Yu-Gi-Oh GX: A New Millenium Episode 2: A Cold Welcome
It's the next day and Raymond is in his room, laying on his bed thinking "Wow. That's the first duel I think I've ever enjoyed in my entire life. I wonder what else this school has to offer."
A knock comes at his door.
"Hmmmm. I wonder who that could be." He goes to the door and answers it. It's a guy with blue hair going down the front and the sides, he was tall, he had on the school uniform, black shoes, his skin was light, and he had a blue and black backpack. "Are you Raymond Barrett?" he asks.
"Yes, I am. Who wants to know?"
"Dont' worry.You're not in trouble or anything. I just came up here to give you your school uniform." He hands Raymond the bag that he had in his hands. Raymond takes the bag and says "Thanks. I don't mean to be rude or anything, but who are you?"
"My name is Zane Truesdale, and I'm your roommate."
Raymond's mouth drops and he takes a step back. "Wait a minute. Did you just say that you were Zane Truesdale?"
"Yep. The one and only."
"I've heard of you. Rumor had it that you're were the top duelist at Duel Academy. What happened?" Zane starts holding his head because it begins to hurt a little.
Raymond asks "Is something wrong?"
Zane sighs and says "Yeah. I'm okay. Can we go inside, please?"
"Oh, yeah. Come right on in." Raymond moves out of the way so Zane could make his way in. Raymond puts his unifrom on his bed. Zane sets his backpack down, kicks his shoes off and they pull a chair out for themselves and sit down.
Zane begins talking and says "Well you see, of course I was top ranked duelist at Duel Academy. I had high grades, and good dueling kids. That was until I met the person who ended my career. Aster Phoenix."
Zane then remembers when Aster beat him at Duel Academy.
"What happened to you?" Raymond asks.
Zane continues with "After I've lost countless numbers of duels ever since Aster beat me, I've been humiliated in front of everyone. Nobody wanted me anymore. I lost my pride as a duelist and almost retired. That was until I met Mr. Shroud."
"Who's Mr. Shroud?" Raymond asks.
"He's some kind of shady dueling manager. He told me that he can get me back up on my feet and get my career back by inviting me to an underground duel."
"So how did it go?"
Smiling Zane says "I won. Mr. Shroud told me that he'd find a way for me to win. But, not exactly how I wanted it to go. Zane says with an ashamed look on his face. I turned into a monster. Mr. Shroud told me in the middle of the duel that the only way for me to win was to forget about all my friends. He made me believe that everyone's deserted me. And it was at that moment, my rage came out. I became a brutal, cold-hearted person. It was like I didn't care about who I stepped on to get what I wanted." He then remembers when he first turned into his evil self and won the duel with Mad-Dog, and with everyone else he defeated.
"Wow. It sounds like you've had it rough. Are you okay?" Raymond asks with concern in his voice.
"Yeah, I'm okay. You see the thing is-" Zane gets interrupted because his head starts to hurt again. But this time, it hurts so bad that Zane yells. He then falls out of his chair and lands on the ground still holding his head and screaming.
Raymond gets up out of his chair, opens the door, goes into the hallway, and starts yelling "HELP! HELP! I NEED HELP! SOMEBODY, PLEASE HELP!"
Raymond then goes back to Zane and picks him up and lays him across his bed. Three people come into the room so they figure out what all the noise was about. Once they see that Raymond is trying to hold Zane down on the bed, two of them come and help him. The other one went into the bathroom to get a rag and runs it under some cold water in the sink. He then comes out and puts it across Zane's forehead. Zane begins to calm down and stop yelling. He then gets knocked out from his head hurting bad.
"What happened?" one of the guy asked Raymond.
Raymond replies with "I dont' know. We were talking and then he just started yelling and going crazy."
The second guy says "Come on. Let's carry him downstairs."
Raymond says to him "I got it. You can go ahead and return to your rooms."
"Are you sure?" the third guy asks him.
"Yes. I'm sure." The three guys walk out and they start asking each other if that was Zane Truesdale. Raymond picks Zane up and puts him over his shoulder. He walks out on the hallway and gets on an elevator and goes down to the first floor. Professor Dunson just happens to be walking by. She sees Raymond carrying Zane over his shoulders. The then yells "What happened?!"
