Hello everyone, welcome to Chapter 1! Today's chapter will be Judai's examination duel, yes the same one with that ugly, gender confused, egotistical, pathetic excuse for a teacher, and that's the short version. Gregory's duel is next chapter. Anyway, on with the chapter!
Yugi Moto-Same in English
Jun Manjome-Chazz Princeton
Asuka Tenjoin-Alexis Rhodes
"Kaiser" Ryo Marufuji-Zane Truesdale
Sho Marufuji-Syrus Truesdale
Daichi Misawa-Bastion Misawa
Cronos de Medici-Vellian Crowler
Principal Samejima-Chancellor Shepherd
"I told you that we should have gotten to the train sooner," shouted a now sixteen year old Gregory. He was taller and spoke Japanese a little better than before. He was currently wearing light brown pants, green shoes, a green button-up that was open revealing a yellow tee shirt underneath with a Duel disk on his arm.
"I was hungry and that sushi place has selling fried fish for half the price," a now sixteen year old Judai retorted. He had also grown taller and was currently wearing a grey middle school uniform with the jacket opened up to reveal a red tee shirt. He was also wearing a Duel disk.
"Yeah, well your stomach cost us the train and now we're going to be late!" Gregory shot back.
The two were currently running through the streets of Domino City to go to the Duel Monsters theme park, Kaiba Land, in order to take the practical exam to get into the best dueling school on the planet, Duel Academy. They had already taken the written exam, Gregory scoring higher than Judai, and if they passed their practical exam they would be accepted. If they could get there on time.
"Maybe we can get there on time if we cut through the park," Judai suggested.
"Oh no! I'm not going to trust one of your shortcuts," Gregory said to his Japanese cousin. "Last time I followed your directions, we got so lost that by the time we found everyone, the trip was already over."
"Well we have to try-" he was cut off by bumping into someone and almost spilling his entire deck.
"Ah shoot," Judai stated as he gathered his cards. "Sorry about that," he said to the stranger.
"Do you play Duel Monsters?" The stranger asked.
"Yeah I love it," Judai replied. "My cousin and I are-"
Judai stopped as Gregory had his mouth open wide and a look of shock, awe, and terror on his face, pointing at the stranger.
"What's the matter?" Judai turned to face the stranger and his eyes grew wide as he found out who it was.
It was a man wearing jeans and black shoes, a black tank top and a collar around his neck. His hair was black in a spiky fashion with pink edges and several strands a yellow bangs and his eyes were purple. Both Judai and Gregory knew who this was, anyone who played Duel Monsters would; he was the best duelist in the world, the King of Games, Yugi Moto.
"Here," he said holding out two cards to the two boys. "I have a feeling that these cards belong to you."
Recovering from the shock, Judai and Gregory grabbed the cards handed to them. Judai's card was called Winged Kuriboh and it had an artwork of a brown hair ball with yellow and purple eyes, green arms and legs with three claws on each, and wings. Gregory's card was Clear Kuriboh and it looked like Judai's except it had no wings and had purple fur with shells of itself all over the card.
"Thank you," said Gregory.
"You're welcome," said the king. "Now hurry, you don't want to be late."
Judai and Gregory snapped from their shock and started sprinting straight for Kaiba Land.
At Kaiba Land, several people were gathered for the practical exam for Duel Academy. Students who took the exam a few days earlier and older students sat in the stands, already wearing their uniforms. One girl who took the exam yesterday was standing on a high platform, watching the duels. She had long, dirty blonde hair and hazel eyes that scanned the arena for any interesting duelist. She was wearing blue boots, fingerless blue gloves, a white, sleeveless blazer with blue rims, and a blue miniskirt. She was very fit and her chest was very well developed which caught the eyes of many, if not every, guy in the building, but she paid them no mind.
"Find any good duelists, Asuka?" Asked an older student in a trench coat like blazer in a similar fashion to the girls with cold, blue eyes and long blue hair.
"Aside from an impressive ninja user, none so far," replied the blonde. "I saw your brother duel but he he seemed more nervous than anything. Good thing the teachers are going easy on the examiners."
"He still has a long ways to go," said the older boy. "Getting over his anxiety is only part of it."
"Still, I'm hoping at least one of these students will make Duel Academy more interesting."
Outside, the three people in charge of accepting applicants into the arena to take the exam were about to pack up when they hear two voices.
"Wait!"
They all turned to see Gregory and Judai running towards them.
"#110, Judai Yuki."
"And #62, Gregory Duke."
"You two are lucky, we were just about to pack up," said one of the attendants.
"But we're still good, right?" Judai asked. They all nodded.
