A/N: Alright everyone, the initial reaction to this was pretty good, and so I'm gonna make sure I put in the extra time on it for a while. Anywho, as always if you enjoy go ahead and please review!

Disclaimer: I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon or their trippy these songs

Yu-Gi-Oh: Quest for the Crests

Chapter Two: Adjusting

"Ugh, I can't believe we have Hr. Hamasaki again!" TK groaned as he, Davis, Kari, Yolei and Cody walked into their classroom.

Kari sighed, shaking her head "I can't believe it either TK, but here we are again."

Davis raised his brow, shooting Yolei a confused glance. Smiling at him, Yolei said quickly "Mr. Hamasaki is quite...eccentric. He and TK often clash on duel theory too. so that's always fun to see."

TK groaned "And since he skipped a few years academically, he treats Cody like a saint."

Cody glared at TK "I'm not the dumb-dumb who picks fights with his teacher for kicks TK."

Kari giggled "Way to give Davis hope for the school year guys."

Davis shrugged "Never been to a school before, don't exactly have any expectations."

TK turned to Davis, patting him on the shoulder "Well then I'm glad you get to experience school with us!"

"ALRIGHT EVERYONE! TAKE YOUR SEATS!" a man in his mid-30s said as he entered the classroom, dressed in a suit and tie, with a pair of business glasses on. He glanced over at TK and sighed, muttering something about bratty teenagers before walking over to his desk and bringing up the role call sheet.

"Miss Yolei Inoue?"

"Here sir!"

"Good, I'm glad to have our tech guru back again. Mister Cody Hida?"

"Present sir."

"Ah excellent, glad to have you under my wing again! Miss Kari Kamiya?"

"I'm here sir!"

"Nice to have you again my dear. Mister...*sigh*...you again, eh TK?"

"You know it!"

"Lucky me. Four years running...anyway. Ah! Our special case! Davis Motomiya?"

Everyone's eyes fell on Davis, who had not yet found a seat. He shifted uncomfortably, pushing some hair out of his face and saying "That's me..."

Mr. Hamasaki nodded sympathetically, looking around the room briefly before saying "Since Mister Yokata has been moved to a different class this year, why don't you take a seat next to Miss Kamiya?"

Kari beamed at her new friend, putting Davis at ease a little as he sat down, looking curiously at the screen on his desk. Kari glanced over at him, trying not to giggle as she saw him struggle with the interactive educational system. "Here, tap the screen in the top right had corner twice to turn it on" she whispered, as he sent her a grateful look.

"Okay then everyone, time for the placement exam!" Mr. Hamasaki called out, tapping a few times on his desk screen, met with the collective groan of his class. Sighing, the teacher adjusted his glasses, saying sternly "Can it, you little twerps! I shouldn't need to remind you that it's only to see what advanced dueling courses you're eligible for."

Davis frowned, turning to Kari who again leaned in and whispered "Basically it's a series of duel puzzles that are designed to gauge your ability and allows the system to decide which duel class you belong in."

Davis nodded, turning back to the screen "Well I guess that isn't too bad."

Kari giggled "Come on, it's not that bad, at least you still get to duel. Kinda."

"Alright! Time to get started everyone! You have two hours, begin!" With that, Mr. Hamasaki sat down, pulling up some files that the Chancellor had sent to him on Davis' past. "Kid's got some pretty impressive skills to beat TK in three turns like he did, and with such ease too. Too bad he got stuck in Satellite, if he came from a New Domino family he'd probably be a pro already." He glanced up after some reading, noticing that the boy in question was merely sitting back, fiddling lazily with his duel visor. The teacher frowned, glancing at the clock on his desk: 15 minutes. "Mister Motomiya, is there something wrong?"

Davis glanced down at him, everyone else in the class diverting their eyes too "No, just wondering if there's anything I should be doing once I'm finished."

Everyone's jaws hit the floor at that, as Hamasaki quickly scanned over Davis' test score, eyes going wide as he thought "But that's fantastic! Cody Hida set the previous record at 25 minutes, but Davis has done it in 13! With no errors!"

