For this fic I'm going to use the new Master rules that will debut in 5D's, they won't feature in this chapter yet however. Hoping this will go well, I will be using the old terms such as sacrifice though.
Disclaimer: I don't own Yugioh in any form but I do own any OC of my creation in this fic.
The Life of a Duellist: Year One
Speaking
Thinking
Speaking other language
Chapter 1: Examination
Nikolai stared out of the plane as he landed in Paris. He had had a long flight and was tired although he had been too nervous to sleep. The small cabin was filled with people and all of them were fidgeting or yawning. All had had sleep except him. He cursed himself in Russian for letting himself lose the energy he needed. The speaker crackled overhead as the pilot spoke in Russian.
"This is the pilot. We have just touched down. The local time is 7:30 in the morning and it is a beautiful day in France." The Pilot spoke some other things but Nikolai was too tired to hear, he yawned he got his bags together as did everyone else. The glass and steel structure of The Orly-France South Terminal towering over them under the clear blue sky. He ran his hand through his hair. He was 15 and had Dark black hair that spawned out of his skull that was combed back messily, and piercing eagle eyes shaded brown. He was in a black jacket with a grey top with some dark blue jeans on. He yawned again and closed his eyes to saviour some rest. As they exited the plane into the small bus that met them and took them into the terminal Nikolai's phone beeped off. He took out the old model and flipped it open to see a text had been sent. He smiled when he read the Russian text.
Good Luck XXX missing you loads
MUM
He grinned at his Mothers message and typed in a reply.
Don't need luck. Love you
He flipped his phone away and took a deep breath rubbing his temples. When they got to customs they got through easy enough, with them being searched for any sort of explosive or dangerous substance. Nikolai had to chuckle at the fat kid who the guards were picking on. Russians were still not very welcome to this country, 32 years after the Soviet Unions collapse. That and the fact Russia was the dominant power now. Since the credit crunch and the oil crisis the east had grown massively. The EU had been ok and the economy was in a comfortable position however the States had suffered an economic blow that it was still reeling from leaving it still a superpower but not the supreme nation, the race was back on between the countries. The American Dream had become the Russian Dream. He walked under the glass domed area among the crowds of foreigners as they went about their business. He headed out of the Airport into a garage area where a coach was waiting for them. They headed inside after showing their tickets and where on their way.Nikolai sat at the back on his own. He was wary of new people and while the others laughed and joked and chatted he tried to get rest. They proceeded into the city among traffic that followed briskly at a good rate.Nikolai stared out of the window at the city as it drove past, they were at the outskirts currently but it got bigger ad bigger as they went on. The Paris of the movies would be in view soon enough. After a while they crossed into the main city and The Eiffel Tower was in view in the sky as well as passing the Arc'D Triomphe. They were heading to the nearest testing site that Kaiba Corp had set up for Duel Academy. Nikolais parents had been furious that there wasn't a Russian venue but luckily it was paid for. He had been scouted early on and his Duelling talent had won him a scholarship for the expenses if he was accepted including his travel fund, still he missed his country and it was too hot here. He slipped his jacket off. He reached down to his belt and pulled out his deck. He flicked through inspecting the cards and exchanging them with his side deck every so often. He sat there resting. He closed his eyes and pictured his home. It might be the last time he'd see it clearly for a year. He breathed easily and calmly as the people around him got on with their lives. Eventually after an hour they arrived. They stepped off and looked around at the steel building that had been set up with the KC logo. It was temporary but Nikolai couldn't help wonder how they got permission to build their own building so near The Tower and It was an eyesore, a big steel box. Anyhow the party of teens entered the lobby area, it had a desk where teens where lining up and filling in some documents. Nikolai took his place and sighed in annoyance at having to wait. He saw a girl come up behind him. She was around his age and had brown hair with blonde highlights down to her shoulders with green eyes. She had a blue top on and a cream jacket with dark blue jeans.