"What's your reason for being late?"
"We missed our train."
They handed the two duelists a slip of paper.
"Please wait inside and wait for your number to be called."
The two duelists nodded as they entered the building. Inside they witnessed many duelists that had already taken the exam watch the remaining duelists. One duel they took note on was a duel between an examiner and a potential student with spiky black hair that was combed towards the back of his head. The Examiner had 1900 life points and had the monsters Big Shield Gardna, which was a muscular man with wild black hair and a giant shield, and Gear Golem the Moving Fortress, which was a machine like monster that had a lot of armor plating and spikes, in defense mode, they had 2600 and 2200 defense points respectively. The test taker had 3200 life points and a monster called Vorse Raider, which was a humanoid mutant with a large, double bladed spear in its hands, in attack mode with 1900 attack points and one card face down.
"I activate my facedown, Ring of Destruction," called the student. A large ring with grenades appeared around Vorse Raider's neck. "This card destroys my Vorse Raider and we both take damage equal to it's attack points."
The ring blew up, destroying vorse raider and lowered the student's life points to 1300 and the examiner's life points went down to 0, indicating the student won the duel.
"Congratulations Daichi Misawa, you have made it into Duel Academy," said the examiner.
"Thank you very much," replied the Student.
"Wow, that was amazing," said Judai, Gregory merely nodding his head.
"He should, he scored highest on the written exams," said a small voice.
The two boys turned to see a small boy with big, little blue hair, hazel eyes, and tiny round glasses.
"Is that so?" Gregory asked.
"Yeah, I don't know how I won my duel, was nervous the whole time," said the boy.
"Hey, you're in, aren't you?" said Judai. "I'm Judai Yuki by the way. This here is my cousin Gregory Duke."
"I'm Sho Marufuji, nice to meet you."
"I'll admit that he's good," said Judai, "but wait until you see our duels."
"You mean you haven't dueled yet?" Sho asked. "What are your numbers?"
"110 and 62," Gregory answered.
"But the 100's ended their duels a long time ago," said Sho. Both Judai and Gregory looked at each other with a panicked expression.
On the other side of the arena, a few students in blue trench coats were watching the duels as well.
"Daichi Misawa is pretty good," one of them said.
"Yeah, but he doesn't compare to us. Right Manjome-san?" said another, addressing a boy in the same outfit as them with grey eyes and pointed, jet black hair.
"We went through three years of Duel Prep-School for this," he said. "No one can compete with me, and there isn't enough room on campus for two kings."
On another side of the arena, several teachers were recording the student's progress in their duels. One stood out in particular. He had a more fancy blue blazer with pink frills at the wrists and shoulders, he also had blonde hair that was tied into a ponytail and wore way too much make up along with some purple lipstick. He was just about to pack up and get ready to head back to Duel Academy when one of the people in charge of registration came up to him.
"Excuse me Cronos-sensei, but two examiners have shown up last minute," he said.
"What are their numbers?" asked the teacher.
"110 and 62, they missed their train coming here."
"I didn't ask why they were late," the teacher snapped. "Arriving just before the deadline suggests carelessness. I will not allow any drop out boys into our school."
"But they did make it in time, so I think they have the right to take the exam."
"Non problema!" the odd teacher ranted. "Never! Non, non, non!…"
His rant was interrupted by his cell phone ringing.
"Hello?" said the teacher.
"Cronos," said the voice on the other end.
"Oh, Principal Samejima, to what do I owe the pleasure?" said Cronos, changing his tone.
"I hear that two students arrived late due to missing their train," said the principal. "Be careful not to deprive them of their chance, just because of a poor written score. Remember, our goal is to bring a wide variety of talents in order to cultivate more well-rounded duelists."
"Oh of course I will," said Cronos. He hanged up and returned to his agitated demeanor. "Mangy old coot."
"Sir, who will we have duel them?" one of the other teachers asked.
"I will duel them personally," said the flamboyant teacher, heading towards the arena.
"Sir, please pick a test deck to use," said another teacher.
"I have no need for such a thing!" said Cronos. "I will use my own deck."
Daichi returned to the bleachers and took a seat, exhausted from his duel.
"That was a pretty cool duel," said a voice.
Daichi turned around to see Judai and Gregory standing behind him.
"Why thank you," said Daichi.
"Daichi Misawa," replied the black haired student.
"Though you're probably about to be outshined after our duels," said Judai.
"You haven't dueled yet?" Daichi asked shocked. "But I thought I was the last one."
"We missed the train and arrived late," Gregory explained.
"You've got some skills, probably good enough to be number two," said Judai with a cocky smirk.
