Alright moving on to the next chapter
Chapter II: Boat ride madness
"Man its going to be a boring trip" Joshua said to no one in particular.
Students wearing various colored blazers were talking with one another. He himself was wearing a bright yellow blazer. He sat in a seat that was seated by a porthole so he could look out at the calm ocean.
"There's nothing to do on this ship" Joshua mumbled to himself, closing his eyes trying to get some sleep before they arrived at Duel Academy. Warrior of Zera appeared next to him transparent to everyone but Joshua.
'Master do you need to be so lazy?'
"Zera, I've got into the academy I don't need to worry about a single thing until the school year starts."
"But you should prepare early on before you get overwhelmed.' Zera said reminding Joshua who always was overwhelmed by the work that his teachers handed out during his regular days of school.
"You talk too much, you know that?" Joshua needn't to be reminded about his old school days and preferred to think about the here and now not the past.
"Wow I didn't know you talked to yourself" a familiar voice spoke to him, Joshua opened his eyes to see Will Partly who was one of the few who were wearing dark blue blazers.
"I wasn't talking to myself" Joshua lied unconvincingly to Will. 'Note to self try not to talk to spirits in public places.'
"Mind if I sit here?" Will said indicating the empty seat that was next to Joshua's, "Sure go right ahead."
"Thanks" she said nicely, the two shared a long awkward silence for a while as Joshua just gazed out the porthole, he was deep in thought until Will spoke up.
"You have an interesting deck; I never thought you would use Archfiends in your deck." Will tried to strike up a conversation.
:"You only a little about me, and I with you." He said in a general tone
"Well where did you get that deck?" Will asked another question
"from my dad, he gave it to me when I was twelve." He answered not looking at her
"that's nice; I mean to use the cards that your dad gave you." Will who was looking observing other students talk to one another and saw a few who were actually dueling.
Joshua turned to face Will, and said "Yeah, I miss him a lot, but I'm glad that he gave me this deck."
Will cracked a smile, and then said to him kiddingly "you don't strike me as the sensitive type Josh."
He thought she was insult at first but before he realized before she was kidding "What! I'm not sensitive!" Josh yelled in defense, and then Will just burst out laughing. It took Josh a minute to figure out what she was laughing at, "what's so funny?" He yelled at her again, it took Will a minute to calm down and then said: "calm down Joshua I was just kidding."
He looked a little dumbfounded for a minute or two until he got himself together again. "Oh…." he said still feeling a little dumbfounded.
"How 'bout we go see one of the duels that's going on." But before Joshua could give his answer Will grabbed his hand and led him into one of the crowds.
After being dragged around for a while Will and Joshua reached one of the bigger crowds that formed around a duel.
"Come on you can do better than this can't you?" A vaguely familiar voice yells over the noise the crowds making. Will and Joshua pushed through the crowd to see who was dueling. "Excuse me, pardon me" Will still was leading Joshua through the crowd helpless being squeezed through getting hit. "Owww, sorry, ow, sorry, pardon me."
Finally they made it through the endless crowd, Will and Joshua saw the two people dueling: one of the duelists who was wearing a blue jacket had 2500 life points, two cards in his hand. On the field he had Cave Dragon (4/2000/100) in attack mode and Spirit Ryu (4/1000/1000) also in attack mode. On the other side of the field the duelist that Joshua noticed was the one saw during the entrance exams. He had 5000 life points three cards in his hand with UFOroid (5/1200/1200) in attack mode and Sumbmarineroid (4/800/1800) in defense mode with two facedown cards.
"Come on big guy is this all you got?" The student in the yellow blazer taunted making the other student red with rage.
"You albino cream-puff, I'll put you in your place once you make your move!" The pale skinned student's smirk disappeared and his gray hair covered his eyes for a moment, giving Joshua an uneasy feeling in his gut. "Will I think that guy just signed his own death warrant." Joshua whispered to Will, who only nodded in reply.
