Okay, this is the third chapter. I'm going to introduce the Youth Duelist Starters in this chapter, so now you're going to see the rest of the main characters.
Ch. 3 The Youth Starters Appear
It was a bright morning in the Youth Duel Academy, and people were walking to their classes or just chatting with each other. It was still the first week of Duel Academy, so everyone was pretty excited.
A few people stood out of the crowd though. Four Obelisk Blues and one Ra Yellow were walking down the hallway as most people stared at them in awe. The five finally walked into their classroom, with the classmates looked on.
They all sat on one side of the room.
"So there's a prince here huh?" A bald guy said. "Heishi told me he's a really good duelist."
"I've never heard of him." A green haired boy said.
"I saw him duel that Ichirou Akugawa person." A girl with long black hair said. "He does live up to the title 'Prince'."
"Really?" A guy with messy hair with droopy eyes and glasses over them said. "I would live to observe him then."
"Hehe! I'd love to see him then!" A guy with spiky brown hair said.
The bell rang, with people bursting out of the classrooms to do the things teenagers would do. It was a bright and sunny afternoon and most people were heading towards the Duel Grounds to duel, watch, and possibly see the Duelist Starters!
Mio and Hikari were there in the bleachers, eagerly waiting to see if Prince of Dueling Yuuto Yuki would show up.
"Hmmm..." Mio sighed as she slouched over the seat in front of her. "Maybe Yuu-"
"Mio, Mio! There he is!" Hikari jumped up and down excitedly as she pointed to the floor. Yuuto, Shigai, Sakuba, and Iwa were walking into the crowded Duel Grounds.
"Yuuto!" Mio smiled at seeing him.
Above them, an Obelisk Blue with the same colored hair stared down with an observing look.
Meanwhile, back down at the Grounds, the four looked around in awe- well, three of them anyway. Yuuto just looked around.
"Wow! This is amazing!" Sakuba exclaimed as he looked around the area. It was a giant arena, and it was packed with a lot of duelists! Mostly Ra Yellows and Obelisk Blues, as the Slifers would have probably felt embarrassed to go in.
"You should go duel someone, Yuuto." Iwa said. "Your skills was good enough to almost beat a Duelist Starter."
Shigai just grinned. "No way! I heard that guy Heishi had his deck confiscated for doing something bad, so he didn't play at his very best!"
The other gasped. "Are you serious?!"
Their cries attracted the attention of everyone around. The trio gasped and backed away, except for Yuuto who looked on.
However, they were the main focus of what people were talking about from there. Now they started whispering on why Slifer Reds were there, or how could they have the guts to even be standing in there.
"Hehehe. Look over there. There's some puny Slifer Red dropout boys!"
"What losers! I can't believe they came to this academy!"
"This place is only for the elite! No way will these slackers stay in for long!"
"I'll give them three days..."
"Haha! No way, less that that!"
Shigai backed away. "M-Maybe we should leave..."
But then he backed into a freckled Ra Yellow with brown hair. He was holding the hand of a shorter Obelisk Blue female with long black hair and a slender body. However, even with the petite size, she looked very beautiful.
"Hey slacker! What the heck are you doing, bumping into me?!" He growled, picking up Shigai from the neck!
"Ack!" Shigai groaned from the pain of being strangled.
"Shigai!" Iwa and Sakuba gasped.
"Midoru, stop." The small Obelisk Blue shook her boyfriend's arm. "This pathetic Slifer slacker isn't worth it."
Midoru scoffed and punched Shigai to the floor! He slammed into it with forceful impact, as his two other friends ran towards the weakened boy.
"Never come back here again, loser!" He yelled at him and stomped on Shigai's face! He gripped his face in pain as blood came out of his nose and mouth and curled into a ball, screaming!
Most of the Obelisks around howled in laughter, pointing to the picked on boy. Some of them actually took out used paper or new paper, rolling it into balls and throwing them at him, both boys and girls alike. Some of the Ra Yellows did too, but the others just looked on with worry.
But as the couple walked past Yuuto, they stopped instantly as he said, "I knew it from the beginning. The Obelisk Blue dorm is full of garbage. Especially that ugly."
Midoru's face looked straight at the Prince, who was turned around. "What you say, slacker?! Are you talking about my girl?!"
The Obelisk Blue female gasped. "Ah! I can't believe that filthy Slifer is actually talking about me!"
He ran towards him with the intent to punch him, however just as he was about to...
"STOP!!!!"
