Turn 4: Making the Grade

At the Slifer Red dorm, Yujo was sleeping in while Chip was praying to a picture of Slifer the Sky Dragon.

"Please, please, please. Please help me ace my exams today. Or I'll be stuck wearing this red blazer forever. Not that there's anything wrong with red or course. It's great on you Slifer. But I wanna be in Ra Yellow. Please give me a sign you'll help." As if you answer him, there was an intense wringing. "Slifer?! Oh no, it's just the alarm clock. And as usual, Yujo sleeps right through it. How can he be so relaxed when there's so much at stake? Yujo, wake up. If you miss these tests, you'll never advance to the next dorm."

He was responded to as Yujo accidently knocked both him and the alarm clock away.

"Wrong! I play my Trap card!"

"Why can't you ever be dreaming in DEF?!" asked a ticked off Chip as Yujo woke up.

"Sorry, pal. Well, come on. Let's get ready and get our tails in gear!"

"I'm already ready, I'm waiting for you."

After the exams were done, everybody else left except for Yujo, Chip, and Kent. Kent went over to Yujo and Chip as he saw Chip was sleeping from staying up all night.

"So, is your little friend here gonna wake up or not?" asked Kent.

"Not sure. Hey Chip, wakey-wakey."

"Ah!" Chip gasped as he suddenly woke up. He realized that he slept through the entire test. "Aw, I flunked, didn't I? I'm a complete failure."

"Well, if they were grading for mellow drama, you'd get an A easily," said Yujo.

"Hey, where'd everyone go?" asked Chip.

"They already left," answered Kent. "We were waiting on you. Everyone's getting ready for the field test."

(Obelisk boy's dorm)

Hawk was busy making some improvements to his deck.

"Don't know why Crowler gave the ok for me to be Yujo's opponent for the test, but I'm not complaining. That Slifer slack isn't gonna stand a chance ounce he sees what I've got in stored for him."

(School dueling gym)

Yujo was surprised to see his opponent was Hawk.

"I'm dueling Hawk?"

"That's right, Yujo," said Crowler. "Since you have such an interesting deck, I pulled some strings to make sure you got the challenge you wanted and deserved. So congratulations. You'll be dueling one of the top ranked duelists in the school. What an honor. I hope that you're up for the challenge."

"I've got a bad feeling about this," said Chip.

"Good, I'm not the only one," said Kent. "This is obviously a trap. Only and idiot will agree to it."

"I accept," said Yujo.

"Or Yujo," said Kent.

"It's game time, Hawk. Let's finish what we started."

"Indeed," said Crowler. "In front of the whole school to. Where everyone can watch."

"Yeah," said Hawk, "watch me mop the floor with you."

"DUEL!"
Yujo: 4000

Hawk: 4000

"No excuses this time, Hawk!"

"Bring it, Slifer slacker!"

"Well, I aim to please. Here goes," said Yujo as he drew his card. "I think I'll start with the Spell, Magical Mallet! Now I can take any card number of cards from my hand, shuffle them back into my deck, and draw the same amount."

"Yujo got a rare card on the first draw?" asked Chip.

"And a very dangerous one at that," said Kent. "Now he can keep the cards he wants and the ones he doesn't need right now."

"Now I think I'll use Unimon Mizu, the Water and Unimon Kessho, the Crystal to set the Pendulum scale!"

Mizu appeared in a pillar of light to Yujo's right with a 2 under her. In the one on his left was what looked like a dinosaur. It looked like a t-rex made of diamonds and crystals with large muscled arms and a diamond spikes going down its back. Under it was a glowing 8.

"About time," said Kessho. "I was wondering when I'd get a chance to show my stuff."

"Well, now you get your chance," said Mizu.

"You think that's good? Wait till you see this. Swing forth, pendulum! Carve the arc of victory! Come forth, my comrades! I Pendulum summon Unimon Daku, the Dark (L4/A,1700) and Unimon Raitoningu, the Lightning (L4/A,1600)!"

Along with Daku appeared a teen wearing an opened white vest with yellow trimmings that showed his front and long, baggy yellow pants. He had yellow eyes and spikey electric yellow hair.

"So, this is Hawk?" he asked. "Not what I expected. But then again, what I expected or not, he'll go boom just the same."

"Quite so," said Daku. "Do it, Yujo!"

"You got it! I'm using Daku's ability to fuce him and Raitoningu!" Daku jumped up and his body disappeared into a vortex and Raitoningu jumped into and followed soon after. "I Fusion Summon Unimon Shinen, the Abyss (L6/A,2300)!"

Appearing on Yujo's field was a large black shark with blue scary stipes all over it.

"I hope he summons something good. I'm hungry."

"Hold your teeth for now, big guy. I'll end things with a facedown."

"Don't' think for a second that oversized fish stands a chance against me, Yujo. Or against this!" Hawk then drew his card. "Now, V-Tiger Jet, sharpen your claws for ATK (L4/A,1600)!"

