A young black man is sitting in a arena with other young duelist, who are about to listen to Seto Kaiba the fourth, give his speech about the new dueling school he's opening.
"Good morning young duelist, you are here today because you show great promise to be wonderful duelist, and who knows one of you might be the next King of Games. One hundred and ten years ago my great grandfather built Duel Academy, and it was very successful, it made many pro duelers, and to this day it is still going strong, as CEO of Kaiba Corp I decided to create a new school to teach more young duelist like yourselves to be come pros, thats why I'm here to announce the new dueling school, Duel Academy International so that all likes of duelist can learn and improve their skills."
The crowd of people in the arena start clapping and cheering loudly. Kaiba raises his hand so he can silence the crowd.
"Today I with me your chancellor Yuki Kita from Japan, he will be responsible for all of you. His staff that he has selected are exceptional and they will try their very to mold you into being better duelers. We also have some very big news we decided to reprint many Yugioh cards so that you can now incorporate them into your decks, also we know that synchros have been out for a while now and exceed monsters are just hitting the streets, they have done so well that we at Kaiba Corp decided to keep printing and releasing new ones every month."
The crowd cheers once again.
"There are two hundred of you in the arena today, but we are only taking one hundred and fifty of you."
Adam tightens his grip on his deck.
"The way the testing will go is we will call you buy written test number from best to worst, and the testers are the ones who will decide who gets in so even if you lose the duel you still have a chance to get in. Best of luck to all of you and let the entrance exams begins!"
The crowd goes wild at the end of Kaiba speech, and shortly afterwards people have begun taking their exams, their names are being called over the intercom system. Adam sitting in his seat focused on his deck reviewing it. He doesn't even notice the cute girl that just sat next to him.
"Uh...hi." The girl said.
Adam still hasn't notice her. She decides to speak up.
"Hi." She said with more confidence.
Adam turns his head and sees a pair of green eyes staring back at him, the girl flashes a smile at him. He blushes a little.
"Wow you're very pretty, I mean, you have a pretty smile." He stutters.
She giggles at his comment.
"I was just looking around and I saw you by yourself so..I thought I would sit by you and chat. I'm some what of a shy person when it comes to meeting new people but you, just have this sorta way about you, you seem friendlier then most people. I know it seems weird right?"
"I...guess?" As he laughs. "I can say this though your accent, your not from around here are you?"
"Nope good ear though I'm from the U.K, Reading to be exact. I promised my parents that i would try to make friends on my first day, but since this isn't really our first day I think I'm making good progress."
"Well, to be friends you would need to know each others names."
"Bugger your right, my name is Starr Ryder."
"It's very nice to meet you Starr, I'm Adam Walters. Hmmm Ryder why does that name sound familiar? Wait. Don't tell me you related to the Ryder duelist?"
"Yep, those are my parents." As she sighs.
Adams eyes widen with excitement.
"Are you freaking serious, your the daughter of the Ryder's. They are one of the top ten best duelists in the world! No wonder they sent you to this prodigious school."
"What, do you mean by that?"
"Oh you don't know. This school was mainly made for the famous or wealthy."
"If your here, does that must mean your parents are famous or wealthy.?"
"Haha far from it my dad used to be a well renowned duelist but sorta fell through the seams of dueling. He had to pull a lot of string to get me in, they only agreed to let me in if I work part time at the school and I'm actually ok to do it. You see I'm from the Satellite so I had to work from time to time."
"Your from the Satellite?" A student interrupts. "They'er really gonna let some Satellite garbage come into this school." As he shoves Adam from the back.
"Hey piss off, he hasn't done anything to you." As Starr defends Adam.
"Listen girly I can tell your not from around here. People from the Satellite are all trash, their all low life's, thugs, and thieves. They're good for nothing criminals that should be tossed away, just like garbage."
Adam stands up swiftly and turns around to the student talking trash. His hands stretches out in a fast motion, the student is now grasping for air, Adam has one hand around his throat, his grip gets tighter and tighter. Some students seeing this run to go get help.
