Author's Note: I know this story was up here before, but you can say that I accidentally took it down.. But anyway the main reason why I'm bringing it back is simply due to the Dark Side of Dimensions movie, everything from the trailer has just reawakened my inner childhood and fond memories I had for the original series and GX to some capacity.
Chapter 1:
The Entrance Exam
It was bright and sunny on this wonderful Saturday morning. No school, no homework, and nobody telling him to wake early either. The thirteen year old boy with a midnight blue hair, and black pajamas was sleeping in peace like a log.
That's before he hears fists banging on his door, "HEY ARE YOU AWAKE YET?"
He twitched his head, and made a quiet moan.
"HELLO SHAGGY" The voice continued.
His hand clenched into fists, as he opened his light brown eyes, "What do you want, Zoey? Can't you see I'm trying to sleep."
"Uh hello did you forget something, oh smarty pants..." Zoey says sarcastically, "Today is the day to the entrance exams for the academy remember."
Without saying a word, Shaggy spends ten to fifteen minutes getting ready before putting on a blue striped unbuttoned shirt, and a black t-shirt underneath with a pair of jeans. He leaves his bed a mess, and opens the door seeing Zoey with her hands crossed.
Zoey is Shaggy's young twin sister, who has light blue hair, gold eyes, and is few inches shorter then him. She wears a light green shirt with a blue skirt made of the same fabric as regular jeans.
"How much time do I have left?" Shaggy asks.
Zoey checks her watch, "About twenty minutes."
"Well looks like I'm off then." The dark haired boy said.
His sister grabs the back of his shirt, "Oh no you don't, at least not before you going on an empty stomach."
"Let me guess, mom told you." an irritated Shaggy said.
Zoey nodded, "That's right. She told me to make sure you ate something while her and Dad are off at work."
He starts to think, "Well could you just make me a sandwich. That way I can be there on time, Zoey."
"Well okay." The light blue haired said in a calm tone, "You want cheese right?"
Shaggy nodded. "Yup."
A couple minutes pass by as he waits for his sister to finish making his sandwich. Once that gets taken care of, Shaggy runs over to the entrance exam at Duel Stadium. Luckily it only takes him about ten minutes to get there, but there is only one problem. There is at least fifteen people at the sign up line. It really bugs him because he just wants to get past the entrance exam to enroll in Dual Island, a place where duelists go to gather and learn more about dueling. It's located in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico.
"I really wish I got here early." Shaggy complained before changing his expression to a smile, "Although if this many people are trying out. Then this day should be fun and the entrance exams should be interesting."
a voice yells from behind, "SOOORRRY!"
Shaggy turns around for a split second, before hitting the ground, "What was that?"
This kid has blond hair, blue eyes, a bit taller than Shaggy, and is also a year older than him too. He wears a gray marvel universe shirt, and a pair of blue jeans that show a few tears on the side.
"Hey I'm so sorry about bumping into you like that, Shag." says The tall blonde haired kid.
"It's all good, Jake." The midnight blue haired kid said, "At least I've got someone to talk to now."
"No it's you're fault that we came late." An irritated Jake points at me.
I gave him a confused look, "What did I do?'
"Not you Shaggy, I'm talking to my friend right next to you." He continued.
"I don't see anyone Jake."
The person at the desk says, "You there come forward."
Shaggy and Jake look in front of them, and realize that the people in front of them have already signed up. Both of them sign up before he hands Shaggy and Jake a scantron with the words Entrance exam written on it. Then they walk over to the bleachers where the instructor passes them separately. When Shaggy looks over at Jake, he notices a speechless expression on his face.
"Hey is everything alright, bro?" Shaggy asks.
Jake says nervously, "You know how I am with exams, and I thought the exam was suppose to be a test. Not a stupid multiple choice test."
"Relax dueling will be the second portion of the test." Shaggy reminded him, "The written portion is suppose to determine your knowledge on the history of dueling. Besides it's only about thirty five questions, and it's only seventy-five percent of your score."
The blonde nods, "I know, but you also need a passing point of four hundred to make it in Shaggy."
He puts his hand on Jake's shoulder, "Just believe in yourself, and you'll be get through this without breaking a sweat."
An instructor walks over to them. He looks like a bodybuilder, has green hair, brown eyes, wears a white admiral like uniform. The instructor appears to be in his late thirties as he passes out the last two packets,with "written exam" on it, to Shaggy and Jake.