"V-Tiger Jet?" But that's a machine-type monster, thought Yujo. From our last duel, I was under the impression that his deck was that of DARK or zombie-type monsters. Well, Ten'no did say that his deck didn't fit his soul. Maybe this is his real one.

"And there's a lot more where that came from! Check out the magic of Frontline Base! It lets me special summon a Level 4 or below Union monster from my hand ounce per turn. And I have just the one. I summon W-Wing Catapult in ATK (L4/A,1300)! Gentle-bots, start your engines! Guess what, Yujo? You're not the only one who can Fusion Summon without Polymerization! By banishing V-Tiger Jet and W-Wing Catapult, I can combine them! Alright, the VW-Tiger Catapult (L6/A,2000)! But wait, I'm not done yet. He still has his special ability!"

"That can't be good."

"By discarding a card, I can force your fish into DEF (L6/D,1500)! Now, Tiger Catapult! Turn sharky into fish sticks! Heat Seeker Blitz!" VW launched a barrage of missiles at Shinen which destroyed him.

"Crowler?" Alexis and Shepperd asked in union.

"Don't look at me. I didn't even know Hawk had those cards. Honestly!"

"I'll finish up with one card facedown."

"Yeah, you do that. Now then, swing forth, pendulum! Carve the arc of victory! Daku (L4/A,1700) and Raitoningu (L4/A,1600)! And I'll once again use Daku's ability to fuce them to Fusion Summon Unimon Konton, the Chaos (L6/A,2100)!"

Konton was a man with long white hair. He wore black spell caster robes with white trimmings.

"And now for the chaos to begin."

"If you say so. I activate Konton's special ability! If you have a monster that was summoned from your Extra deck out, I can send that monster back and separate it into the monsters that were used to summon it!"

"Say what?!"

"Dividing Discord!" Konton used his black magic to cover VW in a vail of darkness that separated him into two (L4/A,1600) (L4/A,1300).

"That's not good."

"And it's about to get worse. Konton! Destroy W-Wing Catapult with Chaos Magic!"

"Your wish is my command!" Konton shot a spiral of light and dark magic at the machine that destroyed it instantly.

Yujo: 4000

Hawk: 3200

"That's a rather deadly card," said Shepperd.

"Yeah, no kidding," said Alexis. "The ability to separate Fusions like that? That's not something you wanna mess with."

"I'll end my turn with that.

"And here I thought Yujo was gonna have trouble with Hawk with that new deck he seems to be using," said Kent.

"You got lucky, Slifer slime. Well here's something that can help both of us. I play Card of Sanctity!"

"Awesome! One of my favorites!"

"I take it you know what it does then?"

"Sure do. It lets us both draw till we're both holding six cards in our hands." They both drew five cards.

"Ready for round two, slacker? Because X-Head Cannon is (L4/A,1800)! And thanks to Frontline Base, so is Z-Metal Tank (L4/A,1500)! Now I'll play Monster Reborn! This lets me bring back W-Wing Catapult (L4/A,1300)! And now for my facedown! Call of the Haunted! With this, I bring back the monster I discarded with VW's effect. Roar, Y-Dragon Head (L4/A,1500)!"

"Five machine-type monsters at ounce?!"

"Not for long! I once again combine V and W to ounce again Fusion Summon VW-Tiger Catapult (L6/A,2000)! Now I'll combine X, Y and Z to Fusion Summon XYZ-Dragon Cannon (L8/A,2800)!"

"Oh great!" said Mia. "Now Hawk has two machines out who both have 2000 or greater ATK!"

"But wait, Yujo! There's more!"

"There is?"

"Actually, less. Sure, they say two's better than one, but I must disagree. Because I combine these to machines to Fusion Summon the one and only VWXYZ-Dragon Catapult Cannon (L8/A,3000)!"

"I think we're in trouble," said Mizu.

"Oh gee, what makes you think that?" asked Kessho.

"Makes your Konton seam tamed, huh? Or at least, it did." Yujo gasped as Konton vanished.

"Konton?! Where is he?!"

"Oh, I'm sorry. Did I forget to mention VWXYZ's special ability? He allows me to banish one of your cards ounce per turn. And if you think that's impressive, wait till you see his attack. An attack that'll strike your Life Points directly! Heavy Metal Mallis!"

The giant machine unleashed a volley of missiles and lasers that stuck Yujo head on.

Yujo: 1000

Hawk: 3200

"Yujo!" cried Chip, Kent, Mia, Mizu, and Kessho at ounce!

"How's that, Yujo?! Guess you're not as good…as…you…" He stopped talking as he saw Yujo was laughing like crazy.

"Now that's what I'm talking about! It's been a while since I've bine hit like that! Nice one Hawk!"

"Well someone's obviously got a screw loose. I'll end my turn with a facedown."

