An alarm had gone off in the Tetsuo family home, although, it wasn't one that signaled an emrgency. It was just the simple alarm clock that resided on the nightstand near Konaru's bed. Konaru's bare body slowly rose from his bed, beneath his blankets and sheets. His head turned and he slepily opened his eyes. The clock had said seven-thirty. His eyes slowly widened and a smile formed on his face. He looked forward and closed his eyes, his smile getting wider. "Yes! Today is finally the day I get into Duel Academy!" Konaru threw off his sheets and jumped out of bed.
His room was decorated in very strange and abstract things. There were dozens of dream catchers and Duel Monsters cards, either hung up or scattered along the floor. His duel disk laid against his door under a shirt, his deck already loaded into it. Konaru put on his pants and shirt and picked up his duel disk. Konaru was a skinny fourteen year old boy. He had long light purple hair, for a guy, and two strands of hair, one on each side of his face, that fell down a little past his shoulders. His eyes were a light blue-purple mix. Konaru had put on a white T-shirt and a black jacket, along with a pair of jeans.
Konaru put his duel disk on his wrist and drew a card. He looked at it for a while, then closed his eyes. "With this deck...There is no way I am not getting into this school!" Konaru turned around and picked up a small backpack of cards and put it on his back. He walked out his doors and down his stairs. As he put his hand on the front door handle his mother looked at him from the kitchen. "I wish you luck Konaru!" Konaru looked back at his mother. "I dont need luck, I put soul into this deck!" With that Konaru opened the door, the sunlight from outside enveloping him as he walked out.
It had taken Konaru a while to get to the examination area from his house, but he had just made it on time. When he walked in, he saw students sitting in the arena seating, looking down at the duelists. They all wore uniforms, wether they were red, yellow, or blue, they all seemed to match in one way or another. Konaru walked down the steps to the seats for those who were testing watched. Konaru took a seat next to a taller boy. He had hair, just as long as his, minus the two strands. When Konaru sat down, the boy stared at him for a bit and then stuck his hand out. "Hi. Im Hiramaku! But most call me Hira. You are?" Konaru grabbed the guys hand and shook it. "Im Konaru. Im guessing your waiting to duel?"
Hiramaku nodded. "No. I already dueled. I wanted to stay behind and see the competition." Konaru nodded. He understood. These would be the people they would be dueling against for the next few years, so it would only make sense to see the types of decks they use and how strong they are. Hiramaku pointed out to the dueling area. He pinted to a young girl. She had semi-long blonde hair, and looked to be only slightly shorter than Konaru. "You see that girl there?" Konaru looked out. "Yeah." Hiramaku folded his arms. "Thats Atlas Nemikatu. They she is this years most promising student."
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"Take this, I activate Okkazi! When I play this card, you automatically loose 800 life points!" Said a young man, holding out a spell card. The girl across smiled. "You think that will scare me? I am Atlas. I do not lose." Atlas extended her arm at one of her face down cards and it rose up. "I activate my trap card. Double Reflection Mirror. I can only activate this card when I take damage from a spell or trap card. When it's activated, I redirect all the damage back at you." The girl smirked. " The only difference is, you take double the damage!" The man gave a startled expression. Fire balls had shot from his card and aimed at Atlas, but as she activated her trap card, the turned around and struc the man. All of the hollograms had fadded away as the last of his life points went away. The girld smiled and walked away.
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Konaru and Hiramaku looked as the girl walked away from her match. Hiramaku looked like it was an obvious out come, but Konaru had somewhat of a suprised look on his face. "Wow. That was good." Hiramaku looked at him. "Yeah, thats why she is thought to be one of the best of us. Konaru looked back at where she dueled with a serious expression and nodded. 'Wow. Im beginning to wonder if I can really get in. These people are good.' Konaru thought to himself. "Konaru Tetsuo, please report to duel field two. You are needed for testing." Konaru looked up as the intercom called for him. Hiramaku gave him a thumbs up. "Well, this is to seeing you at Duel Academy!" Konaru smiled and nodded. "Thanks!" Konaru walked off and began heading for his match.
