It's a nice warm morning in the Slifer dorm, but a little noisy.
"Grr, goddammit Uzo I don't know how many time I asked you, can you at least be quite early in the morning!" Adam yelled.
"What are you talking about?" Uzo replied. "Its 8'clocks, time to get up."
"It is?" Adam questioned.
"Yes." Uzo said as he chuckles underneath his breath.
Adam turns his attention to the clock it read 7:30, Uzo has his back towards Adam.
"Oh you lying tall bastard."
Adam stands on his bed and lunges at Uzo, Uzo is laughing and he turns around at the last minute to see Adam in mid air coming towards him. Uzo with quick reflexes jumps to the side while Adam lands on all fours, he swiftly gets back on his feet and the boys lock hands each trying to push the other down.
"Because I'm taller I have the advantage, because gravity agrees with me." Uzo stated.
He pushes harder on Adam, Adams right foot slips and his right knee hits the ground. Adam smiles.
"You know Uzo you may have the advantage but I have one too." Uzo now has a puzzled look on his face. "Im older than you, which means I have two more years of knowledge than you do, and there's this saying, "the bigger they are the harder they fall"."
Adam stops pushing back and Uzo begins fall forward, he breaks the hand lock and does a quick turnaround low sweep kick to Uzo ankles and he falls to his side. Adam takes advantage of this moment and he wraps his legs around Uzo torso and takes Uzos right hand and locks it in place above his head, then he puts him in a head lock, Adam shouts "tap out, tap out" while Uzo struggles to break free but can't. Their door to their room opens Starr is standing there with her Slifer uniform on and her hair pulled back into a ponytail, she rushes to were Adam and Uzo are wrestling, she gets down to the floor and starts counting while slamming her hand on the floor like a referee at a wrestling match, Starr yells out "1," Adam says "you gone learn today", Starr continues "2," Adam continues "you better tap out tap out." Starr finally says "3". Adam breaks his grip on Uzo.
"And the winner and the remaining heavy weight champ is," she grabs Adams wrist and holds it up in the air, "Adam Walters."
She makes a fake crowd cheering noise and she repeats his name. While Uzo is fake sobbing in the background. Suddenly they hear a big bang on their wall.
"Could you please keep it down?"
"Sorry," they said in unison as they laughed.
"You guys go ahead, I'll catch up with you guys at the cafeteria." Adam said.
"Alight hurry up and take your time," Starr replied.
Adam smiles at her joke and they leave and make their way to the cafeteria.
"Uzo, does Adam like me?" Starr asked.
"Yes he does." He replied.
"No like….like me like me."
"Um, I think he does but I'm not sure, why don't you just ask him out today?"
"Mate are you crazy I can't just simply ask him out like that, and especially not today, I already feel sick to my stomach."
"Why not?"
"If I asked him out, and if he doesn't like me then it will make our friendship weird, and I would rather have this bliss then the actual truth."
"Why do people make things so difficult, back in my country if you liked someone you gave them a baby goat, if they liked you they took it, if they didn't hey you get to keep the goat."
"Uhh…that sounds so weird." She mocks.
"It's a tradition don't make fun of it."
They stand in line to get breakfast, Uzo gets 7 different things to eat, while Starr isn't feeling she just gets a breakfast burrito. Adam finally makes it to the cafeteria, he sits with his friends Starr hands him the burrito. They chat and laugh until its time for class, they make their way to school and Fiona meets them halfway.
"Is everyone ready for today?" Fiona asked.
Uzo and Adam say "yes" while Starr says "no" as she grabs her stomach.
"Oye, you don't look so good." Fiona stated.
"I'm fine, I'm just really nervous about today that's all." Starr replied.
"I hope the nervousness goes away so you can concentrate." Adam said.
"Yeah me to." Starr replied back.
"Starr, if you barf do it in the bushes." Uzo pointed out.
"Maybe I'll just barf on you." She replied back.
She makes a fake barfing noise at Uzo, he jumps backwards, everyone in the group laughs. They make it into their classroom with time to spare, they go to their designated areas. The bell rings and Jon Olvirsson the Slifer DA walks into the room.
