Yu-gi-oh: story of a duellist
Chapter 1 entrance duel
It was the entrance day for new duellists at duellist academy. The duellist academy was on a small island with a beautiful ocean surrounding it. At duellist academy people who wanted to enter had to first take an exam, and then duel against an examination teacher. Currently two duels were under way.
A girl with short brown hair curved down so it covered one of her eyes and most of her face was currently up against a male examination with thick sunglasses. She was duelling with a curved blue duel disk the same as every other student of duellist academy.
She currently had a face up St. Joan (2800/2000) on the field and 2 cards facedown. She also had 2 cards in her hand and 300 LP. The opponent had one face up spell economics, a Vorse Raider (1900/1200) equipped with a sword of deep seethed (equip spell: the monster equipped increases with this card increases it's ATK and DEF by 500) so vorse raider's points stood as (2400/1700) and no cards in his hand. His life points stood at 2300. It was the girl's turn.
"I activate my facedown de-fusion on my St. Joan bringing back my Marie the Fallen One (1700/1200) and The Forgiving Maiden (850/2000) which I now sacrifice for Guardian Angel Joan (2800/2000)!" a large angel appeared in a cross-legged position on the field. "Next I activate my facedown call of the haunted to revive my St. Joan!" out of the ground appeared another angel which had a large sword and was surrounded by ghosts.
"Next I equip my cestus of dagla spell card (equip spell: this card can only be equipped to a fairy monster. Increase the ATK of the monster equipped with this card increases its attack by 500. When the monster equipped with this card inflicts battle damage to your opponent increase your life points by the amount of damage inflicted.) To my St. Joan! (3300/2000). Now St. Joan will attack your Vorse Raider and Guardian Angel Joan attack him directly for the duel!"
Both angels raised their respective weapons and one slashed the duel instructor. "My Guardian Angel Joan has the same ability as monsters equipped with cestus of dagla so my life points will increase." First her life points increased to 1200 by St. Joan's attack then her life points increased to 4000 from the finishing blow. (Anne LP 4000 Instructor LP 0) The instructor was amazed. Then he looked at the girl.
"You won the duel, and with exactly 4000 LP to boot. As the rules state if you beat an instructor with exactly 4000 LP and over 75 in the exam you are moved to Obelisk blue immediately."
The girl raised her hands and cheered glad to have been moved straight to Obelisk blue. A person got up from his seat and walked down to his sister who had just won the duel. He ruffled her hair affectionately. "Now you are in the same area as me Anne." The girl looked up at her brother fondly. "Yeah James!"
In another part of the arena a second duel was going on between a girl and a female instructor. The girl had long brown hair and green eyes hidden behind glasses.
She had a summoned skull (2500/1200) on the field, a cannon soldier (1400/1300), one set card and 2400 LP while her opponent had 2 face up Solar flare dragons (1500/1000) and a gravity bind (continuous trap: all level 4 or higher monsters on the field cannot attack) and 2 backfires (continuous trap: when ever one of your fire attribute monsters are sent form the field to the graveyard inflict 500 points of damage to your opponents life points) on the field with 1900 LP. The girl considered her situation.
"Gravity bind stops monsters with 4 stars or more from attacking. And if I destroyed any of her monsters anyway I would lose 1000 LP. So instead I'll do this." She pointed at her cannon soldier. "Cannon soldier activate special ability! Sacrifice Summoned Skull to inflict 500 points of damage to your life points!" summoned skull disappeared while cannon soldier fired a blast at her opponents' life points. (Instructor's life points 1400)
The girl the activated her facedown card which showed a ring of grenades.
"Activate ring of destruction! Now I may destroy one monster on the field and inflict on both of us that monsters attack in damage. And I choose to sacrifice my cannon soldier to inflict 1400 points of damage to both of us!" a ring of grenades appeared around cannon soldier's neck then it blew up and took out 1400 life points with it. (Fiona LP 1000. instructor LP 0)
The instructor bent her head and sighed. Then she looked at Fiona.
"You pass. Please register at the registry desk and you will be placed into a dorm." Fiona smiled with a large grin on her face and turned around to go to the registry desk when she saw a guy riding on a motorbike charging straight through the entry gates!