"Alright, here we go!" Yujo smiled at the card he drew. "You got here just in time. Swing forth, pendulum! Carve the arc of victory! Come forth, my comrade! I Pendulum Summon Raitoningu (L4/A,1600)!"

Everyone was confused as he only summoned Raitoningu.

"Well that's weird," said Chip.

"You're right. I thought he would've summoned out a bunch of more monsters then that. Why only that one?"

"You drew him, didn't you?" asked Raitoningu.

"Yup. You ready?"

"When you are."

"I activate Raitoningu's special ability! I can sacrifice him to summon a Level 5 or higher Unimon from my hand and this summoning counts as a Tribute Summon!"

"You're Tribute summoning now?"

"I summon Unimon Ten'no, the Emperor (L7/A,2500)!" Everyone gasped as the thunder-type monster was replaced by the giant white dragon.

"Flying Falcons!" gasped Kent.

"Where did that thing come from?!" gasped Chip.

"Yeah, yeah. It's a real nice site," said Hawk. "But you're overgrown lizard isn't strong enough to beat mine."

"He'll regret saying that after this duel," said Ten'no.

"Let's show. I activate one of Ten'no's abilities! Since he was Tribute summoned, I can send him off to the grave to evolve him!"

Everyone gasped as a storm of thunder and lightning clouds gathered and Ten'no flew up into it.

"I summon Unimon Ten'no, the Lightning Emperor (L7/A,2500)!"

There was a clash of thunder and lightning as Ten'no descended in his new form. He was covered in yellow lightning-themed armor on his upper torso, arms, legs, and head. His six black horns were replaced with four yellow jagged ones. His wings were replaced with two wings that were entirely made of lightning. He had three jagged spikes on his forearms and the back of his lower legs. On the end of his tail was a yellow gem in the shape of a lightning bolt.

"That's different then what he used against me," said Mia in surprise. "Does this mean that Ten'no can take different forms for different summoning's?"

"Ok, so he's got a new look. It's still not enough. Are you done?"

"Of course I'm not. I activate his special ability! Ounce per turn, I can destroy on of your Level 5 or higher monsters!"

"Say what?!"

"Time to rain down judgment!" Ten'no pointed his right finger to the sky which caused the skies to light up with lightning. He brought his hand down which led to Hawk's giant machine being structed by lightning and destroyed.

"No! My monster! Lucky punk."

"And there's more! Until the end of this turn, Ten'no's gonna gain all the ATK of that destroyed monster!" Ten'no roared as he gained power (L7/A,2500-5500).

"5500?!"

"And you're about to feel them," said Mizu.

"This is gonna be good!" Kessho said excitingly.

"Ten'no! Attack Hawk directly with Fist of the Lightning King!"

"Not so fast, slacker! Remember my facedown? Go, Mirror Force!"

"Oh no!" gasped Kent, Chip, and Mia.

"Sorry, slacker. Now your big bad dragon goes bye-bye."

"That's what you think. I play the Trap card, Trap Jammer!"

"What?!"

"The facedown I had since round one. Now the activation of your Trap is negated and it's destroyed!"

Hawk could only watch as his last line of defense was destroyed and Ten'no gathered lightning around his right fist.

"Hawk, you have bine the greatest challenge we have had since coming to Duel Academy and you have put up a much better fight then last time," said Ten'no. "I salute your skills as a duelist. But your deck still does not match with your soul. You still seem to be trying to be something you're not. And that is why you will lose!"

Ten'no drove his fist into Hawk, wiping out the rest of his Life Points.

Yujo: 1000

Hawk: 0

After a moment of silence, the crowed exploded into cheers and applause.

"Yujo did it!" Chip.

"And not only did he do it, but he did it with style to," said Kent.

"That's that," said Yujo. "Unless you wanna duel again sometime."

"Oh, believe me, slacker," said Hawk, "we will."

"Way to go, Yujo!" came Chip's voice. Yujo turned to see him and Kent.

"That was well played, Yujo," came Shepperd's voice over the announcers. "Only once before in the history of our revered academy has a Slifer ever dueled and Obelisk during these exams. And just like the Slifer before, you won. And you know what? Every day, you remind me more and more or him."

"I do?"

"Yes indeed. It is with great pride that I promote you to Ra Yellow. Good job."

Everyone cheered in agreement.

"Ra Yellow?" asked Chip before he talked Yujo into a hug. "You're the best, Yujo."

"I try to."

"Great job, Yujo," said Kent as he offered his hand. "Allow me to be the first to welcome you to the Ra Yellow Dorm."

"Thanks, Kent," said Yujo before grapping the hand of his now fellow Ra.

Sorry this is so late. I'm gonna try to post a new chapter every day.

Now, review answers.

Halter: 1; Yujo can swim. 2; he does like to eat. 3; you'll just have to wait and find out.

See you tomorrow people.