"Not more waiting" She groaned in English a soft voice with a Spanish accent
Nikolai nodded and sighed in frustration. "Nooooo organisation"
"Not their fault. Kaiba Corp is Japanese" She responded thoughtfully.
"They're organising it and they've fucked it up." He said in a bored tone as the man at the front ruffled through his papers in a confused manner as the girl at the front impatiently demanded her pass back.
"Suppose so." She turned to him and extended her hand. "Carissa Mendez"
He took it and grinned. "Nikolai Nekorovich"
"So where you from?"
"Archangel, it's about… 800 kilometres outside St Petersburg to the east." He explained. "You?"
"Madrid." She said simply.
They spoke for another 20 minutes until Nikolai finally got to the front.
"Can I have your pass please?" said the man in good Russian; he looked Slavic so at least he could speak properly.
Nikolai tossed it onto the desk and he began to file through the forms until he extracted Nikolai's sheet. He filled it in quickly, just basics. After that he was ushered into a large auditorium and took a seat at the back with a paper in front of him with the words.
Kaiba Corporation Duel Academy Theory Paper (France, Paris)
Name:……………………………
Nikolai filled his name in with the very sharp pencil next to it and waited as the hall slowly filled, he doodled all over the front as the others entered. He saw Carissa enter and flashed her grin. She gave small wave and headed down to her seat at the front. As the last person entered, the fat kid, a man at the front in a suit walked on, he couldn't see his face properly from here but he was sure he was ginger ad had curly hair.
"Can everyone speak English here?" he asked.
3 quarters put their hands up, he signalled for some people to go up and interpret what he said to the ones who could not speak English.
"Ok people when the clock starts we will begin the test you have an hour. Basic no cheating rules. Questions?" No one asked. "And good luck." He walked over to the edge as a large digital clock on a table was wheeled out.
"3…" Came the mans voice as he prepared to turn it on. "…2…1...begin."
He pressed it and it began to count down from 60 minutes. The sound of paper rustling echoed all over the hall as they turned to the first page.
Question 1: Name a One-Turn-kill Combo.
Nikolai let out a breath and began to think.
After a while he put down one only few duellists could do. Activate Pot of Greed and then Polymerization on 5 dragons on hand to summon F.G.D and activate Quick attack to strike immediately to have an attack on Life points. For some reason he wasn't sure it would be accepted.
He carried on the test as well as he could and he missed out a few questions such as naming who won The Duellist kingdom V3 tournament or what the Ace card of the tag team champion Wayne Goodman was. After an hour a claxon went off and everyone put their pencils down and began to head into the arena where the practical would take place in 30 mins.It was small for an arena. There where stands and a ring but it was all rather crammed. Nikolai saw a vending machine on the far side in a small hallway near the toilets and headed toward it to pick up a snack. When he arrived he slid in a Quarter and took out a pack of crisps which he ate slowly. He scanned the area and saw some students from the Academy talking to some of the applicants. Some where 3rd year but a lot were Obelisk Blue which Nikolai meant they were in his year and because of either business connections or prep school scores meant they got that rank and an earlier examination. As he headed out he saw a crowd of kids surrounding a boy in a tailored obelisk blazer. Unlike the others it was a blue jacket and left open. He was around Nikolais height and had brown hair with blonde highlights and chocolate eyes. He knew the face instantly. Kai Yuki. The best duellist's son. Judai Yuki the world champion. Nikolai listened to the conversation going on as he munched on his crisps.
"Can I have your autograph?" Asked a girl to Kai.
Kai gave a smile built for a camera. "Of course."
He took the girls pencil and signed a piece of paper, others pulled out paper and he began to sign it.Nikolai saw Carissa nearby, she was moving her hair and looked nervous, he walked over.
"You ok?" He asked while chewing.
"That's Kai Yuki! The Prince of Games!" She said nervously.
Silence.
"So?" Said Nikolai.
