Yu-Gi-Oh! GX - The One Who Knows All
Chapter 1
Summary: What if Winter was the duelist that Crowler arranged to defeat Jaden and Syrus instead of the Paradox brothers? Winter is the only duelist in the world that knows all of the summoning mechanics. Join Winter as he tackles the events that unfold on Duel Academy Island.
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DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN THE Yu-Gi-Oh! FRANCHISE BUT I DO OWN MY OC.
In a run-down, abandoned house in the middle of a forest in the North East of England is a man of 18 years, currently sitting on a worn out couch eating a loaf of bread that he found in the kitchen. Looking around the house, he could see that it had been deserted for a long time. The house itself was falling apart. There were numerous holes in the wall and one can only assume that the house was infested with rodents. In fact, no assumptions were necessary as you could hear the pitter-patter of feet scurrying across the ground.
"I'm not sure how I didn't notice that before." The man whispers to himself as he picks of a bit of mould from the bread and throws it near one of the holes where a rat scurries out of its hiding hole to feast upon it. The house had clearly been abandoned for numerous years and the cause of its abandonment is clearly evident. Littered across all of the walls were large trails of a black mould otherwise known as damp. You could look at any wall and there was a guarantee that it would be riddled with damp.
"Well, I can only assume that this house's occupants were badly affected by the damp. Whether that made them sick or they just couldn't afford to have the damp removed. Speaking about that..." The man looks up to the ceiling.
"If the damp didn't make them sick then the asbestos would have." The man says before taking a bite of the uncut loaf of bread. Once he finishes chewing that mouthful the man gets up from the couch and says,
"Well, I best start moving. I don't want to be subjected to its poison for much longer. I'm already homeless, the last thing I need is an illness." The man rolls his shoulders back and stretches out his arms before walking through an opening in the wall where a door would have once been.
Leaving the house, the man walks back into the forest in search of his camp-site, snapping off numerous tree branches as he does so. He walks about 300 metres before finding his camp-site which consisted of a tent and a few burnt tree branches. He places the tree branches into the mound where a fire once blazed and he arranges the branches before setting them alight with a lighter which he found in his pocket. He sits down opposite his tent and moves his hands closer to the fire in an attempt to gain warmth from it. He rubs the palms of his hands together with the hope that the friction between them would help to warm him quicker. It failed though and he shivers as an icy wind targets him. In that moment, the man decides that the cover of the tent would help to keep him warm and so he moves into the tent. Just as he does so, his electronic duelling card, manufactured by him, slips out of his trouser pocket. He picks up the 2cm thick duelling card that could almost be considered as a mobile phone when he realises that the "call" button he had installed was flashing. Knowing that this could only mean that someone was trying to contact him, he pressed on the button where a man's (or possibly woman's) smiling face appeared.
"Hello, are you a Mr. Harley Winter?" the person spoke in what sounded like a man's voice but the presence of make-up on the man's face greatly confused the man who identifies as Harley Winter.
"I am. What are you?" Winter asks the person.
"Don't you mean 'who'?" The person enquires losing the smile on their face.
"I stand by my previous question. Do I need to repeat it?" Winter's words caused the person to momentarily lose all professionalism in their voice but the person soon regains their composure.
"I am Dr. Vellian Crowler, professor of the Obelisk Blue Dormitory at Duel Academy." The person introduces them-self.
"You tried to evade my question. Are you male or female?" Winter asks which succeeds in flustering Crowler.
"I am male." Crowler tells him as he tries to keep his composure but his response surprises Winter to some extent.
"I won't question why a man of your age is wearing make-up," Winter manages to anger Crowler again, "so why are you calling?" Winter asks with curiosity in his voice despite his face not showing it. Crowler coughs into his hand before his smile re-emerges.
"I hear that you've been looking for a good challenge for quite some time." His smile grows larger, "How would you like to have a two-on-one match with two students of Duel Academy?" He asks with a determined expression, knowing that Winter would say yes-
"I refuse."