Davis sighed as he caught on to the whispers now flying around the classroom, mentally scolding himself for standing out. "Well then Davis, why don't you go ahead and relax for a bit, I hadn't prepared any assignments for the day, at least not until after lunch." Davis just nodded, shrinking further into his seat to avoid the mix of shocked stares and heated glares coming his way. "Way to go Davis, you just had to go against the flow. Great first impression."

Kari, spotting how uncomfortable he seemed, elbowed Davis gently in the ribs, mouthing "Good job!" Davis smiled at her, mouthing a quick "Thanks" before she returned her attention back to her own test.

"You're awesome Davis, y'know that?" TK asked excitedly as the group made their way to the cafeteria for lunch.

Yolei nodded eagerly "He's right y'know, Cody set the record for that test, but you aced it like it was nothing!"

Cody just looked at the older boy in awe "It was like those puzzles were second nature, just wow."

Davis blushed "Oh come on, it wasn't that good. Yusei and Jack could've done those things twice as fast."

Kari raised a brow "Who're Yusei and Jack?"

Davis quickly answered "Uh, no one, forget I said anything."

TK and Kari shared a glance, but TK just shrugged and said "Well in any case, you're making quite the impression here Davis."

Davis scowled, muttering "Yeah don't remind me."

The New Domino natives glanced awkwardly at Davis, before shrugging and letting themselves be distracted by their lunch choices. When it was Davis' turn, however, he just stared at the machine before him, unsure of what to do. Kari looked over his shoulder, asking "Haven't you ever bought lunch before?"

Davis shook his head "Where I come from, you trade goods for the food you eat, never had anything out of a machine."

Kari suppressed a frown, instead choosing to gently take the credit card from Davis' hand, and proceeding to inform him on how the machine worked. She wasn't surprised when he only chose a simple ham and cheese sandwich and a bottle of water to eat, guessing that he'd gotten used to having very little to eat. Once they both had their food, the pair weaved through the lunch crowd to TK, Cody and Yolei, who were sitting with a larger group of kids at one of the bigger tables. One had a huge head of brown hair with goggles dangling around his neck, sitting next to a boy who looked very much like TK, with longer blonde hair and looked a tad older. There was also an orange haired girl sitting with Yolei and a pink haired girl, and a redhead chatting with Cody. They all stopped and turned when they saw Davis, however. The brown haired boy stood up from his seat and gave the former Enforcer a good look up and down, before extending his hand "How ya doin' there new guy, name's Tai. Tai Kamiya, Kari's older brother."

Davis looked nervously at his hand, and after a small nudge from Kari cautiously shook Tai's hand, at which the older boy grinned, saying "So, you're the one who kicked TK's ass, huh?"

TK groaned "Come on Tai!"

Tai laughed "Oh relax blondie, I can't help it if you got beat down by the new kid."

Kari giggled "Well, time for introductions then!" At that she practically dragged Davis over to the table, seating him next to her, as she pointed at the boy next to TK "That's Matt, my brother's best friend and tag team partner. He's also TK's older brother."

"Yo." Matt shot Davis a peace sign.

"Next to him is Sora, Tai's girlfriend."

"Nice to meet you" Sora said with a smile.

"The girl with pink hair is Mimi, our resident 'cheerleader' and happy-go-lucky kid."

"Hiya!" Mimi yipped happily.

"And lastly the redhead talking to Cody is Izzy, our tech guru."

"Prodigious!" Izzy declared, eyeing Davis' eye mark curiously.

"Nice, uh, nice to meet you all..." Davis said, but was cut off when an all to familiar face popped up next to Matt. The girl kissed Matt on the cheek before her gaze settled on Davis, making her jaw go slack. Kari quickly piped up, saying "Oh right, this is Matt's girlfriend...!"

She was cut off by Davis who asked lamely "Jun...?"

Everyone's eyes went wide, as they all turned to look at Jun who replied quietly "Davis...?"

Matt rubbed his temple after a brief explanation, and said slowly "So you know Davis from when your family did outreach work in Satellite?"

Jun nodded "Yeah, for about four years on and off."

Kari glanced at Davis, then Jun "So why did you guys break contact then?"