"You're the one who's going to lose you big ape. Draw." The Ra yellow said with an even tone, he looked at his hand for a moment and his smirk reappeared on his face. "Alright its time to put an end to this, you gorilla!
I activate the spell known as Power Bond this card acts Polymerization but for machine fusions only. And I'm fusing my UFOroid (4/1200/1200) with my Fiend Megacyber (6/2200/1200) together to fusion summon: UFOroid Fighter (10/?/?) Elemental Hero Tempest appeared on the UFO. "You see UFOroid Fighter gains attack and defense points from the two monsters I fused together" (10/3400/2400) the fighter's attack power rose "but I'm not finished there. When I use Power Bond to fuse to monsters together, said monster's attack power doubles! So know his attack power is 6800!" True to what he had said his monster's power doubled (10/6800/2400).
From the crowd Joshua and Will were dumb struck, they never had seen a move like that before, let alone a monster of that caliber! And they weren't the only ones who were shocked everyone in the crowd roared with excitement. On the other side of the field the Ra yellow's opponent looked as though he would faint at any moment.
The Ra yellow saw this and knew he had it. "I think its time to end this! Go UFOroid Fighter attack his Spirit Ryu with flux cannon blast!" The fighter obeyed his master's command and fired his cannon which connected with the little dragon instantly destroying it and reducing his opponent's life points to 0.
"And that's game" he said as his fighter and his roid disappeared as he shut down his duel disk.
"How did I lose?" Was the Obelisk Blue's only response, and slumped down looking down at the ground.
"Did you see that Joshua? Huh? Did ya?" Will said as she shook him repeatedly.
"Yes I saw that, it was unbelievable!" Joshua said still in disbelief.
'Master that boy's power is incredible' Warrior of Zera appeared next to him
"Yeah Zera I wonder how would he fair against us." Joshua said to his duel spirit, Zera nodded in agreement.
'Perhaps we could duel him right now?' Zera said to him hoping his master would agree with him.
"Hmmm lets" Joshua says in agreement, he tried to approach the fellow Ra yellow, but he was suddenly shoved out of the way by Will who, with deck and duel disk in hand reached him before.
"Hey you!" Will shouted to the Ra as he was about to turn away. He looked back to meet Will's eyes. "Yes?" He responded with a sharp look in his eyes, his deck was still inserted in his duel disk.
"How about you and me duel, everyone know that guy's just the bottom of the barrel of us Obelisk blue's. So what do you say feel like you can beat another Obelisk?" Will knew that her tactics would work on the Ra. And sure enough he said "Why not I have ten minutes to kill sure." He said in an overly confident voice, and reactivated his duel disk and drew his first five cards; right after Will did the same thing.
"Duel!" They both shouted in union both of there life points at 8000.
"Alright you can go first…um…" Will started blankly
"Jeremy" Jeremy said causally throwing his name out there
"Will" she replied as Jeremy drew his sixth card.
"Alright I'll set a monster in defense mode and set two cards for latter your move." Jeremy said easily being cautious not to let his opponent to see what deck he was using
"My move!" Will said as she drew her sixth card. 'Alright since you saw parts of his last duel so lets assume that he is using a roid themed deck then, I should be on my toes for now since after I saw what happened to the last duelist that faced him.' Will thought to herself "I'll start off by summoning my X-Head Cannon (4/1800/1500) in attack mode and I'm also activating the permanent spell known as: Frontline Base. This card allows me to special summon a level four or lower union monster from my hand! So I'm bringing out my Heavy Mech Support Platform (3/500/500)."
In front of Will appeared the two machines ready and awaiting her commands. "I'm not done; I'll equip my Heavy Mech Support Platform to my X-Head cannon giving my cannon an extra 500 attack and defense points as the two machines joined together (4/2300/2000). "Now attack and destroy his monster with double barrel cannon strike!"