"What DO YOU MEAN SO?!" She responded taken aback.
"Just cos his dads the best doesn't mean he measures up. Look at him milking all the attention. He's a famous for being famous." He Said as he bit into another open.
"But he is good!"
"I could beat him."
"What?" She laughed.
"Go on ask me. I'm your knight in shining armour." he said with a wink to her.
She blushed and laughed.
"Ok Sir Nicolas." she said sarcastically. "Go forth and beat the Prince of Games."
"Done" And too here surprise he headed over to the teen in the blue blazer.
He pushed through the small huddle.
"Oi! Kai!" He called in his accented English. "Kai!"
The guy turned lazily to him. "Autograph?"
"Duel." He smirked as he drew his deck out.
Kai looked interested for a moment before turning away.
"Sorry but you aren't anywhere near my level. Try in a year or two and you may have a chance." He joked.
Nikolai growled. "What's the matter? Afraid?"
Kai stopped and looked over his shoulder. "What's your name?"
"Nikolai"
"Well nikolai sorry but I'm the best duellist in the world's son. You're just some Russian punk."
Nikolai took a step forward. "Wanna make something of it?"
Kai turned fully and met him in the eyes.
"You think you're all it but I got a news flash for you." he stayed silent and then flashed his hand out showing the middle finger. "You aren't."
The tension mounted ad everyone stood fixated on the talk down, he saw Carissa get closer in an embarrassed way.
"So." Sighed Kai in an agitated way, a hardness on him now. "Do you really want to make an enemy of me?"
Carissa came over to Nikolai and spoke behind him.
"Nikolai come on just l-" put his hand up to signify silence.
Kai gave a chuckle. "Listen to your girlfriend. She's trying to help you out here. You're in too deep."
"Oh yea." Nodded Nikoali with a fire in his eyes. "That's a duel challenge my friend."
They were standing with the heads touching now, eyes staring into each other with fire behind them.
Suddenly the man from earlier pushed through the crowd, Nikolai and Kai were still staring each other down so he didn't get as good a glimpse. He was in his early 30's and had a freckly face that was all he could see.
"Ok, people lets break it up here." He said nervously. He put his hands between the two and pushed them apart. They slowly walked away although Nikolai made a throat cutting gesture as he left to some murmurs of the crowd.
"Nikolai!" Said Carissa in constricted voice. "What the hell was that?"
"I told you I'm going to beat him. Maybe not today but soon." He looked at her. "And he's a bastard."
She shook her head in disbelief and couldn't help laughing.
"Guess you don't have any respect for him after that,"
"Respect has to be earned. He's just feeding off what his father's built." He explained as they walked away to some seats near the arena and threw themselves down to get a view of the duels. Around 10 minutes later the speaker called out the first name and the examiners began to test their opponents. He knew that they were in order of how well you did in the test. Best first worst last. The fat kid was the first up in he was sweating like hell. Carissa couldn't help but laugh as did Nikolai. They had a cruel sense of humour. The duels were mildly interesting and only a few moves stood out to Nikolai including a combo he had in his cards he hadn't thought of. Quickly he changed cards in his side deck as this happened.5 minutes later the intercom announced again.
"Number 20 Nikolai Nekorovich report to area 1. Area 1 Nikolai Nekorovich." Came the mans voice.
Nikolai rubbed his hands together as he took out his duel disk from his rucksack.
"Wish me luck." He said as he stood up.
Carissa gave him a mock salute and he was on his way into the small duelling arena of 4 set up on the platform. The man opposite him was in a purple obelisk blazer. He was black and had a beanie on his head with intimidating eyes.
"Ok you ready?" He asked in a strong French accent.
Nikolai nodded and slapped his deck in as his duel disk opened up.
"DUEL!"
Examiner 4000
Nikolai 4000
"You first." offered Nikolai to the man out of manners and of strategy. Let your opponent play their hand first.
