Chapter 2: Arrival

It had been a week since Jason had taken the entrance exam for Dueling University. He had successfully beaten the Vice-Chancellor with his Deck. All he had to do was wait for confirmation that he would be attending.

Jason woke up in his usual mess of a room to a small rustling sound coming from the cage by his window. Inside the cage was a small black raven with a green patch on the crown of his head. Jason had found this small bird during a duel, his opponent had summoned a very powerful monster which had created a gust of wind due to the solid vision, in turn knocking the small raven out of a tree and breaking the wing. Jason seeing the injured bird, stopped the duel immediately and took it home to care for.

After a couple of weeks when the time came for it to be released he flew out and Jason thought he would never see him again. Boy was he wrong the same night, Jason heard a tapping at the window he opened the window and in flew the small raven. It was the same for weeks, Jason released the bird and it would come right back. In the end Jason adopted the small bird giving him the name Gale because of the resemblance to his favourite monster.

"Morning Partner, How you doing?" asked Jason sleepily looking at his clock reading 07:35 am

"Squawk." Came the reply followed by a rattling of the cage door.

"Alright. I'll let you out in a sec." Said Jason as he pulled on his trousers and red top.

Jason walked over to the window and opened it before opening the cage and putting his hand inside. Gale jumped on his hand and was lifted out. Jason petted the small avian and let it loose out the window.

"Remember to be back for the post." Shouted Jason

"Squawk." Was all he heard.

"Fine." Sighed Jason.

Jason went on and did his daily business, after all his chores were done he played some computer games until he heard a knock at the door.

"Coming." Shouted Jason as he came down the stairs

Opening the door he saw his dad, the local postman. Jason's dad stood a few inches taller than Jason himself, he was muscular with a caring smile, grey short hair and heavily tanned. In his hands was a large package addressed to Jason.

"I think this is it, son." Said Jason's dad. " I've had to deliver several of these throughout town.

"Cheers, Dad." Said Jason hugging his Dad.

Jason's Dad gave him the package and waved him goodbye.

"Good luck Son." Shouted his dad.

Jason took the package and took it to the living room. (A/N : do I really need to explain this?) As he was about to open the package, Jason heard a tapping at the window. He looked over and saw his feathered friend at the window. He opened the window and Gale flew in and around the room a few times before settling on Jason's shoulder. Jason walked over to the package and opened it slowly.

"Aw, wow." Said Jason

Inside the box was 3 items. A new University issued Duel Disk with yellow trim, a PDA and underneath it all a was a Golden coloured trench coat signifying his rank as a Hamon Yellow. Taking the PDA and switching it on, a man with a white beard and white short hair, piercing Blue eyes and a crimson coat appeared on the screen.

"Greetings, Duelist. My Name is Henry Strider and I am the Chancellor of Domino Dueling University." Said the Man. "First, let me congratulate you on successfully Passing teh exams and obtaining your rank as a Hamon Yellow Duelist. With this you will be staying at the Hamon dorm which is situated west of the main Campus. From where you are situated you are going to get a coach from the Main Bus station to Domino City on August 31st at 5pm. See you at the University."

The video snapped off and Jason looked at his watch the date was August 30th. He had 1 day to get everything he would need for a year at the University. So he ran up to his room to begin packing.

The Next Day

Jason walked to the main Bus station in Town and saw the Bus with the heading: Duel University. He walked on board earning the stare of everyone on the bus a total of twenty people were on board. He walked along the aisle's until he found an empty seat and sat in it. He plugged his earphones in and sat back and listened to Angel Witch.

After about 10 minutes another few people came on board. As most the seats were full it was natural that someone had to sit next to him. This someone was a big guy, not fat or muscular, but looked like he could throw his weight around. He had long black hair, dark eyes with thin-framed eyeglasses, a mole on his upper lip on the right side. He looked like he was in Uria red as he was already wearing his red jacket with all the neck straps undone. He sat down next to Jason with a grunt. The bus then left the stand and made its way to Domino city.

He looked at Jason and did a double take.

