YuGiOh GX: Cyber Duelist
Chapter 1: Making It Just In Time
Rau was running down the empty sidewalk, wind running through his hair, as he was trying to make it in time for the Duel Academy entrance exams. He knew he was late, and he didn't want to make a bad impression on the teachers. "Oh, man! I'm already 1 minute behind, I gotta speed things up!" Rau ran to the door as it was closing and caught it just in time.
"Hey, what do you think that you are doing sir." Said a very perturbed door man.
"I know I m late, but you gotta let me take the tests, PLEASE!" Rau practically begged, he knew this is where he belonged.
The door man thought for a while before replying "All right sir, just follow the colored blue arrows on the floor to find the room where the written test is being held, then follow the red arrows until you find the dueling fields. I'll inform the headmaster of your arrival." The door man then turned around and headed straight for the dueling fields.
Rau ran into the testing room to find it nearly empty, there were a few people checking over their answers. Rau went up to the teacher and received a test packet, and answered every question to his ability. After he was finished with the testing packet, Rau followed the red arrows on the ground to find the field test area. He walked in and found a depressed boy walking off the field, which gave him the feeling the young applicant had lost his duel. Rau walked up to the teacher's table and said, "Hello, my name is Rau and I'm here to test to get into the academy."
"Ah, yes. I was told of your lateness, and I'm not sure if you belong here if you can't make it to the tests on time." The headmaster said.
"I'm sorry, I was making some last minute changes to my deck and lost track of time. I'll do ANYTHING to get into the academy." Rau pleaded with the headmaster.
"Fine, you will have to beat my deck to get into the academy, but you'll start out in Slifer. Be warned my deck is very tricky so don't be ashamed if you lose to it." The head master bragged.
Rau responded to that by saying, "Oh, I won't lose, now let's duel."
Both duelers went to opposite sides of the dueling field as the duel commenced. "Hey, teach, why don't we up the stakes a little bit huh? I win, I get accepted into Ra Yellow, instead of just Slifer Red." Rau said.
"Fine, but by the way, I have a name thank you very much. It's Dr. Vellian Crowler, so don't get it wrong again!" Dr. Crowler retorted. "I'll start things off by playing 2 cards face down, then I summon 'Ancient Gear Soldier' (1300-1300) in attack mode and end it there."
"Ok, doc, I'll go farther. I summon 'Cyber Dragon' (2100-1600) in attack mode, and I can summon him because you have one more monster than I do. Now I attack your monster, go Trident Blast!"
"Nice try scholar, but I activate my face down, 'Limiter Removal' which doubles the attack of one of my machine monsters, and I chose my 'Ancient Gear Soldier' (2600-1300)."
Rau's dragon was destroyed and his LP's were reduced down to 3500. "Ok, I'll lay down a face down, and now your monster is destroyed because of Limiter Removal."
Sure enough, Ancient Gear Soldier shattered into holographic pixels, "But he will return right now!" Said Dr. Crowler as he inserted a card into his duel disk, "I play 'Monster Reborn' and bring back Ancient Gear Soldier and sacrifice him for 'Ancient Gear Engineer' (1500-1500) and now I attack you directly, and place a face down card."
The Engineer rammed into Rau as he got up and his LP's were down to 2000. 'All right, he already got me down to half my LP's, time to get serious.' "I draw and summon to the field 'Cyber Missile Dragon' (1900-1600) and I'll attack your Engineer now!" The engineer was destroyed as Crowler's LP's lowered down to 3600, "I'll then play another face down card and end my turn."
"All right, next lesson, I play the magic card 'Magnet Circle Level 2' which allows me to special summon one level 2 or below machine monster to the field from my hand, and I have the perfect one: 'Ancient Gear' (100-800) and now I can special summon another from my hand, (100-800) because of his special ability. I sacrifice both monsters to summon 'Ancient Gear Golem' (3000-3000) in attack mode!" A huge goliath like creature rose behind Dr. Crowler, "Now I attack your Cyber Missile Dragon and damage your life points! Hahaha!"
"Not so fast doc, I play my face down card 'Negate Attack'." Dr. Crowler just sneered as his monster went right through the vortex destroying Rau's monster. "What just happened." Rau said in a shocked tone of voice.
"The special ability of Ancient Gear Golem negates any trap until after damage calculation, so your monster still goes down." Dr. Crowler answered.
Rau's life points went down to 900, Dr. Crowler by the way still had 3600. Rau drew and said, "Sorry doc, but I'm gonna win right now!" The whole audience gasped as they thought he was crazy. "I play my other face down, 'Graceful Charity' which lets me draw 3 cards, as long as I discard 2 from my hand, so I draw 3 times and discard Cyber Tank Dragon and Cyber Jet Dragon. Finally I summon 'Cyber Prototype Dragon' in attack mode (/2000)."
"HAHAHA!" Dr Crowler laughed out loud, "You think you can win with that junk heap."
Rau felt insulted and yelled back, "Yo doc, never make fun of my Cyber deck. That's right I have a Cyber deck, and look at his attack points again doc!" Crowler's eyes widened as Cyber Prototype Dragon's attack rose to 4000, "Allow me to explain, Cyber Prototype Dragon's attack points increase by 1000 for every card in my graveyard with the word 'Cyber' in its name. Lastly I activate 'Battle Fusion' which gives my monster attack points equal to my attack target's attack points during battle phase. My attack target is your Gear Golem." Cyber Prototype Dragon's attack rose to 7000.
"WAIT, TIME OUT!" Dr Crowler couldn't believe it.