"Thank you." He drew his sixth card and nodded. He scratched his nose and picked out a card which he added to his field card slot. "I Play The Legendary Ocean."
Suddenly in the area of their arena some ruins appeared and the holograms made it appear as if they were underwater making everything look slightly wavy.Nikolai remembered the effect. All water monsters in his hand lost a level and his water monsters got 200 more attack points and defence points. The examiner continued.
"Now I summon Orca Mega-Fortress of Darkness (54/21002300/12001400) in attack mode." A huge killer whale swam out from one of the ruins to the guy's field. It had what seemed to be the top of a submarine welded into its back and more machine than creature. "Then I'll end my turn."
Nikolai drew his card and smiled at his hand. "This Duel is basically over."
"I'm sorry to say but your field card is, what the English word, is dead." He opened his own field card slot and inserted a card. "Eon Spaceway."
The sea disappeared and in its place was space. The stars covered the entire area in majestic triumph.
"Now I summon Eon Night Watcher (2/0/1000) in attack mode." Suddenly a rip appeared in the space. From another dimension came an alien. It was glowing and the colour of it was uncertain as it continued to change, like oil on water. It was small, around 5 ft high and its head was arrow like with a crest on its head like a triceratops. It had some form of armour, like liquid and had a cloak that was made of what appeared to be scales that flapped in an unseen, unfelt wind. It placed its arms in a gesture of martial art like preparation.
Up in the stands Kai watched the monster appear with narrowed eyes.
"Eon? Sounds like my dads Neo-Spacians. Wonder if they're related somehow? Better check with him." He thought as he looked at the alien.
"Eon Spaceway gives my monster 500 points in any score I choose. I can even divide it between them! I'll give him a full 500 defence points I think. (ENW 10001500). Eon Spaceway has other effects but I don't think we'll get round to that today." He smiled.
"You're confident." The examiner narrowed his eyes.
"I should be. You don't even use that deck normally." Nikolai gestured at the guys duel disk. "It's an examiner deck so it is picked randomly meaning you need to learn how to use it on the move unlike myself who has used this deck for a good 5 years now."
The examiner gave a grin. "You know your stuff."
"Definitely." Smirked Nikolai as he moved his hair from his point of vision. "Attack Night Watcher!"
The alien flew forward with its fist raised and glowing brightly. The examiner laughed.
"That was not a very good move applicant." He crossed his arms and closed his eyes in an arrogant manner.
"Oh really." Nikolai called. "Take a look now."
The Night Watcher was flying straight at Orcas skull and Orca was powering the cannon inside its massive mouth up for a counterattack. The cannon fired and shot out at the weak monster. To the examiners surprise the alien shot back a bit then continued to plough through the beam of energy into the cannon, it threw a cosmic energy powered punch that caused the beast to explode in a mass of multicoloured light and futuristic space like noise.
"Night Watcher has ability. When he battles a monster with higher attack points than it he can swap the attack-defence scores of the target and himself so basically the two of those monsters battled with defence scores." Nikolai smirked as the examiner looked confused. "So, as the Yankees say how you like me now punk?"
Examiner: 3700
Nikolai: 4000
The examiner chuckled. "Very good monsieur. You caught me off guard."
"Of course I did." Nikolai set two cards and gestured for the Frenchman to take his turn.
Up in the stands Carissa watched with interest. She had never seen monsters like Nikolai's before. His attitude was also very useful; he acted in a confident manner which while everyone did in their duels; he was very truthful about it. He didn't overreact about his monsters capabilities, not much boasting, and lots of confidence. Back in the area the examiner was drawing his card.
"I activate Graceful Charity. " He then drew three cards and discarded two. He didn't seem pleased with the cards he had received. Nikolai noted this guy had a bad poker face. "I set a monster and then set these three cards, end turn."
A facedown monster and three spells or traps appeared on the field.Nikolai drew his card as fast as he could.
