Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! GX. I only own my characters and the plot.
Chapter 1
?'s dream scape
They said change was the only constant in our lives and it was impossible to unavoid, but I disagree. The two sides of a coin can never change, or flip sides unless they are tampered with by external forces. Even then, the only thing that can occur is the fading of the coin after constant scrubbing.
Yet people said we were just like the two sides of a coin, two opposite but different parts of the same which had a common point that connected them.
I'm not naive anymore, I can't believe in such logic anymore. My mind is already made up, nothing can't veer me from this path even if I tried.
I look to find myself facing four people whose faces are shrouded in the night's darkness. Three of them were standing near each other and the fourth person stood alone, adjacent to me, while the trio were opposite me. We were all armed with duel disks.
A large creature hovering in the air which had the distinct shape on a dragon was in front of the trio, its owner unknown.
The mouths of the people moved but I could not hear any sound. I rubbed my ears with my hands in an attempt to stop the deafness but I still heard nothing. I looked down and saw that my hands didn't look human anymore, but instead of feeling shocked I felt no emotion. I held up my duel disk and looked into the reflective core to look at the image of my face and I was met with a grotesque image that I knew should make me nauseous, but still I felt nothing.
Some more mouths moved and the figure standing alone took a step back. The dragon like creature created a small luminous ball inbetween its jaws. The ball expanded in size and had a blueish tint to it, then suddenly the created fired the ball upwards into the sky.
The ball then reduced into multitudes of rays that created enormous light that washed over everyone. The light was so bright, I had to close my eyes and shield my face with my barely humane hands. After that it was all darkness...like...my...eyes...were permanently...shut.
"A wave is a disturbance that travels through a medium without causing any permanent displacement in the said medium." The calm but loud voice of the teacher stated. "Examples of waves include light waves or rays, sound waves, gamma rays, radio or micro waves, UV rays, etc. There are two major types of waves; Electromagnetic waves and Mechanical waves. Waves can also be classified based on their mode of propagation into Transverse waves and Longitudinal waves."
Kyou mumbled something incoherent as he rapidly scribbled notes down, his eyes scanning his note. He sighed in relief as the teacher stopped talking and started writing on the white board to illustrate a definition.
His short black hair was looking rough because he forgot to brush it while he was rushing to arrive on time, his mouth could be seen as a thin line as he was neither smiling nor frowning. An expressionless face just came very easy for Kyou...
He was wearing a black long sleeved turtle neck, brown pants and sandals over his feet which were covered by his black socks. His mind wandered to other places thinking about various things until the teacher started talking again. 'Who knew the first day if school was going to be so hectic. You would think they would be considerate enough to give you a break after the extremely tough 'entrance exam' he thought, groaning.
On another side of the academy however sombody had the opposite mindset. It was now lunch time at the Duel Academy. A girl with dark brown hair slumped into a chair in the cafeteria at the table her friends sat. "I thought this school would be all about dueling!" She exclaimed.
"Really?" A girl with red hair asked.
"Yeah," the girl answered. "I thought dueling was the main thing here and we would have to be taught subjects like maths."
"Of course they teach normal school subjects." Another girl at the table who had blonde hair said. "They just don't emphasize on them as much as they do on dueling, thats how it has been ever since. But it's this academy we're talking about, they just have a way of making every thing harder."
"Yeah!" the red haired girl agreed with the blonde. "Even the pancakes!"
The other two girls laughed as their red haired friend kept hitting the pancake on her plate. "So Susan, how were your classes?" The blonde girl asked.
"Pretty interesting," Susan, the brown haired girl answered. "The literature teacher was a funny woman, the maths teacher kept on solving equations he didn't seem to explain and the french teacher's french sounded funny because of his wierd accent." She said chuckling.
"I'm pretty sure the french teacher isn't French." The red haired girl added, finally giving up on trying to eat the pancakes.
"You might be right Sari." The blonde girl mused. "Maybe he's Asian or Australian."
"It doesn't matter where he's from, this school's food sucks." Sari, the red haired girl complained.
"Why didn't you just go to another academy if you're complaining?" The blonde girl asked.
"You all know I can't." Sari replied. "At least I wasn't the one that cried all day when she arrived her." She continued with a smirk, her crimson irises gaining a mischievous glint.
"I certainly did not cry!" Susan shot back.
"Who said she was talking about you?" The blonde girl asked, also smirking. "Or is somebody trying to hide something."
"Oh shut up, Aki." The brunette snapped before drinking out of the bottled water she bought prior to sitting with her friends while Sari and Aki laughed.
This particular academy didn't have an exact uniform, but all students were provided with and expected to wear a blazer which had a variety of colours but had the same old wild west design and a logo with the stylized initials 'N.A.' on the left breast pocket.
Susan was wearing a brown blazer over a white T-shirt and a short black skirt. Sari's blazer was grey and she was wearing a white T-shirt under it and a black skirt, while Aki's blazer was brown and she was wearing a short black skirt and black T-shirt.
The three girls were part of the students that arrived two weeks prior to the start of the school year. At that time it was quite obvious that Susan hated having to attend to school, she still wasn't happy about it but she was starting to accept there was nothing she could do about it.
Mr and Mrs Brown, Susan's parents, were rich and well respected. While Susan had wanted to attend central duel academy, her parents made her take this academy's bizarre entrance exam. She believed she as going to attend central duel academy until she was-in her words- rudely shipped here.
After some minutes of chattering the bell went, signifying the end of the lunch break.
