Ekhart was pulled out of his sleep by the blaring alarm of his clock. He muttered under his breath "Sometimes I can hate this thing."

He leaned over and turned off the alarm, and got up to go take a shower. When he was done with his shower Ekhart combed his hair and pulled on a red t-shirt and gray shorts. Ekhart then headed over to his jacket shoved it on, and grabbed his duel disk, and deck. He headed out to the hall, and down to the main hall. The main hall was deserted with no one in sight. "I guess they have breakfast earlier in the morning. Guess I'll have to set my alarm back, but that's not an appetizing prospect." Ekhart said to himself. Class began in about an hour so he should be getting to the main building soon. Ekhart followed the main path, and when he got closer to the main building he noticed that more and more people were standing and chatting around. Ekhart made a beeline to his classroom and made it in about 5 minutes before class. When the bell rang and everyone had settled down the teacher started his lecture. "Before I begin I would like to introduce some of our new students who have just joined us. First off is-"Before the words left the teachers lips there was a loud banging from the direction of the door, and a someone yelled out "Oh man I overslept again!"

No one even reacted to the sound or to the almost yelling of the voice so it must have become a regular schedule for the class by now. As he turned around to view the person the voice belonged too, and found it that there was not just one person but two people standing at the doorway. "I tried to wake you up, but you just went back to sleep."

As the two students sat down, and got seated he noticed one of the students the one which sounded meek had blue hair, glasses, and a red shirt on representing he was in the red dorm. The other student had brown hair with orange on top, and a red shirt also. "You're late yet again." Said the teacher with a sigh.

"Yeah, I know. I'm so sorry teach."

Ekhart noticed that he spoke rather informally, but with the way he wore his jacket loosely should put no doubt in his mind that he was anything, but formal. "As I was saying before we were interrupted. "First is one of our new students and his name is Ekhart."

He stood, and said "Hello, I'm Ekhart. I'm in obelisk blue as you can see." He immediately sat down and took a quick glance around to see if he had grabbed anyone's attention.

Ekhart noticed that he had gained the attention of the kid who had rushed into class. He was staring like he was a specimen to be studied. He gave him a quick glare, and looked back at the teacher. "Next is Blaze Crane."

The student who he had seen dueling at the yellow dorms stood up, and said "Hey, I'm Blaze Crane. I'll fight anyone who challenges me or if they look challenging."

Ekhart lifted an eyebrow, and suppressed a laugh that was forming. He was blunt, very blunt. The teacher then started again. "Next in our class is Mike Sland."

Everyone turned to look at the new student, but he never got up he just gave a stare to everybody. "If you would stand up, and give an introduction please." The teacher asked with exasperation.

"No." The single word spoken flustered the students, and he heard whispers spread about.

"Since you're a new student I'll let this pass, but I will not tolerate that attitude again." The teacher said with a warning tone.

Ekhart was surprised that he would show that kind of brashness, and noted that he was not one to follow orders.

As everybody became silent the teacher began "Finally our last new student Alex Bane."

The final person he had seen onboard the ship "Hello I'm Alex Bane." With smugness in a voice he sat down.

"Now that all the introductions are done we shall begin class. Now we will begin our lesson with……"

Ekhart stopped listening, and drifted between drowsing, and daydreaming. Finally the class ended, and he got up to leave, but even before he could pass the doorway he heard someone say "Hey wait up!"

He turned around, and saw the kid who had come in late come running up to him. Part of him wanted to leave right now before he could catch up to him, but decided against it. "Hey I wanted to apologize for interrupting the teacher when he was introducing you. I'm Jaden Yuki by the way."

"Its fine no problem at all." He said in a tone of voice which said he did not want to talk anymore, but this did not register with Jaden.

"I heard your name is Ekhart, but what about your last name?"

"I don't have one. So that's why that was not mentioned." Obviously he was not going to get out of this conversation easily.

"Well that's strange, but that's okay. Do you want to hang out some with me, and my friends?"

By the look on his face he knew there was no way out of this situation and conceded. "Fine." He said with a shrug and sigh.

"Great. Hey Syrus come over here Ekhart is going to be hanging with us today." Jaden yelled at the blue haired student who was gathering his stuff.

"I'm coming Jaden just hold on." The blue haired boy looked flustered, and stuffed his things into his backpack and ran up to them.

"This is Syrus Truesdale. One of my best pals." He put his arm around the blue haired boy who was Syrus.

"You must be Ekhart one of the new students who came late." Syrus this said with his face downturned.

"You don't have to be so shy Syrus." Jaden said as he patted hard on the back of Syrus.

"Hey watch how hard you do that Jaden." Syrus said with exasperation. It looked like this happened commonly.

"We're going to meet up with the others outside the building. Let's get going."

As they exited the building someone said "Hey Jaden. What took you so long the teacher stop you, and scold you two for being late?"

"Hey Alexis. I was just getting someone who is going to hang out with us today." Jaden waved at someone while he was talking.

"Oh. You must be the new student who came in late. It was Ekhart wasn't it?" A girl came walking up she had long blond hair. She also had a blue jacket on, and deep blue eyes. The expression on her face gave one of someone who would not hurt a fly.

"Yeah this is Ekhart. This girl is Alexis Rhodes." Jaden said while pointing to her.

"Hello."

"Well the more the merrier." Alexis said and smiled at him.

They went to a small plain and sat down. "Hey Ekhart where do you come from?" Alexis asked.

"No where real important. I only just heard of Duel Academy, and decided that I would try to come here." Ekhart said with a small shrug.

"Well you must have been really good to make it into the blue dorm."

"Yeah. I think it only took about 5 turns to defeat the proctor."

"5 turns that's a very short time to beat the proctors in. I'm impressed." Alexis said with genuine surprise in her face.

"You should have seen the face on the proctor and the people watching the duel." Ekhart said with a laugh.

"It would be interesting to see you duel Jaden then. He would probably be in blue, but he came in late, and beat Crowler with his own deck so he put him in red."

Ekhart raised his eyebrow at this even though he was not surprised in the least. "Not today. I'm still trying to find my way around, and get used to this lifestyle."

"That's fine. It's getting late. We should probably get heading back." Alexis said while she stared at the setting sun.

"See you later Ekhart. I hope we can hang out again soon."

"Yeah. See you guys later."

He sighed under his breath. This would just make things harder. He approached the dorm, and before he reached the doors someone said "You really shouldn't be hanging out with Slyther slackers."

He turned around, and saw the person who he had seen staring down the staircase during his first day. "Who are you?"

"I'm Chazz Princeton, and you better remember it since I'm the best here." Chazz said with a smirk, and smugness in his voice.

Ekhart just laughed and said "Yeah I believe that." While he said that he entered the building.

He made his way quickly across the hall, and entered his room before the person who called himself Chazz could catch up and berate him for his comment. He checked his cell phone and found another text lying in wait. "Will cal tomorrow at 6:30. Please try not to be busy at that time."

He turned off his cell phone, and changed. He then got into bed and drifted into a fitful slumber.