"Gold again." He thought as he played his new monster. "I summon Eon Border Marine (4/1900/1450) in attack position."
A monster very similar to Night Watcher appeared from a dimensional rip. It ad a broader head in some sort of gasmask and it was wearing an outfit in the same fashion as Night Watchers armour except more combat orientated as spikes were on the forearms and legs, it was humanoid and around 6 foot tall but the shape of the body was different to a mans, more restricted in mass but there was still the vision of power.. It had some strange steel like gauntlets upon its clawed hands and an ammo pack or radio like device on its back which sported some symbols. It spoke out in a disorted voice that was muffled by the mask as it loaded its intimidating weapon.
"I'm going to give Border Marine 500 attack points (EBM 19002400) and then I'll have it attack your set monster." Border Marine placed its hands together and a blue like sphere powered up. A barrage of blue energy balls rocketed out with a screeching noise across the field. The Examiner quickly activates his set card.
"Mirror Force destroys all your attack position monsters." He explained as a magical shield appeared in front of his monster. However instead of reflecting the blast the shots travelled through it and hit the monster. For a brief moment a rain droplet with cartoony alligator (Toon Alligator) appeared with a pained expression.
"Border Marine is unaffected by all trap cards while he is in battle." Explained Nikolai. "Now I'll end my turn."
The examiner drew his next card nervously. Nikolai had him on the run now this early on and judging by the fact his two other set cards were still set he was in a bad spot. He only had two cards on hand as well so he had just about won. Nikolai crossed his arms. The examiner studied his hand and then slowly set about picking his move. After a while he stopped.
"I end my turn." He sighed in frustration before saying something in French to no one in particular.
Nikolai drew his card. "I activate quick play spell Galactic Ambitions." The card showed a man standing over a map of the stars with him piercing a knife through the centre of it. "Galactic Ambitions can only be played if a magic card with space, galaxy, cosmic, universe is in play. I pick one of my monsters and he can attack an extra time for every time space card in play and I chain that to my set card Cosmic Tragedy."
A card with a space station over a planet that was completely red was shown, o closer inspection the space station was aflame. The continuous trap card glowed pink for a moment.
"Cosmic Tragedy will now place a tragedy counter on all our cards when they come into play. Now they will be destroyed after they are used three times. Like my field card empowering 3 more monsters or my monster attacking using an effect." He declared as Galactic Ambitions began to glow. "Now Galactic Ambitions empowers Border Marine. Attack once!"
The Marine charged up and just as that happened a set card flipped on the examiners side.
"I activate Seawall. My trap will block your attack as long as I discard a water monster." He did so and a large grey stone wall jumped in the way of the blast of Border Marine.
"Attack again." The alien powered up again and fired some more shots off, another card activated.
"I use my second Seawall trap card." He discarded his last card and the wall reappeared. He had no cards now and he was starting to sweat.
"One more time." Declared Nikolai as Border Marine fired again.
This time they smashed into the guys' chest with a flash of pale blue and an electrical sound. The guy groaned and hunched over.
Examiner: 1300
Nikolai: 4000
"I'll end my turn now." As he crossed his arms Border Marine glowed pink and screamed out in its language before exploding into pixels due to Cosmic Tragedy.
The Examiner drew his card and then set his new spell or trap as quickly as he could. Nikolai gave a small cheer inside.
"If he's that quick to set a card and he has no cards on hand then I've won."
Kai looked on at the duel with a bored expression now. The examiner was new apparently and he wasn't the best of the bunch so Nikolai's soon to be victory left him with no impression of his soon to be opponent. As he leaned on the railings he sighed and he felt someone enter his presence, he moved his hand through his hair.
"Hi Jack." He smiled as his best friend approached him and stood next to him.