"Yea, now Prototype Dragon win me this match!" Rau's dragon sent a blast of energy from its mouth with easily obliterated Crowler's monster card as his life points went down to 0.
"No way, he was my very best card." Dr. Crowler said under a junk heap that used to be his Gear Golem as Rau left the dueling field everyone cheered for him as he got instant access into the highest ranking dorm there was.
However, there was another boy in an all blue uniform who just grunted in disapproval, got up, and left the arena. Rau went and sat down in the stands as he watched the rest of the other application duels. Several of the students had won their duels and several other students had lost their application duels. When all was said and done, Rau followed the rest of the accepted duelists to the Duelist Academy helicopter, which left soon after everyone had filled all the seats in the helicopter. Rau enjoyed listening to his I-POD video, and after a while he looked out the window to see the island come into view.
Rau excited the copter and listened as Seto Kaiba welcomed all of the new comers, "Greetings to you all. You have been accepted into the best Duelist Academy in the nation. I accept nothing but your best, no matter what dorm you have been placed in. In about an hour and a half, your welcome dinner will be ready, be ready by that time. Enjoy your year here at Duelist Academy. That will be all."
Rau went up to the desk and received his Ra Yellow uniform, his PDA, and his room number. He found out his room number was 115 as he walked across the campus to find the pretty comftorable Ra Yellow dormitories, "Wow, this is nice!" Rau exclaimed as he entered and found room 115. He slid in the key and opened the door to a double bed, a leather couch on the other side of the room,a computer,and a t.v. Rau opened the bed side drawer, put his deck in it, and went in his bathroom. He then exited in his spiffy new uniform. "I look good." He said as he looked in his mirror before exiting to the common room with his deck on his belt. He walked up to a beautiful girl with blonde mid back level hair, with a white version of his uniform, obviously the Ra girl's uniform. She turned around and bumped into him by accident. "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry." She apologized quickly.
"Hey, it's no biggie. What's your name, I'm Rau." Rau responded.
"Oh, hey, my name is Chelsea, this is my first year here at the academy, so I'm still getting used to the campus." She said.
"No way, I am too! We can check it out together." Rau said in an excited tone of voice.
They both agreed to take a round trip of the entire school and eventually came across the Ra Yellow dueling arena, "No way, this is thecoolest arena I've ever seen. Man I can't wait to duel on it." Rau exclaimed.
"If you think this is nice, then wait until you see the Obelisk arena. Hey, how about you andI duelright now? I've got an extra duel disk." Chelsea asked.
Right when Rau was about to say yes his PDA went off and he received a message saying it was time for the boys meeting dinner and he headed off. He met up with some really nice boys, including some awesome duelists. He overheard some of them talking about the 'Slifer Slackers' and decided to see what was up. "Hey guys, who are Slifer Slackers?"
"Duh, they are only the worst in the academy. Since you are in Ra, I'll let you in on a secret, never lose to a Slifer Red! Other than that, being inRa is about the best there is, only better thing is being in Obelisk." 'Never lose to a Slifer, never lose to a Slifer, never lose to a Slifer' Rau kept thinking to himself. After a while, the dinner came to an end and Rau headed back up to his awesome room. He turned on the T.V. and started to watch some NBA games, being such a huge fan of basketball. Just then there was a knock on the door, and as Rau looked through the peep hole, he saw what looked to be another Ra. He opened the door and said, "Hello? Can I help you?"
"Yes, are you Rau Mikabe?" The Obelsik asked.
"Uh, yea. Who are you?" He answered, and then asked.
"Oh yea I almost forgot, my name is Richie, and I was told to deliver you a package with some new rare cards from your father." Richie said.
"Let me see, no WAY!" Rau said surprised at what he saw, "These are the all new 'Cyber – Assassin' cards that my father had made earlier, he must think highly of me to give them to me."
"That's cool, hey is that the Sixers game?" Richie asked.
"Heck yea, I'm from Philly so I gotta stay up to date with the sports." Rau said.
"Let's watch the game, I'll leave your new cards on your bed so you can open them later." Richie said as he set them on the bed and they both went to sit on the sofa and enjoying the pleasures of being in Ra. After the game was over, the Sixers had beaten the Wizards, Sixers: 101 Wizards: 98, Rau and Richie were celebrating in Rau's room. "Oh yea, the Sixers are 1-0!" Rau and Richie both cheered as the final buzzer rang. Then Richie said he was going to leave for his room and when Rau was about to get ready for bed, his PDA rang as he got an email. Hey, I've seen you around the campus, and how you beat Crowler's legendary deck. I want to prove to you it was a fluke so you and I are going to duel in the Obelisk dueling arena at midnight. You had better show up. Rau decided he was going to stand up to the bully and earn his reputation, so he took out his new cards, and edited his deck by adding his father's brand new cards into it. Later he walked towards the dueling arena, being careful not to be seen in the halls during curfew, and entered to see the Obelisk student there.
"Good, I thought you would show up, the name's Drake, and I'm gonna show you how strong my deck is so let's duel!" Drake said as his duel disk activated.
Rau did the same thing climbing up onto the stage and activated his duel disk saying, "Ok, you're on, the duel to determine if I'm good enough to be in Ra Yellow!"
"DUEL!" They both said as Rau drew a sixth and said, "I'll start off being the challenged. All right I summon…"
How's that for a cliff hanger. PLEASE don't flame this, if you don't like it then don't read it. By the way, this is the second time i've posted this story so i could see how it would do this time, so don't flame for that either, just good reviews or constructive criticism please. Thanks!