Konaru took his place on the opposite side from his opponent, a young man in a ble shirt that had the Duel Academy logo on it, along with the Kiaba Corp logo. The man looked at Konaru. "Your testing shall now begin, you will start." Konaru nodded and extended his arm. The lights on his duel disk began to glow, and the compartment for his remaining two slots extended out. "Lets duel!" The two said at the same time as they drew their initial hands. "My move!" Konaru drew a card from his deck and looked at it. "Alright! I'll start off by summoning a monster!" He pulled a card out of his hand and played it on the monster card zone on his duel disk. The device read the card and a hologram appeared in front of him. "I summon Soul Spirt #2 - Volt!" In front of him, light flowed from the floor, creating a 3-D image of the design on the car, a small chibi-like person, covered in yellow. His face had red lightning bolt patterns coming from under his pure yellow, pupil-less eyes. The monster made an action like pose and hovered above the ground. [[ Soul Spirit #2 - Volt: 1200 Atk / 900 Def ]] Konaru looked back at his hand. "Next i'll play two face downs and end my turn!" Konaru place two cards in the slots for magic and traps and two face down cards appeared infront of him. The proctor across from him nodded and drew a card. The proctor looked at his card and added it to his hand. He pulled a card from his hand and played it. " I summon Gene-Warped Warewolf!" He set the card down and a white four armed beast looking creature appeared on the field. [[Gene-Warped Warewolf 2000 Atk / 100 Def ]] "Now, since my warewolf has more attack than your little spirit. I attack! Go! Gene-Warped Warewolf! Mutated claw swipe!" The wolf like creature began running forward at Volt, his claw stretched behind him. Konaru just smirked. "I activate my trap card! Soul Unison - Defense!" He extended his hand out and the card flipped face up. "Now, when my Soul Unison card is activated, I can discard one other Soul Spirit card from my hand and send it to the graveyard, then, any monster chosen as an attack target by you, gains a boost from whatever monster I just discarded!" Konaru smirked. "In short, my Volt gets an attack point bonus!" Konaru sent one of the cards in his hand to the graveyard, and it began shining. The light coming from his graveyard flew out and enveloped his Volt. "And, since I discarded Soul Spirit #6 - Shadow, Volt gains 1300 Attack points!" Volt made a flexing pose as his attack points rose. [[ Soul Spirit #2 - Volt 2500 atk / 900 def ]] The warewolf continued charging at Volt, but Volt didn't move. "Now, counter attack! 900 watt current!" Konaru's monster stuck its hands out and an electrical current flew out and hit the warewolf, causing a huge explosion. The proctor frowned. "Now I'll activate the effect of my Shadow! Since I sent him to the graveyard from my hand by a card effect, I get to summon him!" Konaru pulled the card from his graveyard and played it on the field. another small chibi-like person, who seemed surrounded by a shadow like, black mist appeared. His face had two dark swirls on both his cheeks, and just like Volt, his black eyes had no puils. The little person stood there, arms crossed, waiting for an order. [[ SS#2 - Volt 1200 Atk 900 Def. SS#6 1300 Atk / 1200 Def ]] "Fine. I'll play two cards face down and end my turn." Two face down cards appeared in front of the proctor as he put the cards in the respective spot. [[ Proctor 3500 LP / Konaru 4000 LP ]]
"My turn! Draw!" Konaru looked at the card he pulled from his deck. "Perfect. I activate my spell card, Soul Strike! By playing this, and sending once card from my field to the grave, I can destroy spell and trap cards on your field equal to the amount of Soul Spirits on my field!" He moved his hand over to his face down card. "So, I will get rid of my face down card, and destroy both of your traps!" The two cards infront of the proctor seemed to explode like glass. "Konaru smirked. "Now I summon Soul Spirit #4 - Kaze!" From the ground where the light erupted, a small typhoon rose, revealing in the center another small chibi-person dressed in green, light tribal like armor on his shoulders. He had green marking going from his forehead, around his green pupil-less eyes, and into his mouth. [[ SS#4 - Kaze 1500 Atk / 100 Def ]] Konaru smirked. "Now! I attack, with all three of my monsters! Whirlwind Cyclone! Shadow Sneak! 900 Watt Current!" All three of the monsters unleashed their attacks onto the proctor. [[ Total: 4000 ]] The proctor fell to his knees as his life point count fell to zero. Konaru nodded in his direction. "Good game."
Konaru walked back to where he had met Hiramaku, although, Hiramaku had already left. Konaru sat down and smiled. He was in. "Duel Academy, here I come!"