"Ok class today is a very special day, as you heard last week on Tuesday the day after the bon fire, that you are going to be ranked through out your dorms from best to worst. There are two parts to this system, first is the written test, then is the dueling test. The dueling instructors that you will face will give you a some kind of challenge, not everyone will get the same one and it will help you to think on your feet and improve your skill. Ok so lets get this testing out of the way, the other instructors are passing out the test keep them face down until I say turn them over."
The room is silent the only noise around are the papers shuffling around in the room, every student received the test.
"Ok students you have 20 mins for this test and if you get caught cheating you will get and automatic F, you may begin."
The noise of pencils fill the room, Starr turns over her paper and begins, she looks at some of the questions and her mind draws a blank for all the answers. Her hearts starts beating faster, she folds her arms and sits there and stares at her test, her eyes gloss over in her mind her test appears to be just a blank.
"Starr, Starr you alright?"
She comes back to reality she turn her head sees Adam staring at her.
"Yeah I'm fine I was just thinking about some of the question." She answered.
She faces forward and starts working on the test.
"That's good you haven't moved for a while so I was just wondering if something was wrong."
"Mr. Walters!"
He turns his head slowly to the left and Mr. Olvirsson is standing next to him.
"Are you cheating?" Mr. Olvirsson asked.
"No sir, I swear to Slifer the Sky Dragon I was not cheating."
"Hmm it looks to me you haven't even started the test and it's already been ten minutes."
"Actually sir I finished already."
"Oh, really?" He said in an surprised tone.
He grabs his paper and looks at it.
"Ok Mr. Walter you get a pass this time, but no talking and keep your head forward."
"Yes sir I will."
Mr. Olvirsson walks down the stairs and sits in the chair at his desk.
Adam sat in silence until the test was over.
"Ok students pencils down, and pass your tests toward the aisles and the DI or duel instructors will come by and pick them up."
"Hey Adam I'm sorry if I almost got you in trouble earlier." Starr said.
"Its alright," he answered, "you sorta didn't look well and you spaced out that's why I was worried about you."
"Aww, that's so sweet." As she nudges him with her shoulder, and giggle together. "Hey Adam after were done testing would you like to go…."
"Excuse me class." Mr. Olvirsson interrupted. "Now that all the test are in please make your way to the duel stadium on the first floor."
Students start to flow out the classroom, the group meets in the hallway.
"Hey Adam do you think you can give my deck a quick look?" Uzo asked.
"Yeah sure, you ladies can go ahead of us, we'll catch up in a minute."
"Ok but you better hurry, remember they're calling our names at random." Fiona stated.
The girls walk to the duel stadium.
"Oye, you look terrible." Fiona teased.
"Yeah I always get extremely nervous when I have to take tests, and on top of that, Uzo encouraged me to tell Adam how I feel about him and ask him out. Ever since the bon fire I've been thinking of kissing him, but I get these small panic attacks and my mind goes blank which is bad because my body will sometimes forget to breath, but it's gotten better over the years though."
"Brother that must be rough." Fiona said in reply.
The girls have been sitting for a while chitchatting, they hear Uzo name being called on the PA system.
"Where the hell are they?" Starr asked.
Fiona shrugs her shoulders.
"Sorry to make you girls wait so long." Adam said, as he was coming down the stairs.
"Where the hell were you guys?" Fiona demanded.
"We had to run to the card shop and tweak his deck just a little to give it more support."
"Where is he they just called his name?" Starr said.
"Don't worry we heard his name he's walking onto the field as we speak."
Uzo walks onto the dueling field.
"You must be Uzochi Ihejirika, my name is Jeff your DI and your challenge for this duel, is to win with a monster on your side of the field with 2500 attack or more. Do you think you can handle that?"
"Yes." Uzo said with confidence.
"That's going to be real tough for him." Adam states.
"Why?" Fiona questioned.
"When you think about Amazoness cards or deck what do they lack?"
"Speed." Starr pointed out.
