Black and Red
Note: This story has a sister in Gold and Silver. The two offer looks into different pairings (Rivalshipping and Bastion vs Idolshipping and Aster) through rival perspectives. Some parts of this is actual dialogue from the dub, others entirely my own brainchild, and a handful a mix of the two. Updates will be rather slow as a result (it will be both canon and twice as unwieldy) and chapter varying in length (each one will roughly correspond with a single episode of the show). I will be going through the first two seasons of the show with these (up to the end of the Society of Light, which is roughly episode 104), so bear with me til then! One might notice that the two stories have similarly titled chapters, which occurs because one is the literal translation of the Japanese episode name and the other is the given English episode name for the dub. In the second season, entire episodes seem to be lacking either the Duel Academy crew or Hell Kaiser, in which case one of the following may occur: I may put up a filler chapter meant to take place in the void or I may not put up a companion piece at all and let the storyline lie as is. In either case, the chapter names will not follow the pattern and will be adjusted as such.
Some of the dialogue from this chapter was borrowed from the story Chazz it up? Yeah, I Don't Think So by NightcrawlerXalpha. I attempted to fix any and all inconsistencies from the actual dub caused by the fact that it was both A) a fanfiction and B) also involved another character inserted into the scene, but I doubt I managed to find everything. I PROMISE I DIDN'T TAKE IT TO BE UNORIGINAL, I DID IT BECAUSE IT'S A PAIN IN THE ASS TO TRANSCRIBE YOURSELF!
This is the title of the English-dub for Episode 1. Its Japanese version translates to "The One Who Succeeds Yugi".
And no, I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, otherwise it would be full of FAR more gay characters than it already is... They just wouldn't be closet gays.
Chapter One: The Next King of Games
"So let's duel!"
Sora had wandered away from where Chazz was sitting, deciding he'd rather try to see whom he could sit with instead. Whenever his twin's cronies opened their mouths, he felt the urge to kill something, which was why he was wandering around with half an ear on the duel and his eyes searching for a new place to sit.
"Sweet! I'm gonna summon Elemental Hero Avian in defense mode! I'll also throw down a facedown. All right, get your game on!" That must have been the newcomer, Sora believed his name was Jaden Yuki.
"Yes, very good. All right, for this first move I think I'll start nice and easy. I choose to play the spell card Confiscation." That was the proctor, Doctor Crowler was it?
"Okay, so what's it do?"
"What it does is allow me to pay 1000 life points for a chance to peek at your hand and toss one of your cards into the graveyard!" There was a momentary pause as the holographics activated and projected Jaden's hand, of which Sora could only see the backs. "Oh yes, I remember some of these from back when I was a naive rookie. Now which one shall I banish?" A short pause followed the statement, but Sora kept his attention on locating a seat. "Monster Reborn to the graveyard." He saw a pair of boys, both of whom he recognized as kids who had won their duels. Since he saw no one he'd rather sit with, he decided to try talking to those two boys. "Next I'll lay two cards facedown on the field, and last but not least, I'll play Heavy Storm. This spell card destroys every other spell and trap card that's out on the field."
"Hi there," he murmured, getting the attention of the blue-haired boy and the black-haired teen. "I'm Sora Samatoko."
"Bastion Misawa," the ravenet replied confidently with a charming hint of a British accent to his words.
"Syrus Truesdale," the bluenet murmured shyly.
"Whoopsie, did you forget that you had two trap cards on the field yourself?" Jaden asked.
"Now, now you mustn't speak out of turn young scholar," Crowler scolded.
A mist came over the field then, but Sora ignored it and the duelists as he asked "May I sit here? My seat was taken by someone while I was doing something else." Not exactly a lie, he had been saving Chazz's seat as his twin dueled when his own had been taken by the morons the elder twin called friends.
"Of course," Bastion said, patting the seat beside him.
"Uh, could someone tell me what's going on?" Syrus asked, completely confused by the mist.
"The two trap cards Doctor Crowler had on the field were called Statue of the Wicked. It's a special trap that creates a vicious token monster when destroyed," Bastion explained.
"Oh," Syrus replied, now understanding. "I didn't think they used those kinds of cards in the test decks."
"They don't," Sora pronounced. "I would know, I've dueled people who have them in their personal decks. It's too powerful for a test deck, so I'd imagine the man's using his personal deck."
"I heard he has a legendary rare card in his deck," The Brit added, an eager gleam in his eye.