Jun immediately clammed up, looking at Davis pleadingly. Davis sighed, and stood up abruptly "It doesn't matter, it was a long time ago." With that he walked away, trudging through the crowd and back to the classroom. Jun just looked down at the table sadly, while Matt placed an arm around her, saying to the group "I think that's enough for today guys, I mean we only met the kid today, he's probably freaking out enough as it is, adjusting to a new place and everything."

TK nodded "Yeah, and I'd hate to lose such an awesome duelist as a friend."

Kari stood up "I'll go see if he's alright, we are gonna be desk partners this year."

Tai nodded "Go for it, tell him we're sorry if we made him feel uncomfortable."

Kari nodded, speeding off to go find where Davis had got to. She found him in the hallway not too much later, looking out the large window at the cityscape, a look of deep thought on his face. Kari sighed, walking over to him "Everything okay there?"

Davis snapped out of it, frowned at her "What do you need?"

Kari raised a brow "Can't I check up on my new friend?"

"...why?"

"What do you mean 'why' Davis?"

"Why are you being so nice to me?"

"I told you already. You're my friend!"

"I think it's gonna take me longer than I thought to get used to dealing with you city kids."

Kari pouted "Oh come on, it can't be that bad."

Davis laughed "No, it's not. But where I'm from, it takes a whole lot more than just a duel to be someone's friend."

Kari stuck her tongue at him, giggling and saying "Well I think you'll find that it's only our little group that's so accepting."

Davis managed a genuine smile "Well I guess you can't all be that weird, seems like a bit of a stretch."

Kari smiled back at him, before asking him gently "So...did something happen between you and Jun?"

Davis sighed, biting the inside of his cheek before saying slowly "Not exactly...can you keep a secret?"

Kari frowned, but nodded "Of course I can."

Davis ran a hand through his hair "Let's just say I started running with a crew that fought back against the Securities that were bullying the people in Satellite, and one day Jun's family got caught in the crossfire."

Kari went wide eyed, and asked cautiously "What kind of crew?"

Davis shook his head "Sorry, I'm not ready to spill that yet."

The brunette nodded slowly, placing a hand on his shoulder and saying "Well I'm here to listen when you are. Come on, we'd better get back to class."

Davis nodded, stuffing his hands in his pockets and following Kari back through the building to the classroom. Taking their seats, Davis spotted TK out of the corner of his eye, shooting the blonde a friendly wave. TK grinned back, glancing at Kari who just shrugged, grinning back. "Okay everyone, settle down!" Mr. Hamasaki came back in, closing the door behind him and saying "Now then, time for our kick off inter-class exhibition duel. As you all know, the winning class is awarded special school privileges and extra funding for school events. So, with that said, our reigning class duel rep, TK, has the choice of either dueling himself or choosing someone else to duel for the class."

Everyone look expectantly at the blonde, who tapped his chin before saying casually "I think I'll pass this year teach, but I choose Davis to take my spot."

Davis almost leaped out of his seat to throttle TK, but was frozen by the fact that every pair of eyes in the room were now glued to him. He cleared his throat, and said quietly "I guess I don't really have a choice, huh?"

TK grinned at him "Nope! Them's the rules!"

"Perfect, it's decided then. Everyone up, we're going to make our way to duel arena three for the match."

Davis stood nervously by the side of the duel field, TK on his right. Noticing his new friend's obvious discomfort, TK sighed, and said "Look, I know you barely know us Davis, but I promise you we want nothing more than to be your friend."

Davis nodded "And you do that by making me duel for you?"

TK laughed "Nah man, but I think it's better for our classmates to see how good you are. You didn't smash me into the ground on pure luck after all."

Davis sighed "You're just predictable. Mix it up a little and I won't have such an easy time from now on."

TK grinned "I'll keep that in mind. Oh, here we go! Let's see, it looks like you're dueling...TAI?!"

Tai grinned "That's right TK, they decided to pit two of the academy's top classes against each other. Although it looks like you're wimping out on me this year!"

TK sighed "Come on Tai, leave me alone. Besides, Davis is ten times the duelist I am, just you wait."

