Chapter 1: Dueling University
He opened his eyes lazily and looked around a room, clothes littered on the floor; drink cans, pop bottles and rubbish lay around on the floor. He sighed to himself then smiled remembering what day it was today. Exam Day. Finally after years of waiting he was ready to take the entrance exam and enrol into Domino Duel University. He got up and found the clothes he had laid out the night before. He got dressed and looked at himself in the mirror. He stood tall, about 5, 11"; he had shoulder length brown hair that fell straight. He wore a black leather jacket with a tight red t-shirt underneath and blue jeans with a pair of black boots. His black deck pouch sat just underneath his jacket. Around his neck was a Pendant of a raven given to him by his late father. He was ready.
He went downstairs to grab some breakfast before getting the train to the Local Kaiba Dome on the edge of town. He was greeted by his mother who had laid out breakfast for the 18 year old boy. It consisted of a full English breakfast minus the tomato.
"Hurry and eat your breakfast, son." Said a women in her early forties "You don't want to be late for your exam?"
"Ok, Mom." Came the reply as he wolfed down the food with tremendous speed.
When he had finished he grabbed his back pack that had his duel disk in it and sped out the door after yelling "wish me luck." To his mom.
When he got to the train station he was amazed at the number of duellists there were. Most duelling each other testing to see how there deck stacked up and some were sitting on the floor planning strategies to use in there exam. He decided to sit down on a bench and plugged in his heavy metal songs while waiting for the train.
Just as he got to his favourite song he was approached by a boy about his age and height, he was wearing a black hoodie unzipped with a black skull t-shirt, green combat trousers and thin rimmed glasses with short brown blonde hair and blue eyes.
"Erm... hi there." He said "My name is Mark Straights. I was wondering are you a duelist?"
"Who? Me?" he said as he took out his earphones "Yea I'm a duelist. Names Jason. Jason Knight. Nice to meet you Mark."
"You too. Do you fancy a duel I want to test my deck to see if I have a chance getting in." said Mark raising his duel disk.
"Nah. I don't feel like dueling right now." Said Jason
"Any reason why?" asked Mark
"I just want to great my thoughts together before I take the Exam I guess." Replied Jason shrugging his shoulders.
"O… Ok then. Thanks anyway." Said Mark as he walked off trying to find a challenge.
Jason plugged his earphones back in and enjoyed his music until more people came up asking for a duel to which he replied the same.
As he was waiting Jason thought about what would be waiting for him in teh university. Unlike Duel Academy, the University was based on the Sacred Beast cards, Uria Red, Hamon Yellow and Raviel Blue. Uria was for the weaker students who barely passed, Hamon was for the students who did well on the exam while Raviel blue could only be entered by the promotion exams.
A while later the train finally arrived and everyone boarded. The train was 5 carriages long and was white with red stripes all the way along. Most of the cabins were full due to the amount of duellists. The cabins themselves could seat up to 5 people and had a small table in each one. Jason eventually found a cabin which also had Mark in.
"Oh hi again. Jason wasn't it?" said Mark looking up from his deck.
"Yea and your Mark ay it?" said Jason sitting down with his legs up on the small table.
"Yea."
"Cool." Said Jason then asking. "Did you find an opponent?"
"Yea I found one and won." Said Mark gleefully
"Nice one." Said Jason
The two sat and chatted for awhile about what they hoped to get out of the university. Mark wanted to become a card designer and the university offered the best way to do that.
A speaker crackled on and announced. "Next stop: Kaiba Dome."
"Cool. Well this looks like our stop." Said Jason grabbing his bag
The lads got off the train and walked with a large group up to the building, while walking Jason and Mark heard that there was a teacher at the tests that held a powerful card.
"Hmm. I bet that must be a powerful card." Whispered Jason to Mark.
"Yea. I heard that only a few people have seen it let alone seen it played." Responded Mark.
"Wow." Said Jason
As they got to the top of the hill they saw the Kaiba dome of the town. It was a large building the shape of a Blue Eyes White Dragon head. As they approached the building a man in a suit was standing out side.
"Will all Applicants please form a line so we can register you in." Said the man
Jason waited for what seemed like an hour and finally got to the front of the line. There was a desk with 2 girls in yellow and white uniforms with pens at the ready to take down the information of the next person.
"Name?" asked one of the girls
"Jason Knight." Jason said.
"Age?" came the other
"18" Jason said.
"Ok thank you, your number is 117. Please proceed to the written exam hall for your first test." Said the first girl.