"What?! Why?" Crowler shouts with fury.
"I've got better things to do than duelling two students. Like, finding food or keeping a roof over my head." Winter explains to him.
"Well, in that case," Crowler loses his anger. "You'll be paid handsomely for your duel. I'll even throw in a place for you to stay for a few nights." Crowler says with the same determined expression as before.
"Now you're talking!" Winter responds with an equally large smile on his face.
"Perfect! Just send me your coordinates and I'll have someone pick you up." Crowler says and after another 5 minutes, he had received Winter's coordinates.
"Great! Now, it will take a while for the helicopter to pick you up, what with you being in England and Duel Academy being just off the shore of Japan. I'll be waiting for your arrival." Crowler says before his face disappears from Winter's card. For the next five hours, Winter stares up into the sky with the anticipation of having a roof over his head. This continues even after the helicopter arrives and takes him to Duel Academy Island.
The next morning, Winter arrives on the roof of Duel Academy and as he jumps out of the helicopter, he sees the man from before staring at him with a big smile on his face. Winter approaches the man and it isn't until he gets close that he realises the height difference between them. Now, Winter isn't short, he is an average 5ft 10 inches but Crowler must have been, at least, half a foot taller.
"Hello again, Mr. Winter." Crowler greets me.
"Doctor." I nod back to him stoically.
"If you would follow me, I can show you to your temporary accommodation." Crowler says as he turns around but not before whispering,
"and a new set of clothes." Winter hears this but doesn't act upon it. He knows how old and tattered his clothes are and looks down at his clothes to reassure himself that he is correct. The blue short-sleeved top he has on is so dirty that it's hard to tell whether the red stains on his shirt are blood stains or just from food there are also a few holes in the shirt which suggests how old it is. His trousers are in a similar state. The man places his fingers along the belt that separates the shirt from the trousers and touches the numerous deck boxes placed along the belt to make sure that they are all there.
Winter follows Crowler down the stairs leading from the roof all the way to the ground floor.
"I'm lucky that I am on my feet most of the time otherwise that would have killed me." Winter says as he turns back to the stairs before turning to Crowler to see him hunched over and wheezing. After a few minutes, Crowler regains his breath and the two of them continue their walk. 5 minutes later, and after passing many curious students, the two of them stop in front of a decent sized house.
"This house was once home to the greatest of duelists. The Academy has kept it in pristine condition since all of our guests use it. Right now, you are our only guest so the place is yours." Crowler says as he unlocks the door and gives me the key.
"I'll let you make yourself at home. Feel free to explore around the house but do not leave it. I will meet you back here when it is time for your duel." Crowler says before walking in the same direction we came.
"Is there anything I should know about my opponents before we start?" I ask before he gets too far away. Crowler stops and turns towards Winter.
"Well, one of them uses warrior type monsters called Elemental Heroes and the other uses machine types. Their names are Jaden Yuki and Syrus Truesdale." He says before turning back and continuing his walk.
With Crowler leaving Winter to himself in the house, Winter enters the house and is struck by how different it was to the house he was in yesterday. There was no sign of damp or asbestos and everything was coloured with a light blue. Winter walks further into the house to see more of it. He stops as he comes to a set of wooden stairs that joins another set in the middle which has another two sets of stairs leading further up into the building. The walls are all painted in a very pale blue and Winter walks alongside the wall to see what the next room is like. As luck would have it, he walks into the kitchen where he finds a whole assortment of food.
"This is the best place ever." He says before digging into whatever he can find. First up is the fridge where he grabs everything that doesn't need to be cooked and devours it all before moving to the cupboards where he finds the biscuits and he eats about half of them.
"Right, now that I am full. It's time to prepare for the duel. Now - Wait. Didn't Crowler say something about new clothes. I assume the only place he would put them would be in one of the rooms on the second floor." Winter says to himself as he walks out of the kitchen and up the stairs. As he steps onto the next floor, he sees a group of 5 rooms which he proceeds to check in all of them to see if the clothes are there. In the last room he checks, he finds a pair of black jeans and a pale blue shirt that matches the colour of the walls. He puts them on before looking around what he assumed to be his temporary room. Looking around, it had the same layout as the other rooms. There was a single sized bed located along the left wall. There was a window opposite the door and under it was a desk which had a computer on it as well as a chest of drawers.
