"I am Dr Vellian Crowler, head professor and department chair of techniques at duel academy. I decided that since you performed so well in the written exam you would be better placed against an opponent closer to your skill level."

"Oh really, where is he?" Yu asked without a hint of sarcasm

"That's it, slacker. Let's duel." Crowler yelled getting ready.

Duel

Dr Vellian Crowler vs Yu Narukami.

"Ready?" Yu asked.

"Of course I am, I just said let's duel." Crowler yelled.

"Of course I am my lord." a female voice said from behind Yu.

"Let us begin, show them our power" A powerful voice said over his shoulder. A small blue ethereal dragon flew down his arm and entered the deck.

"Don't worry my lord we are with you." The female voice said, walking in front of him she had white hair and red eyes. She was wearing a suit of dark purple armour and had a massive sword on her back. She placed a hand on his deck and disappeared.

Yu closed his eyes and took a deep breath preparing himself for the coming duel.

Crowler - 4000

Yu - 4000

"He's up against an instructor from the school?" Yosuke asked as he, Chie and Yukiko watched the match start.

"Will he be able to beat him?" Yukiko thought out loud.

"Don't worry guys, I'm sure he's using one of the test decks they used on us." Chie said calming the others down.

"Well I'm going first,so activate my Pot of greed, letting me draw 2 more cards," Crowler called reaching for his deck. "Now I'll use my Terraforming card to get Geartown from my deck. Which I will activate now, It's a field spell, you do know what that is right, slacker."

"Yeah, of course I do." Yu said. A number of buildings using a gear motief appeared around them creating a metropolis around them.

"Alright, I summon my ancient gear statue and using its effect I will summon my ancient gear golem." Crowler yelled. The massive rust covered monster appeared on the field in front of Yu staring down at him with contempt.

Ancient Gear Statue

Lvl 2

500 attack

500 defense

Attack mode

Ancient Gear Golem

Lvl 8

3000 attack

3000 defense

Attack mode

"I don't think that's meant to be in one of the test decks." Yosuke said.

"Look at that thing, 3000 attack and defense." Chie said.

"He must be using his own deck." Yukiko noted.

"Now I play Ancient gear fusion. And since I have an ancient gear golem on the field, I can use monster in my deck to summon the Ultimate Ancient gear golem." Crowler called. Two piles of gears flew out from the deck and collided with the golem in the ensuing chaos they combined and created a new beast. With the body of the golem it was a mechanical centaur with a clawed left arm.

Ultimate Ancient Gear Golem

Lvl 10

4400 attack

3400 defense

Attack mode

"Now your turn slacker." Crowler said smirking. 'This is the strongest card in my deck. I'd love to see him deal with this on the first turn. And even if he cheats and removes it I'll still have my golem.'

"HOW THE HECK IS THAT FAIR?" Chie yelled.

"This bastard is using his own deck against a freshman and is pulling out a monster like that." Yosuke said crossing his arms.

"Look at Yu through." Yukiko said drawing the other two's attention to the boy the monster was staring down. Cool as a cucumber Yu was looking at the monster and placing his hand on his deck.

"I draw," Yu started his turn "First I'll activate my own pot of greed, letting me draw 2 cards." Yu drew the additional cards and looked at his hand.

"We can destroy them, unleash our true power and win." The dragon's voice said in Yu mind, coming from a card in his hand.

'No, that won't work here.' Yu thought back to when he read about the Ancient gear cards. 'Destroying it will make it bring back the golem. I need to get rid of it, Without it getting destroyed.'

"Believe in yourself my lord. You have not led us wrong yet." The woman's voice said from another card, next to the dragon's.

"I've got it." Yu quietly said to his cards, a smirk forming on his face.

"He's smiling?" Yosuke asked.

"I knew it, he's crazy, why do the hot ones always need to be crazy?" Chie lamented.

"Hot ones?" Yosuke asked.

"Erm nothing." Chie said quickly.

"I summon Justicia, the Guarddragon in attack mode." Yu said as the ethereal dragon appeared in front of him.

Justicia, The Guarddragon

Lvl 2 / Tuner

0 attack

2100 defense

Attack mode

"He really is mad, 0 Attack?" Yosuke said.

"It doesn't even have an effect." Chie cried out.

"But it's a tuner monster, He must be planning something with a synchro summon." Yukiko said.

"Yeah, but he just used his normal summon, he's gonna need at least a level 4 monster to get anything good out." Yosuke said.

"Wait, he said earlier that he uses pendulum monsters, maybe he'll do one of those pendulum summons." Chie said.

"Now I'll place Dragoons of Draconia, in my left pendulum zone, and Sky Dragoons of Draconia in my right.

Dragoons of Draconia

Lvl 4

2/2

1800 attack

200 defence

Pendulum zone

Sky Dragoons of Draconia

Lvl 5

7/7

2200 attack

200 defense

Pendulum zone

"This looks promising." Yosuke said.

"I still don't understand this stuff." Chie admitted.

"Simply put, it lets him summon any pendulum monsters in his hand between level 3 and 6, including 3 and 6." Yukiko explained.

