In, Now What's Next?

Just as Jaque crashed on the comfy feather bed, he received a knocking on his door. As he opened the door he saw the girl he had watched ace her entrance exam, but this time she was wearing a blue and white uniform. She was wearing a white long sleeve shirt with the cuffs undone and the sleeves rolled up and a dark blue skirt that went to her knees.

"I have you Obelisk Blue uniform here" she said with a smile, as she handed him the neatly folded uniform. "Thanks" said Jaque. "So you also made it to Obelisk Blue hunh?" "Well I've had a lot of practice," she said looking down, like she was trying to avoid his gaze. But when she noticed him looking at her she perked up saying "I would love to show you sometime, but I have to run, someone already challenged me to a duel, you can come and watch if you like."

"Sure, I'd love to get a look at the competition" replied Jaque. "My name's Jaque by the way, what's yours?"

"Melanie. Melanie Squires, nice to meet you," she said perkily. "My duel is in the Obelisk arena, just a 2 minute walk from here."

After Jaque had got changed into his uniform they left. The majority of the walk they spent making small talk, like where did you learn to duel, or who taught you? After a short while they arrived, where a boy in a yellow jacket and black trousers said "about time, whose the noob Melanie?"

"Sean this is Jaque, Jaque meet Sean" said Melanie.

"Pleasure to meet you She-"

"Yeah yeah let's skip the introductions and go to the duel!" said Sean.

"Impatient as ever, but fine let's duel" replied Melanie

They both took out their duel disks and prepared to duel, with Jaque sitting in the sidelines.

"My turn first, draw!" said Sean. "let's go, I summon a monster in face down defence position and set two cards. Now let's see your move Melanie."

"My move, draw! I'll summon Dark Lucius Lv. 4 (1000/300) and I'll attack your face down monster!" (Medusa Worm sent to the graveyard)

"Hah! Now Medusa Worm's effect activates, destroying your da-"

"Actually, Dark Lucius' effect activates, both blocking your destroyed monsters effect, and levelling up to Dark Lucius Lv. 6 (1700/600). Now I set one card facedown and end my turn."

"Draw! Now I activate Monster Reborn, returning my Medusa Worm to the field! I now activate it's effect allowing me to flip it facedown. I now normal summon my Sand Moth in defence mode and end my turn!"

"I can do this all day Sean, draw!" said Melanie.

'Is it just me or is she getting way more excited about this than she was in the beginning?' thought Jaque. 'Oh well, I'm probably making too much of it.'

"Now, I summon my Horus the Black Flame Dragon Lv. 4 (1600/1000), and now I use Level up on it, to bring my Horus the Black Flame Dragon Lv. 6 (2300/1600) to the stage. Now let's go, Dark Lucius destroy Medusa Worm, and Horus, destroy Sand Moth! (Both monsters are sent to the graveyard) Now both their effects activate, bringing my Dark Lucius Lv. 8(2800/900) and my Horus the Black Flame Dragon Lv. 8 (3000/1800) to the field. Now that I have both my creatures on the field, I end my turn."

"Fine, well then my turn, I draw! I'll remove from play the Sand Moth in my graveyard so I can special summon my Megarock Dragon! (700/700)" said Sean

"700 measly attacked points?" questioned Jaque. "What good will that do you?"

"Well watch and see Jaque. I now tribute Megarock Dragon to summon Criosphinx, and now I'll tribute that to special summon my Exxod, Master of the Guard (0/4000)! I'll end my turn there."

"So your Guard is out, not going to be much use though, because I summon my Mystic Swordsman Lv 4 (1900/1600). I now activate my Book of Moon card, flipping your Exxod into face down defence position. I now attack you with my Mystic Swordsman Lv. 4, but his effect activates, destroying your face down card without damage calculation(Exxod is sent to the graveyeard). Now I attack you with both of my monsters. (Sean 4000-1000-0) That's game"

"Hunh, that was a good duel, I may have found 2 rivals" thought Jaque.

"Right, hand it over" said Melanie.
"Fine, here" said Sean as he got out a card and gave it to Melanie. He walked off with his head down mumbling to himself about getting out Exxod earlier.

As Melanie began to walk to Jaque, Jaque asked "What was that all about?"

"That bozo had taken my little brothers favourite playing card, Toon World, have you heard of it?" Melanie replied

"um yeah, but I heard it was super rare and powerful, how did he get one?" asked Jaque.

"Oh, they gave one to my brother for winning a national championship last year, and he made an entire deck around it for my little brothers birthday. Anyway, let's get back to the dorms." Answered Melanie.

'wow, a super rare card for winning a championship, I wonder if I could get one' thought Jaque.