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Chapter 2 - Welcome to Duel Academy
The sun was shining as Laviss got off a small airplane. As she looked around, the red head was beyond relieved to be out. She never did like being cooped up in one place for too long. The few days she spent after her exams were quiet unexpected to say the least. Those were the few things in which Laviss still pondered on.
"Ah! You must be Laviss." said a deep voice behind her
Turning around there stood a man that was bald with brown eyes and a beard. He was wearing a uniform, similar to the one Zane wore when she met him, but in red with a white lining and had a yellow undershirt with a red tie.
"Uh… Yes, that's me." she answered
"Welcome to Duel Academy! I'm Chancellor Sheppard, and it's a grand honor to have you here. Your father has informed me of your problems and I assure you that no one but you and the select few, know of you. The staffs here were given strict rules of your name and in any case that someone might get curious, your records also hold the same."
Laviss greatly smiled at the older man and bowed to him "Thank you, Chancellor Sheppard. I really, really appreciate it very much."
"No need. Now the other students will be arriving soon and you'll need to get ready for the 1st year's opening ceremony."
"Does that means I have to wear my…" Laviss closed her eyes and gulped "…uniform." she whispered
"Well yes." said Sheppard with a brow raised
"If it's not too much trouble… can I have my uniform altered if it needs to be?"
"Of course, as long as it's appropriate and it's know what dorm you're still representing." said Sheppard
"Thank you, thank you, thank you." said Laviss as she hugged the Chancellor. Laviss grinned inwardly as she had now escaped her father's malicious plan 'Ha! Take that daddy dearest!!'
Sheppard looked down at the 15 year-old with a bewildered face as she hugged him. "Um… you're welcome." he said as he awkwardly patted her head
Laviss nodded and separated herself from him. "Well I better be on my way. By the way Chancellor, which dorm am I in?"
"Don't worry; we put you in the dorm which you requested. Though it was a bit strange as to why you requested it." he said as he stroked his bread "Are you sure about this?"
"Yes Chancellor." said Laviss as a determined looked crossed her face "I just want to prove something to a few certain people…. I would've gone all the way down, but that would be too much… for a certain person, that is." her eyes darted away towards the floor as she mumbled that last part
"Well if you're sure…"
"I am."
Giving one last look, Chancellor sighed as he knew there was no point in changing her mind now "Well then there's not much left." he said as he gave Laviss a few papers to her. "All of your stuff is in your dorm room so you won't have to worry about carrying anything. I wish you the best of luck and hope that you're stay here will be one to remember."
Laviss gave a nod as Sheppard left her on her own. Laviss soon looked back at the papers that were given to her. The pieces of paper were a map of Duel Academy and its buildings, with information on where her dorm room was.
"Well guess I better go to my dorm and see the horrible uniform that I have to wear." said Laviss with tears running down her face.
After a long journey through the island, and almost losing the way a few times, Laviss had come across a pale yellow building with a green roof. It wasn't too large nor was it small. The front of the building was larger than the sides and had a balcony of some kind. Stairs led to one of the door into the dorm. Besides the building was a white gazebo with green vines surrounding the pillars that held it in place. In Laviss' opinion it was perfect.
Entering the dorm, she went straight towards her room which was 2a. But as she entered her room the first thing Laviss notice was her uniforms on her bed.
"No… No. No. NO ITS MUCH WORST THAN I THOUGHT!!" yelled Laviss as she looked at the uniforms.
The uniform consisted of a white sleeveless blazer with yellow lining and a high collar, a yellow skirt and boots. The uniform wasn't bad. It was just that the skirt was too…
"ITS TOO SHORT!!" screamed Laviss "How am I suppose to wear this, if it's not decent enough to cover the bottom half of me."
'I am so killing the guy who made this uniform… No! If anyone's getting killed it should be Kaiba! I can't believe he lets the girls wear this uniform!! It's DISGUSTING!! The pervert!!!'
After glaring at the yellow skirt with much hatred, so much that if it were alive, the poor thing would've of been dead on the spot, Laviss… reluctantly…. changed into one of her sets. Walking to one of her suitcases, that were already here, Laviss took out a black sleeveless shirt and put it underneath the yellow and white blazer. Though the skirt was short it was also narrow enough to cover her bottom.