A huge roar decimated the entire Duel Ground, with everyone immediately quiet. They instantly looked up to see a lone blue haired Obelisk who stared down with a glare in his eyes.
"C-Captain..." Midoru looked up with great fear in his eyes. Anyone could tell his legs were shaking with fear, and it looked like he was about to wet his pants.
"It's Naoto Kurotsuki..." A Ra Yellow whispered.
"The captain of the academy's Duelist Starters..." An Obelisk Blue whispered. "Youth Academy's Strongest Duelist..."
"Violence is never tolerated in this academy. Got it?!" His voice roared across the room with a confidence that couldn't be broken.
"Y-Y-Yes sir..." Midoru stuttered.
"Detention for you, with fifteen laps around the island!" He said.
"What?!" The Ra Yellow shrieked. "I don't deserve-"
"THIRTY LAPS!!"
"Yes!" Midoru cried and started sprinting like crazy out of the room towards the edge of the island.
Naoto then turned towards Yuuto. "You too. Fifteen laps. No name calling in this academy."
"Right." Yuuto said as to not make the captain of the Duelist Starters angry. He headed out to follow Midoru.
"Someone get that Slifer Red to the nurse's office." Naoto commanded. "And if I ever see that filthy atittude from any body ever again, I'll make you do fifty laps."
"Yes captain!" Everyone said immediately.
"Wow... scary." Mio whispered.
"Ack!" Shigai gasped in pain as his cuts were dabbed with alcohol. The guys helped him get towards the nurse's office right after the quarrel.
The nurse sighed. "Okay. That should be it. But next time, don't provoke those upperclassmen. They can be scary sometimes."
"Yeah, that was scary." Sakuba muttered.
"But it was cool how Captain Naoto was able to save you." Iwa said excitedly. "Yuuto was cool too."
Yuuto just smirked.
"I know right!" Shigai said immediately. "I heard Captain Naoto was undefeated last year! He's awesome!"
"He's that strong?" Iwa asked.
"Of course he is!" The other answered as if he wasn't injured at all. "That's why he's called Youth Academy's Strongest Duelist! He's crazy strong!"
"Wow... I wonder what that's like!" Sakuba said dreamily.
"I wanna become a Duelist Starter here!" Shigai said. "You know how right? They're called Ranking Matches, where you duel students all over the school for the coveted spot. Whoever gets the most wins in their block makes the cut!"
"That's cool!" Sakuba exclaimed. "Let's sign up!"
"Sorry to burst your bubble." The nurse suddenly broke in. "But the privilege of entering the Ranking Matches only belongs to the second and third year students. You guys can't try out until next year."
"No way..." Iwa muttered sadly.
Yuuto looked away and out towards the window. Although the others didn't see it, he had a small frown in his face.
"Darn it!" Midoru yelled, throwing his duel disk at the edge of his locker. The disk broke in half upon impact!
"Hehe! What's wrong Midoru?" A Ra Yellow asked. "Does it have something to do with that Slifer making fun of your girl?"
"Shut up!" He yelled, causing that guy to be quiet instantly. "Darn that Slifer! Ughh, what was his name?!"
"I heard that he's Yuuto Yuki, the guy who beat that Ichirou during the Entrance Exams." An Obelisk Blue said. "He's apparently the son of Judai Yuki, and he's called a Prince for some reason."
"A prince? Yeah right." Midoru muttered. "I bet I could take him down easily."
"But I also heard he's good at dueling." The same Obelisk said. "I think I've heard he went evenly against Heishi!"
"Hmmm..." The other Ra Yellow murmured. "I guess Midoru won't stand-"
Midoru slammed his locker with his foot, causing the guy to shut up. "This day is the worst!"
As he passed down the locker room to get to the back door, he noticed the Slifer Red lockers. The nearest one happened to read 'Yuuto Yuki', and had a simple lock on it.
"Hey!" Midoru called to the other guys. "Do you have a crowbar with one of you?"
Yuuto had finally arrived back at the Duel Grounds to see Shigai, Sakuba, and Iwa with their duel disks. The Prince frowned upon seeing this. It was almost dinner, so everyone left the area already.
"Ah! Yuuto!" Shigai called. "Good news! We were able to get duel challenges from nice Ra Yellows for a change!"
"We can get one for you if you like." Iwa said.
Yuuto looked away. "There's one small problem..."
"Eh? What's that?" Sakuba asked.
Just then, three Ra Yellows walked over to the four. "Hey guys? You ready to duel?"