"Say one more word about my home and I'll personally make sure you visit there and never leave."
Starr taps Adam on his shoulder and she just shakes her head. He looks back at the guy and he releases his grip. The student falls into a seat coughing and wheezing.
"If you don't believe me, ask him where he got that yellow rectangular mark on his face. Only Satellite security give those to people who were arrested."
One of the other students that left came back with a duel instructor and takes Adam and the coughing student to the hallway and asks what happen. Before Adam left he asked Starr to watch his duel disk while he's gone. They explained what happened earlier, they took the student to the nurses facility, and Adam will be reprimanded for his actions. He will have to duel last if they have anymore opening left. Frustrated at what happened, he went back to his seat and Starr wasn't anywhere to be seen, but in his seat he sees his duel disc all tagged up, its full of cuss words and and inappropriate images, but none of that sets him off, not until he notices two words Satellite garbage. His dark brown eyes fill with rage he sits in his seat and begins to punch the back of the chair thats in front of him over and over again until he has no more strength. People stop and look at him but don't say or do anything, after a while he just sat there and tried his best to clean his duel disk. After some time had passed Starr comes back and sits down next to him.
"Hey how are you feel-."
He interrupts her.
"Not to be mean but, I not in the talking mood, so if you don't mind can we just sit here in silence."
She just nods her head and yawns. Adam continues to watch the duels on the first level, he sees some rather interesting decks, he sees Dino rabbits, froggy monarch, and Amazons. There's many more but he stops paying attention to them and focus back on his deck visualizing how he can play out his strategies, he looks at his cards for sometime, then he feels this thud on his left shoulder. Starr has fallen asleep and is now leaning on him, he doesn't mind because he finds her rather attractive so he leaves her be. After a while he begins to doze off thinking that his name will never get intercom kicks on and a female voices speaks.
"Adam Walters please come to the dueling arena down at the bottom, Adam Walters please come to the dueling arena down at the bottom."
Adam tries to move Starr's head without waking her but he failed.
"I'm sorry. You feel asleep on my shoulder and I didn't want to wake you but my duel is about to start." He said.
"Oh don't worry about it, good luck on your duel I'll be watching." As she rubs her eyes.
He grabs his duel disk and heads to the bottom floor to take his exam. He passes by Seto Kaiba the fourth. Kaiba stops.
"I want you to prove them wrong. I want you to show them, that even somebody with your circumstances and background can become the best. Take all of their hate and disapproval and turn that into your determination, show them the better way of dueling just as your father showed me. I'll be watching you Adam make me proud."
Kaiba takes a few steps before Adam says anything.
"I can't promise you anything Kaiba, but I will try my best!" As he runs into the dueling arena to take his test.
"I expect nothing less from you Adam." Kaiba says to himself.
Adam stands on the dueling field, on the opposite side his examiner is already there.
"I see you made it with time to spare, state your name and where your from."
"Adam Walters from...the Satellite."
"Are you serious the Satellite, this duel shouldn't take long. Anyway you can call me Mr. T I"ll be your judge, I get to decide if you make it into this school. Are you ready to duel?"
"Yes sir."
Adam takes his deck from his right side hip and puts it into his disk they both yell "DUEL."
Mr.T :4000
Adam:0
"Um...is your disk on kid?"
"Sorry about that, this happens sometimes give me a sec to fix it."
Starr giggles a little bit at his mishap.
"Oh the Satellite scum is dueling this should a quick duel, you know you shouldn't have been talking to him, you should of converse with me."
Starr heard an annoying familiar voice. The duelist has his neck wrapped in cloth to keep the embarrassing bruises from showing.
"Oh piss of, you wanker! You do know that out of the five minutes I heard you speak I can tell that your a selfish, condescending arse, and to top it off you super annoying."
"Well aren't you a little bitc-."
"Zack! If you finish that sentence I will choke you myself."
Starr turns her head to see a slender Japanese kid standing in the aisle pushing his small rectangular glasses closer to his face.