"Well I guess I'll have to bear this, until I get the skirts altered a bit." said Laviss as she fiddled with the hem of the skirt
After fixing herself into the uniform, Laviss got a better look of her room. The walls were white with a light red-orange carpet. At the corner of the room was her bed with yellow covers and two white pillows. Across the bed there was a study table, with a computer, lamp and a black chair. Next to that there was a small window with light green curtains. On the other side of the table there was a door leading to Laviss' personal bathroom. Across that door there was a small narrow way with the entrance and another door, which led to the closet.
As Laviss walked around it was then that she noticed a device on her table. It was a small blue P.D.A. in a black holder.
Picking it up, she examined it "I don't think I have enough room to even put this in my pockets." said Laviss as she tried to put it in one of her blazer pockets, and to her amazement she was right. The red head growled "I hate skirts so much." But before she could even do anything else, noises could be heard from outside. Laviss moved over her window and pushed the green curtain aside a bit.
"I guess everyone's already here. Which means I need to be going to that opening ceremony." she said as she left her P.D.A on the bed.
'I wonder if I'll see Jaden, Syrus, Bastion, and Zane around.' she thought as she walked out of her room and headed towards outside.
"Stupid skirt, stupid, stupid skirt." Laviss grumble as she walked to the opening ceremony
'At least I haven't seen any boys gawking at me. If I do, then there's going to be a few missing students at this school.' she thought evilly as she came across a huge building with golden columns surrounding it.
In front of the building there were more columns but in white; however, what really caught Laviss' eyes was that above the white columns were 3 half ovals that were color differently: Blue, Yellow, and Red.
"Well I wonder why those three colors are in that order." said Laviss mumbled sarcastically as she entered the building
Upon entering, Laviss walked around until she found the right room to be in. Inside she saw desks arranged in three sections going down like steps. In the front stood a stage with a big screen that had the letters D in red and A in blue with a yellow star in the middle. There were also two doors in between the screen. There was also a mixture of students in red, yellow, and blue lined up in rows of four and five. On stage were several adults whom Laviss suspected were the teachers. After descending down and getting in line, Laviss soon spotted Bastion in the front of the ling she was in; wearing a male version of the yellow uniform.
'So he's in Ra yellow too.' thought Laviss as more people entered the room. After everyone that was a freshman was present, the ceremony began.
Up on the big screen, Chancellor Sheppard came into view and started to speak. "Good Morning and welcome my students! I'm Chancellor Sheppard, the headmaster. And you are the best and brightest young duelists in the world…"
As Sheppard's speech went on Laviss let her eyes wander around for a moment. She then spotted Syrus and Jaden, in another line that was at the end of the room. 'I see that both Jaden and Syrus are in Slifer Red…' thought Laviss but she soon tried to suppress the giggles that were coming out of her. Behind Syrus, who was in the front, stood Jaden… sleeping through Sheppard's speech!
"Now please get yourselves settled in at your assigned dorms. I think that you will find them quite comfortable, depending upon how you ranked of course." said Sheppard, chuckling with cheer "I trust that you all will have a good year and good luck in your studies. Dismissed." after that Sheppard disappeared from the screen and was replaced by the D.A. logo.
"Now what?" said Laviss out loud as she walked out of the room
"I suppose, we do what Chancellor Sheppard said and get ourselves settled in." said a voice behind her
"Oh… hi Bastion." said Laviss as she turned around to see him
"Hello Laviss, it's nice to see you again." Bastion said with a smile "I see that were both in the same dorm."
"Yeah, I thank the gods that there's at least one familiar face in the same dorm with me." said Laviss as she walked with Bastion
"I feel the same way." he responded
When the two stepped outside, Laviss saw Syrus, sitting on one of the statues that decorated the lawn of the building. The light blue head had his attention on his P.D.A that he didn't see Laviss walking over.
"Well I don't know about you Sy, but it looks like I'm in the Slifer Red dorm." said Jaden on the other side of the statue
"That's cool! Same with me." replied Syrus with happiness and a bit of relief
"Hey Jaden, Syrus." said Laviss as she neared them
The little Slifer gave a small nod while Jaden gave her a grand smile "Hey!! You guys in Red too?" he asked
Laviss gave Jaden confused look, but that soon was replaced with a soft smile. But before she could open her mouth, Bastion beat it to her.