"Pretty spacious in here." Winter says out loud before sitting on the floor and taking off all of his deck boxes from his belt.
"Now, which deck should I use?"
30 minutes later, Dr. Crowler appears at the house and he gives three loud knocks on it. Winter collects his decks and puts them back onto his belt and runs down the stairs to answer the door, knowing who it could be.
"I'm a bit early but I want you to give them a massive surprise. All they know is that they are duelling against one person. They probably think that they are going up against a 40 year old duellist with a ton of experience so I bet they don't expect the person they are duelling to be the exact same age as them." Crowler says as Winter lock the door and walk alongside him. We get to Duel Academy and walk along the corridors. I see numerous students dressed in red as he follow Crowler, trailing a few steps behind him.
"Just look at them! Pathetic Slifers littering the campus like vermin!" Crowler mumbles out loud.
"Slifers? As in Slifer the Sky Dragon?"
"Yes, that's right. At Duel Academy, students are arranged into dormitories due to their test scores." Crowler begins his explanation as numerous students move out of the way of him.
"The Blue Dorm is where the best duelists are, named after Obelisk the Tormentor. The Yellow Dorm is where the better than average duelists are, named after The Winged Dragon of Ra. Finally there is the Red Dorm which houses all of the bad duelists, named after Slifer the Sky Dragon." Crowler explains.
"Do you not like Slifer the Sky Dragon?" Winter asks him.
"I wouldn't say no to a card like that but it is the worst of all the Egyptian God Cards." he answers honestly.
"I've decided on which deck I am using." Winter mumbles to himself and continues following Crowler. They arrive just outside of the stadium when Crowler suddenly shouts,
"That Slifer slacker has made a fool of me for long enough!" That brings a lot of attention to him but he just ignores it and walks into the Stadium with Winter following behind.
Looking around the stadium, Winter sees that it is packed with students sporting the red, yellow and blue jackets. Looking at the duelling arena, he can see two students dressed in red waiting and looking around. Winter assumes they are trying to locate their opponent.
"Get on the stage. I'll need to do an introduction before the duel starts." Crowler tells Winter and he walks to the stage and gets onto it, attracting the attention of the two others as he does so.
"So you're our opponent?" The taller of the two asks. Winter gives a nod and gives them a look over, noticing that the taller one of them has hair like a Kuriboh whilst the other one has blue hair as well as glasses. There is no doubt that the other two duelists are giving him a look over.
"See, Syrus" The taller one begins which allows Winter to label him as Jaden.
"He doesn't look very tough." Upon hearing these words, Winter puts on the most sadistic smile he could muster and keeps it plastered on his face.
"I think you've just made him mad, Jaden." Syrus confirms and it looks like he is shaking in his boots. Jaden has no idea what Syrus means by that and just sees Winter's smile as an invitation to "get your game on." While all of this is happening, Dr. Crowler is trying to silence the crowd. He eventually does so and begins the announcements,
"Standing to my left is the accused, Syrus Truesdale and Jaden Yuki!" After Crowler said this, there was enough silence to hear a,,
"You Slifer slackers! It should be me taking you out but I guess as long as someone does it..." The rest of the person's words are not heard as Crowler continues with the introductions,
"Now, without further ado, allow me to introduce our guest duelist, Winter!" There is silence once again as Winter is introduced since it isn't a very famous name, but there are some people that know who he is. In the stands of the Ra Yellow dorm, a person named Bastion suddenly has a realisation.