"He just freaked out. There was something wrong with his head."
She tells Raymond "Follow me!" They then run to the nurse's room. Professor Dunson opens the door and runs to the nurse screaming "You've got to do something! Zane Truesdale just had a serious headache, and now he's unconscious!
The nurse says "Well let me have a look at him."
Raymond lays him across the bed in the nurse's room and the nurse puts her hand over his head. She then says "Wow! He's burning up! She then gets some ice, puts it in a bag and lays it across his forehead. He's not unconscious. He's just knocked out. He should probably just stay here until he wakes up."
"Alright." Professor Dunson says with worry still in her voice.
Raymond asks "Is he gonna be alright okay?"
"Yes. He just needs some sleep and to just keep some ice on his head to cool him off. That's all. He should be better in maybe two to three weeks."
Raymond says "That's all I needed to know. I'll just go back to my room then." Raymond leaves out of the room and thinks to himself "Hmmm. That was weird. I have a feeling that wasn't a headache. Whatever it is, I bet it's bad."
Just as he was about to go back up to his room, he hears noises in the auditorium. He decides to go see what the noise was. He went inside and saw that two people were dueling. One was a kid and the other was the guy that Raymond met on the boat. The kid had face-down monster on the field. The other guy had on his side Element Dragon (1500/1200). It was pink dragon with orange hair and horns at the sides of his head. He had a long tail and his wings are pink and green. The guys names was Jacob.
The kid says "I end my turn." (Jacob 2900, Kid 2100)
Jacob says "You know, this duel hasn't been quite fun. I should warn you. When you mess with Jacob Rosedale, you're bound to get hurt. I draw. I play the spell card Pot of Greed. Now I'm able to draw twice more. Picking up his two cards, he goes on with "Now I activate my Book of Taiyou spell. Now thanks to this, I can select one face-down defense monster and flip it face-up. So I select your monster."
A big book appears on the field with gold on the front and ancient pictures on it. It opens and shows some ancient writing in it. A magic force comes out of the book and flips his monster up in attack mode.
The kids calls out "Ha. Thanks for doing that, because the monster you flipped up was my Night Assailant (200/500)! And now his flip effect goes off allowing me to destroy a monster on your side of the field." A black hooded monster appeared on the field. His body was blue, but his face was black like a skeleton's. On his wrists, he had gold bracelets and in his hands, there were curved daggers with gold handles.
He takes his daggers and flies over to Element Dragon taking his daggers and slicing his monster down the middle. The monster then explodes. The debris comes back and hits Jacob. He covers his face with no worry in his eyes.
Not to worry, because it's still my turn. I activate Tribute Burial. Now by removing from play a monster in each of our graveyards, I can summon a monster from my hand. So I remove from play my Element Dragon and your Bite Shoes (500/300) from play in order to summon Tri-Horned Dragon (2850/2350). The pink dragon and a high heeled shoe with a mouth and sharp teeth, and yellow eyes came back from the graveyard and disappeared. Suddenly, a huge blue and orange dragon with long sharp horns on its head and down his back came onto the field. It also had long sharp claws on its hands and feet. It then let out a loud roar.
Do you know what this means? If you don't, it means that you lose. I told you. Never challenge Jacob Rosedale to a duel. Now, attack! Tri-Horned Blaze! The monster opens it mouth and lets out a huge fireball and destroys Night Assailant. A big explosion forms and knocks the kid back a few feet. As the smoke cleared, the Tri-Horned Dragon vanishes.
"Well, I'm outta here." Jacob says.
He then sees Raymond standing at the door just as he's about to get off of the dueling arena. Once he spots him, he stops and gives him that crazy look again.
Raymond applaudes and says "Wow. That was sweet. I just have to ask you something. Why did you give me that crazy look on the boat like you're doing right now?"
"I don't know you. That's why I gave you that look. And no, I don't wanna be your friend."
"I wasn't gonna ask that. I was gonna ask you if you wanted to duel me. The reason why is because I just saw that little display back there and you've got some sweet cards. So, you wanna duel me?"