"Well now let's see here yellow sleeves, yellow buttons…" said Bastion as he then eyed Laviss "Yellow skirt, yellow boots. Hm… I don't think so."
'You just had to include my skirt didn't you!' Laviss thought angrily as Jaden spoke
"Oh… I get it. So that's why Sy and I are in Red." said Jaden surprised while looking at his red blazer
"Please don't tell me that you just figured that out now." said Bastion in disbelief
"So!! You ever think that I'm color blind!" said a semi-angry Jaden
"Well no actually I didn't. Are you color blind?" said Bastion
"No, but I could've been." said a cheerful Jaden "See you around the dorms."
"I doubt that your dorm's are over there." said Bastion as he pointed over another direction, opposite of where he was going. Laviss gave a final wave towards the two before catching with Bastion.
"Well that was fun." said Laviss as she walked with her hands behind her.
"I really can't believe that he didn't know that our uniforms represented the dorms we're in. I mean it's real obvious that a blind rock could have figured it out." Bastion said
"Hey cut him some slack. So he didn't know, it's not that big of a deal." said Laviss
"Yes, but it was clearly obvious." Bastion replied
Laviss shook her head and followed the Ra
Right after Laviss had walked with Bastion to their dorms, they separated so as to get settled in. Meaning that Laviss had to unpack her stuff and maybe rearrange the furniture around. An hour or so later, Laviss let out a deep sigh after put her suitcase inside her closet.
"Well that's the last of it." she said as she dusted her hands off
The red head paused for a second as she heard a loud knock next to her. The girl glanced at the door wondering who it could be. Laviss reached out to the doorknob and opened it to find her new Ra friend.
"Hey Bastion." said Laviss as Bastion returned her hello "How did you know this was my room?"
"It was a lucky guess." Bastion said bashfully "I didn't know I would happen to find you."
She looked at him queerly "You guessed… at random."
"Yes." he said simply
"Alright…" said Laviss. She didn't believe him. "Well do you want to come in?" she asked as she stepped aside to let him in
"No, that's quite alright."
"Ok…so is there anything that you needed to say to me?" Laviss said as she hanged onto her door.
"Not really." Bastion said and rubbed his neck at the awkward silence.
Laviss too, was stumped on what to do next. She never really had to deal with a situation like this. The red head let go of her door and stood straight. Her hands fidgeted all the while Bastion was looking everywhere around him. "S-so…" Bastion glanced at her and nodded, expecting her to continue her incomplete sentence. "Wanna take a walk with me?"
The male Ra took a second to think about it and agreed "Alright."
Laviss smiled and came closer to Bastion; closing the door behind her. The two duelists walked around the corridors in silence until they came up to the front entrance. Once outside the two started walking around the premises of their Dorm. Again, silence adorned the two as they walked farther away from their dorm. The awkward silence was back again making Laviss fidget more. What was she suppose to say to him? She glanced at the boy next to her. Laviss had no clue. The red head toyed with the hem of her skirt, mentally glaring at it with even more hatred than before.
"So… Laviss…" said Bastion hesitantly as he broke the silence between them. "Why are you here at Duel Academy?"
The Ra stopped her fiddling and looked at the boy. "Why do you want to know?"
Bastion shrugged "It's better than the usual small talk about the weather and such." he responded
"Well…to get better with dueling, obviously since I wouldn't be here wasting my time." Bastion nodded in agreement. "But… I want to prove to … my father and brother, in a way, that I can duel without their influences." Laviss rubbed her head sheepishly "What about you?"
He stopped in his tracks, Laviss followed suit. He took several steps away from her and took in the sea that surrounded the island. "I want to be the number one duelist there is using logic as oppose to those who just use their gut feeling."
Laviss looked at Bastion's firm look as he looked outwards at sea. His black eyes filled with determination like no other. 'He seems well into his goal… so much like…' she shook her head and smiled with her hand placed out "Well I wish you good luck. I hope you come to achieve your goal."
Bastion turned back to Laviss and her hand out. He nodded once more and grabbed her hand in his "As do I to you."
Time flied as Bastion and Laviss walked some more around campus. The awkwardness between them died down and the two were able to get to know each other a little better. Before the two even knew, they had come back to their Dorm.
