Title: Rune Duelists
Genre: romance, general
Rating: M for language, slight violence, and lemon in further chapters
Pairing: JohanXJudai (some side pairings)
Summary: Johan is the newest student at Duel Academy, and he seems to think it's a fairly normal school. Boy, is he dead wrong! Sorcerers, healers, alter-egos, giant fighting ships that fly through the air, and much more is waiting for Johan in his new adventures! To make things worse, Johan has a crush on a brunette named Judai, who also feels the same, but they're too shy to admit it, so Judai's alter-ego tries to play matchmaker with them! Not to mention a childish healer, a sword fighter with a bad attitude, and a fangirl who's obsessed with yaoi! How will Johan survive?!
Me: Chapter one! This was another story that won the poll vote!
Lucy: This story is based off of the manga "Galaxy Angel II!"
Me: Please! Just because you haven't seen the anime doesn't mean don't read this! I changed the story a lot! So, please read if you really love spiritshipping, funny stuff, and other stuff by me!
Lucy: Okay! Here it is!! Start!
Chapter One: Welcome to Duel Academy
"Wow..." Seventeen year old Johan Andersen, from the planet Eioth, stared out the window of the transport ship. The vast emptiness of space glittered with bright white and blue stars, twinkling in the distance. Johan's emerald eyes gazed towards the large ship that seemed to float right before his eyes, three thousand times the size of the transport ship that he was currently inside of.
"So, that's Duel Academy?" the bluenette asked.
Duel Academy, as the giant space ship was named, was huge. It was a mixture of red, yellow, and blue colors, most of it silver. There were windows all over the place, and it looked more like a war-ship that an actual "floating school", as they called it on Eioth. It was massive, the engines silent as it moved rather quickly through space. But Johan knew that it could reach incredible speeds at the touch of a button.
"Oye," a voice called.
Johan felt a soft thwack on the back of his head, and he turned to face the man sitting beside him.
The silver-haired, blue-eyed man went by the name of Edo Phoenix, and he was roughly the same age as Johan was, possibly a few years older than the bluenette.
Edo himself had once been a student at Duel Academy, and had been, and still was, a member of the Shale Duelist Troupe.
Johan knew as well as everyone else that students in Duel Academy were divided into groups, known as Duelist Troupes. The most famous Duelist Troupes were the Shale Duelist Troupe, the Star Duelist Troupe, and the Palist Duelist Troupe.
Johan was currently heading to the school to be the newest member of the Rune Duelist Troupe.
From what Johan had heard, rumors on his planet, the Rune Duelist Troupe were very strong duelists in the school, rumored to be the next ones to join the great Duelist Troupes. He hadn't even remembered signing up to be selected, but he had gotten the letter saying that he had been selected to be the new member of the Rune Duelist Troupe. The next day, Edo Phoenix arrived in his Duel Ship, given the title of a Runner, and whisked Johan away.
"Don't act like a child," Edo said with a smile and a wink of his left blue eye. "You're a duelist now."
Johan straightened up almost instantly. "Y-yes, sir!" he said.
Edo chuckled to himself and fell silent as his Runner, given the name "Destiny Gazer", loaded into the docking station at Duel Academy. There were a bunch of loud whirs as the ship slammed into the loading station and locked firm, the engines dying down as they drew to a complete stop.
Edo rose and pushed against the door, snapping it open. He reached for Johan's hands and helped pull him out from the Runner and led him out into the loading dock.
Johan glanced around and noticed the silver walls that surrounded the center of the building. He noticed one person in particular wandering around the loading bay. Johan arched his neck to try and get a better view of the person, who was walking away. Edo arched his body up and whistled loudly, almost blowing Johan's eardrums.
"Oye!" he called, cupping his hands around his mouth. "Judai!"
The boy who was walking away, apparently named Judai, stopped walking and glanced over in Edo's direction. From where he was, Johan could see the large smile creep across the brunette's lips.
The boy turned and dashed towards Johan and the silverette. "Edo-san! Welcome back!" he called.
"C'mere and meet the new guy!" Edo waved his hand, ushering the brunette over.
Johan felt a blush creeping across his cheeks and nose. The brunette who came running over was amazing. He was roughly the same age as Johan, and he was slightly shorter than the bluenette. He had long brown hair in the front, and the back was short and spiked. He had lovely brown eyes, the same shade as his hair.
Johan noticed that he was wearing the Duel Academy's uniform. It was a red jacket with white trim to it. It was closed, Johan noticed, and he also noticed that the brunette wore white jeans. He also wore a pair of white boots with red on the toes, and Johan noticed that Edo wore similar boots, only the toes on his were silver, slightly darker than the white part of the boots.
The brunette lurched over and panted before looking up and smiling at the silverette.
"Welcome back, Edo-san," he said.
Edo beamed and turned, waving his hand towards Johan. "Judai, this is Johan Andersen, from Eioth. He's the new member of the Rune Duelist Troupe."
Johan saw Judai smile wide. "Nice to meet you, Andersen-kun," he chuckled.
Johan's blush darkened considerably. "P-please, just call me Johan. I-I'm not big on the whole honorgraphics thing," the bluenette murmured in embarrassment.
Judai smiled and nodded.
Edo turned to Judai and pointed to him. "Johan, this is the second lieutenant of the Rune Duelist Troupe, Judai Yuki. He's literally your second in command when you become the leader of the Troupe," the silverette said.
Johan glanced over with wide green eyes. "S-second lieutenant?" he squeaked. "T-then why am I becoming the leader? Why not someone who's had so much experience, like Judai?"
"Because Professor Daitokuji appointed you," Edo beamed.