Tai looked over at Davis, eyeing him critically before shrugging "Well whatever then. Let's do this Davis."

Davis nodded, following Tai onto the field and placing his deck into his duel disk, pulling his visor down. Tai raised a brow, but didn't say anything, instead asking "You want first or second?"

Davis smirked "Age before beauty."

Tai grinned "I like that, alright then, let's do this!"

"DUEL!"

Tai - 4000LpDavis - 4000Lp

"Alright, I draw! And I summon Agumon to my side of the field! Now I'll activate my spell card, Warp Digivolve!"

Agumon: Dinosaur/Effect, Level 4, Fire, Atk - 1600 Def - 1800

Matt smirked "Looks like Tai's gonna go for the kill from the very start."

Izzy nodded "Yeah, been a while since we've seen him this pumped."

Davis raised a brow "That's not good."

Tai grinned "Damn right! Now then I summon WarGreymon from my extra deck, with two out of three overlay unit tokens active!"

WarGreymon: XYZ/Warrior/Effect, Rank 4, Fire, Atk - 3500 Def - 2300

"Now I'll throw down a face down and call it a turn!"

Davis sighed "Great, just what I needed. I draw!"

Davis scanned his hand carefully, glancing up at WarGreymon's effect "So he can remove an overlay unit to lower an opposing monsters attack by 1500 during damage calculation, eh? In that case let's keep it simple."

TK came up and plopped down next to Kari, saying "Your brother's not pulling any punches, I'm kinda interested to see how Davis gets himself out of this one." Kari just nodded, watching intently.

"I'll open by summoning the tuner monster "Soccer Ace's Waterboy!"

Soccer Ace's Waterboy: Warrior/Tuner/Effect, level 1, Earth, Atk - 0 Def - 100

"Now when I normal summon this guy I can special summon one 'Soccer Ace' monster from my deck, and I choose Soccer Ace Dai!"

Soccer Ace Dai: Warrior/Effect, Level 4, Earth, Atk - 1800 Def - 1200

"And now...!" Davis started thrusting a hand in the air as his monsters leaped upwards, forming two green loops "I tune my level 1 Waterboy with my level 4 Soccer Ace Dai to Synchro summon! Ally of Justice Catastor!"

"So he's a Synchro user huh? Pretty archaic if you ask me" Mimi said, leaning forward.

Cody shook his head "Just wait."

"Now I activate my spell card, Storming Friendship! By sending one Veemon from my deck to the graveyard I can special summon one Raidramon from my hand deck or graveyard!"

Raidramon: Beast/Effect, Level 6, Wind, Atk - 2300 Def - 2600

"And now I activate Raidramon's effect! When he's special summoned I can discard one card to special summon a level 4 or lower Dragon Tuner from my deck! I choose Teal Drago Squire!"

Teal Drago Squire: Dragon/Effect, Level 2, Water, Atk - 800 Def - 500

"And now it's time to kick this up a notch! I tune my level 2 Squire with level 6 Raidramon to Synchro summon my favorite monster, Exveemon!"

"Two Synchros in one turn? Nice stuff, but it won't be enough to beat Tai" Matt said, seemingly unimpressed.

"Don't underestimate him, Matt" Jun said from beside him "That's a mistake that you'll regret big time."

"Not bad Davis! But if you think that'll be enough to stop me then you're wrong."

Davis shook his head "Not done yet! I activate my spell card Crest of Courage!"

"WHAT?!" Kari, TK, Matt, Sora, Yolei, Mimi, Izzy and Cody yelled, earning confused looks from their classmates. Tai just stared at Davis in shock, muttering "No way..."

"Crest of Courage has two effects, and I choose the second one, which doubles the attack points of all monsters on my side of the field until the end of the turn! With that said, I attack WarGreymon with Catastor!"

"Why would he attack with a monster that has 1300 less attack points than its target?" a student asked.

Mr. Hamasaki grinned "Because Catastor's effect allows it to automatically destroy any non-Dark attribute monster it battles before the damage step."

Tai grit his teeth "I don't think so! I activate my trap card, Sakuretsu Armor! This little jewel will...!"