When he almost ran his bike into a wall he somehow stopped himself by turning sideways. He jumped of his bikes and tossed his hat straight off. He looked like he had just been shocked by a bolt of lightning. His black hair which seemed to be covered in soot was standing on ends. He wore a large black jacket with the words E-HERO on the back. But most peculiar was his eyes. They were green which wasn't unusual but something about them made people stare at him strangely. Then he smiled and his eyes seemed normal.
"Hey does anyone know where the tests are?" he yelled. Then out of a nearby corridor a tall man with very short hair on his head and a kind face, he currently had a large smile on it even under the current circumstances.
"I think I might. May I ask your name fist?" at this the boy smiled.
"Glad you asked. It's one this school will remember for a long time. Zenrad Yuki." At this the principle seemed very surprised.
"Yuki? Are you by any chance related to one of the duellists in the world, and a previous student who had left with top duelling honours, Yuki Judai?" the boy started to frown.
"Uhh…who? Sorry never heard of him." Mr Rameshin gasped at this.
"You've never heard of one of the world's best duellists, Yuki Judai?" the man said. "Nope." Zenrad said rather quickly. "So what about those tests?" the man suddenly realised he had forgotten all about that.
"I'm very sorry please excuse me. I'm headmaster Rameshin and the tests have already started but I could get you into one of the late tests." Nodding enthusiastically the boy said, "Yes please Mr Rameshin." At this the headmaster smiled and led the boy into a different room entirely.
In this room there was a large number of benches all stationed around the circular room and a man in a chair next to a large black board seemingly fresh except for the words, test in progress. Start: 11:00 am End 1:00 pm. There were a large amount of students working on the tests currently. Some had already finished and were checking through their work while others were just waiting for the test to be over. There were only a few minutes left before the end of the test.
Zenrad was very nervous since he wouldn't have enough time to complete the test. Rameshin turned and smiled at the kid and told, "Not to worry, there is another test at the end of this test for late students. There are a few other late students who are also going to take the test." He pointed at a small room with a few benches facing a blackboard. Five other boys were on these benches.
Headmaster Rameshin turned and said, "Just sit down on one of these benches and wait for the test to begin."
After the headmaster left, Zenrad Yuki decided to acquaint himself with the other people who were late for the test.
"Hello I am Zenrad Yuki!" he stretched his hand out at the boys. One of them looked up and shook his hand. He was a scrawny kid with more freckles then you could count.
"Hi I'm Bill Hal. I was late for my test since I was working on my deck." Another one of the boys grinned at this. He was tall with black hair and a green jacket on and looked Korean
"Me too! I was really worried about the test that I couldn't get any sleep last night so I won't do well in the test. Oh and my name's Jason Noel."
The remaining three kids all smiled at the fact that they were all in for similar reasons. The others introduced themselves. A tanned kid with bright coloured clothes introduced himself as Ron Brine. He came from Italy which explained the tan. The kid next to him wore a black jacket with the picture of a motorbike on fire on the back. His name was Todd Dash. The last one was Australian by clothes and looked like he was used to surviving in the jungle and the kid's version of fast food was probably out hunting for rabbits with a spear. His name was Alexander Bufforde. While the kids were talking a sound went up on an intercom.
"Please will all students please hand in their tests and precede to the duel test arenas. Any late testers please enter the examination room for your test sheets."
Zenrad looked up.
"That's us. Everybody ready for the test?" all the other boys nodded. They all entered the room feeling really proud of them selves expecting an easy test. After all how many questions can there be on a card game?
- One hour later-
Everyone left the room shaking their head and moaning things like, "oh that test was hard," and "how am I suppose to know what level and effect Lesser fiend has? I don't run a fiend deck!" or, "that was extremely hard choosing my favourite trap card and writing an essay on it?" And one that seemed to spark the interest of one of Zenrad,
"why do all those E-heroes have to have so many fusions! How am I supposed to know all their names! What in the world does E-hero burst lady and E-hero feather man fuse together to make beside E-hero phoenix guy?" Zenrad answered without much hard thought,
"E-hero flame wingman. ATK2100 DEF1400. Special ability when this card destroys a monster, the controller of that monster receives the destroyed monsters ATK in damage. The favourite card of world class duellist Yuki Judai." Everyone looked at him akwardly. Zenrad noticed everyone was looking at him. "I like fusion cards and I am a fan Yuki Judai." Everyone nodded that this made sense. Before any one could continue with the conversation an announcement was made on the intercom,
"Please will a mister Zenrad Yuki please report to arena 1?"
