It took me a lot of time but I finally managed to write the next chapter. As a side note the name of this story comes from Deep Purple's song and album "Perfect Strangers", booth had been very inspiring for this work.
A Duel and a Duel
This is ridiculous. Thought Alexis while she was squeezing her legs into the tight and thick leather trousers she had to wear for her Duelling Class.
Why do I need special clothing for duelling class? Especially only on Thursday and Friday according to my Timetable. On the other hand, this perfectly fit her experiences she had made in the last couple of days.
Three days had passed since she had won her entrance duel, which had been the last part of the entrance exam. After the duel she had received her Obelisk Blue uniform, at first, she had been a bit happy because she had thought that her uniform would be just like the one she knew, but instead her uniform was basically an 19th century fashioned dress, her only solace was that all the girl's uniforms looked like 19th century dresses.
On the evening of the same day she and the other Obelisk Blue students had been transferred to duel Academy island by zeppelin. By zeppelin! She couldn't imagine a more eccentric way of traveling than by zeppelin.
At least the dorms and the Duel Academy itself looked like she remembered it. Or so she had thought, while the outside of the buildings looked like she remembered it, the inside of the girl's dorm looked completely different.
The Obelisk Blue dorm always had been very luxurious but the dorm she had entered looked like the inside of a royal castle: with thick carpets on the floor, huge chandeliers hanging on the ceiling and expensive looking tapestries all over the wood panelled walls. Of course, the bed had been nothing less than a poster bed.
The next day had been her first school day at the Duel Academy. Just like her dorm the inside of the Duel Academy looked completely different to what she remembered. The walls on the inside of the duel Academy were all made of natural stone and wood instead of the cold concrete she knew.
Looking at the wall she had to think about Hogwarts, the insides of the Duel Academy looked a lot like the halls of Hogwarts she knew from the Harry Potter Films. Aside from the interesting looks of the Duel Academy her first day had been rather boring, the chancellor Prof. Thomas Mute had held a four hour long welcome speech, that quickly had turned into a praising of himself and the duel Academy as an institution, he had talked about how privileged and honoured the students were to be able to learn here.
Alexis had never heard a more narcissistic speech in her life before, compared to the dean Prof. Mute, Dr. Crowler was a modest gentleman.
After those incredible long four hours Alexis and the other Obelisk Blue students went into a separate room where they met the head teacher of the Obelisk Blue dorms. The head teacher was a young, beautiful woman in her early thirties with curly red hair. She introduced herself as Theresa Sarkowitz, she was really friendly and had told everyone to never forget to have fun whatever they do. After her friendly words that had lifted Alexis mood she and the other girls had to leave to meet the head teacher of the girl's dorm: Isabelle de Montespan. A tall, brunet woman with a stern face, she hadn't talked much, but she had made clear that she valued obedience and discipline more than everything else.
With all the speeches and breaks between the speeches it was already afternoon when she had left the Duel Academy. She had walked around the island a bit and had seen that there was a small airport next to the dock, but apart from that she hadn't found something that was a big divergence to the Duel Academy she knew.
Alexis had gone to bed early that day, there had been still so much she had to think about her friends and what had happened to her.
The next day had been the first day where she had to attend classes. In the morning she only had "Duel Tactics" with Ms. Sarkowitz which had been sophisticated, but was very patiently and good at explaining things. After the lunch break she had to attend Duel Monster History class which was a very interesting subject but the teacher explained everything so slow that it had seemed like the teacher could have fallen asleep at every moment.
After three hours of classes in the afternoon her school day had been over and she had gone to her dorm again. There she had talked a bit with a few other girls, but she was far away from getting close with them, only a girl with very long, straight red hair and pale skin had caught her attention. When she had looked into the piercing green eyes of the girl she immediately had felt some kind of connection between herself and the girl.
Later when she had been in her bed already she still had to think about that girl called Elisabeth, she still had no explanation why she immediately trusted that girl and felt connected to her. She hadn't slept well that night and was a bit moody when she stood up.
And now I'm squeezing myself into this leather trousers. When she eventually had managed to put them on she made a few squats and was surprised that the trousers allowed her to be pretty mobile even if they were very tight. Next, she put on a bright white blouse which also was very tight around her torso, but had a wider cut around her arms. The second last thing she had to put on was a sleeveless vest that which was made out of the same material than her trousers, also the vest was tight fitting. The last thing she had to wear for duel class were knee high leather boots that were similar to her own boots she usually wore.
When she looked at her clock she saw that she was already a bit late and hurried out of her room towards the gym. On her way to the gym she asked herself for a moment why the Duelling class was held in the gym and not in a common classroom or a Duel Arena.
All her classmates were already waiting in the biggest part of the gym, she was the last who arrived and a half minute after her Ms. de Montespan entered the gym. She was followed by an Obelisk Blue student who was pushing a cart in front of him. The cart was completely made out of wood and was covered by a cotton tarp, so that nobody was able to see what was inside of it.
"Welcome students this is the Duelling Class, those of you who attend this class for the first time will learn the basics of duelling, while those of you who already attended this class in former years will expand their knowledge and skills." Spoke their teacher in her usual stern manner.
When her speech has ended the students, all split up into couples. Alexis was suddenly approached by Elisabeth. "Hey, mind if we two train together?"
Alexis smiled. "Sure, why not."
Ms. de Montespan pushed back the cotton tarp revealing several wooden rapiers. The Obelisk blue student walked around and gave everyone a wooden rapier.
Alexis, just like a lot of the other first years, looked flustered at the weapon in her hand. While the older students didn't seem to be bothered at all.
