Disclaimer type thing: I don't own Yu-Gi-Oh! Or any of that type of stuff you find in my story.


Chapter 1.

A fierce duel was raging between two competitors.

LP: 3200

LP: 4000

"Alright my turn. I summon Hand of Nephthys." (Lv.2 600/600) "Now I tribute my goat token and my Hand of Nephthys to special summon Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys." (Lv.8 2400/1600) "And now I'll activate Torrential Tribute. I play one facedown card and end my turn."

"My Turn. First I'll activate my facedown, Call of the Haunted to special summon Command Knight," (Lv.4 1200/1900) "and its effect increases its attack." (Lv.4 1600/1900) "Now I play Premature Burial, I lose 800 life points, but now I can special summon another Command Knight, and now they both have an extra 800 attack."

LP: 2400

LP: 4000

(Lv.4 2000/1900) (Lv.4 2000/1900)

"Now both of my Command Knights attack you directly."

"I activate Poison of the Old Man, and gain 1200 life points."

LP: 2400

LP: 1200

"Your turn."

"I get to special summon my Sacred Phoenix of Nephthys because it was destroyed by a card effect, and all spell an traps are destroyed and…"

"Because my monsters were summoned with Call of the Haunted and Premature Burial they are both destroyed too."

"Exactly, and now Phoenix attacks your life points directly."

LP: 0

LP: 1200

Kyoda dropped to the floor as he ground, "I lost again."

"How do you expect to get into duel academy if you can't even beat your own mother?" his opponent laughed as she picked up her cards.

"Awww… come on, that's not fair. You were in the pro-league for five years. "

"Don't worry so much, you'll do fine. Now come on, there's an exhibition game on T.V."

"Yeah let's go. In case you didn't know it, you're the coolest mom ever."


"Yeah, I know. Now hurry up before we miss the first round."

'I may not be the strongest duelist in the world, but I'm pretty good, or at least I hope so, at this testing center, pretty good is almost enough to get though. All I need is a little luck, and to remember the things I've been cramming into his head for the past two months'. These were the thoughts going through the head of Kyoda Takenuchi as he walked through the halls of the testing center ready to take the written exam.

A girl about his age walked up to him and said, "You look pretty nervous. You gunna be okay?"

"Me, nervous? What would make you think that?"

"You passed the testing room about half a hallway."

Kyoda looked back and, sure enough, there was the testing room well down the hall way.

"Uhhh, thanks. My name's Kyoda Takenuchi, by the way. What's your's?"

"Akua Oceo."

As they walked through the door a boy ran in front of them and asked "Can you help me study?"

"Uhhh… sure," replied Akua.

"Thanks. I love dueling, but tests aren't my thing. By the way, the name's Draek Roi."

"Hi, I'm Akua Oceo."

"And I'm Kyoda Takenuchi."

"Alright, ask me a question."

"Here's one," said Akua, "what two five card combinations are instant wins?"

"Destiny Board and Exodia. Come on, something harder."

"I've got one," said Kyoda, "name a monster that increases in attack and defense when battling warrior type monsters."

"Ummm… that I don't know, what is it?"

"Kinetic Soldier."

"Got it, come on ask some…"

"Find a seat, the test will begin now. Incase you were thinking of cheating, don't. All of you will have different tests. The testing will begin now." As the proctor said this all the duelists moved to their seats. Kyoda was surprised to find a computer with a touch screen instead of a paper. This test will have 40 questions. You must get at least 30 of them right. Are you ready to begin? Read the message written on the screen. As Kyoda selected yes his first question appeared on the screen. What monster card has the highest original attack? 'I know this one!' thought Kyoda as he typed in the answer Five Headed Dragon. Correct. Soon after Kyoda managed to get his 30 questions correct, with only 3 wrong, and the test ended for him. It only took a few more minutes for the rest of the duelists to finish.

"The test is complete," spoke the proctor, "and I'm happy to announce that everyone in this group has passed. Now down the hall you will find the room for the second test, duel puzzles. Empty out quickly to make room for the next group."

As Kyoda was leaving Draek came up to him and said, "You're a lifesaver dude. The last question was that Kinetic Soldier thing you asked me. I wouldn't have passed if it wasn't for you!"

"Don't mention it; I'm glad I could help."

"So the little lost boy is a hero now, huh?" replied a voice Kyoda knew could only be Akua.

Before he could respond, Draek cut him of and said, "That's right. He helped big time."

"I hate to end the happy moment, but this is the testing room right here," said Kyoda as he pointed out the door they had just come to.

"Right, well good luck both of you," Akua said as they walked in.

"You too," replied Kyoda.

As they walked in the proctor announced, "That's everyone. Take a seat and the test will begin."