Zenrad looked at his new friends and said, "That's me. I am going to be done with this inspector in 5 turns flat." He grinned at this feeling more confident with each moment. His friends smiled at this all of them wishing him good luck.
"See you on the other side." Todd Dash whispered to his new friend. Zenrad turned and tossed him the peace sign before leaving.
-Teachers viewing spot-
All the duellist academy instructors who finished their duels or wished to see them stood on the ledge with seats to keep them comfortable. All the seats were grey to match the colour of the instructor's shirts but normal teachers wore their regular teaching attire.
All the teachers were observing the duels and were quite impressed by the last 2 duels.
"Pretty impressive duels the last 2." Said one of the female inspectors.
"I thought that duel with that Anne girl was quite impressive. She managed to win the duel with full life points." the female teacher added. A male teacher with glasses, thinning hair and yellow clothes, a sign of a teacher of Ra Yellow looked back at her saying,
"It wasn't that impressive Miss Kratchey. Most fairy decks are based around life gain and life sustaining and 4000 LP are not that hard to restore. But that Fiona girl was truly great; she had excellent planning and thought of everything without a mistake she hadn't intended for."
"Oh come on now Dr Neves none of those duels were that impressive." A teacher in blue uniform signifying a teacher of Obelisk Blue said this with a frown on his face. The teacher was a tall person with short black hair tied in a ponytail and stone cold eyes. He was also the deputy head of the school.
The other teachers frowned at this.
"Oh stop spoiling the fun Mr Jindis, just because you didn't get to duel this year doesn't mean you have to be a party pooper!" one of the teachers who were in yellow responded to Mr Jindis's mood. Before the Obelisk Blue teacher could respond his mobile phone rang. Irritated, Jindis picked up his phone and said with annoyance,
"Hello who is this?"
"Now is that the way you always talk to people on the phone Mr Jindis?" the voice on the other end surprised Jindis.
"Headmaster Rameshin sorry for my rudeness..."
"Save the excuses Mr Jindis. I have a bunch of academy applicants who entered the academy exam late so I need some one to test them." Mr Jindis frowned.
"Why are you so eager for all these late ruffians to get into this academy? This academy should be saved for elite duellists only not for these late dropouts who couldn't be bothered to show up on time." The thing Mr Rameshin said next completely changed Jindis's attitude.
"I want you to be the duel instructor for one of them." Mr Jindis was so happy right then that he could have cried.
"On second thoughts sir I think I should test them because everyone deserves a chance." And I can fully show these loser dropouts how they shouldn't be in this school, he thought to himself.
Mr Rameshin smiled. "I knew you would see things my way. Now get moving to duel arena 1. And don't forget to bring a…" the phone had already been hung up and Mr Jindis was already running to the arena with deck in hand and duel coat on. Mr Dr Neves looked at the other teachers.
"What is he so happy about?"
-Duel arena 4 –
Everyone had already seen most of the duels so were pleasantly surprised to find there were still a few matches left over. All of the students were looking over at the arena wondering what sort of decks each duellist would be using. Suddenly the screen above the arena was lit up with 2 duellist's faces each one stating name and pre-set LP of 4000. The duellists were called Zenrad Yuki and James Jindis.
The former duellist was already known as the motorbike kid but was otherwise unknown but the other duellist was very well known as being, not only a strict teacher but a tough duellist. The last applicant he had instructed was humiliated completely while being crushed in the first few turns. People were betting that this duellist wouldn't last more then 5 turns.
Zenrad entered the arena with a happy look on his face and a DD2 on his wrist and deck in the deck slot. He looked across at his opponent. Mr Jindis was wearing his signature blue coat but attached to his coat was a foldable silver duel disk which seemed attached to his coat. Zenrad was very impressed. He held out his hand and greeted his current duel instructor.
"Hello sir! My name is Zenrad Yuki and I am looking forward to this duel." Mr Jindis did not take his hand.
"Now is not the time for pleasantries. I came here for a duel and after you lose then we can use the pleasantries." Zenrad frowned. This guy was obviously a man who didn't care much for respect to other duellists.