"Now I Pendulum Summon three monsters, 'Master Pendulum, The dracoslayer', 'Lector Pendulum, the Dracoverlord' and the 'Dragon Horn Huntress' all in attack mode." Yu called out placing three of the remaining cards in his deck on the field, leaving him with one.

Lector Pendulum, the Dracoverlord

Lvl 4

5/5

1950 attack

0 defence

Attack mode

Master Pendulum, the Dracoslayer

Lvl 4

3/3

1950 attack

0 defence

Attack mode

Dragon Horn Hunter

Lvl 6

3/3

2300 attack

1000 defence

Attack mode

"That's a lot of monsters, Shame none of them are strong enough to face my golem." Crowler taunted.

"Sure they won't work like that, but he has a tuner, and I highly doubt he would put them all out in attack mode if he wasn't sure he could take down the golem this turn." Rise said to herself quietly as she watched the duel.

"Shame I won't be facing it then." Yu smirked. "Next I'll sacrifice The dracoslayer and Dracoverlord to special summon Master peace, the True Dracoslayer from my hand." The monster appeared in a burst of light wearing a suite of golden armour wielding a sword and shield with a pair of drown wings and a long black dragon tail coming out the back of its armour.

Master Peace, The true Dracoslayer

Lvl 8

3/3

2950 attack

2950 defence

Attack mode

"Yes yes, very impressive, but It's still 1500 attack points short of my golem." Crowler said, "You should study math before trying to come to our school to study duel monsters."

"This man never stops going on and on." Justicia said however only Yu could hear it.

"Indeed, Does he merely enjoy the sound of his own voice?" The Dragon Horn Huntress asked.

"Now I use Justicia and The Dragon Horn Huntress to synchro summon 'Ignister Prominence, the Burning Dracoslayer'." The two monsters fused and in the extra monster zone across from the golem appeared a half dragon woman in a red suit of armour, two large red wings and a red tail extending behind her with blonde locks flowing from behind her mask.

Ignister Prominence, The true Dracoslayer

Lvl 8

3/3

2850 attack

0 defence

Attack mode

"Now he's got him" Rise said watching the match. She recognised the monster from one of her previous shoots for a T.v. show, there was a minor villain that used Dracoslayers, even though they didn't have that particular card, she read up on the archetype when she saw it in the script.

"Now, I use his effect to destroy a card in a pendulum zone." he removed the Sky Dragoons of Draconia from his field and put it to his graveyard. "and I can return any card to the deck, Like your golem." Yu pointed at the golem as it disappeared from the field.

"What no, my golem's effect!" Crowler tried to say reaching for his graveyard.

"Won't work, since it was returned to the deck, not destroyed." Yu said pointing to his opponent.

"He knew about its effect?" Yukiko said.

"Is there any card he doesn't know? He knew Yosuke's deck better than he did, and here he is countering a monster like that." Chie said in awe.

"Is this the power of studying?" Yosuke asked.

"Now Master Peace, Ignister Prominence, all out attack on his life points." Yu called.

"Nooo!" Crowler cried as the two monsters rushed him weapons drawn.

Crowler - 0

Yu wins.

"He's actually really good, I thought he would be all talk but..." Rise said to herself as she stood in the door of the exit she took, out of sight of any other onlookers, though no-one would even notice if she walked in, everyone was in shock. Yu had just OTK'd the professor in charge of the exams, who was currently yelling in disbelief and taking his anger out on his subordinates.

"Miss Kujikawa." A voice behind her said.

"I'm coming." She said turning around and walking away from the field.

As the monsters vanished from the field Yu walked back to where Chie and Yukiko were watching the match. "Great duel Yu." Chie called to him as he approached.

"Yes, Well done, a one turn kill is impressive, especially against a professor." Yukiko said.

"He left himself wide open. A monster like that without any backrow support is just asking for it." Yu shrugged.

"How can you be so calm, I would have pissed myself if my enemy summoned that on the first turn." Yosuke said.

"That's kind of pathetic." Yu said, making Yukiko burst out in a laughing fit. Yosuke turned bright red in embarrassment.

"More importantly, WE ALL GOT INTO DUEL ACADEMY!" Chie yelled in celebration.

"That reminds me, I should call my parents." Yukiko said before starting to look for her phone.

"I should probably text my old man too." Yosuke said.

"Oh right Dad said to call him after the written exam, and I totally forgot." Chie said.

"Well, I'll leave you guys to phone your parents, I'll see you on the island." Yu said.

"Yeah, I'll see you in class." Yosuke said as both the girls were already starting to make their phone calls.

"Once again you refuse to unleash my power" Justicia's spirit berated Yu as he left the building and made his way home.

"It wouldn't have worked, his first golem would have just come back and I didn't have anything that could deal with the original golem and still let me take the win." Yu said.

"Justicia you should learn to not question our lords decisions. If you were in control we would have been defeated." The Dragon Horn Huntress said.

"Laura, you know for a fact that he merely rejects my powers." Justicia said in defiance.

"Actually I just like seeing her in the armour." Yu said nonchalantly causing the female Duel spirit to blush as he walked away calmly with the dragon laughing along.

"This Is why I decided to join you kid." Justicia said.

"That man…" The now named huntress, Laura said in exasperation as she let her blush drop