Kyoda walked up to a terminal, and as the puzzle appeared his eyes widened. Reduce your opponents life points to zero in one turn. Your deck is treated as having three copies of every card that isn't a fusion monster or banned or limited in tournament play in it. His opponent had three Five Headed Dragons (Lv.12 5000/5000) in attack mode, two Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon (Lv.12 4500/3800) in attack mode, and 14,000 life points. He had a face up Ultimate Offering, a face down Call of the Haunted, a Freed the Matchless General (Lv.5 2300/1700) in attack mode, two Reinforcement of the Army in his hand, and 1100 life points. 'With this set up I can get three level four or lower Warriors, and bring one back to attack with again, but each attack has to deal 3500 damage. I know!' First he used Freed's effect to pull one Amazoness Swords Woman to his hand. Then he used his two Reinforcement of the Army to pull two more Amazoness Swords Woman. He used Ultimate Offering to summon all three at the cost of 1000 life points.

LP: 100

LP: 14000

Then he had them all attack a Five Headed Dragon. They were destroyed, but his opponent took the damage instead. When he used Call of the Haunted to pull one back and have it attack again, it was over.

LP: 100

LP: 0

Success! Kyoda let out a sigh of relief when he saw that message, and then he realized he was the last one to have finished.

"The test is complete," the proctor began, "and you must be a brilliant group, because you all passed. Now move on to the arena for your final test, a duel."

Kyoda met up with Akua and Draek as the walked to the arena, "That one was tough, didn't you think?"

"Actually mine was pretty easy," Akua said.

"Mine to dude, just a simple fusion problem," Draek agreed.

"I was facing down Five Headed Dragon and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, plus an insanely high amount of life points," Kyoda stated.

"Wow! Mine was just a ritual summon. Well looks like we're here." Akua replied.

"Good luck y'all," Draek said.

They walked up to the proctor, "Names?"

"Draek Rio"

"Akua Oceo"

"Kyoda Takenuchi"

"Draek, field 7. Akua, field 2, Kyoda, field 11."

Kyoda walked over to the field and found a tall, blonde woman standing there.

"Are you Kyoda Takenuchi?"

"That's me."

"I'm Professor Kaea Mitsumi, and I'll be your opponent today. You'll find a duel disk on your side of the dueling field."

"Hello Ms. Mitsumi. Good luck."

"You too."

Kyoda walked over and put on the duel disk then they both said, "Let's duel".

LP: 4000

LP: 4000

"You can go first," said Kyoda.

"Then I'll open with Kinetic Soldier. (Lv.3 1350/1800) Now I'll play Meteor of Destruction."

LP: 3000

LP: 4000

"I'll follow that up with Ookazi."

LP: 2200

LP: 4000

"Your turn."

"I'll play Lightning Vortex, I lose a card from my hand your Kinetic Soldier is destroyed. Now I'll summon Command Knight (Lv.4 1200/1900) and its effect gives it four hundred more attack points. (Lv.4 1600/1900) Now I play Premature Burial, I lose 800 life points, but now I can special summon another Command Knight, and now they both have an extra 800 attack!"

LP: 1400

LP: 4000

(Lv.4 2000/1900) (Lv.4 2000/1900)

"Now they both attack you directly! And that's it!"

LP: 1400

LP: 0

"That was quick. Welcome to Duel Academy Mr. Takenuchi."

"Thanks."

Kyoda walked over to see Akua's duel.

LP: 2300

LP: 2600

"My turn," said Akua, "I'll start with the field spell A Legendary Ocean. Now I can summon my Levia-Dragon – Daedalus with only one tribute, so goodbye Mermaid Knight, hello Daedalus. (Lv.7 2600/1500) Now with its effect I can destroy Umi, or A Legendary Ocean, to destroy every card on the field, except for my Daedalus. Now Daedalus will attack you directly. It's over."

LP: 2300

LP: 0

"Good job Miss Akua, and welcome to Duel Academy."

Kyoda walked over to Akua, "Good job. Maybe if we're fast we can see the end of Draek's duel."

"Sounds cool, let's go."

Draek's duel seemed to be going pretty well, he had three Luster Dragons (Lv.4 1900/1700) on the field and his opponent only had two facedown spells/traps and an Ojama Yellow in attack mode (Lv.2 0/1000).

LP: 2000

LP: 4500

"As you draw," said his opponent, "I activate Curse of Aging and decrease all your monsters attack by 500 for this turn." (Lv.4 1400/1600)

"Fine then, I play Polymerization, I fuse my three Luster Dragons with the two Spirit Ryu in my hand to fusion summon Five Headed Dragon (Lv.12 5000/5000) and even with Curse of Aging (Lv.12 4500/5000) it still can wipe you out."

"Not so fast, I activate Chthonian Polymer. I tribute my Ojama Yellow to take your Five Headed Dragon!"

"I'll play a face down, your turn."

"Five Headed Dragon attack!"

"I activate Magic Cylinder, now you lose all your life points."

LP: 2000

LP: 0

"That was a good duel Draek. I'm sure you'll do great at duel academy."

"Alright," Draek said ad he walked to Akua and Kyoda, "the three of us at Duel Academy! Won't that rock?"

'Yes,' thought Kyoda, 'I'm sure it will.'

End of Chapter 1