Johan sighed and looked over to Judai. Judai flashed him a smile and then reached his hand out to shake Johan's. Johan reached out and shook his hand.
"Nice to meet you, First Lieutenant Johan Andersen," the brunette said.
Johan smiled back. "Likewise. I think I'm going to like this school," he said. Judai giggled and took his hand away slowly. Edo moved in front of the brunette and started to drag Johan away.
"Well, there will be time to catch up with Judai later. We have to go show you to the Principal," Edo said.
Johan looked over and saw Judai waving his goodbye before he skipped off into another room, vanishing from sight as Johan and Edo walked to the Principal's office.
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"Edo-san!" the Principal shouted the moment Edo came walking back into the office. Edo smiled and shouted the Principal's name, came rushing to him as if he was going to hug him, but stopped an inch from him.
Instead, he whirled around and kicked the Principal hard in the stomach, knocking the incredibly tall and portly man to the ground. The Principal fell with a huge grunt, and Johan just stared, mouth agape, as Edo laughed hysterically.
The Principal coughed and laughed, standing up. "Good to see you haven't changed," the bald man said. He reached out and shook the Shale Duelist's hand. "How has Ryo-san been?"
"Oh, grumpy as usual," Edo waved his hand with a laugh. "He's currently on the planet Cybron, working on a new form of Duel Runner."
"Ah," the Principal nodded his head. "So, he's gone home, has he?"
Edo nodded slightly. "Just for a little while. I don't know if he'll be back in time to visit Shou on that day, though. He said in a transmission that Cybron has been having some isues with the new Runner, and it could take a while."
The Principal seemed to frown. "Well, Shou will be sorry to hear that. Though I am sure Ryo will tell him in their daily transmission. Ryo's never been bad about sending Shou a transmission each day," he said.
"True, true," Edo nodded slowly.
The Principal clicked his tongue and glanced down to Johan. A smile crept across his lips.
"So, you must be the new guy, Johan Andersen! Daitokuji has been talking about meeting you ever since the day he selected you to join the Rune Troupe!" he said. He grabbed Johan's hand and shook it quickly. "I am Principal Samejima, but you can just call me Samejima if you like."
"N-nice to meet you," Johan squeaked.
Edo laughed and looked over towards the bluenette. "He's not really serious, as you can tell. Just ignore him and life should be fine," the Shale Duelist said with a wave of the hand.
Before Samejima could protest, the door behind them was blown open.
"All right! Where's he?!"
Johan glanced over and spotted a young girl, about 11 years old or so, with long black-blue hair walk into the room. She had pale brown eyes, and Johan noticed that she was also dressed in a red Duel Academy outfit. Except, instead of the white jeans Johan had seen Judai in, this girl wore a blue skirt with white trim on the bottom.
Her sleeveless red jacket was open, revealing her to be wearing an orange shirt underneath. She wore similar white boots to what Judai had wore, only the toes on her boots were a bright orange. The girl starked right over to Johan and peered up into his eyes. Johan couldn't help but feel slightly afraid of the girl's narrowed eyes.
"Let me introduce you," Samejima said, waving his hand to Johan. "This is First Lieutenant Johan Andersen. Johan-kun, this is Fifth Lieutenant Rei Saotome, from the Rune Duelist Troupe. Rei, this boy is your new leader as of today."
Johan just stared into Rei's eyes for what felt like an eternity. Rei seemed angry.
Johan was afraid that she wasn't going to accept him as the Troupe's leader, not that he could really blame her.
Boy was he dead wrong.
"How cute-!!" Rei screamed, leaping forward and wrapping her arms around the bluenette, putting him into a death-grip. Johan squeaked as the girl held him in a superhuman grip. "So, tell me, what type of boys are you into?! Oh, have you met Judai-sama!? Oh, you'd be perfect for him! I think you're gonna like him, too!"
"Rei!" Samejima yelled, and Rei looked over. "What makes you assume Johan-kun likes boys in the first place?"
Rei scoffed and grabbed Johan's chin, turning him towards Samejima. "Does this look like the type of boy who would be dribbling over any of the girls who parade around here in their skimpy clothes with their big breasts bouncing everywhere?!" she yelled.
Rei looked over to Johan and noticed that he didn't seem phased by the description she had given.
"See!?" she shrieked, pointing to Johan's face. "Not even a second expression! That proves it! This boy loves boys, and boy, do I have the guy for you to meet! Now, have you met Judai-sama?"
"T-the brunette?" Johan tried to breathe with Rei squeezing him. "Y-yeah, I've met him."
"He's cute, right!?" Rei chirped, squeezing Johan tighter, if it was possible. "Oh, you'll just love him! I can se the relationship forming all ready! Ooh, it's giving me goosebumps just thinking about it!"
Samejima slammed his fists down on the table. "Rei!" he snapped. Rei stopped her blushing fit and glanced over to the Principal. Edo laughed and waved his hand.
"Rei-chan, maybe you should take Johan on a tour while I speak to Samejima over here. Take Johan to meet the other Lieutenants, and show him where all the rooms are," he said.
Rei beamed and tugged Johan towards the door. "You got it, sir!" she yelled.
Johan stole one last pleading glance over to Edo, who merely waved as Johan was dragged away by the yaoi fangirl of the Rune Duelist Troupe, taking a tour of the space school.
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Me: All right! Chapter one, and Johan has already met two of his teammates! Judai and Rei!
Lucy: In the next chapter, Johan will meet his third teammate, as well as another teammate who I think everyone will love and enjoy!
Me: So, please look forward to it, guys!
Lucy: Please review nicely if you wish to know what happens! No flaming!