"But what Zack says is true," the young man continues, "it is really hard for you to get a good deck in the Satellite. Most people have to go to the dump and find cards that were thrown away and use them, but their deck will lack consistency." As he fixes his glasses again.
"Just who are you?" Starr asks.
"Oh my apologies, my name is Rya Shizuoka." As he bows.
Starr bow a little in her seat.
"Shizuoka? Wait, are related to the owner of the multi-million dollar company that works with Kaiba corp in making and designing duel disks!"
"Yes," he replies. "My father owns the company as did my grandfather before him, but I don't want to talk about that now, I'm interested in seeing this duel."
Adam finally got his duel disk to come on after hitting it with his fist a couple of times.
"There we go! Duel"
Mr. T:4000
Adam:4000
Both player draw their five cards.
"I'll let you go first." Mr.T said.
"Ok draw. I set a monster facedown and I set one card, and end my turn."
"Pretty good start kid my turn I draw, I summon Alien Shocktrooper from my hand." An alien monster appears in front of him with giant claws with an attack of 1900. "Thats not all I special summon alien dog from my hand to the field. When I normal summon an Alien monster I can special summon him." A dog like creature appears in front of him with blue armor and a bone in its mouth with 1500 attack.
"Man this is not looking good," Adam says to himself.
"Now Alien Shocktrooper attack his facedown monster."
It did what it was told and attacked the monster and destroy it.
"Ha you attack my Super-Nimble Mega Hamster, now his flip effect goes off, I can special summon 1 level 3 or lower beast-type monster from my deck in facedown defense position." His duel disk gives him the card he wants. "And I choose Ojama Blue in facedown defense position.
Mr. T chuckles a little bit. "Really? Your trying to get into this school with that deck, I give it to yeah kid you got guts, in a way Ojamas are dangerous when they are on the field and when their signature card goes of, but other than that they're weak."
People watching the duel sorta laugh at his deck, of course Zack has something to say.
"Hahahahaha, he's from the Satellite of course he'll have a poor ass deck."
Starr doesn't say anything she just stays quiet, but Rya intervenes.
"Ya know Zack there's this old saying, once you underestimate, a deck you already lost the duel, so why don't you sit down and educate yourself."
Starr chuckles at his remark.
Mr. T is talking to himself. "Still, I can't let his ojama get his effect off that may ruin me so."
"I end my battle phase." He says to Adam. " I activate the spell card Foolish Burial, this allows me to send 1 monster from my deck to the grave. I'm sending Alien Warrior, and I set one card and end my turn."
Adam draws a card.
"On your standby phase I activate my trap," Mr. T says. "Offering to the snake deity, I target 1 face-up reptile-type I control and target 2 cards on your field. I target my alien dog and I choose your face down monster and your face down set card."
All three cards are destroyed and they go to the grave.
"Thanks a lot for all your help Mr. T."
"What do you mean by that?"
"1 of the cards you destroyed was a spell card ojamagic, and when it gets sent to the grave I get to add and ojama yellow, black and green form my deck to my hand. Then I'll set two cards facedown and then I activate the spell card Fissure, I get to destroy the lowest monster on your field but you only have one so, say goodbye to your Alien Shock trooper, and I end my turn."
"Not bad not bad at all, I draw. I summon Alien Hunter." A monster with blue and brown armor and a lance in his hands appear on the field with 1600 attack. "Then I activate the spell card Viper's Rebirth from my hand, I can only activate this if I only have reptile-type monster in my grave, then I select a non-tuner monster from my grave and special summon it, and at the end of my turn the monster is destroyed but i won't let it. So I'll special summon Alien Shocktrooper to the field in attack position." An alien with light blue armor appears with a jagged edge katana with 1900 attack.
"That thing just won't stay dead will it." Adam called out.
" No it will not, Alien Hunter will attack you directly and you'll take damage."
The monster charges towards Adam side of the field to lower his life points.
"Nope, you fail this time because I activate my monster effect from my hand. I special summon Battle Fader, when you declare a direct attack I can special summon this card from my hand and it also ends your battle phase." Adam stated.
