Hello Everyone! Today is the first day of High school (as a senior, WOOOOOOOO! BOW DOWN TO THE CROWN!) For me and most of you so good luck! Thank you for actually following my note and going to this story. Or if you just happen to come by this out of pure curiosity then thank you as well. Thoughts in italics, And I don't own yugioh, just my OC(s) and the story.

Speaking of which, we should get on with it!

"Ah crap, I'm gonna be late! Aurora's gonna kill me if she finds out!"

I burst through the door to my house with a pop tart hanging from my mouth. I run down the street, pulling out a small compact box. I press the button on the top and throw it to the ground. The box expands into a floating hoverboard that's all black with a red lightning bolt on the top.

"In case you were wondering, the teen running um... boarding as fast as he can to school is me, Zane Maddox. I live with my older sister while our parents are out of town which is always mainly because their jobs require them to live close to them now that they're changed locations. Which happens to be in Japan of all places and I can't go!

Anyway back to the story at hand. I was riding the hoverboard and was almost at the school when suddenly I heard the hum of a hoverboard zooming behind me. Just as I was about to turn around a blur crashed into me knocking me off my board.

"Ah, hey watch where you're going jerk!"

As I looked up I saw a familiar face that I recognized as one of my classmates, but I couldn't place the name. He wore a white t-shirt with white jeans and had a heavy camouflage combat boots; even his hair was white as his curls covered his forehead. He was known well known as one of the most popular teens in school and is a pretty well known teen duelist in the school. The teen simply glared at me and grabbed his board as he rode off toward the school.

"Tsk what a rude person, didn't even apologize or check to see if I was okay."

I stood up and calmly dusted myself off until I remembered something rather important.

"Crap! I'm still gonna be late, I've gotta hurry if I want to make it on time.

I hopped back on my board and shot towards the school like a bullet. I blasted through the entrance doors and practically flew down the hall and up the steps that led to my class and as I was heading up I hopped off my board and pressed the button to shrink it back into a box. Classroom 20-1 on the 4th floor was just a few steps away from me now and as I dived into the class crashing into my desk upside-down, the first period bell rang. As I struggled to get out of my embarrassing position, I heard my teacher speak to a student.

"Mr. Haraell could you please help Mr. Maddox sit in his chair, correctly."

Mr. Tesoa; A man with hair the color of fire, orange eyes and pale skin. Dueling math fundamentals teacher who is as boring as his class is. He's almost always sarcastic and is generally a disliked teacher, or at least by my standards he is. For those of you who are wondering why a school in the real world is teaching dueling, sit down while I tell you a story and if you're already sitting down grab some popcorn or a snack or two.

Years ago the government by some pot induced idea decided that it would be easier to make decisions and solve disagreements by dueling. At first this was fought by skeptics and Congress and to be honest they proposed a pretty valid argument. That is until the government demonstrated it using two random duelists in Washington D.C. Once Congress saw how efficient it was, they ran it by the president who also felt that it would work out for the better. Within a year a new law was passed, The Duel Reformation Act which encouraged the schools and universities to teach their regular courses but it all has to be dueling related as the world quickly followed America's decision and changed their system as well. The schools still taught the subjects they were required to teach and the three branches of America's government still bickered and argued, but they did all of it through duels and things related to it.

A teen with olive skin dark brown eyes and slicked back jet black hair walked over to me and with three tugs freed me from my seat.

Romel (Rom) Haraell, he is one of my best friends. He's a good duelist; he just needs to have more confidence in his cards.

After I hit the ground I grabbed Jack's hand and he helped pull me up.

"Cutting it kinda close there weren't ya?"

"Hey I would have been here earlier but I had a small road bump while getting here."

"And I'm sure you can both talk about it after class, now would both of you return to your seats?"

We both gave each other nods and silently walked back to our seats. The period dragged along at a snail's pace and just as I was about to fall asleep out of pure boredom, the bell rang.

"Thank god, I wouldn't have lasted a second longer."

I began gathering my things and threw on my backpack as Rom walked over to me and we were about to walk out of class to our next one, when Mr. Tesoa stopped me.

"Mr. Maddox you made a mammoth disruption diving into my class today and because of that I should call your sister and tell her that you've been a disturbance in class today.

Involuntarily I cringe at the thought of getting reprimanded by my sister again until I see that Mr. Tesoa's stern expression has softened.

"However, you were on time today even if you did it in a noisy and undignified way so I'll let this slide, you are free to leave."

I smiled and nodded my head, then walked out to see Rom waiting for me.

"Come on dude if we don't hurry we're gonna be late. "

"Yeah, I dodged a bullet with that one so I don't want to waste my free life."

We both picked up speed and dashed to our next class: Duel English.

Sort of a play on words, Duel English was exactly that it taught English and a Card explanation, which is basically figuring out what certain card's effects are if the description is unclear at first glance. We walked inside and went to our seats, which were right next to each other.

"I am sorry to say that Mrs. Rane wasn't able to come to class today, but she says that if you keep the noise to a minimum then you can just sit and talk. However; if there is too much noise she said that I was supposed to give you all worksheets to work on."

Mrs. Rane was the teacher that everyone heard about, throughout the school. Her looks and demeanor made her one of the most sought after teachers in the school, every student wanted to be in her class. She had silver hair with fair skin and grey eyes, in case you were wondering.

Everyone groaned at the prospect of having to do work, so the class octave was a low hum of voices. Just then, Rom turned to me with an expectant expression on his face.

"So dude, what was the road bump you were talking about?"

