Soul of the Berserker

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Author's notes: here you go chapter 3, please enjoy


Chapter 3: Burn! Passionate soul!


It had already been a few days since the beginning of classes and everyone was starting to adjust, students already ran to get to class like most mornings, regardless of the dorm they were in, and new students were beginning to get a hang out of things.

This wasn't untrue in the Ra yellow dorm, were everyone was ready for class everyday since the beginning of this week including Shin and Hikaru since Kaito made sure they memorized the rules.

…and yet at this hour nobody was ready for school, after all regardless of how things were each day, five in the morning WAS five in the morning and almost everyone was fast asleep, except for Shin and his roommates who had taken only a few days to realize that Shin was an early riser.

"Ah, Good Morning!" Shin pretty much yelled as he got up from his bed

"Shut up! It's Saturday" said Hikaru annoyed as he tried to fall back asleep.

"It's good to see you have this much energy but, seriously it's too early" said Kaito as he also tried to go back to sleep.

"Come on guys don't sap all the fun out of it" said Shin as he got dressed only to be hit by a shoe which Hikaru had thrown.

"Look if you enjoy being up this early then go and take a walk or something but let us sleep" Hikaru groaned and tried to go to sleep.

"Fine" Shin said in a whisper so only he could hear and quietly left the room still rubbing his head.


Shin enjoyed being awake in the mornings and couldn't understand how other people didn't enjoy it, in his opinion nature was beautiful and there was nothing better than to wake up early in the morning to see the sun rise.

Of course he was someone who shouldn't concentrate too much and he inevitably ended up crashing against a tree as he contemplated some peoples' love of nature or lack thereof.

"I've got to stop doing that" Shin groaned in pain as he got up from the floor and kept on rubbing his head.

He kept on walking as he headed towards the forest and couldn't avoid but notice that the area was completely deserted of any students, and he sighed as he kept on walking, he could already see that the Sun was beginning to rise and he sped up the pace.

Even if most people didn't appreciate nature and wanted to sleep instead of wake up just because it was a weekend… and really early in the morning, didn't mean that he would rather just be in bed, actually he wanted to get to the cliff so that he could see the Sun rise.

When he arrived at the cliff he saw something he didn't expect to see…

A student about his same age and wearing all red indicating he was a student at Osiris, was viewing towards the horizon, his short black hair fell upon his eyes and his blazer was rapped around his waste, a grin on his face.

"Well that's a surprise" said Shin "didn't expect to see anyone out at this hour"

At this the boy turned and on the sight of Shin struck a rather dramatic pose… "Ha, well let others sleep in my opinion they are just wasting their youth, besides its sights like this Sun rise that bring about inspiration to one's soul!"

"Well, I'm Shin and it's nice to see someone else enjoys nature and its wonders" said Shin though he quickly sweat dropped as the red clad boy struck another pose.

"I am James, I'm a poet and it is I who gathers the sweeping inspiration from that flaming Sun in the sky, my soul grows with its light and I challenge you to a duel!"

"Okay… I don't get how me introducing myself goes to the point of a duel?" said Shin looking at the boy awkwardly.

"Well it has to do with the fact that a duel at sunrise, in my opinion, symbolizes the clash of passion, a duel like this would be magnificent" he said while placing his deck into his duel disk not waiting for an answer.

(J: 4000)

"Well, seeing as I've got no other option…" Shin quickly shuffled his deck and placed it on his duel disk

(S: 4000)

Just as quickly as the duel initiated James already had a full hand of six "My passion! It dictates I go first!" he said "and so… let me show you the true nature of the flames of passion, I summon Raging Flame Sprite (100/200) and play Stumbling!"

A small spark of flame rose to the field and quickly transformed into a tiny fairy like boy surrounded by flames, a permanent spell also appeared on the field.

"You may commence" said the Osiris student signaling for Shin to go.

'Weird' he thought as he drew his card 'why would he play such a weak monster without something to protect it?'

"I begin with my own fire monster, so say hello to Blaze Berserker (1600/100)" a red clad warrior appeared, flames seemed to pour from his body as a red flame spear materialized in his hands "and with him comes Berserker Spear- Agni Burner, granting him an ability and an extra 400 points (2000/100)"

"Great move, alas your passion will be stopped for now, because of my spell" indicated James as his spell card sent a shockwave that forced the red clad fighter to kneel down.

"What the…?" questioned the crystal haired teen as he saw his monster change to defense.

"Confused? Well allow me," began James "my spell card, so long as active will make any monster either of us summon switch to defense mode"

"Fine your turn" Shin grimaced but was ready for next turn.