"You know it!" The trio cheered.
"By the way, apparently another Ra Yellow wanted to challenge your friend." One Ra Yellow pointed to Yuuto. "He had fierce anger in his eyes."
"Fierce anger?" Yuuto repeated.
"Hey Slifer loser!" A familiar voice called. "Ready to lose?!!"
Everyone turned to see Midoru standing at the top of the stairs with his girlfriend with him. This time though, he was wearing a flashy cape and his duel disk was covered with all sorts of gems. He was even wearing a crown!
The girl snickered. "Take him down for me, sweetheart."
"Of course!" Midoru shouted. "Oh, but I see here you don't have a duel disk! I can't believe someone like you would be to lazy to get one!"
So it was you who took it... Yuuto growled.
"Here, take this one dropout boy!" He said throwing a duel disk from the sky.
The duel disk was very odd, being an old model. It had a lot of rust on it, with scratches and dirt all over. But was worse is the fact that there was no slots to place magic or trap cards in!
"This is an old training model!" Shigai exclaimed. "These were created to test how far a duelist could go without traps or spells, but was so unpopular that they decided to stop selling these!"
"That kind of duel disk is worthy for you, dropout boy." Midoru snickered.
"Wha- What are you gonna do now, Yuuto?" Iwa asked.
"What do you think?" He replied. "Weaklings always resort to dirty schemes in the end."
"What? Are you saying that I took your duel disk?"
Yuuto walked up to the platform of the Duel Arena and activated the duel disk, glaring at his opponent. "I'll show you the difference between you and me!"
Midoru blinked, with an instant of fear in his eyes, but then growled. He activated his disk as well and yelled, "You're on!"
Meanwhile, up at the top of the chairs was the five Youth Starters watching. Each one had an observant look in their eyes.
"In theory, there shouldn't be a way for that Prince to win without the use of magics and traps." The glasses guy said.
"Yeah, but who knows!" The guy with spiky brown hair cheered. "He could win through a miracle!"
"A miracle, huh?" The green haired boy said.
"Maybe we should tell Naoto?" The bald guy suggested.
The only girl, however, looked at Midoru's girlfriend with a worry. Ayame...
"Duel!"
Yuuto: 4000
Midoru: 4000
"I'll go first. Draw!" Yuuto exclaimed as he drew a card. He grimaced at seeing Polymerization. Plus, he had Elemental Hero Neos in his hand. "I'll summon Neo-Spacian Air Hummingbird in attack mode." A birdman wearing a red costume, having white wings appeared (3/800/600). "I'll activate it's special ability to gain 500 life points for each card in your hand."
"Ah! All Yuuto can do is defend!" Shigai exclaimed.
"It's a good starting move, but Air Hummingbird's attack points are a lot weaker than most monsters in the game." The guy with glasses observed. "At most, for his first turn, all he can do is get more life points than his opponent."
Air Hummingbird flew up to the air. Flowers appeared form Midoru's cards, and it sucked the pollen from it. Yuuto smirked as his life points went up.
Yuuto: 6500
Midoru: 4000
"Turn end."
Midoru laughed. "Is that all a Slifer can do on his first turn?! Pathetic!"
"Trash like that don't deserve to come to this academy!" His girlfriend sneered. "Kill him!"
The female Duelist Starter clenched her fists from above. "You bring shame to our family, Ayame..."
"Watch this! Draw!" Midoru drew. "I'll start by summoning Blade Knight!" A knight in blue armor arrived, pointing it's sword at Yuuto (4/1600/1000). "And I'll equip it with the Axe of Despair, increasing it's attack points by 1000!" It's sword disappeared to reveal a wooden axe, glowing with a reddish aura (4/1600/1000 - 4/2600/1000).
"This is going to hurt!" The guy with spiky brown hair exclaimed.
"Show that Slifer who the true master is!" He yelled. "Attack!" His Blade Knight ran up to Air Hummingbird and hacked it with it's sword! It yelled in pain as it exploded into dozens of pixels!
Yuuto: 4700
Midoru: 4000
"I'll place two cards facedown. Now what, loser?" Midoru mocked.
"Draw!" Yuuto said, then he smirked. "I summon Neo-Spacian Glow Moss in attack mode." An alien-like monster appeared with green moss dripping from it's body (3/300/900).
"What?! That's an even weaker monster!" Sakuba gasped.
"That's a risky strategy." The glasses wearing Duelist Starter said.
"Attack!" Yuuto yelled.
