A few turns into the tag duel and Ryou and Jono were staring down two dark paladins with no monsters and only seven cards between them. The obelisk avengers smirked at their superior forces as Ryou began his turn with his draw phase he looked at the cards in his hand and smirked as he began to map out his most brilliant strategy yet. "alright you blue bozos get ready because my buddy Jono's gonna wrap this up on his next turn!"

"I am?"

"He is?"

"Is he?"

"Yes he is but first I'm gonna need to play my cards right. First I'll summon my disc fighter (earth/warrior/effect/4 star/atk1000). And then I'll activate polymerization from my hand to fuse elemental hero stratos (wind/warrior/effect/4 star/atk1900) and elemental hero black lightning (wind/warrior/effect/4 star/atk2000) in my hand to fusion summon my elemental hero atmos blaster (wind/warrior/effect/6 star/atk2400)." A mighty warrior with blue skin and black, gold and blue armour including a jet pack thundered onto the field backed up by the smaller disc warrior.

"You fool he's no match for our two dark paladins and he'll be destroyed on your next turn!"

"Not so because atmos blaster's special ability activates on the turn he is summoned all your monsters shift to defence mode!" the avengers watched as the two master wizards dropped to their knees in defence position. "Well you failed again our paladins have 2400 defence points each which means you can't touch them with your monsters!"

"Looks like someone didn't do their homework because if my disc fighter attacks a defence position monster with 2000 or higher defence points he can destroy it without battle damage!"The obelisks cowered in fear as the disc fighter hurled his buzz saw blades at the first defence mode dark paladin. The disc sliced through the wizard and he disappeared in a flash of light. "now jono you need to draw that card or it could be all over for us."

Jono was under too much pressure he couldn't think straight as he reached for his desk. "What card could he mean oh no what do I do. It could be any card cave dragon (earth/dragon/effect/4 star/atk2000)? Korogashi (earth/insect/effect/2 star/atk550)? Or could it be that card?"

"come on slifer worm make your move or…"

"we will assume you surrender…"

"you coward!" on these words from the obelisks jono froze up knowing how right they were about him. "hey stop it you obelisk blue stooges!" jono unfroze at the sound of his friends voice. "you have no right to talk to him like that especially during a duel. You never insult your opponents now jono draw the card the professor gave you."

"Yeah!" jono put his hand to the top card on his deck with renewed confidence as he drew what would be the final card of the game. He set the card in face up attack position knowing straight away that it was the card that would win them the duel. "I sacrifice elemental hero atmos blaster and disc fighter to summon the ultimate decaying dinosaur black tyrano (earth/dinosaur/effect/7 stars/atk2600)!"

The black rotting monstrosity stood over the monsters on the field roaring at the obelisk blues as they quivered in fear. "but you forget we still have our last dark paladin in defense mode so we won't take any damage and we'll summon a more powerful monster next turn."

"That's where your wrong tell 'em Jono…"said Ryou

"Well when black tyrano is out if you have only defence position monsters out I can attack you both directly." The dinosaur leant back holding in the massive attack it was storing. "Black tyrano attack them both directly with toxic gas breath!"

The dinosaur let out a burst of wind which swept over the entire field obliterating the obelisk avenger's life points.

-avengers' life points 0000-

The two duellists sunk to their knees as their life points hit zero and the holograms disappeared. "We did it Ryou we won!"

"No Jono you did it I just helped out." Jono felt a sense of pride for winning this duel. "I guess I kind of did. Didn't I?"

"you sure did now I think we should take these obelisk blue bozo's to the chancellor. Huh!"

The pair had run off over a small group of rocks which led to a separate entrance to the cave hidden sneakily in the side of the rock. "Hey get back here you punks!" yelled Ryou chasing angrily after them. Jono followed Ryou through the crack which led up through many winding caves up to a large wooden trapdoor. "Quick Jono help me lift this thing!" said Ryou pushing up on the heavy wooden slab.

The trapdoor opened into the garden of the obelisk blue dormitory. "Wow it's absolutely huge. Hey look at that!"