"All right then let's duel!" they both said to each other.
DUEL (ZLP: 4000 JLP: 4000)
Mr Jindis waved his hand in front of his duel disk and a card popped out of it. "I will start this duel with the continuous spell card Spring of Rebirth (spell card continuous: Increase your Life Points by 500 points every time monsters return from the field to the owner's hand.)!" A large holographic representation of the card appeared on the field. Zenrad was amazed by the graphics.
"Next I summon Inaba White Rabbit(700/500)" A large white rabbit popped out of the card. The most amusing thing about this card was that it was on a pogo stick. Mr Jindis smiled. "This monster is a spirit monster. Spirit monsters returns to the hand at the end of each turn.
"Before then I set card facedown and end my turn, which returns my monster to my hand and increases my life points thanks to my magic card." The rabbit disappeared and a fountain squirted all over Mr Jindis but he didn't get wet because it was a hologram. (ZLP: 4000 JLP: 4500)
-Teachers stand-
A few of the teachers were frowning at the first move of the game.
"Those are cards from Jindis's actual deck! In an examination duel like this one you have to use a test deck. How can a kid handle a deck like this?" Miss Kratchey said to the other teachers. Most of them nodded. But another one of them was shaking his head this one had a long red jacket that signified he was a teacher of the Slifer Red dorm but that was the only thing that was remotely similar to the other teachers. He wore a leather jacket and a cowboy hat with brown leather jeans. The jacket had an image of Slifer the sky dragon on it. His face while young looking seemed to have been through a lot.
"Something about this kid is different. I can see it in his eyes. He has a chance." No one seemed to doubt his words.
- Back at the duel -
Zenrad drew his card.
"I summon my Shining Star- Axe Hammer (1700/1600)!" large man wearing golden armour with a star on it appeared. In his hands were a double sided axe decorated with jewels. Mr Jindis smiled.
"Nice monster sadly he will be leaving us right now. Activate trap compulsory evacuation device! (Trap card: Return 1 monster on the field to its owner's hand.)"
Suddenly a machine appeared under the armoured warrior and the machine then the shining star was seen flying into the sky before disappearing. Then a fountain was seen spraying Mr Jindis.
"Oh yes because of my spring of rebirth I gain life points when your monsters return to your hand." (ZLP: 4000 JLP: 5000) Zenrad frowned.
"Before I end my turn I set 2 cards facedown and end my turn." Mr Jindis smiled and drew.
"Time to summon an old friend I summon Inaba White Rabbit!" again the rabbit on a pogo stick appeared. "Now my white rabbit attack that wan a be duellist with the black hairdo directly!" then Zenrad clenched his hands.
"I'll show you a want to be duellist! Activate trap card a Hero emerges (trap: when your opponent attacks you your opponent must choose a card in your hand. If that card is a spell or trap card discard it if it is a monster special summon it to the field)! Now choose a card." Zenrad raised his 4 cards and showed it to his opponent. Mr Jindis wasn't worried.
"I choose the 2nd to the left." The card flipped up to reveal a monster. Zenrad smiled.
"Bad choice I summon my shining star- assassin (1000/700)!" a slim man with gold Arabian clothes that seemed to be torn in certain parts but his face was mostly hidden by this cloth except his eyes which were bright amber. Mr Jindis grinned even wider.
"That is useless because my rabbit can attack directly. So Inaba attack directly!" now it was Zenrad grinned.
"I knew that. Shining star assassin's effect is that when it is normal, flip or special summoned I must destroy the weakest monster on the field. Go assassin blade!" the assassin raised its dagger and threw it at the rabbit before it reached Zenrad. Jindis's frown grew worse if possible.
"All right then I activate my trap card Groundbreaking (trap: put spirit in graveyard back in hand) now I can add a spirit monster from my graveyard to my hand. Inaba return!" the spirit was seen leaving the graveyard before circling Jindis. Mr Jindis added the spirit back to his hand. "I set 2 cards facedown and then end my turn."
Zenrad observed the field. If not for the fact that the opponent had probably only spirits in his deck then the monster he had in his hand would not be very good right now. Luckily it was still a strong monster.