He looked a him. He was his age and slightly taller. He was adorned in the normal Obelisk Uniform except the front was open so his black shirt was visible. He was mixed race from a white mother and a black father and had short black hair with dull grey eyes. He had got into Duel Academy one of the easier ways, his father was Abraham Freeman the owner of a chain of supermarkets big in north America so he could afford to get in through a 'special understanding' between the school and the bank.
"Kai." He responded in a southern American accent. He scratched his nose and looked down at the duel arena. "So what did I miss?"
"Some punk." Answered the Prince of Games in a bored tone. "Thinks he has a chance of beating me. As if!"
Jack laughed. "What the fuck was he on? Anyway what deck does he have?"
"Eon."
"Eon? Like your dads Neo-Spacians?"
"I was thinking that." Kai nodded. "They have that space thing in common but they look very different and the naming is more intimidating."
"Huh?"
"What is more likely to scare a kid, Night Watcher or Aqua Dolphin?"
"Point taken. I still think your dads a wack job by the way."
"I know. I do too. I mean he adamantly believes a monster called Yooma or whatever lives in him, he is a reincarnated king and he went into space and met his monsters" Laughed Kai. "But still he is …my dad."
Silence for a few seconds. Jack stretched his arms and yawned, then he made an 'oh' and dug into his pocket, extracting a necklace made of gold with a pendant. It had some small delicate looking crystals hemmed into it in a curvy pattern like a snake's body.
"Managed to swipe this from a coat pocket while one of the Russian girls wasn't looking. Thought your sister might like it." Kai snatched it greedily and held it to the light looking at t with high interest.
"There is a Russian inscription on this." He looked at Jack. "My sister can't read Russian. I can't read Russian!"
"So." He shrugged his shoulders. "Just get an engraver to remove it. You have the cash."
"Point taken." He threw it up caught it and shoved it into his inner pocket.
Back in the due arena Nikolai was studying his hand after drawing. He would win in two turns or so.
"I activate the equip card Eon Aura-Neptune." As an activated it the body of Night Watcher turned from the oil like skin to a dark blue liquid like armour. "Neptune gives my Eon 300 attack points but Eon Spaceway is played so it goes to 600."
(ENW 0600)
"Attack him directly Night Watcher." The small alien flew forward powering up a punch again that glowed with blue energy. As it hit the examiner in the face it bounced back onto the field.
Examiner: 700
Nikolai: 4000
"I set a card and end turn." Nikolai gestured for the Frenchman to play up.
The man stood p and stretched. He drew his card "Pot of Greed."
He drew two cards and smiled. "Applicant, you lose. I activate firstly Giant Flood."
As he said this a massive wave came up behind the guy and crashed over the two duellists fields, forgetting they are in a space field card!, and washed away Night Watcher. When it cleared the field was clear.
"Giant Flood destroys all the monsters in play and in our hands applicant." Explained the man. "Now I play Monster Reborn."
He raised the card above his head and it glowed yellow brightly, engulfing the field. When it cleared Border Marine was on his field.
"Now I call upon spaceway to empower my marine." He cried.
(EBM 19002400)
"Attack! Space Shot!" He shouted while pointing at Nikolai as the Marine powered up an attack. It fired again and the electrical space energy crashed into his face.
He screamed out and fell to a knee clutching his face.
Examiner: 700
Nikolai: 1600
"Now I end my turn. Give up my friend." Laughed the now confident proctor.
Carissa watched with a nervous expression as Nikolai stood up.
"Come on Nikolai."
He looked out over the field at Border Marine and grinned.
"Good. This was getting too easy." He drew and as he did so a dark blue laser shot from his graveyard and into space. "I forgot. When an Eon Aura goes to the grave after activation it has an effect. It unlocks one of the spaceways effects."
As he explained a dark blue planet materialized in the space and began to revolve around the field.
"Neptune lets me draw until I hold four cards during my main phase." He drew his new cards and looked at them with a smirk. "I summon Eon-First Explorer (2/400/400) in attack mode."
