inu-yusukekiaba102: thanks for the review, I know the prologue wasn't exactly gripping but I stylised it in the form of the opening scene from Yugioh the movie instead of explaining Shadow games, and ancient Egyptian magic I explained about how duel monsters became so popular and referenced several duels from Yugioh and the first two seasons of Yugioh GX.
Sesheta Tetratia: That was a prologue, explaining the storyline for GX as mentioned above. I thought having the shadow riders and the Society of light return each trying to obtian world wide supremecy was a cool idea, that way not only does Jaden and the gang have to stop them but they'll be fighting each other as well (light vs Dark sort of thing) the idea was also taken from the pokemon film Diagla vs Plaika vs Darkari the thought of multiple all powerful enermies at least. And as for the Seven Star assassins (I'll use both names for the shadowriders) there return has already been thought out, half of them are dead the other half have given up been evil, one's in a cat, the Dark Scorpions are now a part of Chazz's Duel Spirit collection, but rest assured the shadow Riders resurection will feature some of the old, some new members to it's evil clan. Also this takes place sort of in replae of season 3, although it goes up to S3 episode 1 and refences Blair joing Slifer Red so Nightshroud aka Darkness hasn't been beaten all those times, just in his initial duel and Atticus's duel with Zane. So this is not a 'repeat' of what you have seen, in fact nightshroud isn't even the evil villian as season 4 doesn't even take place, I'm not saying Atticus's darker alter ego won't make an appearence, but he's not calling the shots for the Shadow riders either. Just wait and read before you judge and condem, you may be surprised. So sue me for bad grammer already, the spell checker ain't infallible, i never said I was good at English (i scaped a C GCSE level) I'll try and fix it, but no promises.
Yokai Summoner: Rest assured no OC's, or at least overly Oc's, Jaden duels an OC character in this chapter but that guy is just another nameless Obelisk student, two other nameless but GX minor, minor characters make a guest apperance.
Scene 2) the Protagonist's roll call
A heated duel was going down outside the Slifer dorm. Two students in yellow jackets one short with spectacles and aqua marine hair, the other with bulging abs wearing a bandana both are cheering on a Brunette in a red jacket with warm friendly brown eyes and an excited demeanour. He was in the middle of a duel with an Obelisk in a blue coat, tall with wavy blond hair, and definite attitude and anger management problems he yells a stream of insults at the Red coat. Behind the Blue coat duellist all the way were two other Obelisk's a swamp green haired punk with a Louisiana accent, and a big stocky chump with a Californian accent.
Over on the Slifer Dorm's veranda a white with blue rims jacket, and a pair of fingerless gloves wearing light brown haired girl folds her arms clearly unimpressed by Blue coat's display of attitude. Beside her a student with dark brown hair wearing an obelisk elite's Trench coat and a hyperactive expression provides a biased commentary for the duel, he cheers for the red coat before glancing side ways to smirk at his sister.
A few paces to the left of them a spiky black haired scowling student who breaks the mould by wearing an old comfy black jacket with trousers to match. He observes the duel with a put on air of boredom and disinterest, when it came down to it though it seemed he sided with the Red coat in the duel but only just.
"A runt like you could never be a match for me" claims Blue coat shifting he cards in his hand "you might as well surrender or face my wrath!"
"Like that's gonna work" snorts Alexis Rhodes, a top ranking Obelisk Blue student in terms of grades, talent and hotness. Her Brother Atticus Rhodes bounces up and down on the guard rail "Don't listen to him Jay-man this third rate poser's going down!" he yells at the Duellist's.
Syrus Truesdale nods his head in agreement "yeah big Bro you've got him right where you want him" he shouts his own encouragement from the sidelines. Tyranno Hasselberry beside him punches the air "Sam hill! What he said, it's time to take out his front line troops" and adding in a lower voice "before they take out you" Syrus frowns at him "hey no negative vibes soldier, Jaden will win this, just keep repeating it, Jaden will win, Jaden will win, Jaden will…"
"Huh" Chazz leans back against the wall and closes his eyes "Lamme" he mutters.
Atticus turns to look across at his disciple "Don't rate Jaden's chances huh?" he asks the emo of Slifer red, Chazz sighs and smirks "I Know he'll win Blizzard, doesn't mean I have to like it though"
Jaden was standing tall with a mere 600 life points less while his opponent Blue coat had 2200 left.