"Now listen up, this portion of the exam will count a lot of points towards your score." The instructors explains, "You will only be given about forty-five minutes to complete the written portion. Also don't even think about cheating we have several instructors watching over for such necessary actions. Those of you who manage finish will move on to the final portion of the exam, but if you don't then you will just have to try again next year. Now keep in mind there's only forty minutes to answer thirty five questions so make use of the time you have. Good luck."
The instructor leaves as the people take their the written entrance exams. A good thirty percents of are just stuck there with blank stares through the questions. That just doesn't work for Shaggy, because to him all of this is just basic stuff for him. One question he comes across is if somebody uses mirror force when you destroy a monster or monsters, what do you do to counter it? Or a question like this, What deck is great to use against an Exodia deck. There were also other questions like, how do you negate kuriboh's special effect?, or How do you stop Dragon Master Knight, What traps or spell cards inflict battle damage to your opponents life points?, etc. It only takes him about ten minutes before he hands his test and scantron to the instructor sitting at his desk.
He gives Shaggy a weary look, "You certainly finished early."
"What's wrong with finishing early?" Shaggy asks.
The instructor looks over at his colleague, "Did you see him cheat?"
His colleague shakes her head, "No he was focusing on his own paper like the others."
"What about you?" The instructor asks a couple more colleagues.
They reply back to him was the same answer.
The instructor says "Alright come back for your test results thirty minutes after you complete second portion of the test."
"I'll keep that in mind." The midnight blue haired boy sits back down at the bleachers.
He watches over the duel portion exam that's currently taking place with several duelists and instructors. Only a few of the handful come to interest Shaggy like the duelist using a gearfried based deck against an instructor to cause piercing damage. Or the other duelist using a fire base deck to incinerate an instructor's field from using any effects against him.
"Hey Shag." Jake sits on the bleacher.
He looks over at his friend, "So how'd you do?"
"It was kinda difficult, but I got through most of it." The blonde haired said, "By the way where is Zoey. Surely she wouldn't wanna miss her brother do well in the duel."
"I'm just about to tell her to head over that way she can see my duel." The midnight haired boy explained to his friend while texting his twin.
Jake yells, "I still blame you."
"For what?" Shaggy asks.
The blonde friend shakes his head, "Not you Shaggys, it's... nevermind."
The thirteen year old kid says, "It's all good."
"Shaggy Eclipse please move forward to field 07." says The Announcer's voice.
"Well that's my cue." A determined Shaggy said.
Jake says, "Good luck bro."
He handshakes with his friend, "Thanks Jake."
The midnight blue haired kid walks up to the field, and the instructor that gave him the written exam is the same one that stands before him. He gives Shaggy a vicious glare leaving the kid confused.
"Well isn't this rare." He said with a confident tone, "Who would've thought that my opponent would be you, young man."
"The name is Shaggy, Shaggy Eclipse." The boy introduced himself and pointed at his opponent, "And what about yourself."
"I am Professor Reign." The instructor said with a confident smile, "One of the strongest and toughest professors on Duel Island. My deck allows me to break the duelists that face me, and extinguish their vision of dueling."
Shaggy chuckle, "How about we cut the chit chat, and jump straight into the duel."
"My point exactly." He said as the field splits in two as a dueling deck, and a duel disk appears from underneath the dueling field.
"What's the deck for?" asks The dark haired Eclipse.
Professor Reign says, "It's quite simple, the application you filled out required a specific deck that you use. Going from that information, my colleagues and I decided that it would be best to test their skills on a deck they have never used before..."
Shaggy shows a surprised look on his face, "That's gotta be a joke right. I mean why can't we use our own decks."
"I didn't finish explaining yet." The Professor continued, "Using this new deck will help us determine just how well you can adapt to it, and if you manage to succeed with it. Then the deck will forever be yours to keep as a gift from us. But should you lose then you will be banned from taking the entrance exams ever again."
The midnight blue haired teen clenches his hand into fists, and shows a blank stare at the ground knowing how well his actual deck works. However he knows its not the right time to think about it, after all this duel will determine everything for him.
"Hey Shaggy." a voice calls out to him.
Shaggy looks back at the bleachers, and sees his twin sister, "Zoey."
The light blue haired girl gives a thumbs up to him, "Good luck."
A smile appears on his face as he looks back at deck and duel disk, "Thanks Zoey."
Not knowing what the deck could hold, Shaggy puts on the duel disk, and places the unknown deck into the duel disk as the life point counter activates showcasing 4000 life points. The same scenario occurs with Professor Reign, and the holographic simulators activate, as they each draw five cards.
Both say, "Let's Duel."
Life point counter:
Shaggy: 4000
Reign: 4000
"I guess I'll go first." Shaggy draws a card from his deck.