"Yes that and attack power." Adam continued. "In todays world of duel monsters decks mainly rely on speed, power, and consistency. Amazoness lack all three of those key points, yes they have better support cards now but no where near to make them really good, what Uzo going to have to do if when his monsters hit the field they need to stay there and hopefully he can get away with a win."
"Wow, are going to be a duel monster professor when you grow up Adam." Fiona teased.
"No I spent a good amount of time researching cards and decks that I might have to face eventually. Alright the duel starting."
The small group watches intently on whats going to happen.
"Duel." They said in unison.
"Uzo I'll let you do the honors."
Jeff: 4000
Uzo: 4000
"Alright I draw, I summons Amazoness Fighter," a broad muscular women appear on the field (ATK/1500 DEF/1300 LVL4). I set one card, I activate the spell Pot of Duality this lets me look at my top three card and I get to add one of them to my hand and shuffle the other two back into my deck, so I'll get Amazoness Village to my hand and activate it, I end my turn." The duel field changes into a forest oasis wild beautiful muscular women everywhere.
"I draw." Jeff announces. "I set one monster, and one back row and end my turn." Uzo draws his next card.
"I summon Amazoness Paladin, a slim women appears on the field with a cloak and a sword, her effect is she gains 100 attack for each Amazoness on my field, and thanks to Amazoness Village all Amazoness gain and additional 200 attack, so my Fighter is at 1700 attack and my Paladin is at 2100 attack. Now Amazoness Fighter attacks your facedown monster," the monster charges and the facedown card it flips up revealing itself to be Guard Penguin (ATK/0 DEF/1200 LVL4) Amazoness Fighter throws a fierce punch destroying the monster. "Now Amazoness Paladin attacks you directly." Paladin grabs her sword and lunges at Jeff's open field slicing his life points. "I end my turn."
Jeff: 1900
Uzo:4000
"Not bad kid, but now its my turn," as he draws his new card. "I think its time to get rid of that troublesome Amazoness Village, I activate the spell card Terraforming this allows me to add one field spell from my deck to my hand and I'll add Lemuria, the Forgotten City and activate it." Water starts to fill up the duel field and washes away the village that was there then the sunken city appear under the water. "Now I'll remove from play my guard penguin to special summon my Aqua Spirit," a monster in all blue appears on the field. "Since Forgotten City is active all water monster gain 200 attack." (ATK/1800 DEF/1200 LVL4)
"Not so fast I activate my trap card Fiendish Chain."
"No Uzo why did you waste that good card?"
"What do you mean by that Adam?" Starr asked.
"Jeff hasn't normal summoned yet so he can still do more shenanigans."
"Well my plans don't change," Jeff stated. "I tribute summon Aqua Spirit for The Great Emperor Penguin, a giant penguin with crazy red eyes appear on the field (ATK/2000 DEF/1500 LVL5). "I activate its effect I tribute itself to special summons two Penguin monsters from my deck, so welcome to the field Flying Penguin. Two Penguins with big webbed feet and big eye brows appear on the field (ATK/1400 DEF/1000 LVL4). "I will use Forgotten Cities effect, I can increase the levels of all water monsters if I control the same number of water monsters, so I control 2 I can increase both of my monster stars by two and now they're level 6. I overlay the two and exceed summon Gauntlet Launcher." A large robotic monster appears (ATK/2400 DEF/2800 RNK6). "I activate Launcher effect, I detach one xyz material from him and I can target one monster you control so say goodbye to your Amazoness Fighter," Launcher fires its giant fist at Amazoness Fighter destroying it. "Now Gauntlet Launcher attack Amazoness Paladin." It fires another fist at Paladin she blocks the attack with her sword but it breaks and she is destroyed, Uzo loses some life points. "I set another back row and end my turn.
Jeff: 1900
Uzo:3400
"How am I going to get rid of that monster." He says to himself as he drew his next card. "I activate the spell card, The Warrior Retuning Alive, this lets me get one warrior type monster from my grave and lets me add it to my hand. So I'll get Amazoness Paladin to hand I set a monster and a back row and end my turn."