"Well, to start this off I'll play something of caliber, my Double Attack," said the red duelist as he took a card from his hand and placed it in his graveyard "and so by simply discarding a monster of a higher level my sprite gets to strike twice on the turn"

'Let him discard, his monster will just tie with my monster's defense so it won't really mater' Shin thought though he didn't notice his opponent's grin.

"Now there are two effects my Sprite has, first every time he manages a direct attack he gains 1000 attack points… and second he can attack directly, so feel the heat!" ordered James as the spirit appeared behind Shin and sent a small spark to hit Shin.

(S: 3900)

As the flames hit, Shin grimaced as the monster's flames grew bigger (1100/200), and he got hit by flames again.

(S: 2800)

"And I call it a turn" indicated James as the sprite's flames grew higher (2100/200)

Shin groaned as he drew his card, seeing as his opponent's monster was too strong to beat with his current monster "you're good, how did you end up in Osiris anyway?" he smiled as he saw his card but waited patiently for the answer.

"Ah, well… you see… it's a funny… um well…" he stuttered as he frowned "I may be a poet but I'm afflicted by a curse, you see my hand writing is bad, to the point were you can't decipher it without a hell of a lot of work" he said and mentally added 'and some machines, and knowledge of languages ancient or inexistent' and with a sigh he said "so…"

"You failed your written test" Shin simply stated causing James to Face fall

"Y-yeah" answered the red clad student sadly as he recovered,

"Look you have good moves but so do I, so I sacrifice my Blaze berserker to summon…" the red clad warrior vanished in a light and was quickly replaced by a heavily armored man, a golden shield appeared on his hand before Stumbling forced him to kneel "He may change to defense but just fine, meet Gravity Guard Berserker (1800/2300) and his equip Berserker Shield- After Life Call"

"No problem my Sprite will just skip him over" said James in a cocky tone as he shrugged towards the monster's appearance.

"We'll see, but in the mean time I play Dual Summon, and with a new normal summon comes Heal Berserker (1000/1000) and her equip Berserker Bow- Eterna Vitalita" the female berserker appeared and kneeled in defense as the bow appeared in her hands, he took two cards from his hand slipping one into his duel disk and another into his graveyard "next I place one facedown and activate her bow's ability, by discarding one card from my hand and stopping her from attacking, I gain the total attack of one monster on your field to my life points"

Both Shin and Raging Flame Sprite began to glow as the boy's life points increased.

(S: 4900)

"Your move" said Shin

"Well, Let me show you the mistake you made, after all the monster of my passion remains!" said James drawing "one facedown and my sprite shall attack you directly"

The sprite sent a stream of flames to crash against Shin only for the flames to crash into the shield holding berserker, the shield began to glow as a wind burst hit the fire monster making it explode into pixels.

(J: 3800)

"Whaaa…?" a shocked look crossed the self proclaimed poet's face.

"Oh, sorry did I forget to mention my cards' effect" Shin said with a smile on his face "Gravity guard has a reason for his name, when he's in defense any monster of yours that attacks must go for him, as for his shield well, as the name indicates any monster that fights my bites the dust after damage calculation."

"grrr, fine, you're move" stated James, angry at his monster's destruction.

Snapping one card from the top of his deck Shin quickly changed Heal Berserker to attack mode and pointed at his opponent "I change my Heal Berserker into attack and will go direct"

The white clad berserker took aim and sent a glowing arrow towards James only for it to banish as it made contact with an invisible barrier.

"Sorry but my negate attack says differently" said James.

"Your move"

James snapped a card from his deck and grinned "First I play Shield Crush, so say goodbye to your Berserker" Gravity Guard Berserker exploded into pixels "next, I play Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy my Stumbling" the spell exploded as his graveyard spat out one card and an wall of flames with a face rose to his side of the field "and summon my Inferno (1100/1900) by removing my Raging Flame Sprite from my graveyard, so Inferno get Heal Berserker!"

The fire monster blew a flame blast that quickly incinerated the female monster

(S: 4800)

"Oh and so you know when my Inferno destroys a monster as a result of battle the true poetry of his flames shows as they grow and you take an extra 1500 points of damage.

Shin had barely any time to move his arms as he was quickly covered in flames.

(S: 3300)

As soon as the flames cleared a card on Shin's field lifted to show an image of a berserker covered in bruises but still willing to fight as he stands over the body of a dead berserker "Succeeded Will allows me to add a berserker to my hand" his deck spat out a card which he quickly added to his hand.

"Take your turn" signaled James with his hand

Quickly Shin drew his card, picked another one and threw it onto the duel disk, immediately a young man with brown hair appeared on the field (1800/1400), soon two iron gauntlets covered his hands (2300/1400) "This is Iron Fist Berserker and his equip card Berserker- Fist Unbreakable Iron, and he goes for your Inferno!"