"Attack?!" Iwa cried. "It won't make it!"
"Are you a fool!" Midoru yelled. "It's gonna get destroyed for sure!"
"At this moment, I activate Glow Moss's special ability!" Yuuto called. "You draw one card, and depending on the type of card it is, I can apply one effect."
Midoru scoffed and drew one card, revealing to be Premature Burial.
"It's a spell, so I can change my monster's attack to a direct one!" Yuuto yelled. "Attack!" It slammed it's mucky fist right into Midoru, but he didn't seem to feel any pain.
Yuuto: 4700
Midoru: 3700
"It doesn't matter, dropout." Midoru said. "You're only delaying the inevitable. I draw, and activate Card Destruction in my hand to discard all our cards in our hands, then draw cards equal to that amount." The two discarded all their cards, then drew the same amount. "I'll activate the reverse card Call of the Haunted to bring back Blade Knight. But it won't be there for long, as I sacrifice it to summon Judge Man!" A big judge monster appeared, wielding two iron mallets (6/2200/1500).
"Okay, now I'm sure he'll lose!" Sakuba said worriedly.
"I'm not done yet. Equip trap card, Metalmorph activate!" The Judge Man was encased in metal, looking a lot more threatening than it did before. "This increases it's attack and defense points by 300 (6/2200/1500 - 6/2500/1800). And now for the attack, it gains attack points equal to half the monster's defense (6/2650/1800). After that, I activate the equip spell Megamorph, which doubles my monster's attack points if my life is lower than yours (6/2650/1800 - 6/5300/1800)!"
"That slacker doesn't stand a chance!" Midoru's girlfriend called Ayame yelled.
"This looks bad." The bald Obelisk said.
"Finish him! Attack!" The giant Judge Man raised up it's mallet, about to destroy it.
"Oh no!" Shigai cried. "If this attack connects, Yuuto'll lose!"
"Glow Moss's ability works at your turn as well." Yuuto called. "Now draw!"
He did, and drew the Buster Blader. "Because it's a monster, the battle phase ends!" The Judge Man instantly stopped right at the head of Glow Moss, then backed up a few steps.
The Slifer trio stepped back and sighed in relief. "Ughh... my heart was about to stop." Shigai sighed.
"After damage calculation, Metalmorph's effect brings down Judge Man's life points (6/5300/1800 - 6/5000/1800)." Midoru smirked. "Just give up already. You know as well as I do that you're gonna lose."
"Wrong." Yuuto said. "I'm gonna attack with everything I've got!"
"What did you say, punk?"
"Draw!" The Prince said. "I will activate the power of Elemental Hero Necroshade to normal summon one hero in my hand: the Elemental Hero Neos!" Yuuto's trusty blue and white hero appeared, striking a battle pose (7/2500/2000). "Contact fusion! Come on, Elemental Hero, Glow Neos!" Neos and Glow Moss fused to create a glowing Neos, with remnants of his armor. In it's hand was a mighty glowing spear (7/2500/2000).
"It's still weaker than my monster." Midoru boasted.
"Not for long. This duel disk prevents the normal spells and traps from being activated, however..." A slot appeared at the side of the duel disk, opening up. "...I can activate field spells with this! Field spell, Neo Space!" He set the card in, making the entire arena filled with a glowing rainbowish light.
"Disgusting..." Ayame murmured.
"Beautiful..." The female Obelisk Starter murmured.
"This'll increase Glow Neos's attack points by 500 (7/2500/200 - 7/3000/2500)!" Yuuto said. "Now for Glow Neos's effect: I can destroy one face up card on the field. I choose Megamorph!" Glow Neos threw it's spear at the spell, destroying it.
Midoru growled. "Why you!"
"Thanks to that, your Judge Man's attack goes down by half (6/2500/1800). But that's not all, because when Glow Neos destroys a spell card, it can attack directly!" He yelled. "Go!" Glow Neos grabbed it's spear and jumped up, throwing it once again right at Midoru! He got thrown back because of impact, but slammed right into the wall!
Yuuto: 4700
Midoru: 700
"Turn end." Yuuto smirked. "Thanks to Neo Space, my monster stays on the field."
"Now Yuuto's monster is stronger!" Iwa cried happily.
"Midoru!" Ayame cried.
"Enough!"
Everyone instantly turned to the area where the command occured. Four Obelisk Blues and one Ra Yellow were walking down the stairs to stop them.
"It's them!" Shigai gasped. "The Duelist Starters!"