"Thanks." Said Jason as he walked off into the building. Not waiting for Mark and entering the written exam. The inside of the building was a big as the outside. There were 4 duelling field and a separate hall for exhibitions which was also used for teh written exam.
Half an hour later Jason emerged from the Exhibition hall and found a seat in the stadium to watch the practise duels with the proctors. Some were easy picking for the proctors, some weren't.
"Applicant 117, please report to field 4." Came a voice over the speakers.
"Right, Time to do what I do best." Said Jason.
Duel Field 4
As Jason entered the field he saw across from him was a young man in his late 20's with long blonde hair that reached his back, he wore a blue coat that reached the floor, underneath the coat he wore a plain black t-shirt and grey trousers, on his arm was a standard University Duel Disk with blue trim around the edge.
"Welcome Young Applicant. I am your duelling Proctor." Said the man with a snobby attitude. "I am Vice Chancellor Dan Stewart; IF you pass this exam you will be admitted to Duel University but don't get your hopes up."
"wait, why do I have to duel the vice chancelor?" asked Jason
"You have to duel moi because I said so, got that?" came the reply
"yeesh, chill out will you? My name is Jason Knight." Said Jason as he got his duel disk ready.
"Ok. Jason. Let's Duel." Said Dan.
Jason: 4000
Dan: 4000
"I'll go first. Draw." Said Dan as he smiled at the card he drew. "I summon Masked Dragon in attack mode."
A red and white dragon with a white mask appeared on the field. (1400/1100)
"Now I play the effect of a card in my hand by removing from play 1 dragon type monster on my field I can special summon it." Said Dan "So by removing my Masked Dragon from the game I can call forth My RED EYES DARKNESS METAL DRAGON."
Masked Dragon banished in a veil of light, in its place came a dragon that looked like Red Eyes Darkness Dragon covered in a shiny metallic substance. (2800/2400)
"That's it." Shouted people from the crowd "The legendary rare card."
"Wow it's amazing." Said Jason looking at it in awe.
"It is, isn't it?" Said Dan still smirking "Now I play the effect of my dragon, once per turn I can special summon one dragon-type monster from my hand, so come forth, Prime Material Dragon."
A gold coloured dragon appeared next to the shining dragon and let out a small roar. (2400/2000)
"Seeing as I can't attack. It's your turn." Said Dan.
"Ok. I draw." Said Jason as he drew. He examined his hand for a moment and then said.
"I play the spell card Lightning Vortex so by discarding 1 card I can destroy all your monsters."
"Sorry, but my Prime Material Dragon can negate it by simply discarding 1 card of my own." Said Dan discarding his own card as did Jason.
"Dam it. Ok then. I play the spell card Black Whirlwind now every time I summon a Blackwing monster I can search my deck for another that has the less attack points than the one I summoned." Explained Jason as a small whirlwind appeared on the field.
"Now because you have a monster and I don't I can summon my Blackwing-Sirocco the Dawn." Said Jason as a tengu with big brown wings, long brown legs and a blue head appeared on the field. (2000/900)
Suddenly the small whirlwind picked up in ferocity as it got a card from Jason's deck and added it to his hand.
"Now seeing as I have another Blackwing monster on my field I can special both Blackwing-Bora the Spear and Blackwing-Gale the Whirlwind." Said Jason as he played 2 more cards.
Alongside Sirocco came another tengu, this one had a long yellow beak red head feathers and a long black lance. Also came a small bird with green and blue feathers with red eyes. (1700/800)(1300/400)
"So what? None of them can touch either of my dragons" said Dan Waving of the three monsters
"That's what special effects are for." Said Jason smirking "Gale, do your thing."
Gale lept into the air and gathered wind beneath its wings. They shot out and hit Prime Material dragon which shrank to half its size. (1200/1000)
"What happened?" exclaimed the Vice-Chancellor
"He he." Sniggered Jason "My favourite monster. My Gale can half the attack of any monster on the field once per turn. Now here's another effect. My Sirocco can transfer all the attack points of my Blackwing monsters into one monster on my field. So I give them all to my Gale giving him a total of 5000 attack points!"
Sirocco and Bora gathered orbs of light and shot them towards Gale who absorbed and grew to gigantic proportions. (1300+1700+2000=5000)
"What!" exclaimed Dan as he stared at the giant bird?
"Gale attack his Prime Material Dragon with Whirlwind Gust." Said Jason
Gale flew and swooped in on the Golden Dragon and destroyed it.
Jason: 4000
Dan: 200
"Alright. Take that." Yipped Jason as he jumped in the air
"Are you finished?" Snarled Dan.