Laviss laughed as Bastion told her a funny story of his past. "Liar, you did not do that! I don't believe you."
He smiled "It's true." he said as Laviss kept on saying his story was false.
"Excuse me." said the voice in front of the. Bastion and Laviss stopped their conversation and looked at the person who interrupted them. At the entrance of the Dorm stood a fellow Ra with short brown hair and black eyes. "I don't mean to be rude, but all Ra students need to report to the dinning room hall. The welcome dinner is about to begin."
The two thanked the boy and headed to the dinning area. Once inside, the dinning room was filled with chairs and tables containing all kinds of food and drinks. Most of the seats were full, but Bastion and Laviss managed to find some near the door. Bastion acted as a gentleman and pulled out Laviss' chair. He then seated himself next to her.
"Um… thank you Bastion. You didn't have to." said Laviss
"It was nothing, really." he replied
"Excuse me! May I have your attention please!" Everyone in the room became silent and turned their attention to a man seated at the head of the table. He had long black hair that stopped at his shoulders and had black eyes. He, like all the other males, was wearing the same yellow uniform, with a white shirt underneath his blazer and a black tie. "Hello to you all! To those who are new, I am Professor Sartyr. I'm the head of the Ra Yellow Dorm. First off I would like to personally welcome all the new Ra duelists to Duel Academy and for making it into the Ra yellow rank." A round of applause slowly started before it progressed into a full blown cheer of congrats. "Yes, yes now for the old Ra duelists, I'd like to welcome you back and hoped you've been well."
"HERE!! HERE!!" shouted a random student. Before long another blissful cheer was conducted
"Yes, well let us celebrate the start of a new term. Dig in everyone." More applauses were spread around the room as Professor Sartyr sat down.
As the dinner commenced, Laviss took a look around. The dinning room wasn't larger but nor was it small, as it contained plants on ever corner of the room. It was also colored to be the same as the Ra students, yellow. Behind Professor Sartyr was a huge window tinted green that looked outside. But as Laviss inspected around the room, the more she got nervous.
"Hey Bastion." said Laviss as she nudged him in the elbow
"What is it?" asked Bastion as he stopped eating
"I-I just notice something." she said as the air around them tensed up with suspense. Bastion could only lean in more as Laviss opened her mouth once again. "I'm the only girl here."
The boy could only blink as the red head next to him looked dead serious. He took a look around the room for himself and could only see a sea of yellow. Not only that but he saw that she was right. No where could you find another girl in the entire room. It was just pure boys.
"You're right. Strange, I thought there would be at least a few girls around, but now that I see it…" said Bastion as he continued gazing around "Though it shouldn't bother you. After all it's not like you're alone." Bastion soon turned to Laviss. "You know me, right."
The red head thought about it in her head and nodded "You're right… thanks Bastion."
"Don't mention it. Now don't think about it anymore. Just enjoy the dinner and yourself." he said as he took another bite of his mash potatoes
Laviss sighed quietly and took another look around her. One of the older Ras talked animatedly with the person to the right of him, unaware that the guy on his left was take some of his food off his plate. Laviss giggled when she saw the older Ra notice what the guy to his left was doing and playfully hit him upside his head. Bastion glanced at Laviss as he heard her giggling. He smiled when he saw her relaxed and doing exactly what he said.
After the welcome dinner Laviss and Bastion said goodnight to each other and left to their respected rooms. Closing the door, Laviss jumped to her bed but only to feel a small lump underneath her.
"What the-" The red head sighed as she found out what the cause of the lump was. Without a second thought she tossed her blue P.D.A on the desk with no care. "I wonder what dear 'father' is doing." said Laviss as she quoted the word father using her fingers. "No doubt that he's planning something."
Laviss tensed up a bit as she heard a loud vibrating sound coming from one of her drawers. "And speak of the devil. I bet that's him." The girl contemplated. She didn't want to talk to her father nor did she want to get up. It left her with the only logical thing to do. And that was to let the phone ring…
And Ring…
And Ring…
And Ring…
The phone kept ringed for quite a while before it stopped. Laviss raised a brow at the drawer before the ringing started again. She knew that the phone would only keep ringing if she didn't pick up. And knowing her father, he would keep at it all night if he had to. Groaning, she got up and went through her drawers until she found the annoying silver item. Flipping it open she answered lamely "What is it…"
"Is that any way to speak to me?" said low voice
Laviss' lilac eyes widen as she heard the male's voice. "KOI-KUN!!" the red head went giddy as she heard the man on the other line scream in pain
"Can you keep you volume down? It may come to you as a surprise, but I DO need to be able to hear."