"Mmm, I hope we don't see it, for Jaden's sake," Sora said, throwing his arms over the back of his seat and leaning back, his feet pressing against the very bottom of the chair in front of him.
"Ready for your next lesson?" Crowler asked mockingly.
"Haha you bet!" Jaden cried out, eager at the prospect of having a good opponent for once. "I can't remember the last time learning was this much fun!" Even though Sora wasn't as much of a fan of dueling, he still couldn't hold back a smile at the enthusiasm.
However, Crowler was far less supportive of the brunet. "Hm yes, well, I'm quite an excellent teacher, thank you. And now, I sacrifice my two Wicked Tokens and summon Ancient Gear Golem!" As a mechanical monster appeared on the field, loud gasps were heard throughout the arena from the audience.
"There it is," Syrus whimpered in amazement.
"Meh, not nearly as impressive as my Silent Swordsman," Sora muttered, rather unimpressed. He'd both seen and dueled worse. Luckily for him though, his comment went unheard by everyone.
"Now, now, I hope you're not too afraid of my Ancient Gear Golem," Crowler taunted, but the brunet merely laughed.
"No way! I've always wanted to take one on!"
"Either Jaden's brave or he's nuts!" Syrus exclaimed in shock.
"Meh, like I said, not all that tough once you know how to take it on," Sora said, leaning back as Crowler burst into his own laughter.
"Hahaha! Golem, attack, Mechanize Melee!" The punch the machine gave the kneeling Avian was enough to shatter him to pieces.
Syrus drooped. "Aw, Jaden's monster didn't stand a chance! His defense points were way too low." He shook his head slowly and whined, "This isn't looking good."
"And it's about to look a lot worse," Bastion added. "When that Ancient Gear Golem destroys a monster in defense mode, the difference between its attack points and the defending monster's defense points gets dealt to the opponent as damage."
"That would mean Jaden's life points take a hit!" Syrus cried out, eyes wide.
Sora's eyes were focused on a shaking brunet, vaguely hearing the words the boy's opponent was saying. "Hahah, don't feel bad, this is the top dueling school in the country. Some people aren't cut out for-"
"Well I really wanna come to this school now!" Jaden exclaimed in excitement, raising his head to reveal he'd been laughing. "You really know your stuff, teach!"
Sora let out a peal of laughter, gaining looks from across the room. "Oh this is going to be good!" he proclaimed, smiling broadly.
"Okay, I summon Winged Kuriboh in defense mode and I'll place one card facedown. Not bad huh, teach?" Jaden asked rhetorically.
The man answered anyway, chortling. "No, not bad, but you must understand I'm a master technician. Kuriboh, to me, is rather pedestrian, even one with wings. Its defense points are no match for my Ancient Gear Golem. It's a textbook mistake, don't feel bad."
"Moron," Sora hissed under his breath, only to let out a growl as some idiot sat up in front of him, blocking his view. "Hey!" he protested.
"Now let's proceed," Crowler continued. "With the legendary Ancient Gear Golem, attack that Kuriboh with Mechanized Melee!" The sounds of whirring machinery were interspersed with shattering monster, followed by a haughty "Humph, check your gear. Your Life Points haven't changed."
"My gear's fine. On the turn Winged Kuriboh is destroyed, I take zero damage."
Murmuring broke out, along with Sora's grumble of "It would've been nice to see that."
"Here," Bastion sighed, making a move to get up, "You can have my seat."
Sora shook his head, instead moving over to settle himself on the other male's lap. "No thanks, I can't see on my own," he said, leaning back into a warm chest and fixing his eyes on the match once more.
"Fine, fine, I guess your lame little monster saved you there."
"Hey slow down there teach!" Jaden said hotly "You may have beat him but that doesn't give you the right to call him lame!"
The response? A jeered "Oh yes, I forget how attached you new duelists get to your monsters, I'm sorry."
Jaden just replied "Yeah well you should be, because by attacking my Winged Kuriboh you set off a trap card, one of my favorites too, Hero Signal! And that brings out my second Elemental Hero, Burstinatrix." The monster flipped out onto the field as the brunet drew a card. "My turn. All right, Winged Kuriboh, this next one's gonna be for you. Here goes nothing. First of all I'm gonna bring back Avian to my hand with the spell card The Warrior Returning Alive. And now I'm gonna summon him to the field!" Both humanoids showed up on the field in time for Sora to avert his face.