"Winter?! As in Harley Winter?! The person known to never use the same deck twice in a row?!" Bastion shouts and with the rest of the stadium being silent, his words were heard very clearly. Seconds after Bastion's shout, there was a wave of whispering all of the stadium. Certain things like,
"why would he change his deck so often?" Was heard by Winter but he just keeps his attention locked onto the Jaden and Syrus. Winter puts his deck into the duel disk that was given to him by one of the staff members during Crowler's introduction.
"Let the battle begin!" Crowler shouts.
Winter - 4000LP
Jaden and Syrus - 4000LP
Winter draws 5 cards from his deck as he has the opening move.
"From my hand, I activate the spell card Infinite Cards. This means that there is no longer a hand size limit of 6 cards for both players. I then set a monster and set a card." Winter finishes his turn.
"Here goes." Syrus says nervously as he draws a card from his deck.
"First I'm going to summon Gyroid in attack mode!" Syrus places his card on his duel disk and from out of the ground emerges a small helicopter with a face on it.
"Now, Gyroid! Attack his face-down monster!" Syrus shouts and the helicopter-like monster rushes towards Winter's face down monster. When it gets close enough, the monster flips over a reveals what looks to be four incense candles. The helicopter attacks the monster before rushing back over to Syrus' side of the field.
"How wasn't it destroyed?!" Syrus shouts and numerous people from the audience share the same thought.
"My Aroma Jar cannot be destroyed by battle. Furthermore, during each players' end phase, I gain 500LP due to its effect." Winter finishes his explanation. Syrus sighs,
"I end my turn. Sorry Jaden."
"Don't sweat it buddy." Jaden responds.
Winter - 4500LP
Jaden and Syrus - 4000LP
"My turn. Draw!" Winter takes the top card of his deck.
"I set a monster and end my turn."
Winter - 5000LP
Jaden and Syrus - 4000LP
"He's set another monster. It could be another one of them Aroma Jars. I better not attack yet until I can find a way to get it off the field." Jaden whispers to himself.
"Draw!" Jaden takes the top card of his deck.
"I summon Elemental Hero Burstinatrix in defence mode!" Jaden announces before ending his turn.
Winter - 5500LP
Jaden and Syrus - 4000LP
"I draw!" Winter takes the top card of his deck before smiling slightly.
"I activate the spell card One for One. By sending a monster from my hand to the graveyard I can special summon a level 1 monster from my deck." Winter explains as he sends a monster card to the graveyard before searching his deck.
"The card I choose is Aroma Jar." Another copy of Aroma Jar appears on the field.
Elsewhere, in the stands, Bastion murmurs to himself,
"This isn't good. Now Winter will gain 1000LP every end phase. If Jaden can't find a way to beat them then he and Syrus will be expelled."
Somewhere else in the stands, a person now known as Chazz also murmurs,
"It's a smart move to raise your Life Points but without any monsters attacking then you won't be able to defeat your opponent."
Back to the duel,
"And, I still have my normal summon to go, so I summon the monster Dark Resonator in defence mode." Winter places the card onto his duel disk and from the ground emerges a fiend type monster with a Viking-like helmet.
"With that, I'll end my turn."
Winter - 6500LP
Jaden and Syrus - 4000LP
"Okay then. My turn! Draw!" Syrus announces as he takes the top card of his deck.
"Okay, he had four monsters on the field. Two of them cannot be destroyed by battle so I can't attack them. But I can attack the other two." Syrus whispers to himself.
"I put Burstinatrix in attack mode andI summon Rescueroid also in attack mode. Now Rescueroid, attack his face down card!" Syrus commands and the ambulance-like monster speeds towards Winter's face down monster. Once close enough, the card is flipped over to reveal another Aroma Jar. Effectively destroying Syrus' hopes of destroying that monster.
"You know its effect, so I won't explain it." Winter says stoically.
"Unlucky, Sy. You'll get him next time for sure." Jaden tries to support him.
"Oh man. Well, I'll have Burstinatrix attack your Dark Resonator!" Syrus shouts. The flaming lady runs over to its opponent and throws a fire ball in its face at point-blank range, causing a cloud of smoke to cover a small part of the arena where it inhabited.