"Playing defense are we." As he draws his card. "Lets just get straight to it, I use Launchers effect again and target your facedown monster." Again it shoots a giant fist destroying the facedown Amazoness Paladin. "Now Gauntlet Launcher attach him directly." The monster fires again bringing Uzo life points closer to zero.
Jeff: 1900
Uzo: 1000
"If this keeps up Uzo will never come back that Gauntlet Launcher is serious business." Adam points out.
"I still think he still has a chance to win." Starr says.
"I highly doubt it at this point." Fiona replies.
"Well all we can do is sit and watch." Adam states.
"I need somethings to change things around." Uzo says to himself as he draws a new card. He smiles at what he draws. "I summon Marauding Captain," a soldier in armor appears on the field with a sword in each hand (ATK/1200 DEF/400 LVL3). "I activate its effect when it's normal I can special summon one level for four or lower monster from my hand so I special summon Rose Warrior Of Revenge," a woman in a skin tight black suit appears on the field with a sword in hand (ATK/1600 DEF/600 Tuner LVL4).
"Not so fast," Jeff says. "I activate my trap Torrential Tribute when a monster is summon I can activate this and it destroys all monsters on the field."
"Wait why would you want to destroy your own monster?" Uzo asks.
"That for me to know and you to find out." He replied.
"No, that was Uzo only way back into the game." Starr says with anger in her speech.
"Yeah but I don't think it over just yet?" Adam questions.
A giant torrent of water wipes the field only leaving one monster on the field.
"Wait, how do you still have a monster on the field?" Jeff asks.
"I activated my trap card Safe Zone on Rose Warrior it can't be targeted or destroyed by card effects or by battle but as a result it can't attack directly so I end my turn."
"Yeah smooth play Uzo!" Starr yells.
Uzo turns around and flashes a grin and a thumbs up.
"Hmm not bad," as he draws. "I summon Flying Penguin then I activate my trap card Call Of The Haunted and I'll bring back The Great Emperor Penguin, then I activate the spell card Transmodify on Flying Penguin this lets me special summon from my deck one monster with the same type and attribute as the one I send to the grave but its one level higher, so welcome to the field The Great Emperor Penguin then I exceed summon Number 94 Cystalzero." The monster appears in a blue spiked dress with a lance in its hand (ATK/2400 DEF/1600 RNK5). "I could summon that card but I want to see how he over comes this," Jeff says to himself. "Crystalzero attack Rose Warrior," the monster flys towards Rose and pierces it with its lance, but because of Safe Zone effect its not destroyed Uzo just takes damage, "I end my turn."
Jeff: 1900
Uzo: 200
Uzo draws his card.
"I activate the spell card Reinforcements Of The Army, this lets me add one level 4 or lower warrior type monster from my deck to my hand so I'll add Marauding Captain then I'll summon it, his effect activate and I special summon Amazoness Scouts, now Ill tune my Level 4 Rose Warrior and my Level 2 Amazoness Scouts to synchro summon Goya Guardian." A monster appears on the field with a white painted face and Japanese style cloths (ATK/2800 DEF/2000 LVL 6). "Now Goya Guardian attacks your Crystalzero, the monster throws its roped weighted weapon at Crystalzero destroying it and making it appear on Uzo's field in face up defense position. "That's Goya's effect, when it destroys a monster instead of it going to its grave it's special summoned to my field in face up defense position, now Marauding Captain attacks directly." The monster slashes Jeff life points, "and I end my turn."
Jeff: 300
Uzo: 200
Jeff draws, " I activate the spell card Dark Hole. The hole above the field appears sucking monsters into it destroying them. "Then I end my turn."
Uzo draws, "I set one back row card and end my turn."
"Where at a point that just one of them need a monster to finish this." Adam brings out.
Jeff draws, "I set one back row card and end my turn."
Uzo draws his card he looks at it and looks at the field. "Well Jeff if you cant stop this I win." Jeff smiles at his remark. "I summon another Rose Warrior then I activate my trap card Amazoness Willpower this lets me special summon one Amazoness from my grave to attack position and must attack if able, so I'll get Amazoness Paladin Ill tune my level 4 Rose Warrior and my level 4 Paladin to synchro summon Colossal Fighter." A giant monster with smooth white armor appears on the field (ATK/2800 DEF/1000). "Colossal Fighter also has an effect he gain 100 attack for each warrior in both graves so that nine of them making his attack 3700 now Colossal Fighter attack him directly. The swings its gigantic arm at Jeff knocking his life points to zero.