The one in the middle was bald, but remnants of his hair could still be seen. His skin was fairly brown, and he had a striking confidence in him that couldn't be broken. However, his face showed kindness."It's the Vice-Captain, Tetsu Yoimichi!"
The one on the right was a green haired young man with a beautiful face and emerald eyes, but his face was also serious. He was the only Ra Yellow in the group, and he also wore a green scarf around his neck. "Itsuki Suneku!"
The one on the left wore glasses and had messy black hair. Even his eyes looked scary, the way they drooped, as if he hadn't slept in months. "That's the smartest student in the academy, Inase Misawa!"
The one on the very far right had spiky brown hair and a cheerful look in his face, with a bandage on his nose. He kinda resembled a monkey. "Seiyuki Akarui!"
And the one on the very far left was the only female, but she had an air of the elite. She had longer black hair than Ayame, reaching down to her waist and she wore the Obelisk Blue coat the guys wore, except she did wear the skirt. "And the prodigy duelist, Sakuya Shindou!"
"You guys should stop this senseless fighting!" Tetsu shouted. "It isn't right!"
"Shut up! I don't care if you're of the elite!" Midoru snapped. "I'm gonna take this guy down!" Then he took out a knife from his pocket, to everyone's surprise. "Prepare to die, Prince!"
But as he rushed toward Yuuto in a fury, a voice could be heard from the top of the Duel Ground Arena.
"ENOUGH!!!!" An even louder roar than Tetsu shook the entire building.
Everyone looked up to see Captain Naoto stare down at them. "Violence is not tolerated at all! Fifty laps!"
"I don't care!" Midoru roared back and continued to rush toward Yuuto! But as he was about to strike, a card came down from the top and slammed into his hand, disarming him!
"Restrain him!" Tetsu commanded as everyone did.
"Aghh! LET! ME! GO!!!" Midoru thrashed.
Sakuya turned towards Ayame with a glare. "I can't believe your attitude..."
Ayame scoffed and was about to run out, when Naoto walked in front of her. "No one is leaving yet."
"Cool..." Shigai whispered, amazed.
"You said it." The other two agreed.
Yuuto didn't do anything. But he did look around at the Duelist Starters, looking at his future opponents.
Eventually, they were able to get the Duel Academy Securities there and arrested Midoru for attempted murder. Everyone was interrogated, but nobody ended up getting thrown into Juvenille Hall.
However...
"Everyone! Fifty laps!" Naoto commanded, to which everyone cried, "WHY?!"
"Do you have any idea what time it is?" He asked.
"Um... 7:07PM?" Shigai answered.
"Exactly. You all missed dinner, so as punishment, run fifty laps then go back to your dorm and wait until morning to get food." He ordered.
"But why-"
"SEVENTY-FIVE LAPS!"
"Yes sir!" Shigai answered and him, Yuuto, Sakuba, and Iwa ran out of the Duel Grounds in a hurry.
"Hehe. I like them." Tetsu smiled.
"Yeah, they're good students." Inase said.
"Especially that Yuuto kid." Seiyuki said. "I can't believe he didn't use spells or traps in the duel."
"You forgot that field spell, Neo Space." Itsuki said.
"Yeah, but I feel like he could've won without that field spell."
Tetsu stretched. "Well, time to head in."
As the four walked towards the door to the Obelisk Blue dorm, Naoto said, "Where do you think you're going? Seventy-five laps for you guys since you missed dinner as well."
"Sorry Captain, but I have too much homewo-"
"ONE HUNDRED LAPS!!!"
"YES!" The four bowed immediately and rushed out of the room.
Sakuya giggled. "It looks like we'll have quite an exciting year, huh Naoto?"
Naoto nodded. "You too. One hundred laps."
She bowed. "Yes Captain." And as she turned towards the door, she noticed the paper behind Naoto's back.
As soon as the door closed, she smiled as she started to run. It looks like Captain Naoto has taken a liking toward that boy.
Naoto then walked toward the billboard in the center of the main building in Duel Academy and posted the paper. In it were the names of the students he chose to participate in the Ranking Matches and their dorm room.
The final name on the list said Yuuto Yuki, Slifer Red.
Meanwhile, Yuuto was thinking as he was running, "Why do I never get to finish my duels anymore?"
And that's the third chapter. Sorry for the late turn-in guys, but school's become a pain lately. I have a lot of paperwork to turn in soon. Hopefully, I can get another chapter in soon. Anyway, next comes the Ranking Matches Arc!