When the droning of a teacher's voice became a dull buzz in the back of your head that's when you just want to say fuck school and leave for the nice comfort of a warm bed and lie there for ages.
Though that wasn't the case for Trent, instead of taking a bullet to his brains he instead decided to rest his head on the desk and pretend to sleep. He was pretending since he couldn't actually fall asleep due to the math professor's talking. Trent was, what a normal would say, a genius, though he more than likely preferred the term a lazy nerd. His grades were top marks and he received numerous awards, though he didn't care, he didn't really seem to care about much these days.
Nothing really excited him, he found an outlet such as a card game that's been around for a long time, Chaotic, but he quickly became a master at that and rarely lost a battle. His mind would constantly be creating strategies and predicting what the next card would be in an attack pile. He was so good that he once beat Tangath Toborn with a H'earring.
His opponents face was priceless though so the best he gave was a stare that showed amusement
Though the game is fun to play with with his best and only friend Howard, Howard's better at it than he is anyway so Trent loses pretty much all the time though he does get lucky sometimes.
His best friend poked him in the shoulder, "Teach is looking at you," He whispered in his ear, and when Trent looked up no doubt the math teacher was looking at him.
He put his head back down, "Let him look, I already understand what's he's talking about so there's no reason to listen."
"That's insubordination," He sang
"No, it's called going the hell to sleep. It's the end of the year why can't we just watch movies or something?"
"Well we still have finals-,"
"Exempt,"
"Which some people who aren't exempt still have to take," The blonde haired boy continued as though his friend hadn't interrupted him, "Since you get it can't you explain this to me?" Trent looked over at his friends paper and sighed
"Howard, it's simple factoring-,"
"Simple for you,"
"Is there a reason you two are disrupting my class?" The teacher was standing directly in front of them and Trent sighed, "I'm trying to teach here,"
The dark skinned boy gave him a level stare, "I'm showing him how to do these problems,"
"If he needs help then he can raise his hand,"
"Obviously your method of teaching is an epic fail since he's not asking you,"
The entire class was quiet
The teacher leaned down on top of his desk and gave him a look of anger, Trent didn't look in his direction instead his eyes became their normal half lids and he leaned back into his seat, "You aren't just going to talk back to me in my own classroom,"
He dipped his head, "Well, I'm sort of doing it now since none of these kids can understand anything you're saying."
"I am a professional-!"
"Well you probably need to return your certificate to Craigslist." Trent got his blue messenger bag and put on his black beanie he was forced to take off once he got into class, "This is ridiculous, I'm out of here, I have to much time for it to be wasted on a teacher who doesn't know how to teach properly."
"If you leave this class then I'll tell your coach!"
He shrugged, "Oh, I am scared, please don't," He said in the most bland sarcastic voice he could muster, "Howard I'll be in the cafeteria if you need me." His messenger had his laptop inside so when he got the café he took it out and went to the Chaotic website where he could play with people from all around the world. It was cool playing with people around the world and the online version was a little better than real life cards, it made his area of players expand and it was a little more challenging.
He had gotten his scanner a little while after playing online, he didn't understand the use of the thing but had kept it anyway since it made his all his cards look cooler. Ordering a coffee and sitting down in a vacant chair in the vacant café was probably the most relaxing thing he had done all day, he opened his laptop and went right to the site.
He checked to see if any of his trades had gone through and saw that he was lucky enough to get traded his Staluk, and a Mugician's Lyre for Nivenna which really put him in a good mood. Energy was kind of low at 35 but with the right battle gear and mugic she'd be a real heavy hitter not mention she has 3 mugic's good on her.
He went to the Hotekk Drome and decided on trying out his new card in a 6v6 battle. He was randomly put against someone with the screen name 'MajorTom'
'How original though I can't really say anything being as mine is 'dntcareso1'' The game had an update last week where they added a special chat feature so people could chat while battling, and a friend system as well. It seemed by the looks of the way his army was set up he was a major fan of overworlders, this would be entertaining for Trent since he was mostly an Underworld player.
Maxxor was on the kid's team, though he put it at the very front which either showed cockiness or in lesser terms skill. Such a powerful creature such as Maxxor should be last or somewhere in the middle as a way to know what the opponents bringing before you bring the big guns. Obviously this MajorTom either knew what he was doing or a complete noobie who looked out on such a rare find.
He had on the sides of Maxxor was Raimusa and Blugon behind that row had Tangath Toborn and Arias and for Major Tom's mage he had Vidav. Trent had to appreciate MajorTom's choice in cards, he seemed like an overworld loyalist but he knew something about how to play this game.