Final
Jeff: 0
Uzo: 200
"Yes Uzo won!" Starr said with excitement.
"No he didn't," Adam said. "Think about it, when Jeff summoned Crystalzero what else could he do."
"I don't know?" Star asked.
Adams name gets called over the PA system he leaves without giving an answer.
"Mr. Jeff may I ask you something?" Uzo asked.
"Go ahead."
"I technically lost the duel right?"
"What gives you that impression?"
"Well, when you summoned Crystalzero, why didn't you summon Full Armored Crystalzero Lancer. I mean if you did you would have won the game because of its effect it gains 500 attack for each xyz material on it and it would have won you the game."
"Wow, I have to give it to you Uzo you have very good insight. Yes I do Full Armored Crystalzero Lancer, but my goal was not to win the duel. I was testing you to see if you could make a monster with more than 2500 attack appear on the field and you did. So be proud at accomplishing that, and don't worry you will become stronger keep challenging yourself."
Jeff walk off the duel field after he said those parting words to Uzo. Uzo walks to where the rest of the group were sitting and passes Adam on the way.
"I need to get stronger." Uzo says to Adam.
"I know I need to as well, I will help in anyway that I can." Adam replied.
Uzo smiles and pats Adams back.
"Go get them my friend."
Adam smiles back and walk onto the dueling field the next instructor is waiting for him.
"Are you Adam Walters?" She asked.
"My name is Stacy and your challenge for this duel to have a minimum of three monsters on your field at all times, so if you cant do it you will fail."
"Ok I got it lets get it started!" Adam said with excitement.
"Duel" they both said.
Stacy:4000
Adam:4000
"I'll go first." Stacy said as she draws her card. "I play Dark World Dealings this lets us both draw a card and then we have to discard one." They both draw then Adam discards one. "I discard Snoww, Unlight of Dark World, when this card is discarded to the grave it effect kicks off and I get to add one Dark World card from my deck to my hand so I'll add the field spell The Gates of Dark World to my hand, then I activate it." An ominous darkness covers the field with a gate that's closed behind her. "I'll use the field spell I banish Snoww from the grave then discard Beiige, Vanguard of Dark World his effect kicks, when he is discarded to the grave he can be special summoned to the field, and when he is discarded to the grave then I draw one card." The gate opens behind her and Beiige walks onto the field with a spear in its hand (ATK/1900 DEF/1600 LVL4). "I set two back row then I send Beiige back to my hand to special summon Grapha Dragon Lord of The Dark World," a black dragon appears on the field standing on its hind legs with ferocious claws and teeth (ATK/3000 DEF/2100 LVL8). "Then I normal summon Beiige to the field, then I use the spell card Dragged Down into The Grave, this lets us both look at each others hands and discard one." Adam shows her his hand, "I'll discard your Ojama blue from your hand to the grave."
"Then I get to send your only card in your hand to the grave then." Adam said.
"And you sent Sillva, Warlord of Dark World to the grave and its effect is the same as Beiige so I can special summons it to the field from the grave then we both draw a card," the monster appears on the field in black feather armor with a sharp fang in one hand (ATK/2600 DEF/1700 LVL5). "I end my turn, kid you should just forfeit I don't see you coming back and winning this duel."
"The duels not over until the last card is played." Adam said while drawing his card. "I activate my field spell card Ojama Country." Stacy's field spell vanishes and Adams appears on the field. "I activate its effect I discard one ojama card and I can special summon an Ojama from my grave, so I sent Ojamagic to the grave and special summon Ojama Blue from the Grave," (ATK/1000 DEF/0 LVL2) "and since Ojamagic went to the grave I get to add Ojama Yellow, Black, Green to my hand, then I normal summon Ojama Red its effect kicks off I can special summon up to four Ojama monsters so welcome Ojama Yellow, Black, Green to the field they all have 1000 attack."