Her cannon launched its attack shattering Jeremy's monster which revealed to be Submarineroid (4/800/1800). "Darn it, I activate the trap Superdrive this allows me to draw two cards when one of my roids is destroyed." He said as he drew his two cards, "that's all for now your move." Will said.
"Alright, draw!" Jeremy drew another card from his deck, and looked at his hand for a second, "I summon my Steamroid (4/1800/1800) in attack mode!" he said as the cartoonish train appeared on his side of the field. "Next I activate Heavy Storm which destroys all spell and trap cards on the field!" Just then a violent wind blew away Heavy Mech Support Platform and Frontline Base cards as well as Jeremy's one facedown card. "Now for the card that was destroyed to activate: Wonder Garage, when this card is destroyed I'm allowed to special summon a level four roid monster from my hand, so come on out Drillroid (4/1600/1600) in attack mode!" next to his Steamroid, Drillroid was summoned to the field raring to go.
"Now since your X-Head cannon is weakened I'll have my Steamroid to attack it! Go at him with crazy locomotive!"
"Why would he sacrifice his Steamroid it will just leave his Drillroid by itself." Joshua mumbled to himself watching as Steamroid smashed through Will's X-Head Cannon and reducing her life points to 7500.
A slight groan escaped her lips fro, the small amount of damage, "not bad but your still going to have to do better then that!" she said trying to shake off the damage.
Jeremy just smirked, "now I'll just set another card for later and that's all."
"My turn" she drew a card from her deck, and gave a small grin. "I'll start off by special summoning my faithful Cyber Dragon (5/2100/1600)." The cybernetic dragon let out a short roar at Jeremy.
"But that's a level five monster! How can you summon it without a tribute?" Jeremy asked curiously, Will smirked "that's my dragon's special ability if my opponent has a monster and I don't he can be special summoned." Jeremy didn't looked too surprised even though this obelisk blue seemed different from the others he beat.
Jeremy was snapped from his thoughts when she shouted: "now Cyber Dragon take out his Steamroid with cyber power core!" Suddenly Steamroid's attack power dropped to 1300 right before Cyber Dragon's attack hit and completely destroyed him and reduced Jeremy's life points to 7200.
"Ugh, I'm going to feel that tomorrow" Jeremy said brushing off some dirt that was on his blazer. "Anything else?" he asked smirking, Will looked over her hand for a moment. "I'll set this for later and turn it over to you."
On the side lines Joshua was looking on in amazement as the two duelists were playing tit for tat. "Interesting, I never knew that the roids could be used like that." A few fellow classmates were just staring at him thinking that he was talking to himself unaware of the duel spirit next to him.
'Master' sounded the voice of his Warrior of Zera standing right next to him 'those two are quite powerful.' Joshua nodded in agreement, and turned to back to the duel.
"My move!" Jeremy said drawing one card from his deck, he looked for a moment. "I'll activate the spell card known as Monster Reborn, this card allows me to bring back one monster from either of our graveyards to my side of the field and I'm going to bring back my Steamroid!"
Just then Steamroid reappeared (4/1800/1800) raring to go, "But I didn't bring him back just to be blown to bits again by that damn dragon of yours. So I'm activating the spell Power Bond, this allows me to fusion summon a machine type fusion monster and its attack power will double! So I'm going to fuse together my Steamroid and my Gyroid (3/1000/1000) to fusion summon my Steam Gyroid (6/2200/1600)." His Steamroid disappeared suddenly and then in it's place appeared to be a locomotive with helicopter gyros attached to the locomotive appeared. "Will say hello to my Steam Gyroid, and if you think I'm done you're wrong." He said with a mischievous smirk.
"Thanks to Power Bond, Steam Gyroid's attack power is doubled!" There was a collective gasp from the crowd around the two duelists, as Steam Gyroid's attack power rose to 4400! Will especially wasn't expecting him to activate that card this early in the game.
"Now I'll bring out my Jetroid (1200/1800) in attack mode as well!" Next to Drillroid appeared a cartoon like jet monster. "Now that my little army is here I think your dragon is done! Now Steam Gyroid take Cyber Dragon down!" Steam Gyroid rushed Will's dragon and shattered it and reduced will to 5200.