"Well, it's time for classes to resume." Aki said, standing up.
"I'll see you guys back at the dorm." Susan waved, grabbing a doughnut along with her bag and leaving for class.
"We're having Chemistry class now, right?" Aki asked.
"Yeah," Sari answered. "We'd better hurry, I don't want to get into trouble like we did with that Biology teacher."
"Yeah." Aki shivered, remembering the event Sari spoke of. Both girls started walking swiftly towards their class.
Kyou's head jerked up as he heard a rather loud explosion. He rubbed his eyes and went to look outside, knowing the sound was probably from a duel.
He had almost dozed off while read a book about old and rare card series and archetypes. True to his assumptions a duel was going on between two female students, he wondered why they were dueling at the boys dorms.
The first girl had long silvery hair and was wearing a green variant of the school blazer, a white top and a black skirt. She had nothing on her field but held four cards in her hand.
The second girl had black hair and also wore a green blazer, but over a black top and a black skirt. She had two monsters, an equip spell card and a face-down card on her field, and held a card in her hand.
Her first monster was a large silvery metallic dragon with bright red eyes and a head resembling that of a falcon. (ATK: 3000/DEF: 1800)
The second monster was a tall humanoid android dressed in green and yellow armour with dark green plates around its shoulders. (ATK: 2400/DEF: 1500)
"Are you finally done wasting my time?" The black haired girl taunted with a smirk on her face.
"Shut it!" The silver haired girl snapped, she then picked a card from her hand and placed it into her duel disk. "I activate the Spell Card, Monster Reborn." A Spell Card depicting an image of an egyptian ankh appeared.
"I don't think so." The black haired girl said, smirking. "Horus' effect allows him to negate the activation of any Spell Card and destroy it and I'll use the effect now!"
The silvery dragon roared loudly and let loose a series of shockwaves that hit the spell card, making it burst into pixels while the silver haired girl cringed.
Jinzo and Horus make both Spell and Trap Cards useless, but monster effects can still be used, the silver haired girl mused. "I summon Copycat in Attack Position!" She said slamming the card onto her disk.
A creature wearing a multicoloured jumpsuit and resembled a court jester appeared. A very reflective mirror was held by the creature in a position that it obscured his face from view. (ATK: 0/ DEF:0)
"Copycat's effect activates." The silver haired girl continued before her opponent spoke.
"Trap Card activate!" The other girl's face-down card flipped up and suddenly the mirror weilding creature was struck with lightning and obliterated
"What?!" The silver haired girl shouted, startled by the destruction of her monster.
"I activated the Trap Card Divine Wrath." The other girl said smiling. "By discarding a card from my hand, when a monster's
effect is activated, It negates the activation and destroys the monster."
"But your Jinzo stops the activation of all trap cards." The silver haired girl said.
"That would be true," The black haired girl said with a smirk on her face. "But thanks to my equip Spell Card: Amplifier, Jinzo's effect only applies to you."
"I end my turn." The silver haired girl said, accepting defeat.
"My turn, draw!" The black haired girl swiped a card from the top of her deck. "This will teach you to listen well before making a scene out of nothing."
Taking a look at the Life Points meters, Kyou noticed the black haired girl hadn't taken any damage and was at a full 4000 Life Points while her opponent had 1700 Life Points.
"Horus, attack her directly!" She ordered and the metallic dragon complied, firing a wave of dark red flames at the silver haired girl and ending the duel.
Kyou was slightly, admittedly, amazed as he watched the black haired girl completely devastate her opponent.
Both duelists duel disk deactivated and the black haired girl walked away, smiling with satisfaction. Soon the small crowd that had been attracted by the duel dispersed and a boy with a brown blazer walked towards the silver haired girl.
After seeing the duel, Kyou remembered his entrance duel. That duel was a very tough one that he won through luck, but considering the state of his deck it would have been better if he had better cards. Which reminded him, he needed to buy new cards and recreate his deck. Luckily he had a great idea for a deck to make but finding the cards would prove to be a challenge.
Taking his mind off dueling he decided to take on the long math assignment the teacher had given. This was going to be a long year.
This academy was located on an extremely cold island, where even the summer could very cold. The academy was also infamous for its harsh methods of doing things, though recently they became more lenient.
There were two types of entrance exams now, one was through a bizarre written test followed by some duel puzzles that must be solved under a time limit. That was deemed the easy way.
The hard way was the classic card hunt, where the applicant had to search the icy areas of the island for forty cards then duel a student in the academy with the forty cards found. If the person won he or she (though girls -or any one infact- hardly ever used this way to enter the academy) was allowed to enter the academy, losing would mean failing the test and the person won't be accepted into the academy.
The academy utilized ranks instead of the dorms used by its rival academy. The ranks were signified by the blazer possessed by the duelist, some people decided not to wear theirs as it wasn't mandatory. The school had undergone a long and extensive expansion that contributed to the boost in the number of students, courtesy of the new owner.
A new year full of duels, fights and problems were about to begin in North Academy and everyone was looking forward to it.
A/N: This fanfic is set in the Yu-Gi-Oh GX universe, about five years after the end of the anime. Its primary setting is the familiar academy up north. The academy has gone through a lot changes that would be further explored later.
I originally uploaded this story a while ago, but due to some circumstances I stopped writing it. I was browsing through my documents and I stumbled across it and felt somewhat bad that I never really gave it a chance, so I decided to continue it. I'm currently on a three month break from school so I have enough time to focus on it now.
Enjoy the chapter!