"Okay then let's see you handle this monster. I summon shining star- blade sword! (2000/1600)" a large warrior holding a sword almost twice his size appeared. Like the other shining stars he was completely golden. "I attack you directly with my monster!" Jindis suddenly activated one of his trap cards.
"Activate trap card spirit's call for guidance! (Trap: when your opponent attacks discard one spirit monster in your hand. Afterwards show every spirit monster in your hand to your opponent. Your opponent chooses one and that card I special summoned to the field after negating all of that card's effects. This spirit can not destroy a monster in battle. At the end phrase of that turn shuffle the chosen monster back into your deck.)" He discarded his Inaba white rabbit then showed Zenrad the only spirit in his hand. Oh great what luck, Zenrad thought, It just had to be Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi (2800/2900) the strongest spirit monster in the game. After seeing the depression in Zenrad's eyes Mr Jindis summoned the card to the field.
-In the student stands-
"Wait a minute!" Anne said to her brother. They had been observing the duel during the entire match in silence but this move seemed to give Anne reason to speak. "Spirit monsters can not be special summoned. How can the teacher special summon it?" But James just shook his head.
"The card makes the spirit monster loose all its special effects including the fact it couldn't be special summoned. If the card hadn't said to return the monster to his deck then the monster would have stayed on the field like a regular monster. This is not looking good for Zenrad." This news did not make Ann any happier.
- Back at the duel-
Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi was a large man like monster with large muscles. But the most unusual thing about this card was that its hair was on fire. The spirit seemed to have no pupils which may have seemed odd to duellists who had duelled against this monster before and then it had had pupils.
But Zenrad wasn't afraid of that. He was afraid of the fact that his shining star was still charging at the spirit monster. The spirit just raised its hand and shot a tornado of fire at the warrior. It pushed the warrior all the way to the other side of the field but didn't destroy it.
"You are lucky that spirits under the influence of my trap can not destroy monsters. But you still take battle damage. (ZLP: 3200 JLP: 5000)" Jindis was smirking now he obviously did not think that his opponent had a chance. Zenrad wanted to prove him wrong so much but he had no cards that could put him in the lead.
He switched his assassin to defence mode since his shining star blade sword had to switch to defence mode if its attack doesn't destroy a monster any way, and ended his turn. Mr Jindis picked up his monster and slid it into his duel disk after explaining that he had to return his monster to his deck at the end phrase of the turn.
"That is if not for my facedown quick play spell card spirit's return haunting. (Quick play spell: when a spirit on your side of the field is sent to your deck add the card to your hand.) Now my monster is added to my hand. And now I draw." The card popped out of his duel disk. Jindis smiled at his draw.
"I activate my rarest spell card – which you should be honoured to even see – Cursed spiritual summoning (spell card: normal summon all the spirit monsters in your hand. For each tribute needed to summon the monsters +1 take away that much multiplied by 1000 from your life points when they return to your hand.)! Return Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi!"
the spirit monster returned to the field, this time with more fire streaming down all his body and even the audience could feel the heat. But this time the spirit had dark red pupils that seemed to hate Zenrad with every fibre of its being. This was all because of the spell card but it still seemed real to Zenrad. Jindis was laughing now with all the joy a villain gets when they think they have won.
"Now I play spiritual settle machine (continuous spell: As long as this card remains face-up on the field, all Spirit monsters remain face-up on the field and do not return to their owners' hands during the End Phase even if they are Summoned or flipped face-up. Discard 1 card from your hand during each of your End Phases to keep this card's effect active. If you cannot discard, this card is destroyed. If this card is destroyed or removed from the field, all face-up Spirit monsters must return to the owners' hands immediately).
"Next I activate my stop defence spell card stop defence on your assassin (spell card: switch one monster on the field to attack mode).
Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi, finish him! Attack his assassin." the giant fire beast hurled a large fireball at Zenrad's assassin. The assassin didn't stand a chance. The monster was burnt and when the fire finally died down the assassin was no where in sight. There was a large amount of life point damage (ZLP: 1400 JLD: 5000) Zenrad pressed the button on his duel disk activating the second unnoticed trap he had set at the beginning of the duel.
"I guess I will need some backup. Activate trap card shining star signal (trap: when one of your monsters are destroyed in battle you may special summon a level 4 or lower shining star monster from your deck). The monster I choose is shining star soldier (1600/1500)."