Ms. de Montespan smirked when she saw the flustered faces of the first years. "Lucius, Niccolo! Démonstration!"
Two Obelisk Blue students stepped out of the crowd: one was tall and had long black hair, bound together in a pony tail; the other one was rather short and had very short hair, but he seemed to be well-toned. Booth of them were holding a wooden rapier in their hands.
Ms. de Montespan shook her head. "No, no. Acier!"
The two students nodded and walked over to the cart and pulled out rapiers with steel blades. They walked back to the centre of the hall and positioned themselves opposite to each other. Ms. de Montespan stepped between them.
"En garde!" They went into a fighting stance, one arm behind their back, the front of their bodies turned away from each other.
"Etes vous prétes?" asked Ms. de Montespan.
"Prétes." Shouted the two students.
"Allez!" she commanded and stepped back.
The two duellists moved closer to each other, suddenly the shorter of the two, rushed forward with two quick slashes. The taller on evaded the first slash with a quick step back and blocked the second slash with his rapier, he immediately countered with a quick thrust, but the shorter made a quick turn with his wrist changing the direction of his enemy's thrust so that he wasn't hit.
After the first clash they both took a step eying each other carefully. With a quick dash forward the taller of the two closed the distance and attacked with a series of thrusts, but his opponent managed to block every one of them until he found an opening for his own counter attack.
At this point they moved so fast Alexis was barely able to follow their movements with her eyes, she only saw them moving back and forth and occasionally heard the sound of steel meeting steel. This continued for at least another minute until the shorter of the two students let out a painful groan.
"Halte!" Ms. de Montespan stepped between the two duellists raising one arm. She moved her arm in the direction of the taller student. "Touchée, très bien Lucius."
With a smirk the taller student put his steel rapier back into the cart and came back with a wooden one, he walked back to his partner giving Elisabeth a high five when Ms. de Montespan didn't watch.
"You know him?" asked Alexis.
"Yes, he's my brother." Answered Elisabeth while she shrugged with her shoulders.
After that first duel Ms. de Montespan showed them several exercises the students should practice with their partners. Some of them were easier so that the first years could do them without problems while other exercises were more difficult and only suited for more advanced students. Nevertheless, it was pretty exhausting and Alexis felt more sweaty and exhausted than after some regular physical education.
She was very happy to step into the shower after her fist Duelling Class was over, also it had given her an opportunity to get to know Elisabeth better. Alexis found the girl to be really cool and liked her a lot. Together they left the gym and walked back towards the main building of the Duel Academy.
"Oh no." whispered Elisabeth. When they came closer to the main entrance.
"Is something wrong?" asked Alexis a bit confused.
"Kind of, this boy in front of the entrance, he likes me a bit too much." Said Elisabeth with a small grimace.
"Oh." Said Alexis a bit surprised when she realized what Elisabeth meant.
In the meanwhile, the boy had already approached them. When she saw him walking Alexis already had a feeling that he was most likely a show off, his light brown hair was very short and his body looked very muscular.
At first, he completely ignored Alexis. "Hey Liz, what are you doing tomorrow?"
"First my name is Elisabeth and second I don't think I'll do something tomorrow apart from school stuff." She answered a bit annoyed.
"Common Elizabeth lets go to the dock tomorrow evening and let's have some fun." He said trying to sound sweet.
Elisabeth sighed. "I'm sorry Patrick, but I only date boys that are able to beat me in a duel."
Patrick smirked. "Is that an offer?"
Elisabeth smirked back. "No, that was a warning."
Patrick activated his Duel Disk. "Sorry but I insist."
Elisabeth pulled her Duel Disk out of her backpack. "That was a mistake."
"Duel!"
Elisabeth vs. Patrick
"Ladies first I guess." Proclaimed Elisabeth. "First, I activate Charge of the Light Brigade: I discard the three cards from my deck and add Lyla, Lightsworn Sorceress to my hand. Next I set one monster face down and end my turn."
"Alright." Patrick drew his sixth card. "I also set on monster face down and in addition to that I set another two cards face down. Your turn now."
"Nice, I flip summon Ryko, Lightsworn Hunter, I discard three cards from my deck and destroy on of your backrow cards. Next, I tribute Ryko to summon Celestia, Lightsworn Angel (Atk: 2300) and I activate her effect: I discard another four cards from my deck and destroy the remaining two cards on your field and now direct attack."
The angel fired a ray of light at Patrick. (Patrick LP: 1700)
"I end my turn." said Elisabeth with a smile.
Patrick gritted his teeth. "Fine I set another two cards and that's all I do for now."
Elisabeth raised an eyebrow "Well, if that is all I activate my spell card Heavy Storm and destroy all Spell and Trap cards on the field."
"Shit." Yelled Patrick
Elisabeth shrugged her shoulders. "And so, it ends, direct attack."
The angel fired once more a ray of light at Patrick, ending the duel (Patrick LP: 0)
Winner Elisabeth.
Without any more words Elisabeth deactivated her Duel Disk and together with Alexis she walked back into the Duel Academy, leafing a baffled Patrick behind.
"You're a damn good duellist." Complimented Alexis her new friend.
"Thanks, I try to do my best."
Alexis was honestly impressed by those siblings they both seemed to be very good duellists in one way or another.
So, I hope you liked that chapter, as a quick site not the duel was simulated with Yu-Gi-Oh!5d's Reverse of Arcadia. That's why it was a bit short.
Also, I'm still desperately looking for OCs (check author's note in chapter 1)
As always pls R&R and I see you soon.
sayonara