He adds it to his hand, and looks over at the cards he drew. The first card is Silent Magician LV4, the second is Nightmare Steelcage, the third is Spell Absorption, the fourth is Pikeru's Second Sight, the fifth is Reload, and the sixth card is Hiita The Fire Charmer. Shaggy analyzes the card one more time before making his decision.
"I summon Silent Magician Level 4 in attack mode." Shaggy puts the card on his duel disk as a holograph of the card appears on the field with 1000/ATK 1000/DEF, "And next I'll play one card face down to end my turn. Your move Professor Reign."
"Very well." says a confident Reign as he draws a card.
The Professor looks over at his hand along with the card he just drew. The first card is Thunder Nayan Nayan, the second is Batteryman D, The third is Thunder Kid, the fourth is Judgement of Thunder, the fifth is Virus Thunder Seal, and the sixth is Thunder Crash. A grin appears on his face as he formulates his strategy.
"I summon Thunder Nayan Nayan in attack mode." Reign places his card on his duel disk as a holograph of the card appears on the field 1900/ATK and 800/DEF, "And I'll use her to attack your Silent Magician Level 4."
Thunder Nayan Nayan attacks Silent Magician Level 4 who disintegrates into tiny glowy fragments as Shaggy's life points drop from 4000 to 3100.
"With that, I'll end my turn." The Professor said with a calm tone in his face.
"It's my move." Shaggy draws his next card.
He looks over the cards that are currently in his hands. One of them is Nightmare Steelcage, the other is Spell Absorption, the next is Hiita The Fire Charmer, and the card Shaggy drew is Pot of Greed. An idea appears right on the spot for Zoey's brother.
"Alright first I activate Pot of Greed." he activates Pot of Greed as it appears on the field for a few seconds, "This allows me to draw two cards from my deck."
The midnight blue haired Eclipse draws two cards. One of them is a spell card is Monster Reborn, and the second card is Breaker the Magical Warrior.
"I summon Breaker The Magical Warrior." A holograph of the monster appears on the field with 1600/ATK and 1000/DEF, "And next I activate The spell card Nightmare Steelcage." A circular cage made of solid black iron, and spikes connected to it, surrounds Shaggy and the magical warrior, "Now with this card neither of us can attack for two full turns after that my spell card goes straight to the graveyard. And thanks to breaker's ability he gains 500 points for each spell card I activate.
Breaker's attack points increase from 1600 to 2100.
Shaggy says, "That'll be the end of my turn."
Reign grins sinisterly towards Shaggy, "That's quite an interesting move you've made, but just how long will it last." He draws a card, and looks over at his hand.
The Professor has Batteryman D for his first card, Thunder Kid for the second, Thunder Crash for the the third, Virus Thunder Seal for the fourth, Judgment of Thunder for the fifth, and the card he just drew, Thunder Short. By just glancing over them, Reign's strategy comes to him within two seconds.
"First I summon Thunder Kid in Attack mode." He summons his monster card as it's holographic form appears on the battlefield, "Next I activate the spell card, Thunder Short which inflicts 400 points of damage to your life points for each monster on your field, and then I play Thunder crash which inflicts 300 points of damage to each monster I destroy on my side of the field. So I destroy Thunder Nayan Nayan, and Thunder Kid. So in total you take 1000 points of damage."
Thunder Nayan Nayan, and Thunder Kid disintegrate into glowly fragments as a shock of thunder strikes Shaggy. This causes his life points to drop from 3100 to 2100.
"With that I end my turn." The Professor said.
"Finally." an Irritated Shaggy draws a card.
He looks back at what's currently in his hand. The cards Shaggy has are Spell Absorption, Monster Reborn, Reload, Hiita The Fire Charmer, and the card he just drew, Draining Shield. That's when he makes his next move.
"I place one card face down, and end my turn." Shaggy says as a hologram of his face down card appears on the field, "You're turn Professor Reign."
The Professor draws, "With pleasure."
"Hold on I activate the trap card Pikeru's Second Sight." Shaggy interrupted as one of his face down cards rises from the ground, "With this card I'm allowed to see each card you draw until the end of your next turn."
"Of course here it is." The Professor reveals Pot of Greed in his hand, "And I activate it's effect to draw two cards."
"Don't forget." The midnight blue haired Eclipse teen said.
"No matter." He reveals his card over to Shaggy, "It's Card of Sanctity, and Heavy Storm., and what a coincidence because I know activate both of them."
A holographic form of the cards appear on the field. The first card Heavy Storm destroys Shaggy's Nightmare Steel Cage along with his other face down cards.