"You're the guy who beat the Vice Chancellor." Said the boy.

"Say wha?" replied Jason taking out his earphones.

"I said. Your the guy who beat the Vice Chancellor." He repeated slightly irritated

"Huh, oh yea. That was a blast facing the Red Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon." Said Jason remembering the duel.

"My Name's Edward Gonzo. I didn't do too well on either of the exams so I'm only in Uria. You?" asked Edward.

"I did well on both and got into Hamon." Replied Jason

"Good for you."

"Yea."

Suddenly there was a tapping at the window. The 2 boys turned and saw a familiar raven, well familiar to Jason at least.

"Gah!" came a startled Edward. "It's a bird of the devil."

"Hey, That's not very nice, Edward." Said Jason opening the window to let the bird in. "That's my Pet."

"Oh, Sorry about that, but my mom was always superstitious, guess it passed onto me." Said Edward. "And call me Eddie."

"Alright, Eddie." Said Jason "yea that's my Partner Gale."

"Wow, cool." Said Eddie "Does he peak?"

"My gale's harmless unless your a small Rodent." Said Jason.

Gale jumped onto Eddie and began to nuzzle him.

"See. He likes you." Said Jason

"Hello there. Gale." Said Eddie petting the bird.

"ALLSTUDENTS, PLEASE GATHERS YOUR THINGS AS WE WILL BE ARRIVING IN 5 MINS." Came a speaker from above the 2 boys.

"Sweet. Come here Gale." Said Jason patting his shoulder to which Gale jumped onto.

"Time to get our stuff together." Said Eddie grabbing his backpack as did Jason.

The Bus stopped in front of a long white building that was 3 stories high, with a flat roof and looked like a small block of flats. Jason and Eddie got off the bus and proceeded to walk with the crowd into the main building. Gale flew off on his on at that point. On the way the boys noticed Changing rooms. One for boy's and one for girl's. Jason went in and changed into his school uniform. As Jason came out he looked at himself. He had left the golden trench coat unzipped so he could get to his deck easier, he had kept his red t-shirt but had changed his blue jeans to black jeans with Gale perched on his shoulder.

"Wow. Nice coat." Said Eddie emerging from the changing rooms after him.

"Yea, looks alright I guess, I'd prefer black." Said Jason looking up at Eddie who was now wearing a Red jacket without the neck buttons done up.

"If you say so." Said Eddie.

The boys proceeded to follow the crowd into a large duel arena. The arena looked like it could house a thousand people and the giant duel arena made the summoning of the strongest monster look minuscule. Jason and Eddie took there seats and looked around to a sea of red and yellow with the occasional patch of blue.

Suddenly all the light's went out save for one single spotlight in the centre of the duel arena, in the light stood a man that Jason and everyone in the room recognized with a white beard and white short hair and piercing blue eyes. It was Chancellor Henry Strider, 3rd head of the Duel University.

"Greetings, New and Old students to Duel University. For the next 3 years you will study all teh basics of not only duelling but everything you need for a creative future no matter what you may want to do." Said the Chancellor earning a round of applause from the student body.

"Now to kick off the year, let's have our current Kaiser and top freshman have a duel. So let me welcome on to the stage our current Kaiser, Jack Adams." Shouted the Chancellor earning a roar of cheers from the crowd.

Jack Adams came from the stands and walked casually on to teh stage. He had long jet black hair tied back in a pony tail, deep black eyes that let out no emotion. He wore a standard blue trench coat with a white collar signifying his rank as the Kaiser. Around the arena girls screamed with delight as they saw him.

"And our top ranking Freshman this year is." Annouced the Chancellor as he opened a small envelope he had gotten from his coat. "JASON KNIGHT!"

Jason looked up in disbelieve as he heard he was the top ranking freshman. He grabbed his duel disk and ran down receiving a round of applause but no screaming girls. He greeted Jack with a friendly handshake to which Jack did without any facial expressions. Both duelist stood across from eachother and readied there duel disks.

"Duel." They both shouted.