Jaden had Elemental Hero Mariner a light green water attribute warrior with anchor chain weapons (Atk 1400, Def 1000) in Defence mode on the field and two face downs. While blue Coat had The Six Samurai-Yariza a dark blue armour wearing earth attribute warrior with a long handled laser sword (Atk 1000, Def 500) in attack mode, The Six Samurai-Yaichi a dark grey amour wearing water attribute warrior with a tall bow, armed with sharp tipped arrows (Atk 1300, Def 800) in attack mode, the six Samurai-Nisashi a dark green armour wearing wind attribute warrior with a pair of laser swords (Atk 1400, Def 700) in attack mode, The Six Samurai Kamon a dark brown armour wearing fire attribute warrior with a nun chuck (Atk 1500, def 1000) in attack mode and two face up spell cards Shien's Castle of Mist field spell which reduced the attack of an attacking monster that attacks a six samurai monster by 500, and The A Forces continues spell card that increased the Atk of all warrior type monsters on Blue coats field by 200 for each face up warrior type monster on his side of the field, and one face up continues trap card Swift Samurai Storm that increased the Atk of all Six Samurai monsters by 300 points after a Six Samurai monster has attacked.
Jaden smiles that quirky smile of his "no way pal, I'll take my chances"
Blue coat sneers "you have no chance at all! I summon the Great Shogun Shien to seal your fate" A giant warrior fire attribute shogun wielding a savage blade (Atk 2500, Def 2400) in attack mode.
"Whoa!" Jaden grins "wicked cool monster I've got to get me one"
Blue coat smirks "well let's see how much you admire it when it wipes out your remaining life points" he snarls "all out attack, demolish this dweeb!" The Six Samurai's and Shogun monsters charge at Jaden's last monster and remaining life points "not if my rap card has anything to say about it" one of Jaden's face down cards flip's face up "Negate Attack stops your attack dead in it's tracks"
Blue coat scowls and activates Yaichi's effect destroying Jaden's remaining face down card, a Fake Hero spell "you survive one more turn" he claims "that's all"
Jaden chuckles as he draws his final card "yeah, yeah" he smiles as he see's what he's drawn "time to show you how we do things back in Slifer Red, I play my miracle Fusion spell card and remove Avian, Bubbleman, Burstinatrix, and Clayman from my graveyard out of play in order to fusion summon Elemental Hero Electrum!" a light radiating hero light attribute warrior materialises onto the field (Atk 2900, Def 2600) in attack mode, due to its effect the four monsters removed from play by its summoning are returned to Jaden's deck which is then shuffled "it gains 300 extra points for every monster on your side of the field with a wind, water, fire and earth attribute and I count four"
Attack point totals of all monsters on field
Jaden's Mariner 1400
Blue coat's Yariza 2000
Blue coat's Yaichi 2300
Blue coat's Nisashi 2400
Blue Coat's Kamon 2500
Blue Coat's Great shogun Shien 3500
Jaden's Electrum 4100
"It is powerful" Blue coat admits "but not powerful enough to beat me" he claims arrogantly
"No way Davis is going to lose to a Slifer" Blue coat's mate with an accent says "yeah" his companion agrees "that Slifer slacker's going down"
"Actually" says Jaden "I'm not finished" he sets a card face down in he spell and trap card zone of his duel disc "Now my Mariner can attack you directly" he switch's Mariner to attack mode "it's time to rain on his parade" he points at Davis.
"Now that" states Chazz "makes no sense at all"
"Attack him directly!" Jaden commands and Mariner obeys jumping up he launches an anchor chain straight at Davis slamming him for 1400 points.
"Ghaa!" Davis's life points decrease to 800 he staggers back but recovers just in time for Electrum's attack. The Golden Hero blazes with power "no! This can't be happening!" cries Davis in horror.
"Sorry but this is game" declares Jaden "Electrum shining Elemental Force! Blast his Six Samurai Yariza into the middle of next week!" the blast wave from Electrum's attack destroys Yariza and Davis's life points, Davis himself is thrown of his feet by the attack.
His mates slink over to his assistance and help him to his feet while everyone else including Chazz rush to Jaden's side to congratulate him on his victory.
His yellow coated mates were closest and as such were the first to reach him "way to play Jay" Syrus high fives or rather due to his size low five's Jaden. "Chalk up another victory for the Sarg" Hasselberry gives Jaden a thumbs up sign, Jaden appears bashful from all the praise.
