probably lost his parent long ago through his own mistake, a fiery night at his own home, becoming a orphan. Hearing enough, he transformed into the enraged yet engulfed in blue flames White Vritra Mode that looks likes a Blue-Eyes White Dragon version of BurningGreymon and mentions Yugi's true name and said he would regret insulting and accursing him.
Shiroi notice that Aoimoku has somehow released his inhibitors and became his own Blue-Eyes form known as White Vritra, a enraged dragon engulfed in blue electrical flames.
At Templar's turn, he drew the right card and summoned out Blazing Blue-Eyes White Dragon and defeated Yugi in a one turn kill.
After the duel with Yugi, Templar fell unconscious and Shiroi ejected out of the system and the others took Yugi to the hospital.
During the examination, Templar checks out ok but it concerns Shiroi on how he transformed into a rage-filled dueling dragon. Kaiba was concerned as well along with notice the optics earlier.
Kaiba questions himself if his apprentice was a orphan and have no parents at all, just like he and Mokuba before Gozaburo.
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===Chapter 6: The Gate of Toons===
Kaiba duels against Proto as Proto uses the Templar module but when Proto becomes White Vritra and defeated Kaiba, Kaiba started to fell pain in his heart and was told by Mokuba to rest and then thought that only one person could help with their situation.
Meanwhile, Pegasus dreamt of the War Deities, Thor, Ares, and Maahes as they were declaring war on the world which then a figure appeared and gave Pegasus a jump scare, waking him up from a nightmare and yet without the Millennium Eye, he sensed a familiar yet dangerous man seeking conquest.
The next day, Mokuba flies the Blue-Eyes White Jet and heads for Pegasus' castle which Pegasus was relaxing until Mokuba arrived only to ask if he created the Blue-Eyes cards. Though Pegasus can only be persuaded through a duel, Mokuba agrees to the terms.
Despite Pegasus has a advantage with Toon Gate, Mokuba strikes back with his own monsters and defeated Pegasus. As promised, Pegasus explains that he did not created the Blue-Eyes cards but a former employee did and he also created three war deities for himself that would surpass the Egyptian Gods, calls himself Warmonger.
After recovering from the duel as White Vritra, he heads for the Templar Portal after given a task by kaiba to return home only to find clues about Warmonger and the War Deities.
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===Chapter 7: Finding Truth===
As Templar gets near the house that was burnt down, he gave a slight touch and ended up hearing voices. Shiroi asked if he's alright and he replied there were voices sounding like fire and death. Yet Templar enters the house and notice two ghosts who were his mother and his little brother who actually died in the fire.
After the experience he has, Shiroi points out the direction where a disturbance is at. After finding the disturbance, he found what he thought was a Egyptian God, Mokuba corrected both Templar and Kaiba that is was a War Deity, it was Thor, the War Deity of Thunder. Then Thor called down a mighty thunderstorm which starts heavy rain and wind. At the prison facility as the soldiers were about to escort a few Duelists, Templar arrived to stop them by summoning Blue-Eyes White Dragon. Only the attack drawn out the attention of Caprin Snipes who engages a duel with Templar.
In the midst of the Duel, Caprin reveals that Warmonger, who is Templar's father, was the one behind his mother and brother's death in the burning house along with the Blue-Eyes cards and the War Deities that can surpass that of the three Egyptian Gods.
Before Caprin can win, Templar became White Vritra and defeated Caprin.
After reverting back to Templar and freeing the prisoners, he head back to Kaibacorps via Templar Portal
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===Chapter 8: Sudden Tournament Announcement===
After Templar returned with the truth behind his family death and betrayal, Kaiba suddenly thought of luring anyone associates with Warmonger by setting a trap via tournament and the reason why Aoimoku was hired was due to his heart trauma which will permanently retire him from dueling.
Despite Mokuba disagreeing with the idea for his own health. Aoimoku takes the responsiblity if anyone goes wrong with the plan. Shiroi mentions she hired extra help so Aoimoku does not have to duel Warmonger's allies alone. She shows Aoimoku and Kaiba the 6 Mercenaries who are siblians and specilizes in six different summoning methods that associates with their attributes, known as Power Mercs.
Kaiba was pleased and Aoimoku accepts the helping hand from 6 specialists.
Then the day has come for Mokuba to announce the fake news of Kaiba's death from a heart trauma, after everyone pray for Kaiba, Mokuba announces the Kaiba Memorial Grand Championship in honor of his big brother.
But then the camera move towards Templar and he announces that a state of emergency has also be announced that a despot has declared war on our own world and he will take action to do what is neccessary to destroy both humans and duel monsters alike. Templar shows the mercenaries to look out for and stay clear of them and not interfere.
After Templar announces the emergency, Mokuba announces that the tournament starts tomorrow and ends the message.
Joey notice that something's fishy going on and Yugi agrees.
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===Chapter 9: The First Assailant===
During the duel simulation, Proto as one of the Power Mercs has the ace silhouette WIND fusion monster on the field while Templar has his Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on the field and then its Templar's turn and he gained a victory by Fusion summoning Blue-Eyes Cyclone Dragon.
After the simulation, the mysterious Power Merc who calls himself E-Racer heads out to patrol them via Templar Portal. E-Racer was teleported to the exact area where one of Warmonger's agents was at. He called Templar and said he escaped only to be ambushed by Joey Wheeler and Mai Valentine.
As Joey and Mai challenges them to a duel, E-Racer accepts only to change the duel to his advantage and whistles for two duel runners, one for him and the other for both Joey and Mai.
E-Racer took the first turn and took the early lead by fusion summoning his ace monster Air Amethyst Falcon even though Joey's Red-Eyes Feather Flame Dragon can only manage to inflict some damage.
E-Racer returns to Kaibacorps via Templar Portal and reports to Kaiba and Aoimoku about the interferes.
But Kaiba knows Yugi will get in the way and hopes the Pharaoh understands that the upcoming battle is not his to fight, its Templar's.
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===Chapter 10: The Tournament Begins===
Mokuba announces the beginning of the Kaiba Memorial Grand Championship and everyone spreads out as they duel each other. Aoimoku enters the tournament only to find his father's agents until he ran into Shiroi who came under Kaiba's orders to assist him.
Then during the patrol in which Aoimoku thought it was a date, Weevil Underwood and Rex Raptor interfered and declared an tag duel in which Templar and Shiroi accepts.
At first Weevil and Rex took damage from Shiroi's White Crusader Joan and Templar's Blue-Eyes White Dragon, Weevil has gotten hold of a War Deity which Templar figured Weevil could be a agent of Warmonger yet possessed. Weevil tributed 1 of his monsters and 2 of Rex's to summon Ares the Despised War Deity.
Ares was becoming difficult for Shiroi and Templar as Ares delivered some massive damage yet Shiroi managed to protect both her and Templar. Templar then fusion summoned Blue-Eyes Cyclone Dragon and shuffled Ares into Weevil's deck and finished the duel.
After the duel and Weevil and Rex ran off without a memory, Templar told Shiroi that he assumed their patrol and duel was sort of like a date. Shiroi thought the same and hold onto Templar's hand as they return to Kaibacorps via Templar Portal.
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