"Nice work, Sy!" Jaden congratulates him.
"Yeah, thanks!" Syrus says back with a determined smile on his face. It soon disappears once he realises that my monster hasn't been destroyed.
"How isn't it destroyed?!" Jaden asks in complete surprise.
"My Dark Resonator can avoid destruction by battle once per turn." Winter says with a smirk. Deflated, Syrus ends his turn.
Winter - 8000LP
Jaden and Syrus - 4000LP
"This is bad. Winter now has double the Life Points of Jaden and Syrus." Bastion says in a slightly depressed mood.
"But at least they haven't lost any." A girl from the Obelisk Blue Dorm says from beside him.
"Yes, Alexis. But now Winter has no cards in his hands, so why did he play Infinite Cards?" Bastion confirms the identity of the girl as Alexis.
"Maybe he had to change strategy." She states.
"That is a possibility. I suppose we'll see later." He replies.
"My turn, my draw!" He puts the card in his hand before announcing,
"Are you ready for something new?"
"New? What do you mean by that?" Syrus asks in confusion and Winter smirks at his response. The audience can be heard repeating the same question and coming up with ideas. None of them are anywhere near close though.
"My Dark Resonator just so happens to be a tuner monster!" Winter informs everyone.
"A tuner monster? What's that?" The voice comes from Crowler who had taken to being at Winter's ringside.
"Using my tuner monster, I can synchro summon..." One of the Aroma Jars jumps into the air and Dark Resonator encircles it in three green rings. Everybody in the audience, including the staff, are awestruck at the event.
"Phonon Pulse Dragon!" Winter shouts as a dark blue gaseous monster with a few bits of golden armour makes its way onto the field. The whole stadium is cheering for the witnessing of a new summoning mechanic, the staff are in shock and so are Bastion, Alexis, Chazz, a large framed person that looks like a koala and a person dressed in the Obelisk Blue Uniform that is leaning against the railings placed along the edges of the stadium.
"Sweet! How do I get a card like that?!" Jaden announces in pure excitement whilst Syrus looks terrified.
"You will need a tuner monster and a synchro monster. Anyway, when this guy is summoned, I must declare a card level for it between the levels of one and three and I'll choose one." Winter explains.
"Why would you do that?" Syrus asks in confusion.
"You may get the chance to see it later. Right now, I'll attack Burstinatrix with my Phonon Pulse Dragon." As Winter says that, the armoured dragon charges towards the fire-girl and destroys her using what Winter calls a "Pulse Stream". Jaden and Syrus tense up and block the stream using their duel disks.
Winter - 8000LP
Jaden and Syrus - 3300LP
"And from there I'll end my turn." Winter announces and with two Aroma Jars still on the field, he gains another 1000LP.
Winter - 9000LP
Jaden and Syrus - 3300LP
"Sweet move but it's my turn now! I draw!" Jaden shouts.
"First, I'm going to activate The Warrior Returning Alive to bring back Burstinatrix to my hand. Next up, I activate the spell Polymerisation. So I can fuse together my Elemental Hero Avian with my Elemental Hero Burstinatrix do that I can summon Elemental Hero Flame Wingman." Jaden says and a mostly green monster with a red dragon head as an arm appears on the field.
"Nice move, Jay!"
"Now, Flame Wingman, attack Phonon Pulse Dragon!" Jaden shouts and the monster rushes towards the dragon where it raises its arm to fire off a fireball directly at it, not caring about the panicking of the dragon. The crowd cheered in excitement as they seen the dragon get destroyed.
Winter - 7800LP
Jaden and Syrus - 3300LP
"And when my flame wingman destorys a monster by battle, you take damage equal to that monster's attack points!" Jaden shouts in excitement which surprises Winter as the human-dragon hybrid aims at him. He raises his duel disk in an attempt to defend himself.
Winter - 5900LP
Jaden and Syrus - 3300LP
"Then I'll activate a spell card, Max Hand Limit. This card lets all players draw until they have 5 cards in their hands." Jaden explains.