Jacob lets out a stifling laughter and then finally lets it out. Raymond then has that little anime-like tear drop go down the back of his head. Jacob continues laughing, then he stops laughing quickly and says "Yeah. Very funny. Can I go now?"
"No, I'm serious. I really want to duel you. So how about it?"
Jacob sighs with exasperation and says "Fine. I accept your challenge." Some of Jacob's old friends come into the auditorium. One says to Jacob "Hold on. Jacob, are you about to duel this loser?"
"Yeah. As a matter of fact, I am. He wouldn't let me go, so I just accepted his challenge to get him off my back."
"Wow. This should be fun and interesting to watch." the guy again says. Jacob tosses a duel disk to Raymond that he got from one of his friends. They both activate their duel disks and call out "Game on!"
Jacob's friends go and sit up in the bleachers to watch the duel.
Drawing hs card, Jacob calls out "Now don't think you're gonna get me like you did with Professor Dunson, Raymond. I summon Pitch-Dark Dragon (900/600) in defense mode. A black dragon with claws on its wings and feet appears on the field in a defensive stance. I now end my turn with two face-down cards. (Jacob 4000, Raymond 4000)
Drawing his card, Raymond says "Alright, here I come, Jacob. I summon my Spirit Warrior of Fire (1800/1500) in attack mode. A body that was completely made out of fire appeared on the field. Now, my monster, attack!" The monster jumped up in the air and let out its element from its hand and destroyed the black dragon. I now end my turn with a face-down card." (Jacob 4000, Raymond 4000)
"That's all? How lame. I now play the spell card Polymerization to fuse Lord of Dragons (1200/1100) and Divine Dragon-Ragnarok (1500/1000) in order to play King Dragun (2400/1100)!" A monster with a dragon like suit on that was dark grey, had claws on it, dark brown gloves, a dark brown hood, and a dark brown cape began to swirl together with a pink spirit like dragon. They soon formed together to create a huge dragon monster with horns on the sides of his head, and claws on his shoulders, horns going down his front and his back, dark blue wings, black arms, a light purplish looking hood, and the same thing going down his back, the bottom part of his body was long and tan. He also had tan hind legs. When he appeared on the field he let out a roar like it was the king of all dragons.
Now, I use my monster's effect to bring out some company from my hand. What I mean is, once every turn, I'm able to automatically special summon a dragon monster from my hand. So now I call to the field my Red-Eyes Black Dragon (2400/2000)! A big black dragon with red eyes and that was almost as big as King Dragun appeared. It was all black, at the tip of his wings, there was a sharp point, and his let out a mighty roar and showed his readiness to battle.
Raymond looked on in starstruck. "Wow. You summoned two monster's with 2400 attack points each in one turn. Nice moves."
"Well, you haven't seen anything yet, you loser!" the guy in the bleachers calls out.
On the field Jacob calls out "King Dragun! Let's show this loser who we are! Attack with Dragun Grip! The monster lets out another roar and extends his hand forward to destroy the warrior of fire. Raymond then calls out "I activate my face-down. I play Spirit Shield! Now thanks to this, I can negate one of your monster's attacks. So my monster is safe."
A shield that was red, yellow outlining around it and a yellow "S" on the front appeared on the field in front of the fire warrior. As the attack was about to hit him, the shield held the attack back and as soon as King Dragun pulled his arm back, the shield disintegrated.
"Sure you blocked my King Dragun's attack, but what's gonna stop my Red-Eye's rampage? Inferno Fire Blast!"
The monster flew up in the air and formed a huge, blazing fire ball in it's mouth, opened his mouth and shot it out with great power. The blast soon hit his fire warrior and shattered him into pieces. The blast came back at Raymond and burned him a little bit.
I now thrown down a face-down card and end my turn. (Jacob 4000, Raymond 3400)
Pretty good stuff, but I bet I can top that. I play the spell card The Warrior Returning Alive. Now I can add a warrior monster from my grave to my hand. The Spirit Warrior of Fire card slid out of the graveyard and Raymond picked it up and said "I now play Polymerization. So now I fuse together my fire warrior with Spirit Warrior of Rock (2500/1200) in order to form the Spirit Warrior of Magma (2600/2400)! THe body of fire and a body of rock appeared on the field and began to swirl together. After that, a being of magma appeared on the field and started boiling.
