Chapter 1: Won the Duel, Was a Fool

My name is Nick and I'm enrolling in Duel Academy with my two best friends, John and Michele. I have kind of long, curly black hair that I brush and mess up so it still looks a little messy. I wear a black shirt with a dark blue hoodie and jeans. I have a custom duel disk that looks like a red dragon wing and the dividers are those bony parts of the wings.

I got to the registration late and had to duel the examiner that no one has beat.

Nick: 4000

Examiner: 4000

"Are you ready?" He had a voice like a drill commander and was wearing a dark blue overcoat with a dirty white outline. "There is only one way to pass my assessment: beat me in one turn! Do you understand?"

"You need to chill," I told him. "Now just make your move."

"Fine! I draw! And I summon out Luster Dragon in Attack Mode!" A bony dragon appeared directly in front of him. "And I end my turn with two face downs."

"My draw! First a play Heavy Storm!" A strong wind destroyed his facedowns. "And now I summon out my Dragunity Aklys!" A red, skinny dragon with metal armor appeared on my field. "Now with his effect I can summon out a Dragunity Winged-Beast from my hand. And I choose Dragunity Primus Pilus!" A man in a bird outfit with a giant wood shield on his back appeared next to Aklys. "Now with their effects Aklys equips to Pilus, and Pilus gets equipped with one from my deck! And I choose Coresca!" A pink, muscular dragon attached to the back of Pilus, and Aklys attached to Coresca. "Now I play Dragon Mastery!" A spell card showed it self to him. "Now all monsters equipped with a Dragunity gain five hundred Attack, and I can attach one monster with a Level three or lower Dragunity dragon in my hand, and I have the perfect one! I equip him with Dragunity Brandistock!" A small dragon in thick blue armor got between Coresca and Aklys. "Now attack his Luster dragon!" Pilus whipped the dragon into pieces.

Examiner: 3100

"And thanks to Coresca, I can summon a level four or lower monster from my deck that has the same type and attribute as the one it's equipped with. And I choose Dux." A man in a skirt wearing an owl mask and holding a flail appeared next to Pilus. "And thanks to his ability he gains 200 for each Dragunity on the field, and I have five!" A green aura appeared around Dux and his Attack shot up to 2500. "Now attack him directly!" Dux hit the director across the face.

Examiner: 600

"Nice, but you still fail. You didn't beat me in one turn!"

"Actually, I equipped him with Brandistock for a reason. Brandistock gives the monster it's equipped to an extra attack."

"What?" He asked before Pilus punched him across the face to take out the rest of his life points.

"Good duel, Nick," Michele said as she went to her duel. She was wearing a tight tank top that shows side boob and a miniskirt. Her blonde hair flowed down her back. She had on the duel disk I made for her. It was translucent white and looked like it was pure ice. The dividers were only visible because they were a little bit higher. I put in an experimental program where she could show the bottom of her duel disk and the opponent wouldn't see her cards.

"Thanks," I said with a smile. "Good luck."

"Thanks." Her blue eyes were full of hurt.

I went up to the balcony to watch her duel. She was dueling a guy with a short beard and a blue overcoat.

"Are you ready?" Michele asked him.

"Get ready to be destroyed," the examiner said.

Michele: 4000

Examiner: 4000

"I draw!" The examiner said. "And I place one monster face down in defense-mode to end my turn."

"I draw! And I play the Magic Triangle of the Ice Barrier!" The spell card showed itself to the instructor. "Now I reveal my Defender, Sacred Spirit, and Strategist of the Ice Barrier to destroy your face down monster!" The destroyed card turned out to be a Man-Eater Bug. "Now I Special Summon Defender of the Ice barrier in defense-mode!" The large fox with ice armor appeared with its tail wrapped around it. "Now I summon my Sacred Spirit of the Ice Barrier!" A blue, ghostly outline of a man with a white beard appeared next to Defender. "Now attack him directly! Spirit Snow!" The ghostly man blew a blizzard at the examiner.

Examiner: 2400

"Now I end my turn with two facedowns."

"I end my turn with three facedowns."

"I draw! And I attack with Sacred Spirit!"

"I use the effect of Swift Scarecrow! Now by sending it to the Graveyard I can end the battle phase."

The metal scarecrow jumped in the way of the attack and broke into pieces.

"I end my turn my summoning Strategist of the Ice Barrier."

"I play Dark Hole to destroy your monsters!" Every monster she had on the field was sucked into a black vortex. "Now I play Chainsaw Insect!" An ant with chainsaw blades where its pincers would be appeared on the field. "Now attack her directly!"

"I play my trap! Magic Cylinder!" The bug went into one cup and was launched back out of the other. "That was easy."

I saw John going to his duel. He has short hair and brown eyes. He was wearing a blue shirt and a pair of black shorts. He was also using a duel disk I made for him. It was a shield with a sword hilt on top (looking like a sword was stored there). When he took the hilt out there was no sword and the shield split in half and combined to form a duel disk. The smooth, painted side went under to reveal an older style card space. The painted side went underneath so you could play spells and traps. The sword hilt went on top as a space to put your deck. He loaded it and said, "Let's duel."

John: 4000

Examiner: 4000

"I'll go first," the examiner said. "And I summon Mirage Dragon!" Skinny dragon appeared on his side of the field. "And I end my turn with three face downs."

"I draw!" John looked at his cards. "And I summon the Marauding Captain!" The knight appeared on his side of the field. "And thanks to his ability I can Special Summon another monster. And I choose the Command Knight!" The second knight rose next to Marauding Captain. "Now a play Double Summon! So I'll go with another Marauding Captain and Warrior Lady of the Wasteland!" The knight and female warrior rose on the field. "Now I play Heavy Storm!" A strong wind blew his facedown cards away. Now Attack Warrior Lady!"

"But my monster is 200 points stronger than yours."

"Not with Command Knight. She raises all of my warriors' Attack by 400."

The Warrior Lady stabbed the dragon through the chest (or where the chest would be) and destroyed it.

Examiner: 3800

"And that's game." John walked away after all of his monsters finished stabbing the instructor.

When we got our uniforms we met up at the entrance. I was Slifer Red, Michele was Ra Yellow, and John was Obelisk Blue.

"How'd you get red?" Asked John. "You beat him in one turn."

"I had some low test scores," I admitted.

"Why are you hanging out with this slacker?" Another Obelisk asked John.

"I don't know. He wanted to talk to me, but I didn't want to talk to him. I just didn't want to be rude."

"It's fine. He's nothing more than a slacker that could barely get into this school."

John walked off laughing.

"Why are you talking to a Slifer?" A Ra Yellow asked.

"I honestly have no idea." She walked off with the other Ra.

I had no idea what just happened. My best friends in the entire world just left and mocked me.

I walked home and started packing. I may be in the lowest dorm, but I wasn't going to let that stop me from proving to them that I am the greatest duelist who ever lived. I am the next King of Games.