"Yeah so what, my monsters attacks are still stronger than yours even with Ojamas Country effect on the field." Stacy said arrogantly.
"None of you guys remember what my deck can do and you even saw the card in my hand."
Stacy has a puzzled look on her face.
"Yeah this spell card right hear," Adam flips over the spell card that's in his hand "I activate Ojama Delta Hurricane when I control Ojama Yellow, Black, Green destroy all cards on your field," a giant hurricane shoots from Adams field to Stacy's destroying everything she has. "Now Ojama Red, Blue, Black, Yellow attack her directly."
The monster did what hey were told knocking her life points to zero.
Final
Stacy: 0
Adam: 4000
The stadium grew silent with light chatter even some of the other duels looked at Adams field with shock, Stacy looked mad as hell, Adam has a worried face Stacy walks angrily over Adam.
"How dare you OTK me!"
"Huh OTK you?" Adam said puzzled. "I didn't OTK y-." Adam has a little flash back of the duel, he has a grin on his face. "OMG I did OTK you I never did that before."
At this point Stacy's fuming Jeff came out holding back both her arms dragging her back to her seat.
"You better watch your back Mr. Walters because your ass is mine next time, how dare you humiliate me like that!"
"Don't worry Adam she harmless." Jeff assured Adam.
"Yeah right." He said to himself making his way back to his seat.
"Wow I never seen an OTK before, have you Uzo?" Starr asked.
"This is my first time as well." He answered.
Starr looks around, "hey where's Fiona?"
"I think she went to the bathroom."
The PA comes on Starr Ryder please come down to dueling field.
"Wish me luck." As she left Uzo gives her two thumbs up.
"Oh whats up Fiona." Adam said.
"I saw your OTK win I have to give you props for that one." She replied
"Its funny cause I didn't even notice I did that."
Fiona walks closer to him, "There's something I want to give you." At this point she's all up in Adams personal space.
He backs up a little bit. "You can give it to me later I want to see Starrs duel." As he turns to continue walking.
Fiona grabs his elbow, he turns around to face her. He feels her warm soft lips pressed against his, it happened so fast that he didn't get to react. He finally pushes her way and he sees Starr at the bottom of the steps, her eyes widen with surprise, her face showing many emotion.
Anger is coursing thru her body. "You bitch, I told you all of that in confidence and you back stab me!" Starr rushes to Fiona and smacks her across the face.
"Oh shit." Adam said as he grabs Starr to keep her from smacking Fiona again.
"Let me go Adam so I can beat the bloody hell out of her!" Starr is so mad at this point tears are running down her face.
"I can't do that you'll get ex spelled."
"What she did is the worst thing that can happen to me." Starr stops struggling and Adam releases his hold she just falls on her knees on the ground sobbing.
"This always happens to me and I hate it with all my heart I just want to die sometimes."
"Starr you shouldn't say things like that." Adam replied.
"But its true, it happen all the time. I fall for a guy way to fast and way to hard but in the end I never get chosen, and I'm sick of it, why can't I find a guy who'll like me. That's why I want to die the pain in my chest is so unbearable that death can only soothe it."
Adam stays silent not knowing what say but his body moves by itself, he hugs Starr tightly tears are flowing from his eyes he softly speaks "Starr please stop saying that, you just need a little bit of confidence in yourself that's all, and who knows one day you will find someone that will love you back their probably closer than you think."
"Thanks for trying to cheer me up Adam, but I have a test to take." She brakes away from the hug and heads to the dueling field with tears in her eyes. She get there and her DI is there waiting for her.
"Hey are you ok." The DI asked.
"Yeah I'm fine let just get this over with." As she wipes the tears from her face.
"My name is Will and your challenge is to win with 500 or more life points."
Starr shoves her deck into her disk. "Duel." They both said.
Will: 4000
Starr: 4000
"I'll go first," Starr said. "I summon Steamroid, a train like monster appears on the field (ATK/1800 DEF/1800 LVL4) then I set five back row and end my turn."