"Minus one gazillion points" Atticus declares pointing at Davis and his crew 2your act has failed to make the grade, don't call us 'cos we won't be calling you" the defeated elitist snobs crawl back to the Obelisk dorm where they belong.
Alexis ignores her brother and shakes Jaden's hand "congrat's an all, that was a tight duel Six Samurai decks can be tough to beat"
"Why don't you give him a victory kiss to celebrate?" suggests a sly Atticus already inching away from his rapidly turning red in the face sister and constantly clueless Jaden.
"Atticus!" the livid and embarrassed Alexis chases Atticus who laughs and heads for the hills (actually she chases him several times around the Dorm.)
Hasselberry and Syrus anime sweat drop while Chazz glares at Atticus's retreating form and mouths the word traitor, before adopting a swagger as he casually approaches Jaden.
"You know I could have taken that jerk out as well" he smirks "in fact it would have only took five turns for me to defeat a loser like Donald"
"I'm pretty sure he said his name was Davis" mumbles Syrus
"Big mouth there private Thunder" scowls Hasselberry, Syrus sniggers and mutters "big head"
"Did you squeak pipsqueak?" Chazz asks Syrus shooting him one of his infamous death glares, causing Syrus to cower behind Hasselberry before turning his attention back to Jaden who was just standing there a vacant expression on his face.
"Hum?" Jaden snaps back and Chazz bites back his comment about been in outer space, Jaden never got sarcasm. "Oh yeah I know you'd be able to beat him Chazz your way better than Danny"
"I think his name was Davis" Syrus reminds Jaden who doesn't seem to be listening.
"But there's now way you could ever beat him in less time than it took me" states Jaden confidently.
Chazz smirks "I'd love to find out one way or the other after all that sounds like a challenge to me but all the Obelisk's are to afraid to Duel me, including Derrick" he sighs theatrically.
"His name was Davis" Syrus raises his voice in the hope that someone will listen to him
"Yeah, Whatever" Chazz shrugs of Syrus's comment while Jaden looks around confusedly. "Why's Alexis chasing Atticus?" he asks out loud. Syrus and Hasselberry anime sweat drop again and look at Jaden in disbelief.
"Beats me" comments Chazz, not even bothering to be sarcastic "you know what siblings are like"
"Hey what's going on?" everyone minus Alexis and Atticus (who are otherwise engaged, Alexis determined to catch and kill her brother while Atticus is determined to escape and survive) turn to look at the new arrival a petite girl in a Slifer Red jacket with purple hair with a crush on Jaden and a feud with Chazz walks down the path to the Slifer dorm and up to the gang. She observes the Rhodes chase with interest as she repeats her question.
"Long story" mutters Chazz darkly, he didn't like Blair Flannigon she had tried to steal his room at the start of the year, and that hadn't gone down well with Chazz. After all it was the room he'd had built with his own money when it became apparent he was going to be staying in Slifer red.
At that point Atticus beginning to tire runs over to them and 'hides' behind Chazz "hey" he complains as Atticus paws at his jacket "save me Thunder save me!" Atticus begs him as Alexis storms over to them, glowering at Chazz and Atticus.
"Hand him over" Alexis demands angrily, Chazz didn't need to hear the unspoken 'or else' to know it was there but wasn't sure what to do.
On the one hand his mentor and friend Atticus on the other hand the girl of his dreams Alexis, On one side his future Brother in law on the other his future wife and the mother of his future children, on the one hand loyalty to a close friend on the other scoring a couple of brownie points with Alexis.
The old Chazz would have chosen Alexis and damned be the consequences to his and Atticus's friendship. The old Chazz didn't have friends. The old Chazz was dead; long live the new Chazz, Chazz Thunder! Besides staying in Atticus's good books would be worth more in the long run.
Chazz smiles defiantly "no way, Blizzard make a run for it!" he and the slightly worn out Atticus make a break for freedom surprising the others.
"Chazz! Atticus!" Alexis starts after them but then changes her mind and stops "those two" she sighs but can't help but smile though.
Jaden chuckles whatever he had felt before while the others were congratulating him, a sense of foreboding, an oncoming storm, had gone. Everything was right in the world.
"I love Duel Academy" proclaims Jaden announcing it to the world.