Dear God! I'm practically shaking in my seat as I post this. Yes, I'm kind of nervous. Ha! I'm such a dork... ^.^
Okay. This is the rewrite of Duel Monster Academy (DMA). In this re-issuing, I will not bother with keeping the chapters the same. Which means, you can almost completely disregard the original copy. The base storyline will be the same, but still. So listen, each OC will NOT get two chapters to his or her self, like I did last time. Two chapters are no where near long enough to fall in love. They will each have their moments, but yeah.
I respect that these are not my own OCs. However, with your agreement, I now have total control over them. I will stick as close as possible to the descriptions you originally gave me, but if something comes up that is not mentioned, I think I reserve the right to fill in the gap. For example, Leslie might be a bad cook. Alicia might utterly fail at skateboarding. Light might suck at archaeology, damaging everything he finds. You get the picture? So, this is your last chance to say "I don't want you to do that, Vamp!" If you say this, I will run every little thing by you. That might be a lot of Personal Messages, yo, and a lot of time on my part, waiting for you to reply… I don't recommend that. ;)
The hardest part of rewriting is wondering where to start. I guess we'll see. Onwards!
The boy called Jaden stood amongst the crowd of students. Why they were all standing, he didn't know. All he knew was that his feet hurt, and he wanted to hurry up and find out where his dorm was so he could go to sleep. His brown eyes tried to peer above the heads of others, but alas, he wasn't the tallest one there.
His new friend stood beside him, even shorter than he was. His friend's poofy, powder blue hair bobbed as he jumped up and down.
"Calm down, Syrus," Jaden told him. "It'll be fine."
"I want to hear this," the boy called Syrus said.
"Well, you'll be able to hear it," Jaden pointed out. "Just because you can't see doesn't mean you can't hear."
It was at this time that it looked like the entire wall in front of them lit up. No, it wasn't the wall. It was just a large screen. The head of a rather large, bald man with a dark brown, short beard and beady – yet friendly – black eyes filled the screen. He smiled warmly down at the students, who were all dressed variously in red, yellow, and blue jackets.
"Welcome to Duel Academy," the man said. "I am Chancellor Sheppard, the head of this school."
Jaden thought he heard someone behind him go "Tch" in disbelief.
"It is here that all of you bright, young pupils will learn the art of dueling. While that is the main course of this delicious dish of a school, Mr. Seto Kaiba – the founder of this school – realizes the importance of a good study. Thus, you will take specific dueling courses along with what you'd call normal school classes."
"Oh great," Jaden mumbled. "I have to do math here, too?"
"Now, Duel Academy has the latest technology for your enjoyment. Like the PDAs, which you must carry on yourselves at all time. You all should have received one with your jacket and your duel disk. When you are dismissed, you will use your PDA to find your dorm. I ask that you go directly there and to bed. You will find that the dorms are divided into two different sections. The Day Classes and the Night Classes must always be separated. Just like a boy cannot be in a girl's dorm, a Day Class student cannot be in a Night Class dorm unless escorted by either a teacher like myself or a Prefect."
Jaden yawned. When would this welcome speech be over?
"There are more rules that must be strictly followed," Chancellor Sheppard continued. "For example, Day Class students must be in their dorm room by the time the sun has set. The Night Class students must be in their dorm room by the time the sun rises. The rest of the rule book is available on your PDA. Now, I've kept you here long enough. Off to bed, students. School starts tomorrow. Your schedule is on your PDA, also. Good night."
The screen went blank once more, and the crowd started moving. Syrus was swallowed up, leaving Jaden alone. The brunet shrugged, and started moving along with the flow of the crowd when a hand suddenly rested on his shoulder. The surprise touch sent electricity shuddering down his skin. He turned to look over his shoulder, eyes wide with astonishment. What he saw was a tall guy with dark teal hair, narrow teal eyes, and a blue jacket.
"You're Jaden Yuki," he said, matter-of-factly.
"Uh… yeah, that's me," Jaden replied, a little wary. It's not every day a stranger knows your name, after all.
"You'd best be careful around here," the teen said.
"Huh? Why?"
The teen narrowed his eyes. "If you don't know, I can't tell you. But follow the rules, Jaden Yuki, and you won't get hurt."
Jaden wondered if he was being threatened. "Um. Yeah. Okay. So, what's your name again?"
The teen paused, as if contemplating whether to tell him or not. Finally, he said, "My name is Zane. Now go to your dorm." Zane then turned and disappeared into the throng of students, and, despite his large height, Jaden lost sight of him quite quickly.
"Nice disappearing act," Jaden muttered. He let the crowd carry him outside before he took out his PDA. Since he was wearing a red jacket, the hand-held device told him to go to the Slifer Dorm. It looked the farthest away from the main building, too. He sighed. "Looks like I have a long walk ahead of me," he complained to no one in particular.
When he got there, he was a little disappointed. The Slifer Dorm was a small building with puke-yellow walls and a dusty red roof. Though, he admitted, the scenery was kind of nice. Lush green trees surrounded the building, and the building itself was at the edge of a cliff looking out over the ocean, sparkling orange in the setting sun.
His PDA told him his room number, saying that his dorm key was in his room. He reached it and was pleasantly surprised to find that his roommate was none other than Syrus. A few minutes later, both were asleep on the bunk bed. Tomorrow awaits these young duelists. Let us leave them to their sleep.
Now seems like a good stopping place. Yes, I am aware it's kind of short. Half of this chapter is Author Notes! But it's necessary.
You see, now I've placed the springboard for my rewrite.
One last thing. This one eager reviewer had read my the original of this story and wanted to submit an OC. And me, being nice to a fault, couldn't really refuse. The OC, she's not going to play a big role. But, I have a plan for her. The Creator agreed to let me use the OC as a Shadow Fiend (if you're new to reading this, you'll see what they are in some chapters…). I'm using her as a Shadow Fiend because honestly, the last three I had thought up, I weren't too happy with… But yeah.
Hope you enjoyed Chapter 1 rewrite.