Sora could see where the duel was going already. From what he'd seen, Jaden wouldn't have summoned the monsters needlessly, which meant he had something planned. From what he'd learned about E-Heros, he guessed the other was about to summon Elemental Hero Flame Wingman, followed up by Skyscraper or maybe some other kind of equip spell. Still, confident in the ending, he got up and said, "Hey guys, give Jaden my congratulations, would you? I have somewhere to be."
"Aren't you going to finish the duel?" Bastion asked curiously, feeling a little cold now that the other male had gotten up, but by the time he'd turned around, the boy had gone. "Huh… odd."
"Slifer slackers!" a boy yelled after the two retreating figures who had just run past him and clipped his shoulder, his silver eyes flashing in annoyance as he strutted through the stadium hallways, his blue Obelisk jacket already assuring his position in the prominent rank. The dark coloring of the jacket emphasized his pale skin, but that was all right with him, he knew it made him and his black hair look all the better for it, far better than it would have if he had started in Slifer red like the majority of students. And yet, for all his talk, Chazz Princeton could never hate the color red. If he did, it would mean he hated his twin, and he could never hate Sora. Even in Slifer, his brother could still break hearts with nothing more than a pleading look of his soulful silver eyes through his long mess of fiery red hair, but there was one person he didn't want to fall under Sora's spell.
Still, Sora was a Princeton, so he wouldn't ask too much of his twin, even though the two were far closer to each other than they were to either of the two elder siblings. If Chazz had to guess why his twin had been pushed so far away from his brothers, he would say it was because Sora's appearance was very much like their mother, what with his long red hair, slender body, and silver eyes—even though Chazz and Sora had the same eyes and silhouette, the former had their father's dark hair and thus escaped the same targeting.
He looked up from his musings at the sound of a door opening, managing to see Sora coming out and sliding his deck away into its pocket. "What rank did you get?" he asked brusquely, his arms unfolding from over his chest as he fell in step beside the other. The two of them knew perfectly well that Sora belonged in Obelisk Blue, the Princeton name and his own dueling ability were enough to reassure that, but the younger had insisted upon actually determining the rank through a test duel. Since it would have been disgraceful for him to do badly in the duel or to gain a poor ranking, Slade and Jagger had insisted upon a private test session, which had, by definition, prevented Chazz from watching his brother even though the twins knew each other's decks just as well as their own personal ones.
"I accepted a position in Ra Yellow," the redhead stated absently, the sounds of his chain belt clinking slightly with every step he took, his black combat boots surprisingly silent on the floor.
"Ra Yellow," Chazz echoed, but before he could make any further comments, Sora continued.
"Yeah, I held back. I didn't really want to start out so high, not when I'd no doubt be forced to duel right off." He shoved his hands into the pants pockets of his black-and-white camouflage cargo pants.
"You're crazy!" the elder twin growled, grabbing the collar of the close-fitting black tee-shirt that was an endorsement of a band the pair had seen in concert (Chazz and Sora had similar tastes in music for the most part). "Why the fucking hell wouldn't you want to be in Obelisk Blue, Sora?"
He didn't fight back against his brother, though his hands did fly to clasp overtop Chazz's in an instinctive response to ensure he wasn't dropped. "You know I'm not as fond of dueling as you are, Chazz! Being the best doesn't mean anything to me if I have to sell myself to get there!"
Chazz's eyes widened as he let go of his younger sibling. Knowing he had struck a nerve, Sora offered a quiet "Sorry" before he strode off, clambering into the limousine Slade and Jagger had insisted upon getting the pair and pulling out a pair of headphones. He turned on the music and settled back to the sounds of "Riot" by Three Days Grace for the long car ride back to the Princeton family estate. Somehow, he doubted he'd have any trouble convinced Slade and Jagger to enroll him into Duel Academy under the fake surname 'Samatoko'…
Bastion: Why didn't anything romantic happen?
Chazz: Don't tell her! *attempts to murder him*
Oh, I knew there wasn't any romance. Jay's duel ended up taking too much space, so... yeah. The most romance was found in Sora sitting in Bastion's lap and a hint to who Chazz likes (as if we haven't already guessed).
Chazz: *blushing* SHUT UP YOU!
Jaden: *is sleeping* ... Get game on Chazz...
Bastion: Oh, it's probably just about dueling.
... Wanna know what Jaden's dreaming about? REVIEW THE STORY AND I'LL TELL YOU NEXT CHAPTER! *smiles* The more reviews I get, the better the dream is!
Last edited: 9/25/2011