"Now each of us draw until there are six cards in our hands." The Professor said.
Shaggy adds two extra cards to his hand. One of them is Dark Spiral Force, and the other card is Dark Magic Twin Burst. His opponent Professor Reign draws three more cards, the first is Thunder Dragon, the second is Polymerization, and The last card is Ryoku.
"Remember you still have to show me what you draw." Shaggy said.
Reign shows him the three cards he added to his hand.
"First I send Thunder Dragon from my hand to the graveyard in order to add two more Thunder Dragons to my hand." The Professor said as he discards Thunder Dragon, and adds two more Thunder Dragons to his hand, "Next I play Polymerization to fuse both of my dragons to summon Twin Headed Thunder Dragon."
A red four legged twin headed dragon appears on the field with 2800/ATK and 2100 DEF.
Shaggy doesn't look impressed, "That doesn't scare me."
"Next I activate my spell card Ryoku." Reign places his spell card in the duel disk as it appears on the field before everybody.
A surprised Zoey says, "Did he just say Ryoku?"
Jake nods with nervous look, "I believe he did."
The midnight blue haired Eclipse looks afraid, "Wait a second with that you can..."
"I can take half of your warrior's attack points, and add it to my dragon." He explained.
Twin Headed thunder Dragon's Attack increases from 2800 ATK to 3850.
"And now Twin Headed Thunder Dragon destroy Breaker The Magical Warrior with Twin Lightning Blast."
Professor Reign's monster destroys Shaggy's causing his life points to drop from 2100
to 350. Twin head Thunder Dragon's ATK drops back to 2800.
The result from his attack causes The Eclipse teen to collapse on the ground.
While laying on the ground, Shaggy thinks about how this duel's been going. If only he could use his actual deck then the results would be different than they are now. He's always been wanting to go Duel Island no matter what. But now Shaggy thinks that it isn't gonna be possible with the deck that he's forced to use. These are the things that run through his mind as he blankly stares at the field on the ground.
From the crowds within Duel Stadium a surprised Jake says, "Oh no, I don't think this is gonna end well for him."
Zoey yells, "Shaggy this no time to be laying on the ground."
The voice of his younger twin causes him to open his eyes.
"You can't stop there." The light blue haired Eclipse continues, "I know you can take more than that. Remember the times you've spent analyzing cards until you put your deck together. Sure it's not the deck you're used to, but still there's always a strong point in every deck. You just gotta wait for the right card."
Shaggy thinks to himself, "She's right, there's still a chance I can pull this off."
The midnight blue haired Eclipse stands back up on his feet with the six cards he is currently holding. He pants while placing his two fingers on top of his deck, "It's my move."
Zoey's twin adds the seventh card to his hand, and looks over at the cards in his hand. The first card is Spell Absorbtion, Monster Reborn, Reload, Hiita The Fire Charmer, Dark Spiral Force, Dark Magic Twin Burst, and Dark Magician Girl.
"Perfect this is just the card I need." Shaggy places the spell card in the slot, "Now I activate the spell card monster reborn to bring back Silent Magician Level 4."
The holographic version of Silent Magician LV4 reappears on the field.
"Next I sacrifice my monster to summon Dark Magician Girl." The Eclipse kid yells as he places the card on his duel disk.
Shaggy's monster disintegrates into tiny pieces as a hologram of Dark Magician Girl appears on the field with 2000/ATK and 1700/DEF.
"Next I activate the spell card reload." Shaggy sends his entire hand back to his deck, shuffles it, "You see with this card I can send my hand back to my deck, shuffle it, and redraw the same number of cards."
He draws Sage's Stone, Mystic Box, Twin Keto The Cure Master, Megamorph, and Raigeki. Thanks to his knowledge of duel monsters, Shaggy gets an idea to end this duel right on the spot.
Within the crowds Zoey looks up at the sky, and prays, "I hope you did what you had to Shaggy."
Jake asks with the nervous look on his face, "Come on. Oww and stop arguing with me."
"Arguing with who?" Zoey asks.
Their friend facepalms, "It's... ah nevermind."
Back at the dueling field between Shaggy who has 350 Life Points and Professor Reign who still has 4000 Life Points. He notices something weird when the thirteen year old boy leaves a smile on his face.
Professor Reign looks a little curious, "What's with the look, Shaggy? Have I finally been able to break your thinking way of dueling?"
"No you didn't, and I think now It's time I ended this duel, but first I activate Twin Keto The Cure Master to increase my life points by 2000 points." Shaggy explained.