Will:4000
Starr:4000
"My turn," Will said while drawing. I activate the spell card Ookazi this decreases your life points by 800, then I summon Iron Chain Repairman, a stout muscular man with a chain that's around his neck that attaches to his pants appears on the field with a giant sledge hammer (ATK/1600 DEF/1200 LVL4). "Now I activate my continuous spell card Level Limit - Area B."
"Not so fast," Starr interrupted. "I activate my quick spell Mystical Space Typhoon to destroy your Level Limit – Area B." Starr card flips face up and and a small typhoon shoots over to Wills field and destroys his card.
"Well I'll just have to switch gears I activate the continuous spell Poison Chain, and set one back row, also to let you know Poison Chain activates at the end of my turn if I didn't attack this turn then you have to send cards equal to the number of face up Iron Chain monsters I control so I end my turn and you'll have to mill one card."
Will: 4000
Starr: 3200
Starr mills one card and then draws her card. "I attack your Iron Chain Repairman with Steamroid." The locomotive charges at the monster.
"Not so fast I activate my trap Draining Shield." A monster appears on the field with a shield and steps in front of the coming attack and it shield starts glowing. "Draining Shield drains your monsters attack and adds it to my life points so thanks for the extra 2300 life points and it also ends your monsters attack."
"Bloody hell, I end my turn." Starr says frustratedly.
Will:6300
Starr:3200
Will draws his next card. "I summon Iron Chain Blaster," a launcher type-looking monster with chains around its barrel appears on the field (ATK/1100 DEF/0 LVL2) "I use its effect I can send one Iron Chain monster I control to my grave and burn you another 800 life points." A red ominous aura shrouds Starr and her life points decrease. "Then I use Repairman's effect and brings back Iron Chain Blaster from the grave and end my turn, then my Poison Chain effect kicks off since I own two Iron Chain monsters you have to mill two cards from your deck.
Star mills her two cards and then draws her new card.
Will:6300
Starr:2400
"I summon Patroid," a police car standing on it rear tires appears on it field. "Steamroid attack Iron Chain Repairman." The monster charges at it target destroying it. "Then Patroid attacks your Iron Chain Blaster." The monster did what it was told. "Then I end my turn."
Will:5500
Starr:2400
"Hmm….not bad." As he drew his next card. "I set one card and end my turn.
"I activate the continuous spell card Solidarity because I have a machine type monster in my grave all monster on my field gain 800 attack so my Steamroid is at 2600 attack and my Patroid is at 2000 attack. Steamroid attacks your facedown monster." The card flips face up it's Marshmallon.
"My monster cant be destroyed by battle and when it flipped face up you lose another 1000 life points." The aura around Starr appears again and drains her life points.
"I end my turn." Starr says.
Will:5500
Starr:1400
"I draw, I summon Iron Chain Coil this monster is a tuner. The monster appears on the field with a chain that connects its hand to it body and the wound coil makes it body. "I will tune Iron Chain Coil and Marshmallon to Synchro summon Iron Chain Dragon, a dragon appears on the field with no arms or legs and only two wings and a giant chain that covers its neck (ATK/2500 DEF/1300 LVL6). "Then I activate it's effect I remove from play all three of my Iron Chain Monsters from my grave and it gains 200 attack for each one, now its 3100 attack Iron Chain Dragon attacks your Patroid."
"Not so fast I activate two traps Supercharge when you attack a roid monster I get to draw two cards but since I'm activating two of them I get to draw four.
"Since you still damage from Iron Chain Dragon you mill three cards." Will points out. "And I end my turn.
Will:5500
Starr:300
Starr just stands there, with her hair covering her face.
"It's your turn." Will states.
"I'm tired." She replies. Will has a puzzled look on his face. "I'm tired of losing all the time, no matter what I do hours of preparation and limitless simulation I rarely win. I practice and practice and practice, but I don't get anywhere." Tears start to fall on her duel disk. "I quit I'm done with Yugioh I never get to beat her anyway." Starr takes off her disk and is about to throw it on the ground.
