Chapter Two - Living the Bad Life

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Kip stared at the building he was supposed to be staying in. He looked it up and down and decided that the place was crap.

"Osiris Red... the dorm for hopeless people..."

He looked at the slip of paper that told him his room number. He grabbed his suitcase and dragged it over to the apartment building that was labeled the dorm for Osiris Red students and found "Room 4".

Kip took a deep breath and pushed the door open. He looked into the small and dimly lit room. There were three beds. Well, there was two beds and a dusty mattress on the floor. He noticed that both of the beds seemed to be occupied. Sitting at the desk was a teenager with long brown hair that dropped to his shoulders. He seemed preoccupied with flipping through his deck.

"Hi, I'm Kip, your new roomate! I hope we can get along."

The teenager looked up at Kip without speaking. He didn't even react when Kip extended his outstretched hand.

"Marco White's my name. And I want you to shut the hell up."

Kip quickly withdrew his hand. He watched as Marco stood up and sat down on one of the beds.

"Listen here, Skip."

"It's Kip..." Kip corrected him politely.

"Whatever. This is MY room. So you don't bother me and we won't have any problems. Got it, wimp?"

Kip ignored him and gestured to the other bed. "So who's our other room mate?"

"Nobody."

"Then who's stuff is on this bed?"

Marco stood up and stood in front of Kip. The height difference was immediately noticable, with Marco being at least several inches taller than Kip.

"That's my stuff," Marco said. "My stuff stays on the bed. You sleep down there, rodent." He pointed to the mattress that now had a rat gnawing at it.

"Unless you've got something to say about it..."

Kip pulled his duel disk from his bag. Marco got the hint and they stepped outside.

"Duel!"

K: 4000
M: 4000

"I'll start." Marco drew his sixth card and quickly slapped one on his disk.

"I summon Giant Orc in defense mode! (2200/0)" Marco picked another card from his hand. "I set these two face down. Your turn."

Kip drew his card and looked at Marco's field. He calculated his chance of winning at 100. Then again, he wasn't exactly good at dueling, so that didn't mean much.

"Eat this!" Kip grabbed a card from his hand. "I summon Gearfried the Iron Knight! (1800/1600)" A knight wearing black armor appeared in front of Kip. "This'll send you packing! I equip him with Divine Sword - Phoenix Blade!"

As soon as Kip's magic card appeared on the field, it instantly shattered. "What!?" Kip glared at Marco. "What did you do?"

"Nothing, dolt." Marco gestured to Gearfried. "Did you read that monster's effect?"

Kip looked at the card and gulped. "When an Equip Card is equipped to this card, destroy the Equip card."

Marco sneered.

"Well, at least I didn't put that tough monster in defense mode! It was zero defense points!" Kip almost danced due to his opportunity. "But I'll have Gearfried attack!"

"Stop!" Marco called as he pressed a button on his duel disk. "I activate Magic Cylinder! This negates your attack and does damage to your life points equal to Gearfried's attack points!" A green light erupted from the card and slammed into Kip, who stumbled backward.

K: 2200
M: 4000

"And your life points are perfect for my finishing move!" Marco cried as he activated his other set card. "Ring of Destruction, go! Destroy Giant Orc!"

An explosive ring looped around his monster and exploded. Kip looked at Marco like he was insane.

"You blew up your own monster. Ha!"

"Stupid punk, Ring of Destruction inflicts damage to both of us equal to the destroyed monster's attack points!" Kip suddenly stopped laughing.

"Wait.. no way!"

K: 0
M: 4000

"You lose," Marco said as he shut down his duel disk. "Without even touching my points at all. Why are you even at this school? Do you want to look stupid on purpose? Because you're doing a great job."

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The opening feast for students was a great time for students to socialize with their new classmates and get to know one another. It was also a great time to inhale excellent food... assuming they were Ra Yellow or Obelisk Blue.

The mood in the Osiris Red dining hall was dismal and depressing.

Word had it that Ra Yellow and Obelisk Blue students got to eat like kings and queens. So the Osiris Red students only accepted the bowls of rice and barely-cooked fish half-heartedly.

"Aww, come on now!" called the head of Osiris Red, whose name remained unimportant to everybody. "Don't look so down!" He raised a glass. "To a new year of learning and fun!" All he got in reply were a bunch of sour mumbles.

In the back of the small dining hall, Kip took a swig of orange juice and ignored the food. "Yeah. To the new year..."