The new monster was golden like the previous monsters but had helmet with a star encrusted on it and a sword in its hand and a shield in the other. Mr Jindis was grinning like a mad man.
"Did you honestly think you can beat me? I am an expert duellist so how do you think you can beat me drop out boy. And just to add injury to insult, I activate card of sanctity (spell card: both duellists draw from their decks until they have 6 cards in their hands).
"This means that we both have 6 new cards, you will have to lose all your new cards before you can use them. I set 1 card face down. Then I discard 1 card for the cost of my spiritual settle machine and end my turn." He started laughing maniacally. Things did not look good for Zenrad.
- On the other side of the duel arena-
The other 5 late duellists who had come to see this duel, since they hadn't been instructed to go to a duel arena. And they didn't think much of Zenrad's chances.
"He can't win now against a monster like that! It's all over!" Jason said now that the large spirit monster had come on the field and wasn't leaving any time soon.
"But he isn't giving up is he?" Ron said trying to be positive but in fact he was as worried for Zenrad as the others.
- Back at the duel –
Mr Jindis had finished laughing and then said something which just made things worse.
"Activate Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi special ability. When it deals you life point damage you must discard your entire hand before you draw during your draw phrase. So make your final draw since during after your next turn this is all over."
Zenrad's hand hovered over his deck. Was there any way for him to win? All my cards will be discarded before I draw a card, he said to himself. I may as well give up. I won't be getting into this school. Then a shining light seemed to emerge from his graveyard, his deck and his field.
"Don't give up," the light seemed to say. Zenrad nodded. Then he discarded his hand to the graveyard and drew his card.
- In the teacher stands –
"Well there is no way this kid can win now. We may as well just admit the boy won't be coming to this school this year. Maybe next year." Miss Kratchey said and most of the other teachers agreed with her. Except for the Slifer Red dorm head, who was still looking at the duel keenly.
"The boy still has a chance." This silenced everyone in the teacher stands.
- Back at the duel -
Zenrad looked at his card and smiled.
"Activate effect of my monster card shining retriever (800/1300) I may discard this card from my hand during my main phrase. In exchange I may add one polymerization (spell: send 2 or more fusion material monsters from your hand and/or field and then fusion summon a monster from your fusion deck with those monsters names written on it to the field.) from my graveyard and then draw 2 cards from my deck." Mr Jindis attempted to stop this.
"Wait a minute you didn't use a fusion monster this duel. How can you have a polymerization card in your graveyard?" Zenrad pointed a finger at Mr Jindis.
"That was thanks to your Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi's effect. It discarded the polymerization card I was planning to use. And now I draw my 2 cards." He drew quickly and tossed the cards a single glance before smiling at the duel.
"Perfect! I activate the spell card shining star shooter (spell card: for each shining star monster on the field destroy a face up magic or trap card on the field.) and since I posses 2 shining stars I can destroy your Spring of Rebirth and your spiritual settle machine,"
Both shining stars drew their weapons and sent a slash straight at Mr Jindis's 2 continuous spell cards which shattered both of them. "This means your Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi returns straight to your hand and you loose 3000 LP (ZLP: 1400 JLP: 2000)."
The spirit monster seemed to dissolve into smoke which seemed to strangle Mr Jindis before disappearing (ZLP: 1400 JLP: 2000).
"And now I activate my polymerization and fuse my two monsters together to form my favourite monster…" the 2 monsters started swirling into a vortex and out of the vortex appeared a very powerful looking monster.
"Shining star samurai (2500/2200)!" the creature that emerged from the vortex was a tall warrior dressed in traditional samurai battle army. His sword was as large as blade sword's but slightly sharper. The only main difference between this creature and a real samurai was that it's armour was golden as well as it's sword. But the samurai was doing something unusual. He was grinning in the exact same fashion as Zenrad was and were standing in the exact same fashion. But what most people were interested in the fact that Mr Jindis looked like he was about to loose.
- In the student stands –
No one could believe how fast the table had been turned on Mr Jindis.
"That guy is astonishing." Fiona had just come back fro the registry desk and was happy that she had been selected to be in Ra yellow the middle place dorm. She had been watching the duel for the last few minutes and amazed that Zenrad had made such an amazing comeback. In the obelisk blue stands Ann and James were also surprised at the results.
