2: Budding Rivalries
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the cards, or characters portrayed in Yu-Gi-Oh! or its spin-offs, or any of the brands that are mentioned. What I do own is my OC's and the computer I'm using to type this. Same goes for the last chapter.
A week after the entrance exams and all the successful applicants were currently being ferried to Duel Academy Island. The sea was relatively calm, and the sun was out, and many of the travelers were currently taking advantage of this by hanging about on-deck.
Paul and Mickey where also taking advantage of the weather, talking about nothing in particular. Around them, other students where doing the same, discussing the duelists who stood out at the exams, or what duelists where the ones to look out for at the academy.
Soon enough the boat docked at Academy Island, and the students all disembarked and made their way to the main academy building to be sorted out into what dorms they would be staying in. After half an hour of waiting both Paul and Mickey where both allocated to the Slifer-Red dorms.
They then made their ways to the lecture hall for the Welcome Assembly. After being greeted by the new Chancellor, James Hisabumi, all the students then made their way towards their dorms in order to unpack and settle in.
While unpacking in the room they shared, Paul and Mickey started to discus what the next year would be like. "Well, if it's anything like what happened when Jaden Yuki was here, then it should be fantastic," Paul said. "Yeah, no joke, wonder what ever happened to him after he left though." Mickey replied. "Dunno, but what I do know is that it doesn't matter. That was the past and this is the present. No point in looking back on what we can't change, rather we look towards the future." Mickey looked up from packing away his underwear in his drawers. "Fair does, never thought about about it like that."
An hour later they where both out back behind the dorms when they were approached by two other students – 2 boys, both wearing red blazers. "Take it you're new here then," one of asked. "What makes you say that," Mickey replied. "No reason, other than we've never seen you here before around here." the other replied. "And we where just going around meeting the new students, scoping out the competition really. Name's David," the first then finished off. He had short, black hair, medium build, and under his open red blazer he had a dark blue t-shirt and dark jeans, with red and white Nike Hi-Tops.
"I'm Ryan, nice to meet you," the other replied. He wore his blazer open the same as David, but underneath his top he had on a black t-shirt, black jeans and purple Converse All Star Hi's.
"So, we've said who we are, how about you two, you got names," David asked. "I'm Paul, and he's Michael." Paul answered. "and to answer your first question, yeah, we're new. And just basically we're not looking for any trouble," he continued.
"Well, that may be fair enough, but how about a duel, just to break you into life at the academy?" Ryan asked. "I'll take you up on that challenge. I could use a warm up, seeing as how I've not had a duel since the entrance exam, and call me Mickey, I hate being called Michael." Mickey said, accepting the challenge.
So with that, Paul and David stood to the side, while Ryan and Mickey moved away from the back wall so that they could have some room.
With that both duelists activated their duel disks and cried out that most famous of words: "DUEL"
Mickey: 4000
Ryan: 4000
"I'll go first, draw." Mickey said, pulling a sixth card from his deck and adding it to his hand. "I activate the spell card Trade-In. With this I discard one Level 8 monster from my hand and draw two more cards." He then drew two more cards from his deck, then placed the level 8 monster from his hand into his graveyard. "I then activate my Allure of Darkness. This lets me draw two more cards, but I must remove from play 1 dark monster from my hand from play. So I now draw two cards and remove my Darklord Asmodeus from play. Now I summon my Dark Valkyria (ATK: 1800) in attack mode, and throw down two face-downs and end my turn."
"Then it's my turn, Draw." Ryan exclaimed while pulling his card from his deck. "And like you I can draw more cards from my deck, I activate my Cards of Consonance: with this I discard 1 Dragon-Type Tuner monster with 1000 or less ATK to draw 2 cards, so now I discard The White Stone of Legend and draw two cards. And because The White Stone of Legend was sent to the grave I can add 1 Blue-Eyes White Dragon from my deck to my hand." With this he fanned out his deck, and added the mentioned card to his hand before adding his deck back into his disk and letting the auto-shuffler do it's job. "Next I place one card face-down, and play the spell card Ancient Rules. With this little gem I can Special Summon one level 5 or higher Normal Monster from my hand, and I know just the one. Come Forth, BLUE-EYES WHITE DRAGON (ATK: 3000)"
With that, a large bright shaft of light suddenly shot down from the sky, and suddenly first one, then two bluey-white wings emerged from the beam of light. Next the shadowy outline of the body could be seen. The beam of light then died down, and in the place where it was there hovered the Legendary dragon. "Now go Blue-Eyes, attack his Valkyria with your White Lightning!" Ryan called out, his voice full of passion as his dragon started to gather energy in it's maw. It then fired it's attack at Dark Valkyria and within seconds, the weaker monster was gone. "I also activate Dian Keto the Cure Master, gaining 1000 life points and end my turn." Try coming back from that! Ryan thought to himself.