"Number two?" Daishi asked to himself.
"#110, Judai Yuki, please report to field 4," said the announcer.
"Well, that's me," said Judai, heading to his duel.
"You there," said Daichi, stopping Judai briefly. "If I'm number two, who's number one?"
Judai smirked and said, "Why me of course," and continued to the arena.
"Your cousin sure seems confident," noted Sho.
"Cocky is more like it," Daichi added.
"It's a little bit of both actually," Gregory chuckled.
Cronos waited on one side of the field with a special device similar to a duel disk was strapped on him as he waited for his first opponent. Judai then entered on the other side of the field.
"Buongiorno," said the teacher.
"I'm Judai Yuki," said Judai, giving a small bow.
"Well Signore Judai," said Cronos, "I am Cronos de Medici, head professor and department chair of techniques at Duel Academy."
"Wow, I didn't think I'd duel the head professor," Judai said in amazement. "Though to be honest, I kind of thought you were some kind of clown."
This comment made Cronos furious and earned a few chuckles from the audience.
"This impudent brat," Cronos thought, "I'll make sure he never get's into Duel Academy."
Judai loaded his deck and activated his duel disk and Cronos activated his duel vest.
"Wow! Hey Cronos-sensei, how do I get one of those?" Judai asked in amazement of the device.
"Oh, exceptional skills and really high marks," replied Cronos. "But I'll make sure that never happens," he added in thought.
Both duelists drew five cards from their deck and their duel disk and duel vest displayed 4000 life points, starting the duel.
"I'll go first," said Judai, drawing a card from his deck. "Alright, I'll start off by summoning Elemental Hero Avian in defense mode and placing one card face down." A green clad superhero with wings appeared in front of Judai and took a defensive position, displaying it had 1000 defense points, and a giant card appeared on the field in front of him.
"My turn," said Cronos as he drew a card. "A hero deck, eh?" he thought. "He considers himself a hero in whatever small town he comes from, eh?"
"Allow me to show you just how large this world is. I play the spell card Confiscation from my hand," Cronos declared, revealing the card. "I pay 1000 life points to have a look at your hand, and pick one to send to the graveyard."
Cronos' life points went down to 3000 as holographic projections of each card in Judai's hand appeared before him.
"A drop-out boy deck, after all," Cronos thought out loud.
"Is he talking smack about the deck I worked so hard to build?" Judai thought with agitation.
"I send Monster Reborn to the Graveyard," said Cronos as he selected the holographic card. Judai responded by sending the actual card to a slot on top of his Duel Disk.
"Then I set two cards on the field." Two giant holographic cards appeared on the field. "And then, I activate the spell card Heavy Storm from my hand. This let's me destroy every spell and trap card on the field."
A huge wind picked up as the face down cards on both sides of the field were destroyed.
"Oops, you forgot that you had your own face down cards," Judai clicked, until it then struck him. "Unless…"
"I see you figured it out," said the horrendous blonde as two golden monsters appeared on the field, each with 1000 attack points.
"Wait, what just happened?" asked Sho.
"The two cards Cronos just set were Statue of the Wicked," Daichi explained. "When their destroyed, it allows the user to summon a Wicked Fiend Token to the field."
"And the fact that he brought out two means he's going to summon something really powerful," Gregory added.
Sho turned back to the arena, worried for the new examiner.
"That isn't an exam deck," the speckled blue student stated. "That's Cronos-sensei's own Ancient Gear Deck!"
"He executed his own combo while containing #110's trap," said the other blue student.
"Could that examinee beat that deck?"
"I doubt it," said the leader known as Manjome. "If that kid thought he was something special, he's sadly mistaken. Cronos-sensei intends to give that drop-out boy's fragile dreams a thorough crushing."
"That poor boy," said Asuka. "It looks like Cronos has it in for him."
"That's worth watching," said the older student. Asuka looked at him with confusion. "Thanks to that kid, we might get the chance to see a legendary rare card."
Asuka realized what the older student was talking about and turned back towards the duel, her interest suddenly peeked.
"My turn isn't over yet," Cronos declared.
"This is getting fun," Judai said, his voice matching his excitement. " What are you going to show me next, teacher?"
Irritated that the boy wasn't showing any concern, the gender confused teacher continued with his turn.
"Now I will tribute my two Wicked Tokens," said Cronos as the two monsters disappeared from the field. "In order to summon Ancient Gear Golem."
Suddenly, a giant mechanical beast that looked like a roman gladiator appeared on the field and towered over the two duelists, showing off a staggering 3000 attack points. The audience was in shock, witnessing a legendary card appear on the field. Most of the students felt pity for Judai, as they felt he had no chance of winning. But no one but Gregory could have predicted how Judai would react.