"Fine, I'll over lay my lever 4 Alien Hunter and my level 4 Alien Shock trooper to exceed summon, King of the Feral Imps. A reptile creature appears on the field in attack position with 2300 attack. I activate his effect I detach xyz material from this card, so i send Alien Shock trooper back to the grave and I get to add 1 reptile-type monster from my deck to my hand." His duel disk give him the cards he wants. "I add Alien Ammonite to my hand and end my phase."
"My turn." Adam draws his card. "I activate my trap card Reckless Greed, this allows me to draw 2 cards but I skip my next 2 draw phases. I set a monster face down and end my turn."
"Playing defense are we." Mr. T says while drawing his next card. "I activate King of the Feral Imps effect I send my last xyz material monster on him to the grave and I'll add Alien warrior from my deck to my hand. Then I'll summon Alien Ammonite to the field." His monster appears on the field in attack position with 500 attack."And I use his effect when he is normal summoned I can special summon 1 level 4 or lower Alien monster from my grave to the field, so welcome back Alien Shock trooper in attack position." It appear on his with with 1900 attack.
"This is going to be tough." Rya comments.
"Why's that?" Starr asked.
"Well Satellite here, has been playing defense since the beginning of the duel, and the examiner has something up his sleeve, because his Alien Ammonite is a tuner so it looks like Satellite might lose."
"Well I believe he's going to win." Starr stated.
"Of course you do." As Rya said under his breath looking back at the duel.
"Now Alien Ammonite attack his defense position battle fader." Alien Ammonite destroys battle fader.
"Because I used battle fader effect I have to banish it when it leaves the field." Adam stated.
Mr. T continues his attack.
"Next Alien Shock trooper will attack your face down monster."
The facedown monster flips up and Adam smiles.
"You just destroyed my Ojama blue and his effect kicks off. When he is destroyed by battle and sent to the grave I get to search my deck for 2 Ojama. So I'll get Ojamagic and Ojama Delta Hurricane to my hand."
"Now your field is wide open for a direct attack King of the Feral Imps attack him directly." Adam braces himself for the impact. An explosion goes off on Adam side of the field knocking his life points down.
Mr. T :4000
Adam :1700
"I'm not done yet." Mr. T says. "On my main phase 2 I tune Alien Ammonite which is my level 1 monster, and Alien Shock trooper my level 4 monster to synchro summon my level 5 Cosmic Fortress Golgar." A giant triangular white fortress with tentacles appear on his field in attack position with 2600 attack.
"Let me ask you something Mr. Walters, do you truly believe you can win this duels. I mean look at my field two monster with with over 2000 attack and you with an open field and only 1 set spell/trap card."
"To answer your question, end your turn and find out."
What will that do, reckless greed effect is still active and you won't draw."
"Just do it."
"Alright Mr. Walters I'll humor you, I end my turn."
Its Adam turn but he cant draw.
"Well Mr. T to answer your question the duel is over."
"Oh do you surrender?"
"Nope I win. How you may ask? I been holding onto cards that would help me win. I summon Ojama Red from my hand when this card is normal summoned I can special summon up to 4 more Ojamas from my hand. So come on down Ojama Yellow, Black, and Green." All 4 monster appear on the field in attack position with 0 attack points. "And Mr. T was this the card you mentioned earlier I activate the spell Ojama Delta Hurricane, when I have Ojama Yellow, Black, and Green on my field and I destroy all cards on your field."
A giant hurricane forms on Adam side of the field and shoots over to Mr. T field and destroyed his monsters. He groans when he sees his field is wide open.
"I still don't see how your going to win? You did get rid of my monsters but your monsters have 0 attack."
"Yes your right, but I have been holding onto this card since the beginning of this duel. I activate the field spell card Ojama Country from my hand." Small brown tannish house appear on the field and different color and kinds of Ojama roam around. "This field card has an awesome effect and that is when I control a face up Ojama monster, switch the original attack and defense of all monsters on the field, haha well I have four Ojamas so there attacks are all 1000. Ojama yellow attack Mr. T directly, now ojama black do the same, ojama green take him down a peg, and ojama red finish him off."