"Erm I set 1 card facedown and yea I'm done." Said Jason realizing the duel was still on.
"I will not let you beat ME in a duel." Said Dan as he ripped off the next card
Dan began laughing crazy as he saw what he drew.
"From my Hand I normal summon my Spear Dragon and due to my Dragons effect I Special summon Strong Wind Dragon."
A Medium sized green dragon with green wings and yellow abs appeared and roared. (2400/1000)
"Now let's see what I can do to you." Said Dan "Strong Wind Dragon Attack Gale. Spear Dragon attack Bora and Red eyes attack Sirocco."
"Aw Man." Said Jason as all three dragons roared and let loose a barrage of fire destroying all of his monsters and taking a sizeable chunk out of his life points.
Jason: 2000
Dan: 200
"Looks like you WON'T be attending this year." Said Dan smirking "especially with that weak deck."
"You did not just call my deck weak did you?" said Jason head hung low
"Awww did I hurt your feelings?" said Dan "Don't worry it'll all be over soon. I set a facedown and end."
Jason drew silently and looked at the only card before saying. "It's time to show you. The potential of my Blackwing's."
"Oh I'm so scared." Said Dan Mockingly earning a few chuckles from the higher ranks.
"First up I play Pot of Greed, so I draw 2, next, I play my trap card Call of the Haunted allowing me to bring back my Bora in Attack Mode." Said Jason as the tengu appeared again. "Next up I'm gonna summon Blackwing Blizzard the Far North in attack mode."
A small white plump bird appeared on the field along the edges of its wings were black and he had a black crown. (1300/0)
"Whoop di do." Said Dan Sarcastically. "More weak monsters."
"Not so fast my Blizzard can special summon 1 level 4 or below Blackwing monster from my graveyard in defence mode." Said Jason "so I'm gonna bring back Blackwing-Fane the Steel Chain."
This time a tengu wearing grey ninja clothes and a green pony tail, with what looked like a drum on its back appeared. (500/800)
"When did that get in the graveyard?" asked Dan as he saw the new monster
"Remember my lightning vortex you negated? Asked Jason to which Dan nodded. "Well I still had to discard a card even though it was negated."
"Ok, But I don't know how it's gonna help you." Said Dan
"Simple, My Blizzard is a tuner monster." Said Jason smiling. "So I'm gonna tune my Blizzard the Far North, Fane the Steel Chain and Bora the Spear together."
Blizzard erupted into a tornado, as it died down to green circles appeared which Bora and Fane lept into them. (2+2+4=8)
"Gust fiercely, Storm! Gain the will of steel and the speed of light to sublime your form. Synchro Summon. Arrive now, Blackwing-Silverwind the Ascendant." Said Jason as the 2 monsters in the rings became stars after a few seconds a mighty white light exploded.
From the light flew a black Tengu with gold leg guards, white gloves and a yellow beak, in the beak was the lower half of a humans face. In its hand it held a mighty katana. (2800/2000)
"Meet my mightiest monster." Said Jason looking confident. "Now Silverwind attack Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon. SILVER SLICER."
"But they have the same POINTS, you fool." Said Dan "I'm not going to lose anything and you'll lose your only monster."
"Are you forgetting that I have 1 card left?" said Jason smiling still "At this moment I activate the effect of Blackwing-Kalut the moon shadow, by discarding this card from my hand I can have 1 Blackwing monster gain 1400 attack points until the end phase. Guess the old saying of Bird's of a feather, flocking together is true. "
"NO. This can't be my best card." Shouted Dan as a shadow passed over Silverwind who gained more power. (2800+1400=4200)
"Fraid so, teach." Said Jason as he pointed at the Dragon." Silverwind Attack."
Silverwind dived from a great height and brought it's sword up to bare down on the Metallic Red eyes, slicing it in 2 and causing it to exploding.
Jason: 1500
Dan: 0000
"Game over Teach." Said Jason "See ya at Uni."
With that Jason packed up his deck and Duel disk and left the arena leaving a very mad Vice-Chancellor.
"You will not make it through the year, Mr Knight." Seethed Dan
Outside
Jason walked along the path back to the train station pleased with his Victory. Suddenly he heard a little squawk; he looked to his left and saw his partner. A small raven with a big green patch on its head was perched on a tree eating what looked a pile of Small berries.
"Hey Gale, Did you find me here?" asked Jason "I wondered why you weren't in your cage this morning."
"Squawk." Came the reply
"Alright. Come down now and let's get home, I've got some great news for you." Said Jason
The small Raven grabbed its berries and flew on to Jason's shoulder to which he petted the small bird and kept walking.