Mickey: 2800
Ryan: 5000
"Draw," Mickey said as he drew his next card. Bugger, how do I get out of this, he thought as he looked at his hand. All that was in it was Honest, Herald of Creation, Valhalla Hall of the Fallen, Call of the Haunted, Guardian Eatos and now Monster Reborn. That's it "I activate Monster Reborn to bring back one monster from either graveyard. I choose my Darklord Superbia (ATK: 2900). And with my Superbia's effect I can bring back another Fairy Type monster from my grave, be reborn Dark Valkyria (ATK: 1800). With that both designated monster appeared out of dark portals on the ground in front of him. "And now to destroy your dragon," he declared. Ryan gained a worried look on his face as he realized what Mickey just said.
"By giving up my normal summon, I can second summon my Valkyria to activate her effect. She can gain one spell-counter and 300 points for each counter on her, but if I remove it from her she can destroy one card on the opponents field," with that Valkyria's wings started to glow, then suddenly released a dark energy stream towards the dragon. Just as the energy was about to hit the dragon, it suddenly disappeared in a flash of light. "I activate my Interdimensional Matter Transporter in order to save my Blue-Eyes." Ryan called out to the shock of all watching.
The duel had drawn a crowd because of the summoning of Blue-Eyes, and there now people watching from Ra Yellow and Obelisk Blue. A pair of them was standing near enough to Paul and David to that they could be overheard talking. David noticed this and who they where, and elbowed Paul slightly to get his attention. "See those two Obelisk Blue's over there, the guy with the long brown hair, and the girl standing next to them." Paul looked over at them and saw them, "Yeah, what about them?" he asked. "Well, that's Andeh Ueda and Rachel Kasuki, the top two students here. Both second years, Andeh's never been beaten, and Rachel's not that bad herself. Also, going out. Andeh's kinda alright, but Rachel can have a bit of an attitude problem with people she thinks are below here, which in her opinion is anybody that hasn't beaten her." Nodding at this, Paul muttered, "I'll keep that in mind."
Andeh and Rachel watched the duel with slight interest. "That kid was close, but in the end he still won't win, as soon as that kid with the Blue-Eyes' turn comes back around then it's over." Rachel said smugly. "I don't know about that, he looks to be up to something." Andeh replied.
Back in the duel, Mickey looked over at Ryan with a smug grin, "Sorry, but by doing that it's over. Since there is no monsters in my grave I can special summon my Guardian Eatos."(ATK: 2500) Suddenly feathers started to fall from nowhere and piled up between both dark angels. In a burst of light that shot out from beneath the pile and out jumped a woman garbed in brown Native American attire, with an eagles head and wings covering her head and back and holding a bow and arrow.
Oh hell no, if he attacks it's over for me! thought Ryan as he realized what was going on. "Now attack Valkyra, Dark Spellbinding." With the command, Dark Valkyria gathered a ball energy up in it's hands and fired it at Ryan. "Next up is Darklord Superbia, go Fallen Pride Stream." Superbia then flew up above Ryan, and fired a beam of dark energy at Ryan from above. Ryan then cried out in pain as the blast hit him. "And last but not least, Guardian Eatos attacks you directly. Go – Celestial Arrow." Eatos then knocked an arrow that it pulled from underneath it's eagle wings and sighted up Ryan. It then fired its arrow directly at Ryan. At this all the cards still on the field disappeared as Ryan's life-points fell to zero.
Mickey: 2800
Ryan: 0
As the duel finished, the crowd started to dissipate until the only people left where from the Slifer-Red dorm. Paul overheard Andeh and Rachel as they walked by him as they were leaving. "Told you he was up to something, but I would never have guessed he would be able to do that," Andeh said. "Yeah, yeah, whatever. Let's just get out of here and get to the welcoming dinner." Rachel replied.
As Paul and David made their way to Ryan and Mickey, the latter shock hands with each other. "Nice duel, I would never have believed that you could pull out the win if I hadn't been on the receiving end of it." Ryan commented. "Ahh, it was just the luck of the draw," Mickey replied. "If I hadn't drawn Monster Reborn on that last draw I would never have been able to pull it off."
"Seems like that you rely on Lady Luck more than others do, judging by you finished your last two duels." Paul joked when he and David finally reached them. "Ahh, no more than the next person, but she does seem to favour me, hehe." Mickey said, trying not to laugh. "Well we better get to the welcome dinner, if we want any fried shrimp that is." David commented while chuckling under his breath.
If this is going to be what Duel Academy is going to be like, then I have little to worry about, Paul thought as he, Mickey, David, and Ryan started to walk towards the dining area of the Slifer dorms.
Featured Card:
Guardian Eatos
ATK: 2500 / DEF: 2000
If you have no monsters in your Graveyard, you can Special Summon this card from your hand. You can send 1 Equip Spell Card equipped to this card to the Graveyard to select and remove from play up to 3 monsters in your opponent's Graveyard. This card gains 500 ATK for each monster removed by this effect, until the End Phase.
A/N: Please comment and review if you wish, and give all the constructive criticism that you can, I welcome it greatly.