The young man jumped and punched the wall of fire making it dissipate as James grimaced.

(J: 2600)

Shin snapped a card from his deck and signaled for James to go "and of course when he destroys a monster I draw a card"

James drew his card and his smile grew wide as he saw the card he had drawn, he took the card and slid it into the duel disk "You think you've turned off the flame of inspiration, well think again, I play Monster Reborn to bring back my Solar Flare Dragon (1500/1000) and I chain it to Inferno Reckless Summon, you can summon two more of your Iron Fists if you want"

"I wish but all Berserker monsters are limited by the game rules so I don't have any copies" Shin said with a sigh

A red fiery dragon appeared on the field and quickly was fallowed by turning into three.

"And this gives you a time limit, for you see not only can they not be attacked if another pyro monster is on the field making it so you can't attack but also at the end of each of my turns you loose 500 points per dragon"

Shin grimaced as he was blasted by the flames as his opponent couldn't do anything else and his turn ended.

(S: 1800)

Shin drew and he quickly took two of his cards "I play a facedown and… while I may not be able to attack your dragons I can attack you, I summon Stealth Berserker, and like all others he brings his weapon of Choice Berserker Blade- Shadow Slasher"

A dark cloaked man appeared on his field and got equipped with a pitch black sword,… er, well it actually was more like a dagger (1000/100)

"His sword makes it impossible to chain his attack and so long as your monsters have a higher attack he can attack directly" Shin had barely finished explaining as the dark berserker disappeared from the field and reappeared moments later slashing James in the back.

(J: 1600)

"I end my turn" he simply stated as James drew his card.

"You just cost yourself the duel, so Solar Flare Dragon, destroy Stealth Berserker!" the dragon sent a flame burst towards the black clad man only to be stopped by a barrier.

"My own Negate Attack will stop you" stated Shin

"Fine I end my turn so feel the burn"

The dragons sent balls of fire that once again hit Shin

(S: 300)

"I draw" said Shin taking the top card from his deck 'and it better be good or the match is over'

He saw his card and he began to smile 'Oh yeah! That's what I needed'

He took the card and slid it into his duel disk "you were right this is the last turn of the duel, I play Berserker's Challenge, it allows me to see your hand and deck and normal summon one monster onto your field"

Holographic representations of the cards in James's deck appeared in front of Shin, he quickly chose one and two of the dragons banished in light as a giant phoenix appeared on the field (2400/1600) "so I'll give you your Sacred Phoenix of Nephtys and I get my Crimson Berserker to my hand in exchange, however I guess I'll summon him"

Both Berserkers disappeared and were replaced by a man with long crystal hair, a crimson red sword appeared in his hands (2500/2000) "and with him comes Berserker Blade- Crimson Rugnica, Also since it worked so well for you I'll discard one monster of a higher level from my hand to activate Double Attack"

The Crimson Berserker jumped and slashed the phoenix making it explode into pixels.

(J: 1500)

"He may have another attack but you're a couple points short to end the match with your monster" said James as he stared at the monster.

"Wrong! You see I didn't explain my Spell's effect in my entrance match as there was no need to but, when the monster equipped with the sword destroys a monster as a result of battle the sword gains a counter and for every counter it has the equipped monster gains 500 points (3000/2000) so it's over!" Shin explained

The berserker jumped and slashed the dragon, sending a shock wave that hit James head on.

(J: 0)

"Good game" said Shin as he helped James get up from the floor.

"Yes indeed, I hope we can have another inspiring duel" he responded as he began to walk towards the Red Dorm.


"Hello guys" said Shin as he entered the Ra Yellow cafeteria and saw his roommates already eating.

"I'm surprised you would take this long to get here and eat" said Kaito as he kept on eating some toast.

"Well I had a duel and…" Shin began.

"Watch out!" he was cut off by both of his roommates yelling but to no avail as he ended up crashing against another student who had been carrying a tray with his breakfast…

Most of which was extremely hot as it had just gotten out of the kitchen.

"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! It burns" yelled Shin as he got up and ran towards the bathroom to clean up….

Only to crash against the door on the way out.

Both of his roommates sweat dropped at seeing his actions "Should we help him?" asked Kaito as Shin got up and out of the cafeteria.

"Nah, just leave him, who knows he might stop crashing at this speed" said Hikaru nonchalantly.

Both roommates began to laugh at this, he may be their roommate but after waking up in the morning and being unable to go back to sleep even after Shin had left, they enjoyed for a moment what they considered a "lesson" of sorts for their friend.


Author's notes: and there you have chapter 3 hope it was enjoyable, please review if you have the time, if you have any suggestions for improving the story so it's more enjoyable they are welcome.