As the dust settled Will stood there somewhat in pain and anger seeing how she just lost her favorite monster. "And that's not all I'll continue with my Drillroid and Jetroid!" After both attacks Will's lifepoints were down to 2400. But suddenly Jeremy's lifepoints dropped to 5000.
Joshua on the side-line stood there in astonishment he never saw such a drastic change occur. "What happened to his lifepoints?"
Will was still standing but was groaned in pain "Is that all you got Jeremy? I've seen toddlers with more strength then you." She said in a sad attempt to taunt him "I maybe down but sure as hell not out!" She said drawing her card "Besides due to your own carelessness you're down too!"
It was true that Jeremy forgot about Power Bond's nasty side-effect. "But I'm still in control her Will!"
In reply Will just smirked, "I activate the trap card: Call of the Haunted, this card allows me to bring back a monster from my graveyard back in attack mode! And guess what I'm brining back my Cyber Dragon (5/2100/1600)." As her dragon repapered she played another card, "I'll activate my own Power Bond! And I'll use it to fuse the Cyber dragon on my field with the one in my hand to fusion summon my Cyber Twin Dragon (8/2800/2100)" The monster that stood before Jeremy was a Cyber Dragon with two heads that let a threat full roar. "And as you know Power Bond doubles my monster's attack points!" Will said pride fully as her dragon's attack power rose to 5600!
The duel stood With Jeremy in the lead with 5000 lifepoints with his three monsters: Steam Gyroid (6/4400/1600), Jetroid (4/1200/1800) and Drillroid (4/1600/1600) with no cards in his hand. While Will had Just summoned her Cyber Twin Dragon (8/5600/2100) with no spells or traps and one card in her hand.
"Its time for me to end this Jeremy, you almost had me there for a moment but its over. Now Cyber Twin Dragon attack his Drillroid with dual power core!" The dragon unleashed its devastating attack destroying the Drillroid and reducing Jeremy's points down to 1000!
After the dust settled Jeremy let out a grunt but still had a smile on his face. "Hey will" he said "I think you forgot to carry the one or something because I'm still standing." But that didn't have any affect on Will she simply said "No I believe your forgetting something Jeremy, my Cyber Twin Dragon has a special ability: it can attack twice during the battle phase!"
Jeremy just stood there shocked knowing that his fate was now sealed. "Like I said before Jeremy: game over. Now Cyber Twin Dragon destroy his Steam Gyroid with dual power core!" As ordered the two-headed dragon destroyed the other fusion monster reducing Jeremy's lifepoints to 0.
After his lifepoints dropped to 0, Jeremy had a smile on his face, but everyone was silent until out of no where: "GOOD GAME GUYS!" Joshua screamed to break the silence and after the crowd around them started to cheer in agreement.
Will walked up to Jeremy with her hand out, "you played amazing. You almost had me there for a moment" she said happily to have fought such a skilled player. Jeremy took her hand shaking it "Yeah if I could just have waited out the last turn you would've lost." Both duelist smiled and turned to the crowd not caring who won and who lost.
Joshua walked up to them with a small smirk, "good game Will, you too Jeremy."
"Thanks Josh, I didn't want you to embarrass yourself by losing to this guy so I stole the show" she said with a cocky grin.
Joshua sweat dropped for a moment "sure I would've lost." He turned to face Jeremy "allow me to properly introduce myself: I'm Joshua Grove" he stuck out his hand to Jeremy who gladly shook it. "Jeremy pleased to meet you Joshua"
"well since you two have been acquainted lets take a look around together and see if there any other good duelist on this boat?"
"Sure" the two said in unison.
"Well let's get going then!" Will said dragging both by their hands leading them to wherever they would end up.
Well I know I've been gone for a good while I'm just going to post to see what I get back. I'll upload again sooner this time promise
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