"He did that! Did you see what he did with the retriever and the fusion! He could win." Ann was exclaimed to her brother who just nodded in agreement
The 5 late duellists were cheering and dancing for their new friend's near victory.
"He's wining, he's winning!" they were all chanting.
- The teachers stand –
All the teachers were shocked beyond belief. Barely any one had defeated Mr Jindis once he had summoned Hino-Kagu-Tsuchi and attacked with it and it would have stayed on the field they had no chance with only one draw. In fact the only 2 people who had won a duel at that point was headmaster Rameshin and another teacher Edward Gilan, head of the Slifer Red boys dorms, who was currently looking at the duel and nodding at Zenrad's last moves.
"Do you think the boy is going to win Ed?" Dr Neves asked.
"It's not over till it's over." He said simply and then continued watching the match in silence.
- At the duel –
Now Zenrad was grinning and was about to launch the final attack.
"Shining star samurai att…"
"Not so fast!" Mr Jindis raised his hand over his duel disk to activate his face down card. "Time to play an old staple. Activate scapegoat (quick play spell card: when activated place 4 sheep tokens (level 1/beast/earth/ATK0.DEF0) in defence mode on the field. You cannot special summon, normal summon, or set a monster during the turn this card is activated)."
On the field 4 colourful sheep appeared on the field guarding Mr Jindis. "This card is useful when you run a deck of spirit monsters. So I will survive this turn." And finish you of in the next turn, he thought to him self. But Zenrad was still smiling.
"I knew you wouldn't go done without a fight. Luckily I have the perfect card for the situation, and since it is still my main phrase I can play it. Activate mystic weapon -burning slasher's sword (equipment card: to activate this card the user must sacrifice 1000 LP. This card may only be equipped to a level 6 or lower fusion monster. Increase the equipped monster's attack by 1000. This monster may deal damage through defence. Treat the monster equipped with this card's attribute as fire attribute. Once per turn you may allow the equipped to attack all monsters on your opponents turn. After you have activated this effect send this card to the graveyard at the end of your battle phrase.)
"This card is one of my most powerful spell cards. 'You should feel honoured to see it.' Watch." He pointed at his monster.
The samurai's sword had turned red hot and then exploded into flames. But the samurai didn't seem affected by this at all. "Of course I do have to pay the cost. (ZLP: 400 JLP 2000) But that doesn't seem relevant since you have no cards to protect you, don't you?" Mr Jindis just lowered his head in disgrace. He was about to be beaten. By a dropout no less.
"I thought not. Attack samurai, destroy one of his scapegoats! Burning samurai blade!" the samurai charged at the blue scapegoat who seemed to be sleeping didn't even register it was about to be slashed until it felt the heat. It gave out one small cry before being destroyed.
(ZLP: 400 JLP: 0) JINDIS LOST.
The examination duel was over. Zenrad just wiped his head in relief when all the holograms were gone. The crowd was cheering because of his victory against the Obelisk Blue teacher. The teachers in the stand were all amazed by his victory except Mr Gilan who was just smiling.
The headmaster came out to the arena attempting to stop the duel when he had learnt that Mr Jindis had been using his own deck against an entrance applicant until he was at the duel arena and learnt that the student had beaten the teacher's deck. He then got embarrassed that everyone could see him running straight towards the arena for no apparent reason. He started to get flustered.
"Umm… good job Zenrad…uh you're immediately admitted into the school." Everyone started cheering again.
"He deserves to be in obelisk blue for what he did!" Alexander shouted from his place in the stands. Some people agreed with this and started to yell out
"Obelisk Blue, Obelisk Blue!" Mr Rameshin started getting worried that there was going to be a mob if he didn't agree to these demands. But Mr Jindis raised his hand to stop the demands.
"You all know the rules. There is only 3 ways to get to Obelisk Blue.
1: If you beat an instructor with exactly 4000 LP and over 75 in the exam you are moved to Obelisk blue immediately.
2:If you passed the exam with 100 and beat an examiner you would get to obelisk blue.
Or 3: the final way if you went to duel prep school and finished the exam there with excellent results you were sent straight to obelisk blue when you arrived here and beat an instructor. And to my knowledge you haven't done the first or last one and I doubt you passed the exam with 100. All right you lot stop moaning." And with that he turned and left the arena.
