Chapter 3

A small crowd had now gathered around Jaden and Rory, as they prepared for their duel. Amongst the crowd was Damien, sneakily dragging more people to watch the match.

Because of this, by the time the two duellists had taken up their positions, there were at least a hundred people watching the duel; Slifers, Ras and Obelisks.

"So, Mr Yuki, you think that you're such an amazing duellist? You take the first turn." Rory yelled to Jaden.

"Ok, then," The Slifer said, drawing a card from his deck, and immediately placing it on the field. "I summon Elemental Hero Burstinatrix in attack mode!"

Jaden ended his turn after this, placing a card face-down. Rory sniggered. He could already see that this was going to be easy.

Rory drew a card. As he did this, a voice erupted from the crowd, coming from a boy in a scruffy Ra yellow uniform and dark sunglasses. "You think you're so great! Why are you only playing a monster with 1200 attack? Rory could fry that!"

"Hey, don't say Burstinatrix is weak! She's one of my best monsters!" Argued Jaden

"If 1200 is 'one of your best', then this will really scare you!" Rory laughed, summoning Mystic clown in attack position. My clown has 1500 attack points. You said that 1200 was one of your best. 1500 is one of my worst. Mystic clown, attack and destroy Burstinatrix now!"

"Wait; hold plans for a funeral, because Burstinatrix is not dying today. You might want to plan one for your clown though, because I activate my face-down, sakuretsu armour!" Jaden began "When your monster attacks, it instantly destroys it!"

"Fine, my clown is gone, but more monsters shall follow. I'll leave it to your turn." Rory smirked.

"Are you smiling because you're enjoying this duel as much as me?" Asked Jaden, drawing a card from his deck. At this Rory frowned, glaring at his opponent. "Ok then. I use fusion gate! It's a field card, and is a gateway, so that my monsters can fuse."

As Jaden said this, the beach vanished from view, as the battle took place now upon an enormous arena of crossing green lines, hovering above a purple void.

"And now," Jaden continued "I'll use the ability of my fusion gate to fuse the Burstinatrix on my field, with the avian in my hand, to create Elemental hero Flame wingman!" Jaden adopted a booming voice on the last words, as an enormous green humanoid appeared, armed with a crimson arm, with a dragon's head instead of a hand.

"Now, my wingman is going to show you the back of his wing! Flame wingman, use your skydive scorcher!" As Jaden said this, Rory's life points rattled down rapidly to 1900 and an enormous fireball came flying from the monster's arm exploding inches from Rory's face.

"Now I'll throw down a face-down, and call it a turn!"

Once more, the Ra erupted from the crowd. "You idiot! You think you're so amazing; you only special summoned your wingman! You could have still summoned a monster." The Ra ran up behind Jaden instantly "Like this card here, W-i-ng-ed K-u-r-i-b-oh." The boy spelled the word out loudly, waving it at Jaden, before handing it back, and walking in to the crowd, lowering his sunglasses only for half a second to wink at Rory.

Damien had planned that. He had told Rory before that he would attempt to lessen Jaden's enthusiasm and inform Rory when winged Kuriboh was active. The plan wasn't working though. Jaden was so oblivious that he was still grinning, and was thanking the 'Ra' for his advice.

"My turn!" Yelled Rory "And I will set one monster in face-down defence position, as well as setting a spell or trap card. Now I shall end my turn!"

"Well, if you're out criticising people, shouldn't you be criticising him?" Jaden asked Damien. "I mean, he needs to gain back the offensive, or my wingman's power will fry him."

"There's more than one way to play, Slifer! He has created a mysterious field. His face down monster could have 3000 defence, or his face down card could be mirror force. You have to attack in to the darkness, unaware of the consequences." Replied Damien, still putting on a fake accent and pretending to be a Ra.

"Ok, well I draw a card!" said Jaden "And you have no idea what it is. It could be Exodia the forbidden one."

"Except it's not. Hence the 'forbidden'" Taunted Rory

"Yeah, I know." Giggled Jaden "I'll use it now! It's Pot of greed. This spell allows me to draw 2 more cards from my deck."

Jaden looked at the cards, briefly attempting to remember what they did. As he did this, Rory muttered under his breath, not believing that his opponent was so weak.

"Ok, I'll throw my monster down in face-down, defence position." Jaden began. "And now I'll have my wingman wipe out your face-down! Skydive scorcher!"

The enormous monster flew at Rory's face-down card, which appeared as a hologram seconds before the impact, launching a wave of shuriken outwards at Jaden's face-down. Rory's was a ninja in full white gear.

"My monster's effect activates, rookie." Rory laughed "And it blasts your second monster in to oblivion!"

As he said this, Jaden's face down shattered, only seconds before Rory's was destroyed. "Now my Wingman's superpower activates! It takes the attack points of your ninja, and tosses them straight back at your life points!"