"I can't believe you're calling!! It's been ages."
"What? You expect me to call you every single day."
"Yes." she said serious "You know I get bored easily."
"How can I not. It gets you into trouble for god knows how many times." Laviss glared at her sliver phone "You know you're even worse than our brother.
"Speaking of which, how's Kiba-kun been doing?"
"Same as always, fine and troublesome… like you."
"HEY!! I have you know I'm not as troublesome as you think I am."
"And when would that time be…" Silence stood after Koi's statement. Laviss knew that Koi was mentally grinning at this. Laviss pouted for the second time. "I heard that you got into Ra yellow." he stated as he brought her back
Laviss' face faulted a bit "Oh… uh yeah. You're not mad… right?"
"Of course not. As long as you're happy and doing great. It doesn't matter if you're in Ra or Obelisk."
Laviss looked at the phone and grinned before starting again "How about Slifer?"
"No." said Koi rather quickly
"You really have some issues." she said as she smiled
"Slifer is the lowest of the low. You don't belong there."
Laviss rolled her eyes as she moved her cell to the other ear "Did you just call to tell me how horrid Slifer is or is there another reason."
"No. I just wanted to see if you were alright. Beside that, I have no real business to discuss with you."
"It's so like you to bring a conversation down like you're talking to one of you corporate employees."
"At least you're not at the end point of my rage."
"Good point. You're scary when you're mad." said Laviss as she remembered Koi getting mad for the first time.
She was around ten when she saw Koi's inner demon come out. Though there wasn't an actual person to yell at. Koi was talking on his phone to one of his employees and it seemed that this particular worker had made a mistake in misplacing a very important document that Koi needed. Needless to say Koi got very, very angry that his yells could've been heard all throughout Japan… that and it had scared Laviss so much that she hid in under her bed for half the week.
The red head shivered at the thought of him ever screaming at her. "Anyways I need to get back to work." he said
Laviss sighed as she heard Koi "You always need to work."
"If I didn't then who would support you and our brother."
"Uh… father?"
"Well father will only support you now will he."
"I know…"
"I need to go. I'll see if I can call you another time. That is if I'm not too busy. Bye." with that the line went dead.
"You always say that." said Laviss quietly as she placed her cell phone next to the P.D.A. For a while, Laviss did nothing but stared into space. It wasn't long before she remembered that she had classes early in the morning. She decided to change and turn in for the night. After turning off the light, Laviss fell asleep once she hit the mattress.
The room was quiet with the exception of the clock near Laviss' desk. The hour ticked away before a blue light glowed in the room. As the blue light dim, two balls of light, one red and one grey, hovered in mid-air. Both balls soon floated around and got near Laviss.
"There she is." said the grey ball
"Quiet! Do you want to wake her up." the red ball whispered harshly
"Well excuse me for being me-"
"No I blame you for being you!!" hissed the red ball
"Whatever. The point is we found her!" cheered the grey ball "We found her! We found her!"
"Shut up! By the Gods, why did they send me here with you!! Out of all the others… even the blabbering she-fish is better than you."
"Like I care. I just wished we came here earlier so we could've talk to her."
"Now whose fault is that!!" whispered the red ball angrily
"Hey! I said we shouldn't have waited until dark." explained the grey ball
"No I said that!! You on the other hand, being the idiot that you are, lost yourself eight times!!"
The grey ball ignored his companions comment "What do we do now? We finally came and we end up with her asleep. Which by the way; looks cute." The red ball said nothing "Admit it. She looks cute."
The red ball hovered in its place for a bit until it started moving towards the window "Getting back on track. We'll go back and try this again another time."
"AW!! Can we stay? Please!!"
"No! And shut up! You're really going to wake her up this time with your excessive whining. Now let's go."
"But-"
"Now!!" the red ball hissed
With that, the same blue light reappeared and the two balls of light were gone.
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