"Wow! I've heard rumors about this," Judai said in amazement. "I can't wait to bring it down."
"Cronos de Medici has never lost after summoning that card," said the older, blue haired student. "I didn't think that kid had the skill to make the teacher get serious."
"It's only Cronos-sensei being temperamental," Asuka corrected. "I feel bad, but I can hear the iron door of Duel Academy slamming shut on that boy."
"Come on Judai, you've brought down tougher cards that this," Gregory thought, "show this teacher what you're made of."
"Ancient Gear Golem, attack Avian with Mechanized Melee!" Cronos commanded the metal giant. It responded with it's one mechanical eye glowing red and it's gears winding as it landed a punch on the winged hero, shattering him into a million pieces.
"Avian didn't stand a chance against that golem," said Sho. "It's attack points were much too high."
"I'm afraid it get's worse," said Daichi. "When Ancient Gear Golem destroys a defense position monster, The difference between it's attack points and the destroyed monsters defense points are dealt to the opponent's life points as damage."
"Oh no!"
"Don't worry," said Gregory, placing a hand on Sho's shoulder. "If I know Judai, he's just getting started."
The metal punch continued to hit Judai. Even though it was just a hologram and couldn't actually harm him, he did apply a little dramatic effect and it did reduce his life points to 2000. Judai had his head down making small noises.
Cronos chuckled at the boy since he was so close to victory. "Lost your will to fight already, eh?" he mocked. But his happy smile faded as he realized that the sounds Judai was making wasn't crying but laughter.
"I touched," said Judai. "A head teacher wants to duel me this seriously."
Everyone in the arena, even Cronos himself, was shocked to hear Judai's cool demeanor even though he's lost half his life points already.
Judai's face looked determined as he reached for his deck, but before he drew his card he heard a small cry that went, "Kuri kuri kuri!" Startled by this, Judai drew the top card of his deck which was revealed to be the card Yugi Moto gave him, Winged Kuriboh.
"Oh it's you," said Judai. He could feel the duel spirit wink at him through the card. "Alright I'll use you." Judai proclaimed as he examined the card.
"I summon Winged Kuriboh from my hand in defense mode," Judai said as the winged furball appeared on the field revealing 200 defense points. As soon as it deal, a good majority of the female examinee's squealed at the Kuriboh's cuteness. "I'll place one card face down and end my turn."
Cronos merely laughed. "A Kuriboh with wings, eh?" he said. "You do possess an unusual card. But it is naught but a low-level monster! Summoning it in defense mode will give you no defense against the piercing effect of my Ancient Gear Golem! But I suppose a small monster suits a small player. I guess it my turn now, right?"
Cronos drew a card from his deck but didn't even bother to look at as he proceeded to have Ancient Gear Golem destroy Winged Kuriboh. But once the attack was through, he was shocked to see that Judai had taken no damage at all.
"Is your life point meter busted?" Cronos asked, clearly confused. "Your life point should be at zero by now."
Judai smiled. "On the turn when Winged Kuriboh is destroyed, any damage I take is reduced to zero."
Cronos' face faltered.
"A card exists that Cronos doesn't know about?" Asuka asked in curiosity and shock.
"There are some things even teachers don't know," said the blue haired student.
"The world of dueling is fathomless."
"And that makes it interesting," said Asuka, now looking at Judai with a bit more admiration.
As Judai sent his new friend to the graveyard, cronos took this time to try and not looked phased.
"Is that the small monster's effect?" He asked mockingly.
"He's a friend who risked his life to save me," Judai shot back, not liking how this so-called teacher was dissing his cards. "You're going to pay for calling him 'small'!"
"Such impudence! He is a mere stopgap monster. What am I to call him, if not small?"
"Well Winged Kuriboh is about to be avenged, because I activate my trap, Hero Signal!"
Judai's face down card flipped up to reveal a spot light with a big "H" shaped symbol.
"When a monster is destroyed, I can special summon one Elemental Hero from my deck," Judai explained. "I choose Elemental Hero Burstinatrix in attack mode."
In a burst of flames, a woman in a red jumpsuit and long, ash colored hair and a gold crown appeared on the field, showing off 1200 attack points.
"My turn, draw," Judai said as he drew a spell card with a picture of a city. Judai cracked a smile.
"I play The Warrior Returning Alive to bring back Avian from my graveyard to my hand, and I will summon him." The winged hero returned to the field and this time showed off 1000 attack points.