Headmaster Rameshin did not look pleased with his deputy head's reaction, but he was glad that the matter was solved.
Zenrad however was just happy he had got in.
He ran straight to his friends and gave them all hi5s. Bill Hall asked Zenrad
"Where did you get those awesome cards!" and he responded,
"From friends and family." Besides this mysterious answer the friends' spirits were high, and they kept talking to each other, about who would win their duel first, all 5 eager to start their own examination duels. Then another message appeared on the intercom.
Please would the remaining 5 duellists each go to one of the 5 duel arena immediately. Whoops could be heard from the eager boys.
Also remember if you have already duelled; please go to the registration desk to receive your ID card and D-points card and uniform for your decks. You will receive keys to your dorms when you arrive tomorrow as well as special academy duel disks. All who have won a duel and passed the exam I hope you will enjoy your time at this school and who ever did not get in, better luck next year.
The 5 duellists looked at each other and then cheered "we get to duel!"
Bill was the most eager. "It's time I showed those examiners how Bill Hall duels!" and flexed his muscles to show how strong he was. Jason did the same.
Everyone laughed at the 2 clowns. Then Ron reminded Zenrad had to register for the school. Zenrad ran straight to the nearest doorway before he could hear Todd yell, "It is in the other direction!" Zenrad stumbled in disbelief and ran in the other direction.
-In the teachers stand-
5 of the teachers got up out of their seats to duel the 5 newcomers. With test decks, of course. Mr Gilan had disappeared after Zenrad had left and no one knew where he had gone. But most of the teachers were really worried about was the fact that Mr Jindis hadn't come to the teacher's stand. They hoped he wouldn't do something he would regret.
- At the registration desks –
At the desk there were 2 people waiting in the dark. Neither knew the other was there but they were both waiting for the same person. Then a sound was heard and they both shuffled forward to the sound and ended up next to one another both surprised they activated their duel disks.
"Who are you and why are you here?" the person who asked this had short brown hair and brown eyes. "You tell me first who you are?" the opposite person had long brown hair tied up in a pony tail and green eyes. Then they recognised each other.
"Hey you're Fiona Stenson!"
"And you are Anne Sopre!" both girls had duelled next to each other during their exams. "What are you doing here?" Ann asked Fiona, but before a response could be heard another sound could be heard. They hid again and this time it was who they had been waiting for.
Zenrad arrived and greeted the receptionist,
"Hello miss. My name is Zenrad Yuki and I have just won my examination duel." The receptionist smiled back.
"Wait there let me check your name on the list." Her fingers started typing on the keyboard and found his name on the screen. "Ah here we are. Zenrad Yuki. Percentage in the exam 54, duel status 400 LP left opponent loss by LP. Dorm …Slifer Red." She reached down under her desk and pulled out a red jacket and a black shirt. Also there were 3 optional colours of trousers you could wear, white trousers, black trousers or grey trousers. These were the uniform for duel Academy.
"Sweet! This is much better then the uniform I had to wear in my old school. We had to wear ties!" he fingered his neck as if he could still feel the tie being around his neck. The receptionist couldn't help laughing at his ridiculous face when he imagined himself with a tie.
The 2 girls were looking surprised at this.
"How can a guy who beat Mr Jindis, who had a pro level deck, end up in Slifer Red." Anne was saying. Fiona then shook her head.
"But he only got 54 in the exam which is 4 over pass mark. He may be an exceptionally good duellist but he is not very bright." A voice was heard behind them.
"An exceptional duellist you say?" they both turned around and standing behind them was Zenrad. He had sneaked behind them while they were talking. "Who is this duellist? He sounds like a great opponent!" the girls got very nervous. Before they could think of an excuse Zenrad realised he had forgotten something.
"Oh no I forgot! I promised to see my friends' duels! See you later" and then he sprinted to the duel arena. The 2 girls relaxed.
"I am never doing that again." They both said at the same time. They both laughed as they walked back to the arena.
In the shadows a pair of eyes could be seen observing the events, much more inconspicuously then the 2 girls.
"I want that card." The shadow whispered before disappearing.
End of chapter 1
Author's notes: So who was the shadow? Not who you think.
Please! Read and review, and tell me if this is better then my previous attempt of a first chapter. I don't mind criticism!