Once more, Rory's life points dropped suddenly, this time stopping at 400. Rory sniggered. He had just drawn the card for his turn, and it was the one Damien had given him. He had no idea what it did, but he could summon it. The trap that he had set last turn was level conversion lab. That meant that if he could roll a dice on to a 2, 3 or 4, he could summon the monster.

"Ok, my rookie opponent." Rory grinned "Prepare to be destroyed! I activate 'Level Conversion lab'! This means that I take a dice and roll it. Than a selected monster in my hand's level becomes that until the end of the turn." Rory rolled the dice. It spun on the spot for a second, before settling on a 3. "Perfect. That means that my Invader of darkness becomes level 3. Now I can normal summon it straight to the field without tributes."

As Rory let out a burst of maniacal laughter, the arena shook, and an enormous cloaked warrior arose on Rory's side of the field.

"Sorry, but I chain call of the haunted." Jaden said, interrupting Rory's evil roar. "It allows me to bring back one of my monsters in attack position. And I choose Winged Kuriboh! It was the monster sent to the graveyard by white ninja's effect. But I'm not done. I also use Transcendent wings! This allows me to tribute my-"

"This allows you no such thing!" Interrupted Damien again, this time with an enormous smile. "Invader of Darkness stops you from activating all Quick-play spells! Don't you know anything?"

"Wait. So that means that I'm defenceless?" Yelled Jaden

"Oh, it's worse than that. Next I use Nitro unit on your wingman, and my Invader of darkness attacks him!"

The enormous cloaked warrior charged at Jaden's monster, producing a great sword and slicing the monster in half. As it did this, the nitro unit that had just been equipped to flame wingman began to glow bright red.

"Now, before your life points drop by 800, my bomb detonates. It has the same ability as your wingman, which means that your life points take a hit for a grand total of 2900 damage!"

Jaden's life points stopped on 1100, and Rory ended his turn, playing one card face-down.

"This duel is awesome! If Slifer wasn't going to be barbequed if I lost, I would challenge you to a rematch! But it isn't over yet!" Jaden laughed, drawing a card from his deck "Ok, I use dark factory of mass production, which let's me mass produce two monsters that I have already used. This means that I get back Burstinatrix and Avian."

Rory grinned. He knew that Jaden was about to conduct another fusion, and he could guess what the other card in his hand was. Rory had already won.

"Ok, I use my fusion gate again! This means that I can bring back the elemental hero flame wingman!" Jaden smiled again, pulling one more card from his hand. "Next, I'll destroy my fusion gate to make room for this. It's where my elemental hero monsters can really strut their stuff, Skyscraper! And it means that when my wingman attacks, he gains a whopping 1000 points to help him destroy your invader. And if you remember his super power, that means that you're about to lose."

As Jaden bellowed this, the arena quickly was replaced by an enormous city, with a towering building in the centre. As Flame wingman rose to the top, Jaden gave the order to attack, and the great beast came flying towards Rory.

"Stop right there." Rory cried "I activate Mystical space typhoon. That means that your tower says goodbye, and your wingman is stuck with his 2100 attack points, which means that he cannot take out my monster. And since you ordered him to attack, you are dealt the 800 point difference."

"Ok then," Jaden said, as his life points dropped to 300. "I'm still here. My monster is gone, but I still have kuriboh, and when you destroy him next turn, I don't get done battle damage, so I still have a chance of saving Slifer. I turn Kuriboh to defence position and end my turn."

Rory let out another burst of laughter. "Sure, your Kuriboh protects you from my Invader of darkness, but say I deal damage outside of battle. What happens then?"

He drew a card from his deck. "Perfect. I use this card, Hinotama. This is the end!"

Numerous fireballs erupted from Rory's side of the field, rocketing through the sky and crashing in to Jaden.

"They deal 500 damage to you, and if you had noticed, you only have 300." Rory smirked, turning away as the holograms faded. "Pack your bags. This is your final day at the academy."

"Well, at least it was a sweet duel, I'm glad my last at the academy was that fun!" Jaden laughed.

Rory walked through the crowd, stopping on the other side of the beach, where Damien was already standing, removing the yellow blazer, to reveal his blue one underneath.

"You've done excellent work, Rory." Damien smiled "This day shall forever be remembered as the day that you eliminated Slifer Red dorm. It won't be long before you get promoted to Obelisk. Soon, you shall be recognised for your amazing achievements."

"Thank you, Damien." Laughed Rory "I'm so glad that we will never have to bother with those weaklings again. But, are you sure that they won't try something to get out of it?"

"Oh, they probably will, but that document's fool proof. Only a genius could find the loophole, and only an idiot would use it."

As Damien and Rory walked away, an Obelisk who had been watching the duel had heard their conversation. "Only an idiot, eh? Well, we'll have to see about that." As he said this, he ran up the hill away from the beach, headed for the Chancellor's office. He had seen the plan unfold, and he would not allow Damien's plan to work, and destroy the Slifer Red Dorm forever. He was not a typical Obelisk.