An alien appeared but this was different. It was an Eon in a steel suit, none of it was visible however and 5'9 foot tall it was built with no combat weaponry (Think a Quarian from mass effect).
"Now here comes checkmate." He pointed at First Explorer and the defence score rose from Eon Spaceways effect.
(EFE 400900)
Then The space around them glowed pink and exploded into pixels revealing the arena once again.
"I see." Said the examiner quietly. "It was used thrice so Cosmic Tragedy destroyed it."
As he spoke all of a sudden both Eon monsters began to gargle and fell to the floor clutching their throats.
Nikolai chuckled. "When Eon Spaceway dies then all face up Eons die too."
The two monsters then fell twitching to the floor before breaking into pixels.
The examiner narrowed his eyes and then closed them in an amused manner.
"You've duelled circles around me today. I hope you are accepted."
"So do I." Nodded Nikolai with a grin. "Just theory to pass now."
The two had an understanding now.
"I'm going to win now. I play Time Reversal." A picture of space twisting around it and an astronaut watching in wonder as a clock began to break at the speed it was turning appeared on the field. "This card will randomly pick one turn from before this one and reset the field to that time at the cost of 1000 life points"
Examiner: 700
Nikolai: 600
Nikolai itched nervously as all the cards in play disappeared and the card began to shake. Then slowly the field materialized like ghosts. He smiled.
Eon Night Watcher with Eon-Aura Neptune The examiner with a blank field. Wasting no time the Eon attacked making the black man stumble back a bit from the powered punch.
Examiner: 100
Nikolai: 600
Nikolai silently ended his turn. The proctor drew and shrugged his shoulders.
"My luck. I draw a level 8 monster." He chuckled. "End turn."
"Well that is that." Responded Nikolai as he slipped a card from his deck and pointed at the man. Night Watcher flew forward and delivered one more punch making the man fall backwards with a groan.
Examiner: 0
Nikolai: 600
Nikolai gave a fist of victory as he left the stage and returned to his seat. Hopefully he was in it now. Above Kai and Jack watched him.
"This Russian has some ok tricks up his sleeve." Pointed out Jack.
"Nothing spectacular though." Countered Kai. "I tell you Jack. He gets to the academy me and you are going to have to show him how it's done."
"Is that before or after I'm a Kaiser."
"When I am Jack." Smiled Kai. "You forget."
"Whatever." Lazily replied the millionaire heir.
Carissa meanwhile walked over to Nikoali.
"Good job." She gave him a thumb up.
"It was too easy. I need challenge." He replied in a bored tone. "Still I'm off to the hotel now."
Kaiba corp. had hired a hotel for all the applicants here for the night as the results were analyzed by the staff. Bearing in mind his fatigue he felt it wise to get some rest.
"Ok." Replied Carissa. "I'll win ad meet you there."
"You better. I like you." Waved Nikolai as he left the arena.
As he walked he someone called out.
"Nekorovich!"
He turned and saw Kai and Jack.
"What you want?"
"Just wanted to introduce you to a friend of mine. Jack Freeman." He approached Nikoali with Jack until they were very close and almost hemming him in.
Jack nodded.
"And that affects me how?" Asked Nikolai with attitude.
"Just thought you might wan to see your future Kaisers."
"Yeah right." Nikolai attempted to walk off but the two walked with him.
"Listen Nikolai I'm giving you one last chance to apologise."
"No thanks. I'm good enough without needing to be afraid of you."
Jack gave a chuckle and then turned serious, pointing straight at Nikolais face with a threatening expression.
"Don't make us put out Decks on and show you how it's done. You wouldn't last five minutes."
"Want to put that to the test." Nikolai took a step forward.
Kai pulled Jack away easily.
"Jack easy! The guys on crack or something. We'll wipe the floor with him when we get to the island."
Then slowly the two returned to the arena.Nikolai made a throat cutting sign.
In response Kai gave the middle finger. A rivalry had begun before day one.