"You realise that you are doing me a huge favour, right?" Winter asks as he draws four more cards.
"That just means its more fun!" Jaden shouts back. "And with that, I'll end my turn."
"Good move, Jay! You even defeated his ace!" Syrus shouts in happiness. It's a shame that Winter wanted to end that.
"Phonon Pulse Dragon isn't my ace." Winter announces surprising the two of them.
"It's not?!" Jaden looked shocked. I think all of the audience looked shocked at that revelation.
Winter - 6900LP
Jaden and Syrus - 3300LP
"No. I draw!" Winter smiles very widely at the card he just drew.
"That smile doesn't look good." Syrus mumbles to himself.
"I'll set a monster and call it a turn." Winter ends his turn after placing another monster in defence position which surprises Syrus to the point that he is actually showing his surprise.
Winter - 7900LP
Jaden and Syrus - 3300LP
"Why is he still smiling?" Syrus mumbles before drawing a card.
"I summon Cycroid in attack mode." He shouts.
"Now, Flame Wingman attack his face down monster!" Syrus shouts and the human-dragon hybrid advances on the monster. When it is close enough, it is revealed to look like something similar to a sheep token.
"When Scapeghost is flip summoned, I can summon as many tokens to my field as I like." Winter explains and two more monsters that look like sheep tokens appear on the field before the original is destroyed.
"Furthermore, since Scapeghost has no attack points, I take no damage from your Wingman's effect." Winter continues his explanation. Annoyed, Syrus grunts,
"In that case, Gyroid, attack token number 1!" Syrus shouts. The helicopter makes its way towards the timid token.
"I activate the trap card, Mirror Force!" Winter announces, "Which destroys all monsters in attack position on your side of the field!"
"No!" Syrus shouts as he realises that all of the monsters on his side of the field are in attack mode. Mirror Force destroys all monsters on his side of the field and Syrus whimpers in frustration.
"I've got no spells or traps in my hand, only monsters and I've already summoned a monster this turn." Syrus clenches his eyes.
"That's it from me." He looks up to the ceiling in hopes that God will save him.
"Well, the only monsters he has are in defence position and they don't have many attack points. Maybe things aren't so bad." Syrus reasons with himself.
Winter - 8900LP
Jaden and Syrus - 3300LP
"That was your final turn. I draw!" That got the attention of everybody in the stadium.
"With no monsters to defend yourself with and no spell or trap cards either, you're completely exposed to my monster's attack." Winter explains.
"But your monsters don't have enough attack points to defeat us." Jaden says in confusion.
"Wait and see." Winter says as he raises a card above his head. There now seems to be a strong gale within the building which is confusing in itself.
"Come forth, Slifer The Sky Dragon!" Winter shouts as he tributes two of the Scapeghost tokens and one of then Aroma Jars. The whole audience is in shock as the monster wriggles its way out of the card and roars s it makes its entrance.
"It's not possible! Only the King of Duelists should have that card!" Bastion yells from his seat and the whole stadium cheered in excitement at seeing the God Card.
"How the hell did he get his hands on such a powerful card?!" Chazz thought to himself as he was seething in anger.
"I may have just found a worthy opponent." Zane murmurs to himself.
"We need to ask him about that after the duel. Bastion, you coming with me?" Alexis asks as she gets up from her seat, thinking that the duel was all but over.
"Of course." He says as he stands up and worms his way through the crows to get to the stairs.
"Due to Slifer's effect, it gains 1000 ATK points for every card in my hand and because Jaden let me draw some more, that means my monster has 5000 ATK points!" Winter shouts. Winter's words brought tears to the Syrus' eyes but Jaden was ecstatic at seeing such a monster. , on the other hand, was dancing all up the ringside.
"And with nothing to spot it, it can attack you directly!" Winter shouts and Slifer prepares its attack.
"Well, Syrus. It looks like we are getting kicked out after all." Jaden says sadly, "But at least we got to see some cool monsters." Jaden says with a smile.