"Do you know anything about a teen who wears all white and has white hair? "

"Have you been sleeping under a rock for the past few years? The guy you just described is none other than Senza (Pallid) Cordia, one of the most intimidating people in school. He also happens to be a pretty vicious duelist."

"I don't care what he is or who he is, he knocked me off my board this morning and I want an apology."

"Well you can ask for one when our final class comes, speaking of class the bell's about to ring."

At the exact moment he said that the bell sounded and we were off to our next class: World history. Since world history has nothing to do with dueling, I'm going to skip it. The class we had after that was Dueling science, and since some of you are probably wondering why there is a science to yugioh let me explain.

Once dueling became even more popular than it already was, the people at Konami decided to kick it up a notch by creating actual Duel Arenas and then Duel Disks. The government supplied the resources needed and the scientists to create the designs and machines. Soon everyone had a Duel Disk or D.D which are now are disguised as watches (like how the hoverboard was originally a box) and are set to a person's fingerprint, and was learning to use them to the fullest. Eventually it went to Duel Gazers and the newest one: Duel Contacts which everyone has in at least one eye. So that is what the science of dueling really covers, the holographic technology for dueling.

Our science teacher ushered us into the class as we took our seats, already anxious for this class to end. I mean don't get me wrong I mean, the science behind holographic tech is really cool and all but it's the teacher that makes the class tough.

Mr. Marqell Watts is my science teacher. He's friendly and often shows his class any new experiments he has made. The only problem with this teacher is his voice when he's giving lectures, his voice become somewhat mono tone and makes it easy to fall asleep in his class no matter what the subject of the lesson.

After having to listen to the world's most boring lecture, we were finally free. We both were on our way to lunch till we passed the jerk in white otherwise known as Senza. He gives Rom a passing glance and glares at me, as if I'm something he's found under his shoe. We hold the stare for a few minutes until Rom taps my shoulder, bringing me back to reality.

"C'mon bro, its pizza day and I don't wanna miss it."

"Yeah, you're right."

We walked to our table after getting pizza from the lines, I got pepperoni and Rom got cheese. When we got to the table we high fived our friend Wildfang and sat down as I told her what happened.

Adrial Wildfang the tomboy, pretty much anything that you could come up with in your mind, she can do. Her skills are mainly in dueling though, not many regular duelists can stand up to her deck. Although with short brown hair with green highlights and a medium figure, and sky blue eyes most boys who have challenged the tough girl were more interesting in dueling to date her. Today she was wearing her usual multicolored t-shirt and ripped black jeans with blue converses.

After I was finished telling my story to Adrial she had a smirk on her face that, to be honest kinda worried me.

"What is it? What's with that look, and that smirk?"

"You've to duel him next class period Zane, this would be a great duel and it's the best way to confront him."

"Yeah, I was just about to say that."

"Alright I get it! I'll duel him during class."

My friends reach over the table to high five each other as I shake my head. After a while everyone gets up and we all go to our final class: Duel Training. The three of us had the exact same class and (big surprise) sat right around each other.

"Alright now class settle down, y'all know the routine let's head out to the duel fields. "

As you can probably tell about the class, it's pretty much dueling for 2 hours. Mr. Drake Roan is the best teacher out of all the ones I have, he's great at dueling, he makes everyone laugh, and he helps his students with their dueling strategies. He has teal eyes, a mosomorph body type, and always wears his hair in a short ponytail. He usually wears a blue shirt and black dress pants with Italian shoes.

So the class finally got to the duel fields, which in reality was a collection of buildings that was used for dueling and a large field that also served the same purpose.

"Alright everyone may choose a place and duel amongst themselves."

I looked at my friends and nodded as we walked towards Senza with a look of determination on our faces. That is; until we were stopped by two teens that looked like twin, both wearing orange and black clothes with one wearing a black D.D and one wearing an orange one.

"Excuse me but who are you?"

The one with the orange Duel Disk stepped forward.

"My name is Aran and that is my brother Oren."

"Would you please step to the side I need to speak to Senza?"

Aran's brother stepped up next to him and looked me dead in the eyes.

"Anything you have to say must go through us first."

I was taken aback by that piece of information, was this guy really that big? Either way I was getting that apology no matter what it took. So I glared at them and grinded my teeth as I spoke my next words.

"Fine then, tell him I want an apology for him knocking me off my hoverboard this morning."

Oren turned around and whispered into Senza's ear, I could see that Senza was saying something back because Oren smirked and nodded before coming back to my friend's and I.

"Senza says that he will apologize if you duel him-"

"Yes! When and where?"

"I didn't finish. He says that he will apologize if you duel him."

"But you have to duel one of us first."

Without hesitating I smiled wide and belted out.

"Alright let's go."

I could hear Rom talking to Adrial and how this would attract attention. In reality I didn't care what it did, as long as I got what I came for. We all walked to a duel field as the two brothers stood in front of me.

"Um… is there something you two need from me?"

"Yes there is."

"A choice needs to be made."

"Choose one of us as your opponent."

I stood there and looked from one to the other and decided on Aran. He walked a good distance away from me and faced me. We both scanned our thumbs on our watches as they transformed into Duel Disks and I put my deck into its slot. We look across from each and both simultaneously say:

"Let's Duel."

Hahahahahaha (inhales) Cliffhanger! So! Didn't expect this to pop up so fast did you? Neither did I but this just had to be submitted today or else! Keep your eyes peeled for the next chapter. I can't tell you when it will be uploaded, I'll just say as soon as possible. So remember to review and hope you had a awesome first day of school.