Jacob calls out Don't even think about trying to destroy my Red-Eyes. I plat my face-down card Rush Recklessly! Now my Red-Eyes attack strength increases by 700 points this turn (2400+700 3100/2000). The Red-Eyes Black Dragons looks like it's getting pumped up.
"That's cool because I can still crush your King Dragun. Magma Outburst!" Raymond calls out.
The magma warrior lets out some magma from its body and hits King Dragun. King Dragun roars as it burns and then it explodes.
Raymond calls out again "You're not out of the neck of the woods just yet, because you now lose damage to your Life Points equal to the attack strength of your monster!" The magma warrior shoots out some more magma and hits Jacob. Jacob yells and tries his best to stay up on his feet. He falls to one knee and starts laughing. He then says "Ha. I might actually enjoy this duel after all."
Well, I'.m glad you're enjoying it because there's alot more where that came from." Raymond says with a smirk on his face. I summon my Spirit Warrior of Water (1900/1200) in defense. A body that was completely made out of water appeared on the field in a defensive stance. I place a face-down card on the field and leave it at that." (Jacob 1400, Raymond 3400)
Back at the nurse's office, the nurse got a thermometer and went to take Zane's temperature. She stuck the thermometer in his mouth and after a minute at the least went by, she took it out and said " Oh, my! His temperature's skyrocketing." She then fixes up another bag of ice and puts it on his forehead.
At the main office, Professor and Chacellor Dunson were talking.
"What are you talking about?" Chancellor Dunson asks.
I don't know. All Raymond said was that he freaked and started yelling. I think he had some kind of headache or something." The nurse has him. So he's okay for now." Chancellor Dunson thinks in his mind that what Professor Dunson was telling him was really serious.
Back at the duel, Jacob draws his card and before he could do anything, Raymond calls out "Don' forget. Rush Recklessly lasts for only one turn, so your monsters attack strength returns to normal (3100-700 2400/2000)." Jacob says back "Thanks for telling me, but I already knew that. says "I now equip my Red-Eyes with my face-down card Metalmorph. The Red Eyes gets covered with a shiny kind of metal like armor. He goes on with " Now with his edgy new look, he gains 300 attack points (2400+300 2700/2000). "Inferno Fire Blast, Red-Eyes. Oh, yeah. I almost forgot. Metalmorph also increases his attack points whenever he attacks equal to half of your monster's attack power (2700+1300 4000/2000)! The dragon roars as his power increases. He then lets out another fireball and hits the magma warrior. He explodes into pieces like the fire warrior did. Raymond gets pushed back a little from the explosion.
Jacob says "I think I've done now. He then takes his deck out of the deck slot and searches through it. Seeing what he was doing, Raymond asks "What are you doing?"
I'm about to sacrifice my Red-Eyes. He's been on the field long enough. So now I'm gonna make way for the Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon (2800/2400)!" The Red-Eyes equipped with Metalmorph vanished and then a bigger, powerful dragon came onto the field. It looked like the one before but was made out of metal. It then let out a loud mechanical roar. I now end my turn." (Jacob 1400, Raymond 2000)
"There's nothing you can do now. You have nothing to do to stop me or my deck full of dragons. You should just give up right here and save yourself the embarrassment." Jacob says to Raymond.
Raymond says back "Now that's one thing that I would never do. I fight to the end." He draws his card and he says "I play the spell card Pot of Greed. Now I get an extra two cards from my deck to my hand.
A green pot that was trimmed in blue and had an evil grin on his face appeared and exerted out a wicked laugh. It then shattered when Raymond drew his cards.
He continues with "I now activate Fusion Recovery! I can select a Polymerization and a monster that was used in a fusion summon and add them to my hand. The graveyard lit up and the fire warrior and Polmerization slid out. Raymond then grabs them and places them in his hand.
"I now summon my Spirit Wariior of Fire onto the field again (1800/1500). The body of fire retuned to the field. Next up is the spell card Spirit Draw. Now thanks to this, I get to draw two cards equal to the number of Spirit Warriors that I have on the field. And since I have two, I'm allowed to draw 4 cards. After picking up his cards he says "Ha. I needed this card. But first I play Polymerization again in oreder to fuse my spirit warriors of fire and water together in order to play my Spirit Warrior of Smoke (2500/2100)!"