Shaggy's life points increase from 350 to 2350.
"Next I activate the spell card Sage's Stone." A holographic version of the card appears as he places the card in the slot of his duel disk, "With this I can special summon Dark Magician directly from my deck."
One of the cards in his duel disk begins to glow as The Dark Magician appears on the field next to the Dark Magician Girl with 2500/ATK and 2100/DEF.
"Dark Magician..." A shocked Jake said.
"... and Dark Magician Girl." Zoey said in the same tone.
Professor Reign says, "Interesting so you manage to pull off summoning Dark Magician and Dark Magician Girl on the same turn. I must say that's some talent."
"Why thank you, but now I play the spell card Mystic Box. An illusion like boxes appears from nowhere, one of them shows places to pierce swords through while the other one doesn't have any of them, "You see with this spell card your Twin Headed Thunder Dragon gets destroyed, and Dark Magician switches to your field."
Reign gives Shaggy a suspicious look, "Now why exactly would you do that, Dark Magician is stronger than Dark Magician Girl."
"Hold on, I'm not finished yet." Shaggy inserts another spell card before it goes to the graveyard, "Now I activate Raigeki which destroys all monsters on my opponents side of the field. So Dark Magician gets destroyed, and Dark Magician Girl's Attack increases by 300 points."
Dark Magician Girl's attack changes from 2000 to 2300.
"Next I activate The spell card Megamorph to double her attack points." says Shaggy.
Shaggy's monster's attack points doubles from 2300 to 4600.
Professor Reign looks rather shocked then pleased, "Oh No!"
"Oh Yes!" A confident Shaggy yells with a grin on his face, "Now Dark Magician Girl attack Professor Reign with Dark Burning Attack."
Dark Magician Girl uses her wand to create magic that strikes Reign to the ground. This also causes his life points to drop from 4000 to 0.
"I did it." an exhausted Shaggy falls on his knees as tries to catch his breath.
The holographic field starts disappear, but then the midnight blue haired Eclipse notices Dark Magician Girl wink at him before fading away.
"That was interesting duel." says Professor Reign as he gets back up on his feet.
Zoey's twin brother laughs, "I agree it was a very interesting duel."
Reign sticks his hand out to his opponent, "If there is one thing I'm gonna have to say, it's that you're the first duelist who has ever beaten me here."
"By the way, How do I know if I passed the exam?" Shaggy asks as he gets back up.
Professor Reign says, "Well you have two options, my colleagues will tell you personally, or They can project it on the screen behind you."
"I'd want them to project it on the screen." The midnight blue haired Eclipse said.
He points over at the screen right behind me, "Now my friends show his results of The Entrance Exam on the screen."
A picture of Shaggy's face appears on screen along with words saying, "Entrance Exam" underneath it. There is also a counter that starts with 0, but then increases as it determines the results of his entrance exam. The number comes to a stop at 700 points which comes to a surprise for everyone.
"700 points?" says a shocked instructor.
"Woah." Shaggy said with a surprised tone in his voice.
The crowd sitting at the bleachers clapped their hands as he looks over at them. Even his twin sister put a smile on her face while he just stood there blankly.
"Congratulations Shaggy Eclipse, you've just passed The Entrance Exam." The Professor gives his opponent a handshake.
"Thank you Professor Reign." Shaggy said as he walks back to the bleachers were his twin sister and his best friend are sitting at again.
"You were amazing big brother." The light blue haired Eclipse said as her brother sat down beside her.
The blonde friend nodded, "I agree Shaggy, that last turn you made was surely legendary in my book."
He scratches his head embarrassingly, "Thank you guys."
"Anytime." says a cheerful Zoey.
The announcer says, "Jake Sunday please move forward to field 06."
Shaggy notices the same look that his friend had when it they were taking the written exam. The word nervous was written all over Jake's face even Zoey could tell what was going on with their friend.
"Hey no need to be nervous." The midnight blue haired Eclipse said.
Zoey nodded, 'Yeah I think you'll be fine."
"Yeah but I won't be able to use my deck." The blonde complained, "It has to be one of those testing decks that everyone else had to use."
Shaggy says, "It's not about the cards Jake, it's about how well you adapt to the deck they give you. I mean it took me a bit of time, but you saw how I manage to pull through."
"I guess you've got a point." Jake gets up from the bleachers, and heads down to the field.
Shaggy and his younger twin yell, "Good Luck."
Some of you may've already read this already, and are wondering are you gonna release any new content past Chapter 6. My answer to this is yes currently I'm editing Chapter 7. I hope you all enjoyed reading this, and as always thanks for reading!