In the centre of the garden was a stone statue much like the one of Jaden in the slifer red dorm except this one depicted Syrus and Zane Truesdale standing either side of The Giant God Soldier of Obelisk (obelisk the tormentor) who was ornately decorated. On his left arm a cyber dragon spiralled down to his hand whilst his right hand carried a cyber jar. Lastly stood behind obelisk was one of Syrus's best monsters the Armoroid who towered over obelisk with his arms crossed. "so they must be the three ranks of obelisk blue."

"yeah but it looks like we lost those obelisk blue bozos. Sigh we'd better head back to the dorm." Ryou and jono climbed out of the hole and made their way out of the obelisk blue dorm taking time to observe how much nicer it was in comparison to their cramped rooms. "hey jono until we know who those duelists were we may want to keep this to ourselves."said ryou as they walked out of the front gates whilst receiving strange looks from every obelisk blue student they passed. "wow even after jaden yuki no one has respect for slifer red students eh jono."

Jono was distracted he was looking across the lake of the obelisk blue dorm to the obelisk blue girls dorm on the opposite side of the lake. "huh did you say something ryou?" said jono looking slightly embarassed. "um nothing little buddy let's just get back to the dorm okay."

By the time they reached the dorm it was almost ten o'clock. Ryou walked into the middle of the dorm cafeteria only to be greeted with the sight of every student cheering wildly and applauding loudly at the sight of him. Several girls from all three houses were there trying to win his attention whilst several of the boys were congratulating jono on beating professor dimitri. "whats all this about?" said ryou struggling to get free of the girls's hold. "don't you know you slifer red hot cutie?" said a girl in a ra yellow uniform. "you beat proffessor Tsuki in a duel and now you're the most famous student on campus."

"yeah everyone in ra yellow wants to meet you and every slifer girl wants to date you."

"Wow I guess no one really liked the guy?"

"well a few obelisk blues are crying their eyes out over it…"

"But we don't mind at all." Out of the crowd walked three obelisk blue girls. Two were blonde with short hair but the one at the front had long reddish purple hair and pink lipstick. Jono began to blush as Ryou looked at the girl unsure of what to think. "um Jono who's she?"

"Ryou don't be a fool that's Juliet Romero the duel queen and the only girl in the top rank of obelisk blue. And she's won miss duel academy every year for the three years she's been here." Ryou looked at Jono inquisitively and watched as his friend blushed like a love struck fool. "Well Miss Romero it's my honour and may I introduce my friend Jono who single handedly took down Professor Dimitri today." Ryou pushed the star struck Jono forwards toward Juliet who stared at him contemptibly before pushing him aside to talk to ryou. "well that's not as big an achievement as yours I've personally beaten professor Dimitri twice."

Ryou looked rather angry as Jono sighed as the girl he loved ignored him completely. "still that's no reason to belittle Jono's achievement."

"It's the best reason! After all anyone could beat Dimitri he's no better than a monkey at duelling."

Ryou wasn't going to listen to this anymore he whipped out his duel disk and his deck. "Alright then duel me if you think you're so great and…"

"Wait!" Ryou looked to the side to see an out of breath slifer red student making his way towards them. "Um professor Princeton said sorry he couldn't make it but he told me to give you this." The student handed Ryou a letter in a very official looking envelope which was sealed with a wax stamp of the academy logo. Ryou tore it open and began to read…

"Dear Mr. banner in light of your victory over the head of the obelisk blue house I would very much like to meet you and see if you measure up to all the expectations of the head of your house. Come to my office for a meeting with the other teachers at ten o'clock sharp

Yours faithfully academy chancellor doctor Veillan Crowler…"

"Wow Ryou that's big news but you better get going now it's almost ten o'clock already."

"hey your right! We better go!"

"wait why am I coming?"

"Emotional support! And don't forget Juliet we have a duel to finish!"

Ryou ran out of the dorm with Jono at his side as Juliet scowled at him with her two cronies. "Come on girls lets go."