"I know what it does, but I'm afraid you're out of luck, because I activate my quickplay spell card, Miraculous Intervention! By banishing one Dragon from my graveyard, I can negate the destruction of all monsters I control until the end phase!"

"Oh come on!" Tai snarled, as WarGreymon was automatically destroyed.

"And now, it's time to end this! I attack you directly with Exveemon! VEE LASER!"

"AGH!" Tai cried as he was sent flying.

Tai - 0Lp

The entire room was quiet, until Matt said nervously "No way...a one turn kill!?"

Izzy's mouth hung open "The odds are...are..."

TK sighed "That's what happens. Davis is crazy good."

Mr. Hamasaki gulped, before recomposing himself and clapping his hands, standing up. Following his lead, the rest of the students stood and began to clap as well, all prejudices set aside in the face of sheer admiration for what Davis had done. Tai himself groaned, sitting up and rubbing his head "Man, I can't believe I got stumped so hardcore." He glanced up to see Davis holding out a hand "Don't feel bad, happens to all of us."

Tai just sighed, accepting his hand and standing up "Well, at the end of the day it looks like the better duelist won. Congratulations."

"So, you gonna be alright walking home alone Davis?" TK asked after school had ended, and the group stood outside the front gates.

Davis shrugged, walking quietly away before calling over his shoulder "I'll see you guys tomorrow, peace."

The others waved before Matt said "Okay, that kid's freakin' amazing."

"Hell yeah he is! I've never felt so outmatched in a duel, ever!" Tai said in amazement.

"And he's seriously from Satellite?" Sora asked, wrapping her arms around Tai's.

"Born and raised" Jun said, grasping Matt's hand "And he loved it there too, I'm amazed that he ended up here."

Izzy tapped his chin thoughtfully "That mark on his face...you only get one of those if you're admitted to the Facility Prison right?"

Cody nodded "Right, which means he probably didn't leave because he wanted to."

TK frowned "Man, that sucks. I mean I'm glad we've met him and all, but if someone dragged me away from home and you guys I don't think I'd handle it as well as he is."

Jun huffed "Yeah, somehow I don't think that he's taking it well TK. But you're right, he's an awesome duelist. Always has been, even as a little kid."

Yolei frowned, saying sternly "Guys, we really need to talk about that spell he played."

All eyes landed on Tai, who frowned, pulling the same card from his own deck and showing it to the others "These were supposed to be one of a kind cards, right?"

Matt, Sora, Izzy, Mimi, TK and Kari all held up their own Crest cards, the mood changing to a more tense state. "That's not right, how does Davis have a Crest then?" Yolei asked in confusion.

Cody frowned "Well if it was Joe's Crest I guess I could understand, but we know that Joe and Davis could have never met, so there's only one explanation."

Matt raised a brow "What's that Cody?"

Izzy snapped his fingers "Chancellor Gennai!"

Cody nodded "He must be up to something, the question is what?"

Kari frowned, looking over her shoulder at the direction Davis had walked off in, frowning and saying "Wait a minute, isn't Davis headed straight for the DAIMON Area main gate?"

TK followed her gaze, raising a brow "This is too weird. I mean, so far I like Davis and everything, but the timing, plus his Crest card? What the hell."

"Director Goodwin, it's almost time to begin isn't it?" a man in the shadows of Goodwin's office asked eerily.

"Yes. Yes it is my friend. Once all the Crests have gathered, and are in Davis' hands, we can finally use him as the vassal that shall contain the Crimson Dragon to serve our bidding. Then...then we'll be unstoppable." Goodwin smirked, looking out over New Domino City.

The man in the shadows grinned madly "Yes, then we'll control the world! Ahahahahahahahahaha!"

And chapter two complete! Like it? Let me know!

CARD ART ANALYZER

Soccer Ace's Waterboy: Young Tai (blonde haired) with blue soccer jersey spilling a water cooler.
Soccer Ace Dai: Digimon Universe Davis in his Soccer uniform
Teal Drago Squire: Teal colored Baby Dragon with silver armor on
Crest of Courage: Plain black background with the Crest of Courage in the center (same goes for the other crest cards)