"Starr stop!" Adam yells from the bleachers. "I know what your feeling your not alone many times in my life I wanted to quit but for the life in me I couldn't. I lost countless duels and I hated it but I couldn't quite because I promised my friend who died that I will become a pro duelist and that promise burns in my hearts and it keeps me going. Why did you start dueling?
"It was fun for me." She replied
"Then I want you to remember all those good times you had while dueling, you just need confidence in yourself, you may not see it but your deck is really strong. I can see the potential it has so trust me. I know you love your cards and in turn I can tell they love you, this may sound corny but I do believe in the heart of the cards just by truly believing in my cards they help me out so many times, all I'm asking is that you believe in them."
Starr turns her head to Adam with tears on her face. "Thank you, you always know what to say to a girl to cheer her up." She wipes her tears and put her disk back on. "Can we continue?" Starr asked Will. He nods his head yes.
"Believe in my cards, believe in the heart of the cards." Starr takes a deep breath and draws her card, and smiles. "I summon Expressroid." An electric train like monster appears on the field (ATK/400 DEF/1600 LVL4) and when he's summoned I get to add two roid monsters in my grave so Ill get Submarineroid and Drillroid to my hand. I'll use the spell card Power Bond and send Steamroid, Submarinerroid, Expressroid, Gyroid, Drillroid to fusion summon Barbaroid, the Ultimate Battle Machine." A gigantic robot appears behind of Starr because its so big to look at it you had to cock your head back (ATK/8800 DEF/4000 LVL12). I activate the spell card Forbidden Lance on Iron Chain Dragon it loses 800 attack, now Barbaroid attack Iron Chain Dragon. Barbaroid powers on, it locks onto Iron Chain Dragon fires a missile from one of it's barrel and blow the dragon to pieces, the blast so powerful that Will falls back.
Final
Will:0
Starr:300
Starr heads back to where the group was sitting she makes a B-line to Adam she rushes towards him and hugs him.
"Thank you for believing in me Adam for giving me the courage I need."
"Your welcome I will always be here to help."
The two sit together with there hands locked together and she is leaning on his arm. The three of them talk until the PA made an announcement.
"This is Chancellor Kita the testing is over please make your way back to the classroom we will give you your result shortly, thank you."
They make their way back and they see the Chancellor at the bottom of the class room, they take their seats and sit in silence. The center of the desks open a square hole, a small touch screen tablet surfaces to where the desk is.
"These are tablets if you have noticed," Chancellor Kita starts. "We will start using them from here on, they will help keep track of duels school work etc. Now many of you are wondering how well you did today, all you have to do is swipe on the tablet open the school app, tap on test, and since there has only been one test tap that one, then put your name in the search bar and it should give you the results.
Adam did just that and when he saw his result his eyes widen in excitement.
"I'm ranked number one in Slifer, what about you Starr?"
"I'm ranked number 3." She says with happiness I her voice.
"Awesome top 3, what about you Uzo?"
"Ummm.. ranked 6th." He answered.
"Oh not bad top 10 that still really good."
Everyone starts chatting about there ranks.
"Ok can I get everyones attention, eyes on me." The Chancellor said. "I have an announcement, now that everyone know how they are ranked decisions should be much easier."
The class has a puzzled look on their face.
The Chancellor continues. "Duel Academy has invited us to the End Of Winter Festival and we have accepted, the End Of Winter is taking place toward the end of February, I know I know that's not much time but it's enough still, being early January. Here's the thing each school can only send I group of 5 students to represent, so we came up with our own way of choosing who its going to be." He goes into a bag and pulls out a star. "These are star chips each dorm will get one hundred of them, so in turn two per student. You all will make a team of five it can be whoever you want, you can choose teammates in different dorms if you want it doesn't matter how you get them you just need five to participate. When a group of five get one hundred they get a chance to represent the school, only three teams will get a chance, but only one out of those teams will get to go to the festival. Every member on the team has to get twenty star chips, we will still have class on a regular basis, but we will have some weekends where you can go and duel to your hearts content. Now go show us what your made of."
The three friends looked at each other got their star chips and began dueling.
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