"Yeah, it looks like Chumley will have the room all to himself again." Syrus speaks. Their words are not lost on Winter.
"Slifer! Halt your attack!" Winter shouts causing everyone to look in his direction.
"What?!" shouted loudly. After a few seconds of silence, Winter asks,
"Why are you getting kicked out?"
"Oh, uh, that was the deal. If we lose this battle then we will be kicked out of Duel Academy and off the Island." Syrus explains. A few more seconds of silence later, Winter takes Slifer's card off of the duel disk, puts it back into his deck and extracts his deck from the disk.
"I forfeit the match!"
Winter - 0LP
Jaden and Syrus - 3300LP - WINNERS
Again, Winter surprises everyone after using a summoning technique that they had never witnessed before as well as summoning a God Card. He promptly leaves the stadium with his hands in his pockets. He surprises the crowd so much that even Bastion and Alexis have stopped walking towards him in shock.
"Winter has forfeited the match meaning Jaden and Syrus are the winners!" It pained Doctor Crowler to say that since that also means that they won't be booted off the island. After Crowler says this, everyone in the crowd regains their composures including, Alexis, Bastion, Jaden, Syrus, Chumley and Zane. The former four take to chasing after Winter whilst Zane follows from a distance. Chumley sighs in relief before retreating back to his room in the Slifer Dorm.
Winter has just stepped outside of Duel Academy when he is stopped by someone pulling on his shoulder along with a "Harley!" He stops at that before turning to the person in question and noticing a large group with her as well as a straggler who is slowly getting closer.
"Please call me Winter." He says and brushes Alexis' hand off his shoulder. Noticing her more prominent features although he pulls his eyes away from them.
"What is it?" He asks in curiosity.
"Why did you forfeit the match?"
"How do you have an Egyptian God Card?" Were the questions from the group.
"I would also like to know." The straggler approaches the group.
"Zane." Syrus stares up at him, letting Winter know his name.
"And who are you two?" Winter asks Alexis and Bastion, not having heard their name in the conversation yet. A few seconds later, the introductions were complete.
"So why did you forfeit the match?" Zane repeats the earlier question. Winter has to look up in order to look him in the eyes,
"If I had won then these two" Winter points at Jaden and Syrus, "Would be booted off of the Island, and become homeless. If winning a duel would make them homeless then I'd gladly forfeit time and time again." Winter responds with a small, empathetic smile. The sincerity in his voice and smile warmed the hearts of a few of them. Even earning a slap on the back from Jaden and a hug from Syrus which was very weird.
"Thanks Winter." Syrus says as he hugs Winter.
"Yeah, thanks buddy." Jaden says as he slaps Winter on the back.
"As for your second question," Winter begins as Syrus lets go of him, "would you believe me if I told you that I got Slifer in a card pack? I can't remember the name of it but they stopped selling it years ago. The legend states that there was one of each God Card in them packs and I got them." Winter informs everyone.
"You've got all the God Cards?" A new person makes them-self heard." The man that approaches Winter is bald, has a large frame and facial hair. When Winter nods in response, the man speaks up again,
"Perfect. I'd like for you to stay here at Duel Academy." He says with a large smile.
"I've been made aware about your homelessness and wish to offer you a place to stay and all the food you want, free of charge." The Chancellor of Duel Academy tells Winter. He didn't even have to think about it,
"I'm staying!" Was Winter's instant response.
"Great! The dorm you are currently using will become your own dorm. You will need to think of a title for the dorm as well as the uniform. Please tell me by the end of the day so that we can get the paper work sorted out." The Chancellor says before dismissing himself.
"So you were homeless?" Syrus asks.
"I was. Now, I've got a dorm to get back to." Winter runs back to his new dorm with the others, apart from Zane and Alexis, running after him.
"You've got some tough competition now." Alexis speaks to Zane.
"If he knows that new summoning technique and has all three of the God Cards, I wonder what else he has? Just who is Winter?" Unbeknownst to them all, Winter had another person following him to the Den.