Cronos gave an unamused look and said, "What can a cheap comic book hero accomplish? He is nothing more than a Normal Monster!"
"That's about to change," said Judai, "because I play Polymerization to fuse Avian with Burstinatrix to summon a brand new hero."
Avian and Burstinatrix jumped up into the air and formed into a swirling vortex. What emerged was a large, muscular, green and black man with one feathered wing and a red dragon head on his right arm and a red tail. The new monster showed to have 2100 attack points.
"Meet Elemental Hero Flame Wingman."
Everyone was surprised by the new fusion monster, except Gregory of course.
"That's one of Judai's favorite cards," said Gregory. "This duel is as good as won."
But there was still one problem, that Cronos quickly addressed.
"May offer you a special lesson?" said the instructor. "A duel requires none of your extraneous talk. Do remember this. Your Flame Wingman's attack points are still no match for my Golem."
"Then let me teach you something, Sensei," said Judai. "Heroes have a superheroic stage they can fight on. I play the field spell, Skyscraper!"
As Judai placed the card in a slot that revealed itself on the duel disk, several tall buildings, skyscrapers in fact, surrounded the field, Flame Wingman perched on the tallest.
"Now Flame Wingman, attack Ancient Gear Golem!"
The Dragon Hero took off from where it was perched and flew towards the mechanical monstrosity.
"Scherzi. You must be joking," said Cronos. "Flame Wingman's attack points do not even approach those of my Ancient Gear Golem!"
Flame Wingman landed on the golem's chest and then shot itself upwards into the "sky".
"Heroes always win!" Judai declared. "When an Elemental Hero attacks a monster with more attack points while Skyscraper is on the field, his attack points go up by 1000!"
"Wait, timeout!" Cronos cried out in panic.
"Take this! Skydive Scorcher!"
Flame Wingman's attack went up to 3100 as he dove down onto the metal monster in a ball of fire, reducing it to a pile of rubble, shocking everyone in the audience.
"Mama mia," Cronos cried. "My Ancient Gear Golem!"
"I'm not done yet," said Judai. "When Flame Wingman destroys a monster in battle, that monster's attack is dealt to it's owner's life points as damage."
"What?" Cronos turned to see the remains of his once great golem fall on top of him as his life points dropped to zero.
"Gotcha," said Judai, giving a two fingered salute. "It was a fun duel, Sensei."
As all the holograms disappeared, everyone still couldn't believe what they saw; an examinee took down Cronos' best monster and won the duel. To the older students, this was an incredible feet.
Asuka looked at said examinee with a look of admiration for the boy's dueling skill.
"That kid's pretty interesting, huh?" she said.
"Let's see if this other lat examinee can top what we just saw," said the older student.
"Great work, #110," shouted sho.
"I think you mean Judai," corrected Gregory.
"You might make a good rival, #1," thought Daichi.
"#62, Gregory Duke, please report to field 4," called the announcer.
"Well it's my turn now," said Gregory heading to the field.
"Are you as good as your cousin, Gregory?" asked Sho.
"It might not be as impressive a win," replied the American.
"But I can guarantee it will a duel you won't forget."
And Chapter 1 is done! Now it's Gregory's turn to duel Cronos. What will he have in store for the people of Duel Academy, Find out next time because THIS WILL CONTINUE!
But first, questions from the prologue.
Q: Johnathen (Guest) Will jaden get winged kuriboh and when will neos show up
I know jaden will be with Alexis my favorite pairing but who will everyone else be with
Can you include an oc that uses cards from the yugioh series please he can be a rival to your other oc and what I mean is his deck is based on the characters from yugioh how he got them you can come up with that
A: As you just saw, yes, Judai did get Winged Kuriboh and Neos will show up in Season 2 just like in the anime. I'm not sure about any other pairings at this point. As for a rival for Gregory, I'm thinking of having Monjome be a rival for both of them, don't want the series to overflowing with OC's. If you were asking for a backstory on how Gregory got his Synchro monsters, it will definitely come, just wait.
Q: Cloud4012 Are you going to pair Greg with anyone?
A: As stated in the previous question, I'm not sure.
Q: Sigh (Guest) if this is following cannon then why isn't Yubel in space, no reason they just stopped?
A: First, thanks for the criticism you provided with this question and please note that I'm not trying to be cliché, it just ends up being that way. Second, I had Judai keep Yubel because, well I'll just say prepare to have another cliché checked off.
Q: Generalhyna can my oc join as a rival who can keep up with Greg and...uses a prototype of xyz monsters?
A: Sorry but I'm not using XYZ monsters
Next Chapter: The Pioneer