The two monsters swirled together and formed a being that was made out of thick smoke. He had a sword in his right hand that was also made out of smoke. I know what you're thinking. My monster's still weak. But that's all gonna change once I play this. The spell card Smoke Bomb. A smoke bomb appears in the smoke warrior's hand and he then throws it at the metal dragon. The metal dragon starts to cough.
Jacob asks aloud "What did you just do?!"
Raymond has a smirk on his face again and says "With smoke bombs effect, I just lowered your monster's points by 1000."
All Jacob could do was watch as his monster's attack points decreased. (2800-1000 1800/2400)
Now, go get him. Destroy him with Stealth Smoke Slash!" Raymond calls out. The smoke warrior flies at his metal dragon swirls around him causing smoke to come out. The Red-Eyes Black Metal Dragon had a thick fog of smoke around him and couldn't see what was going on. The smoke warrior then comes behind him and slashes him in half down the middle.
The monster explodes and the debris hit Jacob and causes him to get pushed back a little. Jacob's friends in the bleachers looked on in surprise. One says "Wow. This guy can duel." The rest of the guys agreed with him. Another one says "Yeah. Most people would've given up by now, but not this guy."
Back on the field, Raymond says I activate the spell card Red Medicine. So now, my Life Points increase by 800. I also place this card face-down and now it goes back to you. (Jacob 700, Raymon 2800)
Jacob draws his card with anger. And says "That's it! Now it's time to end this! I activate Call of the Haunted. Now I can bring one monster back from my graveyard. So I choose my Red-Eyes Black Dragon!" The Red-Eyes Black Dragon returns to the field from a thick purple fog. Now here's my favorite card. I play Inferno Fire Blast! If my Red-Eyes is on the field and I play this, his attack points can come out of your score. So take this!"
The Red-Eyes builds his attack up in his mouth and shoots it out at Raymond and knocks him down on one knee.
Jacob goes on with "Unfortunately, there is one small problem. When I use this, I can't attack. But unfortunately for you, I'm gonna summon someone who can. I sacrifice my Red-Eyes Black Dragon in order to summon Red-Eyes Darkness Dragon (2400/2000!"
He then slaps the card onto the duel disk. The dragon rises up in the air and glows in a flash of white light. After the light died down, a huge black dragon with red markings on his body and wings appeared and purple aura was forming around him. It then let out a loud roar.
Raymond calls out "So what? You're monster still has the same attack and defense strength as the previous one."
Jacob says back "That's what you think, because now he gains 300 attack points for every dragon monster in my graveyard. And last I checked I had four, so now he gains 1200 points (2400+1200 3600/2000)!" The purple aura started getting thcker as his power increased.
"Now my Darkness Dragon, attack with Inferno Darkfire!" The dragon let out a fireball like no other and you could actually feel the heat even before he released it. Just as it was about to hit its target, Raymond calls out "Hold on. I activate Mask of Weakness. What this card does is decrease your monster's strength by 700 (3600-700 2900/2000).
A mask that was purple, red and blue had made its way on Darkness Dragon's face. His aura started to die down a little.
Jacob calls out "So what? My monster is still stronger than yours!"
"Well that's what my other face-down card is for. I activate Rising Energy. So by simply sending one card in my hand to the grave I'm able to choose a monster on the field and increase his attack power by 1500 points. And I select my smoke warrior (2500+1500 4000/2100).
"Oh, no!" Jacob says aloud.
The smoke warrior leaps onto the fireball and hops off of it into the air where the dragon was and he then slices him down the middle. The monster roars in defeat and explodes.
Jacob yells as his life poits drop to zero. The monster's vanish and their duel disks power down.
Jacob calls out to his friends in the bleachers "Let's go." He then goes over to Raymond and says "You better enjoy this moment while it lasts because the next time we duel, this isn't gonna happen again." Him and his friends leave out of the auditorium.
He then thinks to himself "That was sweet. A very awesome duel, but still was the heck was wrong with Zane. I've never seen any body act like that before."