Trent's decked was stacked differently, smack dab in the middle adjacent from Maxxor was Rothar on the sides of Rothar was Magmon and Nauthilax. Second team after that was the lovely lady Takinom, and next to her was Khugar and the last one was his newest card Nivenna.
Trent placed his chin in his hand and stared intently at the screen as Rothar beat Maxxor at power initiative at Eye of the Malestrom location. He had to discard a Mugic so he discarded a Selective strain Mugic, he had a strategy of putting a bad Mugic card in his hand each time so if he ahd to discard one he'd be able to get rid of it.
He smirked as they both showed their battle gear, "Well MajorTime, let's get Chaotic,"
Rothar vs Maxxor, Maxxor wins
Raimusa vs Magmon, Magmon wins
Magmon vs Maxxor, Maxxor wins
Blugon vs Nauthilax, Blugon wins
Takinom vs Blugon, Takinom wins
Maxxor vs Khugar, Maxxor wins
Takinom vs Tangath Toborn, Takinom wins
Arias vs Takinom, Takinom wins
Maxxor vs Takinom
Trent curse when his Takinom was destroyed by a flash kick, this battle was proving to be seriously challenging. He had thought he had Maxxor in that last battle but he had cast a stunning Mugic that had frozen his turns. Now he was in a corner, Nivenna's energy was significantly lower than Maxxor's and he only had three muges and only three left and it was a simply cannon of casualty, though there was one attack that could save him, he just had to hope he'd pull it.
By his luck he pulled it the next turn, his mind was going over a way he could defeat MajorTom in a one hit kill, if it got to his turn then he would no doubt heal with the three mugics he has left. First he cast a Chorus of Cothica then an Overworlds Fanfare of Elemental Champions and he chose air as his new element. Along with his liquilizer which gave him water attacks and it being the lava pond so add five, Nivenna could now use water, fire, and air attacks, he didn't have anything that could give him earth so this would just have to do.
He could cast one more mugic before he was forced to either attack or pass so he cast his last muge on an Underworlder's cannon of casualty, basic but effective. Now he had to attack he had five seconds so he quickly chose his next attack, he was too afraid to calculate the damage it would do so he just hoped.
Allmageddon
It did ten base damage, fifteen fire damage, ten air damage, and finally ten water damage that added to 65 damage done to Maxxor in one turn. He just had five energy left, all Trent needed was one low heal, he had a torrent of flame just ready for him.
He used Ember flourish
Trent smirked, one torrent of flame and the match was over with a clean code, he leaned back in his seat with staring at the screen, "Interesting game," He saw the comments were filled with messages, he honestly hadn't known the player was messaging him. By what it was saying it seemed as if MajorTom was carrying out a conversation with himself.
Trent stayed away from over friendly people like that
A message popped up on his screen and out popped a seven letter and number code
"The hell is this?" He squinted, he noticed a presence behind him and by the smell concluded that it was Howard, "Hey have you ever gotten a code like this before?"
Howard put his hand on Trent's shoulder and looked at the screen, "Hmm, no, maybe it's a code for your scanner, Chaotic does give out promotional codes sometimes."
"But it's too small to be a card code,"
Howard shrugged, "I'd put it in just to be safe," Howard walked away and Trent stared after him in suspicion before turning back to the screen. He decided on thinking it over later tonight but now since school was over he had track practice to go to.
He was too proud to admit to being in physical pain but the way his legs were throbbing…well that was just too painful to ignore. That inane teacher had indeed called his coach who forced him to work out four times more than his teammates. He had never been more worked out than he was today, his legs hurt so much that he was forced to take a bath.
He hated baths
He sighed and pulled his laptop into his lap, "Stupid teacher who can't even tell us how to factor a simple equation." When he got on Chaotic that message stilled showed and wouldn't allow him to do much of anything. If it forced him away from the site then he might as well get rid of it
'Put it in your scanner,'
His eyes shifted towards his scanner lying right next to him on his nightstand, something inside was telling him that this code would change things, he didn't know how but they would change. He grabbed his scanner, which showed the time 11:57, and put in the seven number letter code and clicked the select button.
He frowned when nothing happened except for the message leaving his screen
The bad thing was he couldn't even access his deck on his scanner or online. He yawned and thought it best to get a good night's sleep before trying to tackle his technical problems and lied down for a good night's sleep not knowing that things had changed for him and they would continue to get better.
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