Mr. T braces himself from the on coming barrage of attacks knocking his life points to 0.
Mr. T: 0
Adam: 1700
"GG Mr. T you dueled very well."
"You as well Mr. Walters I didn't know they made a field spell for Ojamas. May i ask you something?" As he walks over to Adam.
"Sure what is it?"
"On your second turn when you set two cards, what was that second one."
Adam reveals the card. "It was Miracle Wake I can activate it when a monster was destroyed and sent to the grave that turn, I can special summon it from the grave."
"Why didn't you activate it when I destroyed your blue, you wouldn't have taken damage."
"Well because I already had everything in my hand I needed to win. I play my cards when I need them not because their just there to use. I had 4000 life points you only took away 2300, meaning I would still be in the game, but if you would have beat me with that attack then I would have used it."
"Hmmm very interesting Mr. Walters, go back and take your seat we will be releasing the names of the ones who made it into the school, best of luck."
Adam walks back up to the second floor where he was sitting, as he walks down the stairs to get to his seat the Japanese duelist takes his leave and doesn't breath a word to Adam has he walks by him. Adam gets to his seat and he sees Starr flashing a giant grin on her face and she hugs him while saying congratulations to him for winning the duel. Zack and his little group decide to leave when he sits down. They sit there in an awkward silence, until Starr breaks it.
"If you don't mind me asking how did you get that mark?" Starr asked.
"Well my mom got really sick one winter and this was when my dad couldn't find work so we were barely getting by every month, so one night I walked over to New Domino City broke into the pharmacy and only took the medicine my mother needed. Me being stupid and not noticing the hidden camera they had. So Satellite showed up on my doorstep the next day I confessed to the crime and went to Juve for three months and had community service for two months. My mom got better but, I lost my fathers trust, he said: "Even if it was for a good cause, it was still wrong." So I leave this mark here as a reminder that there is more than one way to do something, that was three years ago."
"Wow I never would have guessed it." As she chuckles. "How old are you now?"
"Sixteen, you."
"Sixteen as well, but turning seventeen in about two months."
A voice over the intercom speaks.
"The results are in, go to the nearest monitor to you, type in your name at the top of the screen and it will tell you if you passed and what dorm you'll going to be in. Then if you passed meet back at this stadium by 4:00pm with your belongings and we will fly you to DAI."
People start making their way to the monitors Starr get up and starts to walk but notices that Adam is still sitting in his seat and asks what's wrong.
"I may not look like but I'm extremely nervous, my father had to make so many arrangements just to let me take the test here, and I'm wondering if I did well enough to get in. I feel sick to my stomach hoping I made it."
"I'm pretty sure you did but, if you need more time I'll be waiting for you in the hallway."
Five minutes have passed since Starr left, Adam makes his way to the hallway he sees Starr leaning against the wall next to the monitor with her arms crossed. He walks up to the monitor puts his name in, his result is...he passed and he was in the Slifer dorm. You can see his excitement in his face, how his eyes widen with excitement, his hands run through his hair he turns to Starr hugs her and picks her up, then quickly puts her down and turns his back to her they both blush, she moves her dark brunette hair from her face to behind her ear.
"Well I guess I'll see you later." Adam says.
"Yeah, see you around." Starr replied.
Adam rushes home to tell his parents that he got excepted into DAI. He gets home he sees his father working on a D wheel for a client. He grabs his attention of his father and told him that he passed, his fathers face lights up with joy, he hugs his son and calls his wife's name to come outside. She hears the news and hugs her son they go inside and celebrate just for a little bit. Adam goes into his room and starts packing his belongings, he says goodbye to his family withs hugs and kisses, before he left his house his father gave him a couple of cards before he left to use in any deck he desired. He rushes back to the arena in Domino City, he follows the arrows that lead him to the boarding on the helipads. The line he's in moves sorta quickly, he then notices Starr waving at him, she waited until he got there so they can ride together to the new school. They board the helicopter with many other students and they began talking. The helicopter takes off and they make their way to Duel Academy International.